Blakely Bering’s professional art career began upon graduating with a BFA in theater design. Blakely put her studies in costume and set design to direct use by working in opera design and television production around the United States. Transitioning from large scale design to fine art was seamless and natural for her.
Painting figurative abstractions and “Blooms” at first, Blakely’s art evolved into pure abstraction. Experimenting with techniques, mediums, and styles; she honed in on her true abstraction voice in 2006. To collectors around the world, Blakely’s classic styles a frozen moment, a landscape, a figure, an ocean, an aerial view; it ...
Chiu Tak Hak is a self-taught artist from China whose work has received recognition at art shows and galleries in Germany, Paris and Hong Kong. In 1972, he moved to Paris and was attracted to the city’s historic shops and cafes; places that are still and quite like a stage waiting for players to arrive. The moodiness and mystery of these buildings evoke a feeling of solitude, which Chiu sought to translate onto canvas.
His style combines realism and elements of impressionism and abstractionism. He builds around a realistic central image, and then adds collage and other elements to add depth.
Booker Morey is an engineer by training, an inventor by nature, and a craftsman by aspiration. He sees the forms of nature as being more elegant than any he can create, and is excited to celebrate the hidden wonder of the construction of a common leaf, as shown by the etching process he discovered.
Inspired and intrigued by the work of pioneering artists in the field of skeletonized leaves, Booker sought to develop his own unique process. His former career in chemical and physical process research helped him find a way to give leaves a lacey effect. After many tries, a process emerged which enabled Booker to reveal the fine patterns found in many native North American leaves. Th...
