Star Galerie

Emmanuel Adam

Emmanuel Adam was born near Nancy, France and has been living and working in the Netherlands for more than 20 years.

For many years, he has dedicated his free time to painting in acrylic and oil, specializing in land seascapes, the natural world, the female form, painting both in realistic and abstract form.

Emmanuel Adam: “My paintings are inspired by some of my favorites places such as Brittany, Picardy, Provence, Chile or The Netherlands; painting makes me want to travel and travelling makes me want to paint”.

Emmanuel’s dominant and favourite color is blue which he uses in many tones and hues. Painters that inspire him include Turner, Modiglini and de Staël.

He developed his skills in several courses abroad and for the past five years with Margarita Garcés, a well known painter and teacher of painting, living in The Hague.

Exhibitions held in the Netherlands: Artex (EPO) in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and at the Star Galerie 2010.

Ping An Ysbrand Borouwers – Indonesian/Dutch Artist

Ping An Ijsbrand Brouwers (Djakarta, 1958) is autodidact; na een jaar opleiding fotografie en vormgeving aan de vrije Academie gevolgd te hebben, (1987/’88), besloot hij zich zelfstandig verder te ontplooien.

Na zijn eerste expositie in 1989 volgde een groot aantal tentoonstellingen met ruimtelijk werk. Na 1992 richt Ping An zich volledig op de edelsmeedkunst.
Kenmerkend voor vrijwel al zijn werk is het zoeken naar balans en tegenstellingen. Of, zo men wil: zoeken naar harmonie in het ogenschijnlijk tegenstrijdige. Tegenstellingen zijn niet alleen in het werk terug te vinden in de vorm en materiaalgebruik, het zit vooral in de lading en de symboliek van afgebeelde voorstellingen.Enerzijds laat Ping An zich inspireren door het materiaal, de zeggingskracht en de organische vormen van edelstenen.

Anderzijds speelt symboliek een centrale rol in het uitgaansproces van zijn werk, wat zeker te maken heeft met zijn culturele achtergrond.

Een zekere mystiek lijkt dan ook onlosmakelijk te zijn verbonden met het werk van Ping An.

Stijl, techniek en lading

Mijn werk kenmerk zich door een diversiteit in technieken en stijlen met daarbij een groot bereik in materiaalgebruik.
Primair kies ik voor een concept, thema of symboliek, daaruit voortvloeiend komt de keuze voor, stijl, techniek en materiaal.
De mogelijkheid om vanuit een niets een ‘iets’ te creeeren is ook altijd aanwezig.

Stijl-vormen gaan van organisch, barok tot gestyleerde eenvoud of combinaties hierin.

Oog voor detail gecombineerd met schoonheid, gekte, ernst of humor maakt mijn werk herkenbaar als een typisch Ping ding.

Sinds 2004 werk ik aan dexwxw “Zilvervloot” een doelloos dobberende Armada van naar-en drijf tuigen, van huwelijksbootje tot modderschuit. Daaruit voorvloeiend groet “t Watervolk”, dat een volk symboliseerd dat leeft en drijft op intuitie en geboren uit het archetype van de Indische kris. Deze serie plastieken worden uitgevoerd in combinaties van zilver/goud/koper meet een vogelveer of edelsteeen-kogel.

Margarita Garces – Chilean Artist

Margarita Garces (Chili) voltooide in 1969 de opleiding grafische vormgeving en beeldende kunst aan de Universiteit van Santiago, Chili. Eenmaal in Nederland studeerde zij aan de Vrije Akademie in Den Haag. Met haar werk won Garces prijzen in Spanje en Belgie.

Margarita Garces: “Ik word vooral geinspireerd door de kleuren in de landschappen, en dan vooral de echte aardkleuren in combinatie met blauw en geel. Het contrast tussen het Chileense licht en dat in Nederland is groot: in Chili is het licht in de zomer bijna donkergeel, hier zijn de kleuren veel witter, fantastisch mooi! Mijn multiculturele achtergrond stelt mijn in staat om zowel een mediterrane sfeer als de ijsblauwe, groen- en grijstinten van de Noordzee in mijn wek te tonen. Naast elkaar geven ze in een notendrop een indruk van de schoonheid van onze aarde.”

Lotty Garino – Ecuadorian Artist

For many years I was the creative force in my working environment. In 2002 I came to Europe and decided to change my career in marketing & communication and devote myself to my true passion, art. I started my studies under the tuition of individual artists and later I joined the Academy of Fine Arts of Leiden.

My works are characterised by strong colours and vibrating contrasts that reflect my passionate character and the influence that my country of origin, Ecuador, holds over me.
The contrast that exists in nature fascinates me, like a summer sunset in Scandinavia compared to a sunset in a beach in the Caribbean or Latin America. Different worlds but all fascinating to paint.

I paint mainly with oil and acrylic. I’m using different textures in the paintings to create a relief of shapes resulting in a clear biography of nature.

