My Celebration of Female Artists series isn’t that popular among my faithful. [Thank you for reading my content; I enjoy the process.] I guess I do it for myself. I am usually drawn to vivid color, impressionistic strokes,
or women in art.
Here is the eighth segment 😉
Caryl Pomales is an artist mentor and entrepreneur. Her passions include traveling, nature walking, and her pets. (Sounds like The Dating Game) Caryl supports emerging artists through online courses, guides, and mentoring programs, including mastering abstract artistry and growing art businesses through social marketing.
Vera Kober loves to experiment with combinations of colors. She prefers floral subjects and paints ‘on the border of reality and abstraction,’ with spontaneity. Her work grows from impressions, intuition, moods, and emotions.
Ginna Nebrig is an 11th grader (!) from North Carolina, attending the Northwest School of the Arts!
Marina Krasnitskaya is a Russian artist who resides in Germany. Her paintings relate to ‘current and secondary emotional states’–feelings and life experiences. In her works, Krasnitskaya searches for ‘lost and found parallels.’ She uses acrylics and ink, often using collage techniques with gold and silver elements.
Jantina Peperkamp is a self-taught artist from Holland. She paints realistic portraiture. Jantina considers her paintings self-portraits; she recognizes herself in her models. First, she takes a photograph, then makes a sketch. Next, she puts the sketch on a wooden panel and begins to paint with many thin layers of acrylics, resulting in a realistic effect. “It strikes me that there is always a certain loneliness and desolation in my paintings. I don’t make it deliberately, it just happens and I recognize it.”
Sonja Danowski was born in Iserlohn, Germany. She studied design in Nuremberg and since then has been working in Berlin as an illustrator, focusing on picture books. She won the 2015 Golden Island Award in the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Competition.
Svetlana Tartakovska was born in Ukraine. Life in Ukraine became increasingly difficult and unpredictable. Her parents wanted to give their daughters a better future, which is how Svetlana came to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at the age of 13. She graduated from the Classical Academy for Visual Arts in Groningen but also studied at The Art Academy in Florence. Her paintings are ‘society-inspired’ and focus on human fragility. Tartakovska lives and works in The Netherlands. Her favorite museum is the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam because Rembrandt is “always waiting for me there.”
Yulia Ustinova prefers to call her ladies ‘plumpies’ or ‘tetki’ – meaning uneducated and ungroomed women. Yulia was born in an artistic family, her mother a sculptor, her father a book illustrator. Ustinova’s mother taught her how to crochet when she was 5 years old. At 11, she began professional art school. Ustinova’s works are crocheted very tightly and solidly filled with cotton wool, 1-inch to 2 feet tall.
