"Crossing Thresholds" Acrylic Collages by Trill Zapatero - March 2011

Trill's paintings are travel collages or maps of journeys.   She painted them while she was living in China, India and Malaysia.  Viewing them might be as much  like reading maps as looking at paintings, perhaps similar to watching animations.  The images suggest stories of heroic adventures or waking dreams. The imagery is influenced by the local landscapes and visual cultures of Asia. The imagery also comes from books she'd been reading as well as other researched materials such as magical symbols and universal archetypes. The paintings are as much about dream journeys, and flights of the imagination as they are about the actual places they were painted. The process of painting itself is a kind of travelogue.

Sometimes she sets out with a few photos, images or ideas in mind.  At other times,she starts without much of an idea.  She thinks about the paper and the textures.  She choses a color; maybe apply it as a glaze.  She also likes to paint thickly and scrape paint off or wipe it away.  She works in layers of a variety of elements.  Images and scenes often appear in the process and she allows that to happen or she googles images and symbols and follow the surfing process to get more information.  Sometimes she uses her own photos and either paints them or collages the printed paper- which she can then tear or glaze over or cut out neatly around an edge or contour.  She's interested in ways to make a picture and create a story.

Visit the OZLAND Art Gallery during the month of March to view these wonderful collages.

Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.  Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. More Information

Photo-collage, Visual Poetry by Shugaaa Rhapsody in OZLAND

Shugaaa Rhapsody (from the UK) has always been fascinated by artists and their many different styles and mediums. Her Art teacher always said Shugaaas' work was never predictable, soft pencil sketches one day and striking colourful paints the next. For many years due to work and Family commitments Shugaaa put creativity to one side, but since coming to SL has found that passion once again taking on a new digital format. Still now, although using photoshop rather than traditional methods, it very much depends on the mood of the day as to the style of the picture emerging. Most of Shugaaas work is untitled, this is a conscious decision to let the viewer of the piece determine their own story behind it.



Step into a world of visual poetry with Shugaaa Rhapsody's Photography Collages at the OZLAND Art Gallery the month of February. Make sure you take home her FREE GIFT too.

Ozland Art Gallery in Retrospect

For January 2011 we are showing examples of the work of the artists that have been featured in our Gallery since we opened in May 2009.

Spiral Silverstar - Alba2 Rossini. - Josina Burgess
Stephs Magic - Hermes Kondor - Lou Mannock
Seleuma Snowpaw - Maria Binder - Alexandra Mensing
SkyBlue Earthboy - Faustine Pau - Satu Gustafson
Jadyn Firehawk - Van Caerndow - Cowboy Darbyshire
Tegan Jenvieve - KenpoKarate Yakubu

Please enjoy the work of these Great Artists

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Pick your own Artwork at the Gallery for January 2011

This month you get to pick your own artwork, from our OZLAND Art Gallery. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the artwork you pick.. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. More Information

OZLAND Art Gallery Presents Christmas Past

King Sven and Queen Llola went around OZLAND in 2009 and took portraits of each of the residents homes. This exhibit showcases those portraits. 

Anyone who visits the exhibit is FREE TO COPY any of the portraits. 

Other OZLAND presents await you too. 


Travel back with us to Christmas 2009 and enjoy this very special exhibit.

KenpoKarate Yakubu's OCEANIC EXPLORATIONS Exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery

KenpoKarate Yakubu (aka Anthony F. Verburgt in RL) has been an artist since childhood starting with coloring books at a very young age.  Having been raised around the influence of his father who was also an artist and told him that anyone who can master drawing the basic shapes of a triangle, square, ball and ribbon considering shadows, reflected light, direct source light and make a rock look hard and water look wet could draw anything. Also if one could draw the human body using these principles then that person can be considered a real artist.

This lead to his becoming a composite sketch artist for the Sheriff's Department where he worked for over 36 years having his sketches lead to the conviction of many criminals as well as forensic crime scene sketches.

His portraits include those of SL avatars and he enjoys giving them life. He is now spending his time doing the art that he loves as he experiments with colors and themes.  His preference of medium is oil paint, but he believes in using whatever mediums, supports and methodologies to express his feelings and art at the time.  As far as styles of painting, he spent many years developing his style of realism. Now he does his art as he feels at the time, and has no particular style. each work being an expression of love and visual representation.