Tooba Rezaei – Persian Artist

Tooba Rezaie is one of those artists who was born for painting. She was born in Bandar Abbas, in the south of Iran in 1978. She thought herself how to paint, but when she detected a trace of skill and/or expertise somewhere or in someone, she was hungry to learn more and more. Being passionate about painting and learning even more, she went to the Art University Tehran in 1997, where she got her bachelor degree in painting and drawing.

She began to develop her own style, which is influenced by the culture of her roots, the south of Iran. She enjoys portraying, especially women, who play a big role in her paintings. She paints ‘beauty, pain and passion’, using intense and vibrant colors. In some paintings she also uses flowing forms influenced by Khoshnevisi Nastaligh (a special Iranian handwriting). It is where these flowing forms and movements that raised her interest in animation. She started to work as an illustrator and animator in the animation industry in Iran. She worked two years in this field, during which her name was mentioned in the credits of several animation series and some short animation movies.

In 2006 she went to The Netherlands to study Image Synthesis and computer Animation, which is a part of the internationally acknowledged European Media Master of Arts Programme, at the Hogeschool der Kunsten Utrecht. She graduated and is working as an animator and background artist for a game company in The Netherlands since then. Painting is still a part of her life.

Tooba is a successful artist. One of her painting is a part of the collection of the Tehran Contemporary Art Museum since 2002. She participated in eight groups and four solo exhibitions in Iran, Austria and The Netherlands. She made the design of a board game and the game she designed for the Dutch game company won several prices.

Zhang Su – Chinese Horticulturist

Star Galerie brings together Flower Arrangement and Design, East and West to create living artwork that crosses cultural boundaries and represents the common goals of reliable growth, contemplation and harmony.

Star Galerie offers flower arrangement courses and flower consultancy services. Our flower arrangement courses are available in English for anyone from beginners to expert level. Our consultancy services are designed to provide corporate clients with either one-off living masterpieces or on a regular basis.

Oriental Flower Arrangement is taught in English by Zhang Su, one of his biggest project is the Camera Japan Festival.

Ferlin Yoswara – Indonesian

Ferlin Yoswara is a young Indonesian multi-talented artist who was born in Bandung, Indonesia, 22 years ago. She is now studying at Maranatha Christian University in Bandung, Indonesia majoring in Visual Communication Design and specializing in Still-life painting. She also went to Guangxi Art Institute in Nanning, China (2009-2010) majoring in study of Sculpture. Chinese Painting, and Stone Lithography.

She has showed her talents in art from a very young age. She began with pastel media then moved to water colour and oil painting for realism painting. In the last two years, she changed the flow to surrealism and do sculpture. She also tried a new method of combining abstract paintings with stones.

FERLIN’s National Art Awards:

I have joined some of National Drawing competitions for about 200 times since 1993 when I was 5 years old till now, and so far I’ve won 155 National Drawing competitions. And those are couples of them:

1. 1st award of drawing competition at Balai Sartika, Bandung, Indonesia (1993)

2. 2nd award of drawing competition at Garden Ville, Bandung, Indonesia (1994)

3. 1st award of drawing competition at Balai Kota, Bandung, Indonesia (1995)

4. 1st award of drawing competition at PT.Kimia Farma (1996)

5. 3rd award of drawing competition at Bentara Budaya Building, Jakarta, Indonesia (1999)

6. 3rd award of drawing competition at the National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (2000)

7. 1st award of drawing competition at Merdeka Building celebrate 100years of Ir. Soekarno the 1st President of Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia (2001)

8. 1st award won of drawing competition at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia (2002), etc.

FERLIN’s INTERNATIONAL ART Awards:

1. Bronze Award of The 24th International Children’s Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (1994)

2. Nomination of Club Med “Earth Day, Everyday” Art Competition, Asian Pacific-Indian Ocean (1995)

3. Merit Award of Shankar’s International Children’s Competition, New Delhi, India (1995)

4. Bronze Award of International Childrens Art Calendar Nippon Television Network Cultural Society and Biiku Bunka Kyokai, Japan (1997)

5. Nomination of the Annual Drawing Contest Award by Mitsu Home, Co., Ltd., Japan (1997)

6. Special Diploma of The International Museum of Children’s Art, Oslo, Norway (1998)

7. Honorable Mention of Children’s Art Competition LIDICE, Czech Republic (1998)

8. Nomination of the Drawing Diary Contest, UNESCO (1998)

9. Nomination of Children’s Global Vision A World of Art, Queensland, Australia (1999)
10. Achievement Award of Lions International Peace Poster Contest (2000)
11. Silver Medal of Shankar’s International Children’s Competition, New Delhi, India (2001)
12. Nomination of the 1st International Environmental Children’s Drawing Contest Award JQA Japan Quality Assurance Organization, Tokyo, Japan (2000)

13. Silver Medal of CLUB MED International Children’s Painting Competition, New Delhi, India (2001)

14. Bronze Medal of International Children’s Painting Competition GANDARIA KISHOLAYA KACHI-KANCHAR MELA, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2001)

15. 100 winner of Chang Tai Yu Chang Qing” sculpture competition, Nanning, Guang Xi, China (2010)