Visual Literacy Project: Recent Episodes
Kevin Wenning
Interviews with professional artists, amateur artists, and other visual creators. Exploring varied styles to expand the art and visuals that we are able to understand and appreciate. There are dozens of podcasts and blogs about how to market your art, set up your studio, exhibiting your art, papers and inks to use, photography how-to and gear talks galore. What I don't find on the interwebs are conversations to understand artists styles and the motivation, meaning and process behind their art. VLP Talks are directed at sharing practical knowledge from those who have chosen to go deep and master their craft - not the stuff from art school but rather conversations with people creating their art under real world conditions and expectations. Watch video interviews and see the art from these creators at visualliteracyproject.com
Gosha is a painter. However, not a traditional one. She experiments with paints and different media and really cares about texture and line - sometimes sticking pieces of a string to accentuate the line and bring texture at the same time. A special technique she has developed is dripping a non-drip gloss paint from a palette knife. Gosha does this completely freehand because, "I believe that if I allow the line to take its own life, only then the painting will be free and surprising. I see in colours and have always been blessed with a particular trait: Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a condition that happens when a sense, such as a sight, triggers another sense, like the smell, at the same time. My senses blend one with another: I hear music when looking at colours, smell when listening to music and most oddly: I see words in colours.
Thanks to this particular trait I can perfectly capture people in motion or a vibrancy of objects and texture."
Follow this artist:
Visit her gallery in person: GOSH Art Gallery & Studio 20 Castlegate, Clitheroe, BB7 1AZ
Gosha Gibek primary website: www.goshagibek.com
Gosha on Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/uk/GoshaGibekArt
Gosha on Facebook: www.facebook.com/GoshArtAndDesign
Gosha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goshartanddesign
Gosha on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPFWKeSSNwYzEOZ1rskhnvw
Gosha on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/GoshArtBrand/cyclists-and-cycling-art-by-gosha-gibek
Scott creates emotion, mood and atmosphere with his photographs. Each photo is a very personal journey exposing his own fears, triumphs, beliefs, shortcomings whether working in landscape, still life, architecture or macro. Scott usually shoots spontaneously with the surroundings mostly dictating what is photographed, and shooting is only the first step; it's a jumping off point. Then he takes the raw images, creates what he sees in his mind's eye, coaxing out textures, sometimes adding them, enhancing contrast and lights and darks; creating moods and emotions that he felt and wants you to feel.
Follow this artist:
Scott Norris Photography primary website: http://www.scottnorrisphotography.com/
Scott Norris Art on Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/scott-norris.html
Scott Norris Photography on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scottnorrisphotography/
Scott Norris on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottnorrisphotography/
Scott Norris on Ello: https://ello.co/scottnorrisphotography
Scott Norris on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottnorrisphotography/
Scott Norris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/snorrisphoto