Come walk by the ocean as you enjoy Ken's art exhibit and make sure you take home the FREE gift that he has made specially for guests to this exhibit.

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Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. More Information

Tegan Jenvieve's Halloween exhibit "Dark Beauty" at The OZLAND Art Gallery

Tegan Jenvieve is free spirit in real life and second life in search of emotions and experiences that move her soul. Between intuition and technique she works in different mediums including digital media, photography, words, and prims to show the viewer what lies in between the obvious and mundane. It is the search for that unknown that drives her to try out new techniques, take risks, and explore all that SL can offer. She holds a masters in Education and Bachelors in Math, and is proud mom of 3 out-of-the-box kids who are living proof that magic does indeed exist.

Tegan Jenvieve's Halloween exhibit "Dark Beauty" examines the intense contrasts and images on one moonlit Halloween night. All the images in Black and White harken back to the days when textures and composition alone, not special effects, could transport you to far off places and evoke deep thoughts.

On a lonely walk through a dark forest at midnight in SL, who knows what you will encounter......and if you make it home at all!  Don't forget to look  for the glowing gifts, these spooky objects want to come home and haunt your  house too. See the exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery

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Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.

Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. More Information

"Desert Thunder" photography by Cowboy Darbyshire - OZLAND Art Gallery - September 2010

Cowboy Darbyshire lives in southern Arizona and has been chasing storms for 12 years.

His work has been featured on national TV and on several syndicated channels. He also has multiple storm photographs in various publications primarily in Asia and the South Pacific.

Lightning photography is Cowboy's specialty and his passion for chasing storms at almost any hour of the night or day has been rewarded on several occasions with unique photographs from a variety of places in the desert southwest.

He uses a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi and two primary lenses, a 28-80mm and a 70-300mm for all his photographs. His "trademark" photographs are taken during daylight hours... which are notoriously difficult to capture.

Visit Cowboy's ELECTIFYING exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of September and make sure you take home the free gift that he has made specially for guests who visit this exhibit!

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Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.

Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. More Information

Van Caerndow's Western Paintings on Glass at the OZLAND Art Gallery - August 2010

"I paint on glass as a window to the worlds in my imagination"

Van Caerndow has developed a style of painting on glass (mostly miniatures) using a French water based craft paint called Pebeo, which is designed for glass and ceramics. After painting is done he bakes the glass for 20 minutes at 325 degrees. From these finished works he signs, and numbers Giclee prints at up to 400% of the actual size.

His subject matter varies from sports to travel to portraits, but is dominated by his fascination with the American West.

All his pieces on display in SL have been painted in the last five years. Not only are most of the originals (On glass) available for sale in RL, but he also offers the giclee prints for purchase by contacting Phil Strang at houseofstrang@aol.com.

Visit Van's Western exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of August and make sure you take home the free gift that he has made specially for guests who visit this exhibit!

OZLAND Picture Story Challenge - What does this picture say to you?

Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.

Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. >More Information

Jadyn Firehawk Photography - Christmas in July Exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery

Jadyn Firehawk is a professional geographer & amateur photographer. Born in the Philippines she now lives in Texas.

She believes the mind behind the camera is more important then the quality of the camera. Her photos are taken with a Canon PowerShot point-n-shoot digital camera. She's tried a better camera but keeps reverting to her trusty point-n-shoot. She's concluded it's better to have a small camera in her purse at all times, than a fancy camera at home when she needs to capture a spontaneous shot the moment it catches her eye.

Living with bipolar disorder has given an intensity to her vision of the way she sees the world.  Most people see things in pictures, she sees pictures in things. She loves to photograph things in daily life "as is" without any staging. Once she started looking for "as is" pictures, the world around her got more interesting and beautiful.

Visit her Christmas in July exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of July and take home the free gift that Jadyn has made!


NEW - OZLAND Picture Story Challenge - What does this picture say to you?

Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.

Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. >More Information

Satu Gustafson Doodles at the OZLAND Art Gallery - June 2010

Satu Gustafson lives and works in the North West of Germany. Her artwork is all about experimentation with different materials, textures, media and techniques. Though her preferred medium is acrylic paints she has discovered black and white doodling as a form of art that is especially striking when imported into SL.

