Hulis Mavruk – Pop Art
Hulis Mavruk (born 4 July, 1952) is a painter born in Southern Turkey. He started professionally painting at the tender age of 6. His works have received acclaim from several quarters, including art critics. Although he has made a breakthrough in the mainstream art industry, he managed to do so without any formal art education that preceded his professional career. By simply teaching himself and learning by observation, he has become a respectable painter whose artwork is exhibited in different locations across the globe. Early in his career, Mavruk owned a gallery in Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey, close to the Mediterranean Sea. Because of the location and the people he often interacted with, his gallery mainly had paintings of American officers. While there, Mavruk made contacts with several African American airmen and service officers, making portraits of them. In 1972 he moved to the United States where he began making paintings of mainly African Americans, their cultures, and things that define them. He found that black art was not being represented in galleries. His main goal was to create images that would celebrate African American culture and African heritage and create a gallery that not only featured his art but also to represent black artists. Mavruk’s paintings also captured renowned African American art figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., African American women, Buffalo Soldiers, and a host of other subjects. He has the ability to create any style using any medium. His latest work features Pop culture icons, using splatter paint approach, as well as African American art, landscape, abstract, portrait, and floral imagery. He currently owns a gallery and studio in Lynbrook, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.
Canadian artist Jonathon Earl Bowser has established a presence in the international art marketplace. After graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1984, he went directly into a brief career in commercial art. Since 1989 however, he has dedicated himself to fine art and his own creative vision – in the rocky landscapes of his childhood home and in unique figurative images that explore the mythological dimensions of human experience. Jonathon’s intricate paintings are not only in government and corporate collections in Canada, but also in many private collections across North America and Europe. Some even hang in the government collections of China and Taiwan. His extensive website was launched in January 1996 and now contains hundreds of images, essays, and a growing number of videos.
ing is the end result of hours and sometimes days of preparation: size, focal point, reference photos, lights & darks, color choices, what to leave in & what to take out to make the design better. Each brushstroke on paper or canvas is a decision! For me the journey begins with photos that spark inspiration or by setting up an easel to paint outdoors with friends. Many paintings get tossed along the way until one expresses my best effort. A painting like a good book should take us out of one world and into another. I believe that nature and art can lift us out of our anxious world into a place of rest and renewal.” —Nancy Wernersbach
Laura Glen is a creative artist, painter and jewelry maker whose love of nature’s graceful beauty is now expressed through the art of sculpting precious metals into unique pieces of jewelry. Her goals as a fine craft artist are clear when she says, “I want the people who wear my jewelry to feel a connection to the jewelry and know the piece was handmade with love and care. I believe this sense of connectivity is achieved through the synergy of seeking balance and harmony between metal and stone in a fluid, organic style.” Her pieces give the wearer an opportunity to express their own individual style and taste. Through Laura Glen’s travels with her husband, a renowned wildlife artist, she finds fresh inspiration for her pieces from the natural world. From the breathtaking mountains and canyons of the Americas to the remote sprawling African jungles, the lines and colors of nature provide an endless source of creative possibilities. “Inspiration for many of my designs comes from watching nature…the trailing tendrils and growth of wild vines, the curves of clouds, and the curl of water around a canoe paddle,” says the designer. “I want to create interesting pieces of jewelry expressing the flowing rhythms of life. ” Laura Glen’s jewelry expresses an element of timeless grace.
My love affair with the land began as a child exploring the fields and streams on my grandparents’ farm in central Georgia. After finishing school in l976 my husband and I left the city and moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley just south of Staunton. We chose the Valley because of its penetrating beauty. How can you not be moved by the rolling pastures and blue mountains, the wild flowers and wild animals, the cows and sheep and horses that pepper our valley – just stunning.
Liz Goodrick-Dillon was a self-taught artist. Her unique surreal/realistic style uses acrylic paint, watercolor, pencil, photography and computer graphics to create designs. She found her inspiration from a variety of subjects like seasonal scenes, portraits, wildlife, floral, landscape and fantasy.
My interest in fine art began when I noticed an advertisement for a national art contest. This contest was for the National Park Academy Arts for the Parks Competition. A rendering of an eagle soaring across Mount Rushmore made the exhibit. More than 3,000 entries from the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico entered the competition to make the top 100 for the exhibit. My painting was the first painting sold and was displayed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.. The painting ended up at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. In 1993 an oil painting entitled “Autumn Cardinals and Creepers” featuring the scarlet songbird in Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area won the Grand Prize and the Gold Medallion Award of Merit for the Arts for the Parks Competition. This painting is now part of the permanent collection of the National Park Foundation. Accomplishments include the 1992 winning image for the New York Duck Stamp. The 1993 Ducks Unlimited Guess Artist Print “Long Day Pause.” A painting “Goose Island” was selected for Birds in Art, which is a prestigious international wildlife art exhibit at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin. This work was singled out from entries submitted by artist worldwide. Twice I’ve been selected to participate in the Wildlife Art Sale at Christie’s of London, England. These events maintains the highest standards of today’s best wildlife art from around the world. I have illustrated various books and magazines such as The Nature Conservancy, Smithsonian Institute and Field and Stream. Growing up in the mountains of Pennsylvania, becoming an Eagle Scout I’ve learned to appreciate nature. I served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and later worked in the Pentagon with the Defense Intelligence Agency. After the Navy, I returned home and married my now wife Carol. The two of us moved to Pittsburgh where I attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh majoring in graphic design. There I won the Merrill-Milai Scholarship and worked as a courtroom sketch artist and free-lanced for various local television stations as a news artist. After graduating, I worked as an illustrator. In 1981 I opened my own commercial art studio. My interest in art stemmed from his interest in history, particularly with the American West. I began to travel to militia musters, pioneer villages and Indian pow wows to find authentic models for my paintings. I have sculpted numerous fountains of life size bronze figures and animals. “…my painting background has helped in the design of my sculptures… and I find as I paint I’m always thinking of what the subject looks like three dimensionally as well..” My painting and sculpturing styles are marked with an acute sense of detail and intensity. 
Kyle Wood is an award-winning artist, who has been painting professionally for over twenty years. As an artist, his specialty is Oil Painting, but also enjoys Drawing and Photography. For many years, he has painted The Texas Hill Country, San Antonio Missions, and other historical areas in Texas. As a teenager, he took oil painting classes from Calonnie Gragg at Nichols Art & Frame Gallery in Mesquite, Texas, where he grew up. Under her guidance, he learned the basics of color mixing, value, perspective, proportion, and composition. After graduating High School, he continued to take additional Art & Architectural design classes at Eastfield College and The University of Texas at Arlington, where he holds Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art. Since then, he has taken oil painting landscape workshops with June Lee, Dalhart Windberg, and has presented a number of demonstrations for Associated Creative Artists of Dallas, Rockwall Artists League, Artists ‘Round Texas, Rockwall Art League, Northeast Texas Fine Art Alliance, and Texas Area Artists. In addition, he has participated in a number of juried art shows through The Dutch Art Gallery, Artists of Texas, Texas and Neighbors, PaintAmerica Top 100, PaintAmerica Paint the Parks, Waxahachie Plein Air Paint-Out, and The State Fair of Texas Creative Arts. Kyle is represented by The Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and many of his paintings are finding their way into collectors’ hands throughout the United States.
I’ve always been inspired by my passion for exploring the natural world.