Western and Wildlife artists Art Space 2000 gallery 17 western and wildlife artists

Subtle Shifting

Water Wheel
Basil Filippone

Web Site United States

A lifetime resident of New Jersey and presently residing in East Hanover, with offices in Montville, New Jersey. Attended Tomlinson Vocational College, in St. Petersburg, Florida studied commercial art and painting. Received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia, in 1966 (Richmond Professional Institute)
Served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970. Married to Carol in 1970 - blessed with two children and four grandchildren. Worked as a free lance artist 1970. Worked as a commercial artist 1971-1972. Started own business in 1972 to the present. Involved with graphics, and the installation of graphics. Since college days, has always painted using various medias: oils, water colors, pastels. Has been creating original digital paintings since 1996.
Started Basil's Art web site in 1997 at http://www.basilsart.com this site has won over 200 International awards, with 13 Worlds Top Awards.

The canvas is a computer monitor and the brush is the computer's mouse. There are no special programs, scanners, or "tricks" used to create these paintings. Each painting is finely detailed and represents an average of fifty hours to create.

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Autumnal landscape at lake St-Marie

Marcel Caron

Web Site Canada

Marcel Caron was born in one of Québec's most picturesque regions, in 1925. He captures the essence of an artist intent on seizing the many images that pass before our eyes daily. Wherever he may be, he is always prepared to stop and sketch a singular scape that speaks to him so fully that he will then render the scene to canvas.

The strong result gives an immediacy to a significant event. Marcel Caron is really a visual chronicler of our land, finding abandoned log cabins, old roads, churches, and his favorite, the automnal beauty, telling tales of the land with his paint brush.

Caron likes to roam the hills of home, and he can also be found sketching around the village of Vence in the south of France. This area has drawn artists for centuries with its incandescent light. His prodigious output follows the classical tradition of French landscape style and he refers to the influence of Cézanne, Corot and their modern counterparts Surtel and Arnaud. In 1994, he was selected as a participant in the 30th anniversary of the "Grand Prix International de Peinture de la Côte d'Azur",held in Cannes.

Marcel Caron pays great attention to a solid and long term adherence of the colored pigments applied to the various supports on which he paints. To that end, he prepares them, by applying adequate coats of Gesso and rabbit skin glue.

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Black Goat

Ranko Vukeljic

Web Site Australia

Producing paintings with my intuition I use my canvases as a conductor for the restoration of the identity of those who feel that they have individuality within them and an elite personality. I offer a possible line of happiness and a cure for ossify materialistic minds.