Satu is fascinated by colour and contrasts, simple shapes that carry powerful emotionality. So she often uses different shades of one single colour using a painter's knife to shape the pastous paint allowing for dynamic, curved shapes and forms. The black and white inks take this a step further, taking out the colour and working with very basic shapes and patterns.

By bringing her art into Second Life, she would like to make people curious, inspire them and encourage them to just take whatever material they can find in ther RLs and express themselves artistically.

Visit her exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of June and take home the free gifts that Satu has made!


http://slurl.com/secondlife/OZLAND%20SW/250/103/300

Josina Burgess' Acrylic Bronze Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery - May 2010

Josina Burgess studied at famous Art Schools in America and graduated in illustration, advertisement, free painting and drawing, then decided to become a singer.

During her years of traveling as a singer she continued painting and drawing. Her work has many facets. Josina uses mixed techniques she has developed herself. With acrylics she has developed a very personal style. Abstracts, flowers and landscapes are recognizable with her free expression.


The exhibit this month features Josina's RL Acrylic Gold Bronze on Canvas and some painting that have been reworked into SL. Her paintings are "beautiful", not boring, and always a pleasure to look at.

Visit the OZLAND Art Gallery during the month of May to see Josina's most unsual artwork... and make sure you take home the FREE GIFT that Josina has made.

Faustine Pau's Second Life Fantasy Artwork - April 2010

Living in the south of France, Faustine Pau has loved drawing ever since she was a little girl. She says she is "an artist in her soul." She loves meeting new people, music and even writes poetry.

Having no formal art training she is self taught and works with Photoshop 7 to create magical Second Life artwork. She is very good with colors and her artwork is the dreams of children, faerylike and full of fantasy.

The OZLAND Art Gallery will showcase Faustines art during the month of April. Come see for yourself some of Faustine's most unique Second Life Artwork and see if you too don't get pulled into her fantasy worlds.
Make sure you take home the FREE GIFT that Faustine has made.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/OZLAND%20SW/237/137/300

SkyBlue Earthboy's Watercolour Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery March 2010

Living in Switzerland, SkyBlue Earthboy is a watercolour painter who paints many different themes of nature and angels, but he always paint the light.

SkyBlue loves water and only paints with watercolour. The light, flow and transparency of the medium fascinates him. He's been an artist for over 20 years, and his art has spread out to clients in England, Germany, Holland, Switzerland... and now SL.

His pictures are active. They radiate light and energy and have a positive effect on their surroundings. He invites you to step into your own world and discover your soul through his pictures. After all... Art is nourishment for the soul!

SkyBlue's Watercolour Art will be showcased at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of March. Visit this most unique exhibit and make sure you take home the special FREE gift that SkyBlue has made.

Maria Binder's Enkaustik Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery - February 2010

Living in Germany with her husband and 2 children, Maria Binder was searching the internet one day and read about the ancient art of Enkaustik wax painting... A week later she had all the tools and was experimenting for herself.  That was 20 years ago!  She still enjoys creating and exploring new arts.  It's her RL hobby!  Now a days with the help of her computer and various software programs, she creates other kinds of art too...including fractals, photoimpressions, and more.

Enkaustik-wax painting is an old Egypt and Greek art that is over 3000 years old.  In the middle ages it was put aside for oil painting.  Today the art is revived with molten wax colors and electric heating tools.

Maria's enkaustik artwork will be showcased at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of February.  Visit this most unique exhibit and make sure you take home the special FREE gift that Maria has made.

ALEXANDRA MENSING's Kaleidoscopic Art - OZLAND Visiting Artist January 2010

ALEXANDRA MENSING's Interactive Kaleidoscope Lightworks Art Exhibit in OZLAND

Kaleidoscopes have always facinated Alexandra Mensing and she's been making them since her first day of building in SL. Although her RL home in New England showcases a small collection, in SL she's created hundreds. She loves the combination of randomness and fixed reflections and the balance of science of optics and the esoteric beauty of shifting colors.

Since that first day of building, in 2006, her "scopes" have gone from classic prim to sculpty, from simple scripting, to orchestrating various movements of the textures and the prims randomly. Try touching them to see how they interact with you.

Textures are a big part of her scopes. She finds inspiration in RL and SL from telescope imagery and microscopy to fine art from the masters... she's even used coastlines from the google earth maps, for each kaleidoscope has between 12 to 50 different textures in them!

