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S.E.N.S:

S.E.N.S. was formed in 1988. They produced music of the NHK feature "the Silk Road of the sea" in 1988. The movie "A City of Sadness" by the music of S.E.N.S. is awarded Venezia International Festival of Film Grand Prix next year. The album is released also in present Europe and Asian countries now, and the music of S.E.N.S. without the wall of language is calling the big echo in every country in the world.
In Japan, they're as the top artist of instrumental music, the album "Transparent Music" was become the 2nd award about "Instrumental Album of the Year" of "A Japan Gold Disk Grand-Prix" following an award in 1994. Moreover, "Asunaro White Paper","God, Just a Little More" and etc... already also deals many popular TV dramas. The released album reaches no less than 37 totals, and is always continuing announcing the work of subject in the original music world.

Barry Thompson:

Big_Brown_Eyes, 2009
pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

In 1974, Barry Thompson was born in Essex in United Kngdom. When Barry grows up, he was attended the course for B.A. (Hons) Fine Art in University of East London, from1996 until 1999. And then, Barry was also attended the M.A.RCA Painting in Royal College of Art, in London, from 2003 to 2005. And now on, he lives and works in London as well. 

 

detail of Barry Thompson, 'Madeline' 2008, Pencil on paper, 50 x 40 cm 

 

detail of Barry Thompson, 'On hearing a Blackbird' 2008, Pencil on paper, 50 x 70 cm

detail of Barry Thompson, 'Bard of Suburbia V' 2008, Pencil on paper, 50 x 40 cm

In 2012, Barry was join in a Group exhibition, "There is a place..." in Walsall Gallery. In this exhibition, Barry shows seven pieces of pictures for his intricate and densely worked pencil drawings.  He accustomed to practice drawing from childhood, so his draftsmanship is unparalleled in this exhibition, Barry's exquisite pencil landscapes depicting his personal memories of adolescent life in the suburbs of Essex. Barry's pastoral landscapes from his childhood experiences. The childhood experience gave his own rich imagination in the creation of pastoral scenery. He let people back to the screen of his personal memories of childhood. At that time, he with his family and friends are always together. They were really enjoy the beautiful natural scenery. The Barry's works fully to express his childhood nostalgia and remembrance of the homeland. Those pencil paintings are exquisite and beautiful, delicate painting to make them look like black and white photographs. The Imagine landscape painting meaning which is from his real memories. Barry's spiritual dimension to the pursuit of such a place, he even imagine a fictitious individual - 'Norman' , let him live in his hometown, to put their feelings and memories, which envisaged the full details of his life.

We found pussy , 2009
pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

LilyLilyLily79, 2009
pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

auburnredhead, 2009
pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

Untitled, 2008

pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

 Barry select the tools of the works of a pencil. Pencil's line shapes can be very accurate and certainly more freely modified, and also more thorough and meticulous carved detail, something in the rigorous physical requirements and in-depth repeated study. More types of pencils, hard-soft, with a shallow depth, comparative taste, you can draw more colors, the color of the pencil to facilitate the performance of tone in the silver level. Pencil HB for the boundary of two types, soft and dark changes B to 6B, To better meet the needs of the painting, there has been 7B-8B, called a drawing pencil. HB to rigid development H to 6H, the most sophisticated design and other professional use. As more categories, the pencil can be a good demonstration of the rich layers of dark and light. 

Sun4mylife, 2009

pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

Sugarfairy2711, 2009
pencil on paper, paper dimensions 40 x 50 cm

'Olivia O’Lovely' 2010, pencil on paper, 10 x 13 cm

Barry meticulously organized black, white and gray in the picture, making the screen to produce a mix of rhythm, rhyme and beauty.He was careful to deal with black, white and gray screen, one of the works of important factors for success. Psychological emotions of the audience of black, white and gray effect of the screen will have different impacts,organized screen with black and gray tones, black, white and gray screen occupied bydifferent proportions, will form a low, medium and high tones, black and white gray the tone will give rise to different feelings.

