Childhood memories have a special tincture.  They are almost literally colored by inexperience, by our having yet to acquire much in the way of patterns of processing life.  The digital art of Daniel De Souza touches us with just that sort of saturated mnemonic encoding.  That he uses this aesthetic to inform portraiture of children couldn’t be more fitting.  The birth of his own daughter so heightened his sensitivity to children’s needs that he switched from oil painting to digital art so as to shield her from the toxins in oils.  From there, it was a small step for this former street urchin of the Brazilian favelas to want to document the plight of the current generation in that unfortunate lineage. 

De Souza is a pioneer of digital painting in Brazil, using camera and computer to capture and bring forth the innocent beauty of those to whom he relates so well.  Not surprisingly, Daniel De Souza invests much of the proceeds from his artwork in ways that contributes to the betterment of his subjects.

Moments of everyday life in Victor Meza's ocean-side region in Chile take on a grandiose and mythic sheen in his hyper-real paintings. His minutely detailed oil on canvas works appear atmospherically stylized, tinted by memory, bleached by the sun or dulled by the gray light of fogs and clouds. A brilliant sensitivity to light runs throughout Meza's work, rolling over gentle waters, booming down from monumental cloud formations, or pooling and radiating from soft, sun-splashed surfaces. Accordingly, such spectacular attention to light and shadow underlines the surreal quality of Meza's exquisitely-rendered textures, a sense that in the absence of the object itself he has exaggerated its properties to convey them more sharply.

These infinite details lend Meza's subjects their mythic glow, giving the most quaint seaside composition a supernatural radiance. Each painting reveals a predilection for nature, depicting some moment of connection between humanity and its ecosystem. Between his choice of subject matter and aesthetic mode, Meza evokes a yearning for the spectacular wonders of nature.

The paintings of Davor Pavlovic harness the graphic force of perfect/pure contrast to evoke the intensity and immensity of natural forms.  Using black acrylic on white linen, Pavlovic epitomizes the less-is-more axiom of minimalism, where composition, stripped to its essentials, expands and emboldens the range of its reference.  While the black and white palette creates stirring, almost suspenseful images, Pavlovic's formal control gives rise to a freeing abstraction, an alluring and intimate vision of calm.  The dramatic possibility of each painting is subtly composed, allowing the images to be both emphatic and inconclusive, which allows the paintings, like the materials themselves, to touch on the elemental.  Whether sinuous or planar the lines imply naturalistic forms –valleys, bluffs, escarpments – derived from the landscape of Pavlovic's native Chile.  The vista opened by the perfect contrast of those lines exudes a sense of the sublime. 

An architect as well as an artist, Davor Pavlovic's art is likewise distinguished by a nimble sense of geometry, balance and perspective.

Dago E. Seguel has dedicated much of his artistic journey to perfecting realism, surrealism and abstract techniques in his painting. Primarily using oil on canvas,  his work glorifies the human spirit, translates and evokes strong feelings, and expresses the complexities of human emotion and the world around him. The result is a beautiful, thought-provoking collection of images that exhibit a remarkable technique and talent.

Dago E. Seguel isn’t just a painter - he’s an engineer. Whether painting the harmonic churning of hundreds of machine parts, or expertly recreating the way light plays on defined muscles and human flesh, his composition and attention to detail are careful and intricate. His work explores a fascination with the mechanics of things, life’s mysteries and the finite realities of life and death, and the viewer becomes equally fascinated while taking all of Sequel’s imagery in. Dago E. Seguel was born in Santiago, Chile. His work is collected widely in South America.  

Sandra Valentim’s passion for the luminous dimensions of the human spirit and its manifestations in motion, countenance and physicality pour through her oil and acrylic explorations into portraits and scenes ranging from the playfully emotive to abstractly ambient. Following in the tradition of Picasso, Valentim records her rawest impressions of life in a language of colors and shapes of her own devising, often flooding Cubist inspired slices of life with warm colors that echo her affection for her subjects. At the same time she remains inquisitively reaching with her angles and hue choices, rendering vividly contradictory feelings and suggestions across the faces and personalities she delicately erects. Her deceptively flat facial expressions tend to contrast strikingly with her lush Gauguinian palettes that swarm around them.

Valentim lives and works in her native country of Brazil, where she has autodidactically nurtured her approach to painting, siphoning the primary colors around her and establishing a singularly identifying style.