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GUEST ARTIST PAGE Today sees me feature two new Guest Artists to my site, and it gives me great pleasure to be able to introduce them, and their work here, on my website Introducing Lee Gilbert from Bulgaria  Known to her friends as Lily, she and partner Yan attended my very first residential Art and Yoga Holiday recently, at The Aztec Yoga Centre, Ravadinovo, near beautiful Sozopol, on the Black Sea Coast. To say that Lily took an idea and ran with it is an understatement, and she (and I) were moved, almost to tears, the day she discovered wet in wet, and her efforts on that significant day are shown above. I am planning on visiting her area, in South Western Bulgaria, this year, to hold some kind of short course, and am looking forward to that greatly, and to witness her continuingly rapid progress on her personal watercolour journey. But just one question Lily and Yan, 'how will you hang all your pictures on the curved walls of your round straw baled house'..... ? A LONG DAY AHEAD  WATCHING THE DANCERS  Artist Profile I have spent a lifetime trying to find the right medium to express what I had in me. My life has been littered with art equipment, from the first time I discovered the seductive delights of the local art shop as a teenager. Printmaking, glass painting, oils, you name it, I have tried it and not found what I wanted. The one medium I didn't really explore was watercolour, thinking it too palid and controlled to express the explosions of colour I could see all around me in Bulgaria. That was until I worked with Martin, who set those fireworks free to paint the sky! So now, in my fifties, I can finally call myself a painter, absorbed, consumed by the desire to put brush to paper and watch that lovely, lovely colour do it's magic transformations....
Lee Gilbert (Lily), 53, English but now living full time in Bulgaria, an newborn artist, a damn good cook, a builder of strawbale and other natural houses, and a haphazed gardener. I teach ecological building and other related subjects to anyone who will stand still long enough to listen. I delight in food, power tools, wood, and colour, and still hope to live long enough to really learn how to sharpen a chisel! Thanks for those kind words Lily, and those you added to my Guestbook page on here too, the cheque is in the post ! You can find Lily's contact details on my links page And also Jeremy John also from Bulgaria
Jeremy and lovely wife Anne, are a couple I met when they came to my Exhibition last year in Karnobat. I demonstarted for them all (Karnobat hill as always), and as I recall it all went horribly wrong to great amusement for me and them. Then Jeremy announced that he had been an Art Teacher... they have been great supporters of my fledgling career, turning up with a smile and chips ! Anyway it gives me great pleasure to show you his work which is lovely and fresh, and immediate, which I love. Jeremy is also a keen photographer, and we are planning to co-exhibit in the near future. STORKS NEST SKETCH
STORK SKETCH
Artist Profile From as far back as I can remember, I have always loved drawing, especially birds for some reason. I'm always doodling now and doing quite quick sketches, having never had the patience to sit still for hours doing one drawing. I trained formally as a cabinet maker, then a 3D designer, and was lucky enough to have tutors that thought drawing was central to making things, so my pencil was never far away.
Tables, benches and Bulgaria-inspired sculpture are among other projects that have kept me busy whilst living over here. More recently, I moved into a village which has re-inspired me to look at things from nature more closely, which I was definitely missing whilst immersed in the concrete landscape of Yambol. I do some part time CAD work, and that too can stifle one's creativity - drawing endless straight lines and measured shapes - but conversely drawing by hand is a great way to wind down.
I also love photography, but I find I have to be really disciplined to take pictures that actually say something, and are not just of 'nice' things....
Jeremy is also a keen photographer and you can see his work on Flickr just search for jezjohn59 I tried to add a link here but my Web Wizard didn't like it so one for the teccies out there I guess. Anyway enjoy his work I have ! Ivan Russev from Sofia It gives me great pleasure to introduce one of my very favourite Artists, Ivan Russev, and his girlfriend Mirella Karadzhova from Sofia in Bulgaria  Ivan Russev and I, at his recent Exhibition I had the pleasure of meeting my virtual friends Ivan Russev and his girlfriend Mirella Karadzhova at their joint Exhibition in Bourgas recently.  Mirella and I 'hamming it up' in front of one of her paintings I spotted Ivan's work first on a mutually shared Internet Art Gallery site then subsequently at a real Gallery in Sozopol where my work was being shown, and also at my Framers in Bourgas. We have been virtual friends for a while now, though we have never actually spoken, except through his girlfriend, Mirella. I suppose the language of Art is universal and needs few words.    You can check out Ivan's work by clicking on the link on my links page Ivan's work makes me want to try oil painting, for the first time, and I look forward to meeting them again, in Sofia, in the near future. |
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