'Angel Dark' 2010, pencil on paper, 15 x 21 cm

Those beautiful landscapes and things in the works of Barry, as amber freeze in eternal time. Their ideas are derived from the Barry childhood lifestyle. Through these works, one can see that Barry used to live a better taste.A petal, a cloud, a pond, perhaps these are Barry inner softest memory. Barry is painting with a pencil, making the screen is exceptionally detailed, black, white and gray tones to the work covered with a layer of memories of feeling, no matter how beautiful painting vivid landscapes and things seem to exist in the story a long time ago, people feel familiar but bleak. Memories of things are always the best, Barry thought so. Fortunately, he put all his childhood, home, familiesbest memories through the idyllic landscape freeze in the paper, let the good time become eternal. 

'Suzanne' 2010, pencil on paper, image size: 15 x 21 cm

Barry select landscape art form to express thoughts and feelings. However, the "scenery" is not what we usually understand , the meaning is the visual expression of "natural" is a cultural form. Beautiful garden, the idleness of the plains and forests, the activities in the scenery which innocent villagers and wild animals are just the embellishment of the landscape ideology is the motif of the landscape, the scenery described in the footnote. In fact, early landscapes in the UK mid-eighteenth century to the nineteenth century, is a visual extravaganza of the colonial adventure of the Empire. Postcards atmosphere of this visual extravaganza boom also brought up. With a large number of printed postcards spread throughout the world in order to consolidate the status of landscape painting as a visual ideology.

detail of Barry Thompson, 'Scar' 2008, Pencil on paper, 50 x 40 cm

detail of Barry Thompson, 'Vestige' 2008, pencil on paper, 40 x 50 cm

Landscape as a style, its significance beyond the range discussed above. The landscape style is a process of "reading", and "reading" is composed of space by the imagination and the real scenery, a "text" is a visual and verbal expression patterns. In other words, the landscape is reached in the reading of which its meaning. Or more clear: the scenery is built up in the double reading, double reading: second layer of the first re-reading of the landscape artist and the audience read. Landscape artists have never considered that he is repeating the true nature, they are "creating" is rewritten in accordance with the underlying objectives of the cultural nature. Then, the audience is notsimple and ornamental painting, they are also in their own consciousness projection screen in order to achieve the joy of the heart. Double reading visual extravaganza pushed a climax, landscape art in the climax of power, in order to achieve the purpose of passing ideologies.

Barry's work to the audience's first impression is his exquisite pencil drawing skills. All the work looks difficult to distinguish between the actual situation, even at first glance bemistaken for a series of works on black and white photography. After carefully viewing, the audience will find that these are all hand-painted works.Hypothetical about the works of creation in the form of Barry's all changed to photography, then bring the image of the audience whether there would be different?First, let's look at the hand-painted and photographic features on the similarities and differences.

Jimmy:

jimmy

Born in Taipei, B.A. in Fine Arts, with a major in Design. He had worked in advertising companies for 12 years. Now he works as an illustrator. Since 1998, Jimmy published several illustrated books with amazing originality and multi-faceted narratives. He had since set a fashion in creating and publishing illustrated books in local and international markets. Utilizing images as a refreshing form of literary language, Jimmy creates in his works poetic frames that emit charms and appeals. He has published seventeenth popular books so far, and they are translated into English, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean and so forth. Being the most popular illustrator author in Asia, creating lots of fantasy and touch hearts cross all generation, however, with low profile personality, he enjoys the family time more, lives a tranquil life and devotes most of his time to work. Immersing in his works is just like to go into Jimmy's inner world, his inviting stories reflect the reality of real life, more and more people are intoxicated by his vivid strokes and his magic realism narratives. Now in Asia, Jimmy becomes vogue of the time, beyond his stories, "Jimmy" is like a pop of a new life style.

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