Artists – Farbi Flora

Max Skoblinsky

Frank Audehm — Fri, 19 May 2017 12:40:14 +0000

Max Skoblinsky

MAX SKOBLINSKY – a famous ukrainian artist and teacher, a practitioner, a man with sense of humor and filled with optimism, a traveler. Artist of the painting dynasty Skoblinsky.

Homepage: www.comeon-art.com

The first lessons he took from his father. Then came the long and intensive years of study in the higher art schools of Ukraine and Russia. Max always speaks with warmth and gratitude of his friends and companions for training he received, thanks to which his experience and picturesque worldview developed.

For many years, the master has been teaching painting and inspiring more than 6 thousand students around the world. For him, there are no boundaries either in creativity or in geography. He paints portraits, landscapes, seascapes and still life! He is permanently teaching in studios in 7 countries of Europe and Asia.

Having an experience of communication and teaching people of different nationalities, places of residence, views, the artist finds an effective INDIVIDUAL approach to everyone, which gives an excellent result both in teaching and, most importantly, inspires the person to continue to create, not only on canvas, but also in life. Reveals creativity and aspiration!

After each meeting with Skoblinsky, there is a man who believes in himself, is changed, sensual and touching.

Dedication, self-expression, achievements, aspirations to creativity of each student are the main achievements of the ARTIST!

Gary and Kathwren Jenkins

Ines Polpitz — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:55:59 +0000

Gary and Kathwren Jenkins

The Artist couple Gary and Kathwren Jenkins live in Sedona, Arizona, where they have their art studio and gallery. Gary and Kathwren made their names as artists and taught painting for many years. Their seminares are legendary.

Homepage: www.jenkinsartstudio.com

Gary Jenkins

Gary Jenkins was born in Brooklyn New York. Gary began his art career by attending the 4 year Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Upon graduation, Gary worked as a key line Artist for a large greeting card company. Gary also worked for the well known art store chain Aaron Bros. During the early 1970’s, Gary became an art teacher and gallery painter, specializing in Floral Painting.

In 1980, the opportunity came along for Gary to host his own national P.B.S. television painting program, “Jenkins Art Studio”. During the 1980s -1990s he also toured nationally to major conventions and art stores to teach painting seminars, and is still teaching many workshops a year. Gary has painted for many fine art galleries as well as owning his own studio and galleries.

Many of his paintings have been put into print and are in private collections. Gary was given the prestigious title as of one of “The Best Floral Painters in America”, presented and published by North Light Books. In The early 1980s Gary started producing his own “How To” video instruction tapes. These were the first art instruction video’s to be sold in the United States and are still being sold today, through the Jenkins mail order business.

During Gary’s early television career, he hosted 17 national television series that aired in the United States for a period of 16 years. Many television art books were also produced at this time. Gary’s original paintings are currently shown in Carmel, California. Dozens of his paintings were also produced into prints and sold to many fine art galleries in the United States.

Gary has several Giclee prints on canvas. His favourite subjects to paint are florals. He is especially known for his trademark style of the Jenkins Roses and Poppies. Gary started to develop his style of floral painting in the early 1970s. His well known has been taught to thousands of students around the world. Gary also paints Exotic birds and tropical fish, which have many of the same vibrant colours of his florals.

As of 2007 Gary has once again started to host his own television series. His new shows will be televised internationally for the first time. Gary’s hope for the future is to continue with his long career of teaching people everywhere how to be creative oil painters. A true artist never stops creating. Gary currently resides in Arizona U.S.A. with his artist wife, Kathwren.

Kathwren Jenkins

Kathwren Jenkins was born in Toronto Canada, and raised in Southern California. Kathwren began oil painting at the age of 18. She also majored in art in high school and attended art courses in the evening at a junior college.

Kathwren continued to paint and learn on her own all through the 1960s. In the mid 1970s, she became an art teacher at a studio in Nevada where she was living at the time. In 1980 she met her husband Gary Jenkins. Kathwren then began to team teach with him, travelling nationally to about 30 states per year.

During the 1980s and 1990s Kathwren also wrote several of the television books for her husbands’ television series. She produced two non television art books. During this same time, Kathwren also hosted several of her own art instruction video’s for their Jenkins non television video production business.

In 1990, Kathwren became a co-host along with her husband Gary, of the popular national P.B.S. television art show, “Jenkins Art Studio”, This continued until 1999.

