“Water is poetry. Sometimes hard and sharp, other times soft and elegant. A perpetual motion of attraction and withdrawal, a flirtatious waterline always balancing with its inseparable companion: the land. With a fascinated gaze, I’m wondering what it does to people. Beaches and shores that seem to offer people time, needed to come to themselves. I want to immortalise their moments of reflections. Reflections that create subdued emotions, bring cheerful relation to life or evoke melancholy memories.

I work alone and quietly, with the rushing of the water in the background. All photos are photographed with Polaroid instant film. The images gain a poetic power from the dreamy blur and the fading colours and contrasts, unique to this film process. And I love it.”

Werner Van Reck (1959, Antwerp) studied art direction and photography at the Academy for Fine Arts in Antwerp. Werner works in both communications and photography. Many of his photo reportages have been published in magazines. He shot a serie of images in Africa for Baobab, a Senegalese organization, in support of a fundraising initiative. From 2006 to 2008, he portrayed hundreds of citizens of Antwerp for his book ‚Stadsmussen’ (‚City Dwellers’), a project commissioned by the City of Antwerp.

Michael is a practicing artist who paints and creates freehand art with authentic artistic passion and dedication. In this series of line drawings, he explores the power of intuition and the subconscious. What appears at first glance to be a series of abstract compositions, gradually reveals joy, enthusiasm and dynamic scenes in which multiple figures emerge and invite the observer to come closer. Michael’s approach is shaped by how he views the world around him and allows all this positive energy to find expression on paper.

Michael’s natural curiosity for new techniques and his fascination with form and colour encourage him to strive to bring his drawings to life and make them as vibrant as the scenes they depict. Their transformation into light “tableaux” featuring intense colours allows us to step into the world of the artist and to participate actively in the dance.

His light works are composed with a singular stroke of the pen transformed into light through a Danish company that have assisted him in transforming his pen strokes into glowing LED. The frames for his works are made of carefully selected oak from PA Savværk in Korinth, Denmark.

Michael Ahlefeldt lives and works at Egeskov Manor in Denmark. Over the years, he has received instruction from the renowned artist Ellen Madsen in Hadsund, Denmark, and RAH Craig Ron in Perth, Scotland. He has also studied at the Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, and at the Fyn School of Painting and Drawing in Odense, Denmark.

Steen Larsen is one of a small group of artists using the mimetic approach in their work – meaning they reflect reality through precision in both detail and expression. Conceptually his work with urban settings center the tracks mankind leave behind in nature.

While driving and traveling in the USA and Europe, Larsen mounts a camera on the windshield on his car and shoots thousands of photos that later serve as sketches for his oil paintings. His photo-based paintings are narratives mimicking a road movie on canvas. Speed is captured at its essences as well as other present-day scenes.

Her relationship with Art began at a very young age when her mother, a professor in Art history, introduced her to this fascinating world. When she was 5 years old, she started her education in art.

In the series bar codes, the jungle and nature of her native country – Colombia – have inspired her work. Her artistic reflections have been deeply influenced by plants of significant importance to her region, such as Ceibas, Wax Palms, Guayacanes, Yarumos and Heliconias. Echavarría imagines nature that grows in unthinkable places.

Echavarría, is best known for her unthinkable, and unimaginable creations that merge opposite concepts.  Her works are based on nature, the simplification of shapes, repetitions and Fibonacci.

The artist creates a world influenced by the natural sorroundings that has captivated her since childhood, and her current fascination with the relationship between birds and plants. She works in black and white, but she experiments with highlights of color in an attempt to achieve those bright tones of tropical colors, which in the green jungles serve to attract birds.

Echavarría’s Art celebrates life that manages to overcome adversity. Her hands shake, except when she paints,  that why she states“her works make the impossible possible” .

Camila Echavarria (b.1980) lives and works in Medellin, Colombia. She was educated as Product Engineering at the EAFIT School in Medellin, and has worked with the medium since 2006.