Alexandra will debut a whole NEW collection of Kaleidoscopes for the month of January at the OZLAND Art Gallery... and she's made a special gift for everyone who visits.

Christmas Past - OZLAND Art Exhibit for December 2009

2008 was OZLANDs first Christmas... As a special Christmas gift to the residents, King Sven and Queen Llola took portraits of each of the residents homes. This exhibit showcases those portraits.

Anyone who visits the exhibit is FREE TO COPY any of the portraits.  Other OZLAND presents await you too.

Travel back with us to Christmas 2008 and enjoy this very special exhibit.    hugzzzzzzzzz

http://slurl.com/secondlife/OZLAND%20SW/236/111/300

Seleuma Snowpaw - OZLAND Visiting Artist - November 2009

Seleuma Snowpaw was born in Angola and moved, with his family, to Portugal to avoid war and start a new life. As he studied in high school he was shown all kinds of art... He found that he really liked drawing tribal images. He would practice drawing at his friends homes, painting helmets and tattoos... then eventually started painting on t-shirts.

All this practicing lead him to Celtic knotwork that he found in the U.K and during his trips around Europe. Mixing tribal/celtic knotwork basics, with surreal art-form, he uses pencil, black pen and some water color pencils to create a new way to see these traditional drawings. In RL he paints these new original designs on t-shirts by hand! But here in SL we are lucky to see his work as wall hangings as well as t-shirts.

Seleuma's Celtic artwork in on display at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of November... please make sure to grab the free gift that Seleuma has made special for those who visit his exhibit.

Lou Mannock - OZLAND Visiting Artist - October 2009

Illustrator, Louie Mann (AKA Lou Mannock) born in Cali, Colombia came to the States at a young age and in high school won the "Hanely" award for best art student! He studied fashion illustration at the 'Fashion Institute of Technology' in New York where he now lives/works.

Louie experimented with different techniques & mediums, like the stylish use of comic book art but now concentrates only on pen & ink illustrations & photoshops his work to bring out their most classical sense.


With Louie's artwork, the observer realizes that his pieces invoke a sense of mysticism & spiritual adventure. They becomes like 'Alice' tumbling down a dark rabbit hole that deeply portrays Louie's inner psyche & shows his passion & love for painting. Louie Mann's art is honest storytelling at its best that fires up emotions with his many controversial masterpieces.



Lou's DARK MATERIALS Series will get you in the mood for Halloween...Make sure to grab the free gift that Lou has made special for those who visit his exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery.



For more of Lou's Art Visit his Gallery

Hermes Kondor - OZLAND Visiting Artist for September 2009

Inspired by works of the grand masters of French photography, Hermes Kondor began his career as photographer & photojournalist. Photography to Hermes has always been an artistic expression that reinvents the tridimensional reality from a two dimensions image.

Since working regularly with digital photography he found Photoshop a powerful tool for his artistic creation. He began trying the manipulation of his photos in another creative process - he discovered "Digital Art". This new artform lets him transforming his normal pictures, into art objects full of sense and artistic content.

As his life grew spirituality, he felt the need to explore deeper into his own relation with the Sacred, and to discover other dimensions of Life which lead him to the path of his most recent artistic project - "The Traveler" - a series of 20 pictures which represent his inner travel, across the World, to reach the Primordial Light, and which is on display the month of September at the OZLAND Art Gallery.

Stephs Magic - OZLAND's Artist of the Month for August 2009

The OZLAND Art Gallery welcomes Stephs Magic, a RL Photographer.

Living and working in Germany, Stephs Magic has always enjoyed expressing his creative side in many forms and facets, ranging from photography, computer generated imagery and digital painting, to being an amateur magician.

The "Big Apple" is the subject for his first B&W SL photographic exhibition. The urban landscape of New York City is its inspiration, and the theme is contrasts: old/new; light/dark; soft/hard; artificial/organic; curved/rectangular – where ever you look in this set of images you find dichotomies. He shows us a city that seeks to harmonise these contrasting elements in its open spaces and public landscapes.

Balancing the stark B&W contrasts of the Urban Cityscapes Stephs introduces his Garden Macro collection, which shows nature in its colourful splendor from unusual angles and distances.

Make sure you grab the FREE gifts that Stephs has made special for this exhibit, and enjoy his Photographs!