Currently Kathwres originals paintings are shown in fine art galleries in Carmel, California. She also has several of her paintings in Giclee prints. Through out the years, Kathwren has continued to teach, and more recently became a co-host once again with her husband Gary on their international art show series “The Beauty of Oil Painting”. Kathwren wrote all the books that go along with the television series and is also co director of the shows. Kathwren will also continue to produce more “How To” art DVD’s. Painting florals and exotic birds is her passion. Kathwren hope for the future is to continue her long art career with her partner and husband Gary.

“I love to paint florals more than anything else. Florals can be painted in vibrant colours or soft pastels, depending upon the mood you wish to express. The shapes are interesting to me, especially when painting the very large flowers on oversized canvases.”

Eric Wilson

Frank Audehm — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:22:09 +0000

Eric Wilson

Eric Wilson is one of the world’s leading painters of Wildlife. He is particularly well known for his big cat paintings which are widely collected throughout the world and for which he has won many awards.

Homepage: www.ericwilsonart.com

A former Police Officer, Eric embarked upon his career as an Artist in 1990. Wildlife was his chosen subject, as it had been a lifelong passion. ‘You should always paint what you know and love best’ Eric feels, and for him the endangered wildlife of our planet was an obvious subject choice.

Eric researches his subjects fully before painting them. Every animal he paints he first observes in the wild in it’s natural habitat. His adventurous research projects have taken him to the wildest, most remote regions on earth, from observing polar bears in the far frozen north, to tracking tigers in the jungles of Asia. Sitting with gorillas in Africa or sketching bald eagles on Vancouver Island. Eric’s first hand knowledge gives his paintings the authenticity that is much loved by his collectors.

Eric has exhibited widely and with great success, from London and mainland Europe, to the United States. Christies in London have auctioned his work worldwide and he now has a firm collector base enabling him to deal mainly through his website, which allows him devote more time to painting and to the teaching of his painting techniques, for which he is in great demand.

Eric has taught hundreds of students in his studio in Buxton, England, many coming from overseas even from as far away as Australia for his lessons. He also teaches courses continental Europe and Asia. So great has been the demand for his classes, that he has made two painting DVD’s which have now become international best sellers.

Eric’s popular images have appeared in prints, calendars, magazines, jigsaw puzzles, cross stitch patterns, fabrics, fantasy playing cards and books such as ‘The Best of Wildlife Art’, ‘Keys to Painting Fur and Feathers’ by North Light Books and a book simply entitled ‘Tiger’ by Joanna Skipwith which is available at the National and Tate Gallery to raise funds for the conservation of tigers in the wild.

Conservation of wildlife is of paramount importance to Eric. His many charity auctions have raised thousands of pounds for wildlife causes. Only once at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art he helped to raise over £11,000 for wildlife charities.
Eric is also an accomplished portrait artist who has twice painted the portrait of the super middleweight champion of the world, Mr Nigel Benn.

John F. Thamm

Ines Polpitz — Thu, 15 May 2014 10:08:41 +0000

John F. Thamm

John F. Thamm lives in Spokane, Washington. He holds portrait-workshops in many areas of the USA and in Europe. John F. Thamm’s passions are portrait painting, landscapes and social realism.

Homepage: www.jfthammstudios.com
Weblog: johnthammstudios.blogspot.com

Born in Wendell Idaho, John Thamm’s educational endeavors have led him from coast to coast and Europe. After graduating from the University of Idaho, Thamm continued his studies at the Art Student’s League in New York City with a Ford Foundation Scholarship where he studied portraiture with Samuel Oppenheim. He operated a gallery in New York’s West Village and continued his work in social realism with guidance by Jack Levine.

John was an oil painting instructor with the Community Colleges of Spokane when he became a good friend of one of his students-Bob Ross. John introduced Bob to William Alexander and several years later Bob launched his Joy of Painting series. Bob always admired John’s portrait teaching technique and asked him produce a video under the Bob Ross series. John began teaching portrait workshops featuring his “Wipe-out Technique” and has shared his expertise with hundreds of other artists in the United States, Europe and Mexico.

John’s interest in portraiture and sculpture led him to pursue the craft of leather mask making near Padua, Italy with Donato Sartori. He produced a series of leather-sculpted masks in the tradition of the Comede D’Arte. Then in1993, Thamm expanded his interest in portraiture by becoming a courtroom sketch artist , covering the well-known Ruby Ridge and Waco trials. In this capacity he has worked for ABC, CNN, and PBS television news and the Spokesman-Review newspaper. At the end of the Ruby Ridge trial he completed a large portrait of Gerry Spence that hangs in his personal collection in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. John’s experiences at these trials led to his social realism show: Operation HUM/CON.

In the past ten years John has continued to paint landscapes and cityscapes concentrating on the area around Bisbee, Arizona and the Netherlands. John resides in Spokane, Washington.