Through understanding true values, quality of life, craftsmanship of the best artisans, heritage, and partners’ trust, LEPICUR CEO and muse Alina Marte is choosing the best life decorations for her clients. Exclusively representing the world’s most outstanding interior design brands like Baccarat, Lalique, Christofle, and Bernardaud in the Baltics, Marte believes that the core idea of her business is to make people see and enjoy more. What other principles does LEPICUR stand by, and what more is there to offer—in questions and answers by L’Officiel Baltic Interior & Design.
Zhuang Hong Yi’s ‘Essence’ is set for a colourful spring début at HOFA Gallery
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The design of this dental clinic originates from a great idea. The idea is that a person in love with their smile radiates shine and confidence in the world around them. It all started when Dr. Mykola Goloborodko noticed how a person’s self-esteem changed in front of his eyes after gaining a new smile. People seem to come to life: they get married, change jobs, feel more confident, and move to a new stage in their lives. As one person with a beaming smile said: “You don’t get new teeth, but a new you, more confident, charged, always smiling!”
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Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic markings, Hammond explores the interplay of color, form, and composition, resulting in original artworks that invite introspection and reflection. Each piece is a unique expression of the artist’s creative vision and artistic process, making them highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts alike.
This striking original artwork by Hammond is a mixed-media painting on canvas, measuring 32 inches high and 24 inches wide. Employing a diverse range of materials, including acrylic paint and charcoal, Hammond creates a layered composition that is both visually striking and emotionally evocative. Signed by the artist on the front and painted around the edges to provide a seamless continuation of the main imagery, the painting is ready to be hung. Convenient delivery is available for those in the local Los Angeles area, and affordable worldwide shipping is available for US and international art collectors. This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Los Angeles art gallery representing her work, adding to its collectibility and value.
Erin Hammond’s work is characterized by her focus on the immediacy and rawness of her materials. With a style that alternates between rough, expressive mark-making and carefully considered, deliberate composition, her work is a testament to the process of creation itself. Through her layering of pencil, charcoal, oil, and acrylic, Hammond experiments with color, calligraphic elements, and shading, exploring the expressive potential of each medium. While her work often features the female form, she also creates expressive abstract paintings that are equally captivating. Her compositions are imbued with a sense of (im)perfection, highlighting the unfinished nature of the human experience and our ongoing journey toward completion. It is this unique combination of technical mastery and emotional depth that has made Hammond’s work highly sought-after by collectors and curators alike.
Erin Hammond’s artistic journey is one of self-discovery, artistic liberation, and unbridled passion. Born into a creative household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hamnond’s artistic abilities flourished at a young age, leading her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Painting, Sculpture, and Theatre from the University of Wisconsin. Hammond moved to Los Angeles in 2010. In 2013 she was a top-rated artist in the largest indie art competition in the US, and within weeks her art was being sold globally. Hammond’s works have been exhibited at numerous art fairs and galleries worldwide. Her original artworks can be found in international private collections around the globe.
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Natasha Barnes
Abstract Expressionism, by nature, has the potential to rouse and stimulate viewers with its use of courageous colours, excitable brushstrokes and non-concrete nuances.
Natasha Barnes embodies this in her work and her paintings, which are rich in texture, vibrant colour and lavish design to create bright, bold and fun art with a burst of pure energy.
“So much of my inspiration comes from the simple lotus flower and all the places that serve as its home, like Thailand, Bali, India and Mauritius.” Describing her art as “a flood of abstract expressionism – pure energy, like an invisible current, constantly flowing and changing”, the ethereal nature of her work takes shape slowly over the hours she spends in her studio. “I usually paint about four to six canvases at the same time, moving between them for several hours until a composition starts to emerge. Then I take my time to follow the abstract nature of what has emerged from the sitting, slowly working towards completion of a work.
A true creative genius, Natasha Barnes’ vibrant work, with its splashes of bold colour and textural depth, reveals that passion is paramount for success. Proudly South African, this revered artist is making waves in the art world, both locally and internationally, and is definitely someone to keep an eye on.
BIOGRAPHY
Natasha Barnes is a self-taught fine artist from South Africa. Her natural talent and pure passion for painting has led Natasha to develop a profound style reflective of expressionism. The artist’s dynamic marriage of colour and texture, created via sophisticated mark making, evokes a sense of fluidity, movement and thoughts of a ‘journey’ in every piece.
Her inspirations stem from her travels and the love for the rich images surrounding her life, being absorbed in the mind and transferred to the canvas without direct observation. Natasha paints in water based mediums. Application is thick and sometimes textured. Her subject dictates the flow of the paint and with that forms take on an element of the unreal, moving into the world of abstraction.
Natasha has been working on much larger expressive pieces of abstract art in recent years. After a successful solo show in London in 2010 and sell out collections at the Affordable Art fairs in London and New York, Singapore & Hong Kong. Natasha’s unique use of colour and texture is fast becoming a sought after style of art to have hanging in the home. Her name is whispered in the galleries of London, Paris and New York and she currently holds the title of South Africa’s most published artist.
Her paintings generate such extraordinary emotions from simply looking at them. Being completely abstract, stand, look, and imagine, and out comes a whole world you never saw before. Barnes truly does capture the essence of one’s imagination and that, is art.
Her work can be found in corporate and private collections around the world and has been exhibited extensively in the UK, America and the Middle East. Natasha’s work is currently published world-wide in open and limited editions by International print publishers and her originals are, as a result, extremely sought after.
Solo Shows
- 2008 The Lindsay Gallery – London UK
- 2007 Zuva Gallery – Arizona USA
- 2006 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery – Sydney, Australia
- 2006 – 2008 Lisa Wendt Gallery – JHB South Africa
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