I, Thomas Riesner, am an outsider art artist based in Leipzig. The painting I have acquired myself. In 1990 I began to deal intensively with painting.Mostly I paint in the Durchblick eV Leipzig, here there is also a gallery and a museum. The association uses a logo based on one of my etchigs. It shows two eyes and a bird. Often I also paint at home in a small studio. My ideas come mostly spontaneously from the subconscious, just like that, often when I listen to music. In social media, for example, facebook and instagram, I am actice. That´s also how I got to outsider art magazine. There I was published in issue 4.
Martin Coyle is and Outsider Artist with no formal art education or training, he has been painting out of his home studio located in a converted barn behind his house for the last 15 years here in the beautiful city of Dover N.H
Martin Coyle is originally from Long Island New York and is related to late NYC expressionist painter Otto Mjaanes.
Coyle is married to his beautiful wife Rachel and they have a 19-year-old daughter Solei
Statement by the artist
As an outsider artist I don’t go into creating my paintings with an intention or direction, I let the artwork create itself. I consider myself an expressionist and create both figurative and nonfigurative artwork .
I have always been an artist but didn’t get serious with my art until 2012, In 2013 I had my first group exhibition art show at 100 market gallery in Portsmouth N.H and won the award for honorable mention.
Since then, I have been in group art shows in New Jersey and twice in California.
I work in many different mediums and enjoy both painting and drawing.
Deep Elm | mixed media | 20×24 inchesSelf Reflection mixed media | 20×24 inchesBarn Street | mixed media | 24 x 36 inchesSoft Parade | mixed media | 24 x20 inches
Marcela is a self-taught intuitive artist born in Sydney, Australia. She is currently based in Hong Kong.
Her earliest creative explorations were in dance, drama, singing and visual arts. In childhood and adolescence, she found an escape in art and a place where she could express herself without words.
After high school, she completed a Law Degree at the University of Technology Sydney, which saw her work in various jobs from legal to publishing related jobs.
She felt herself pulled back into the arts during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The turmoil brought about by the pandemic, led her to connect more deeply artistically and spiritually. Creating art felt therapeutic and her art quickly became deeply connected to her spiritual practice.
Marcela’s work is based on intuition, mindfulness and vibrational energies. Her works revolve around exploring the realms of the unknown and altered states of consciousness. Rainbows are often found in her works, as a symbol of the rainbow bridge.
Through predominately ink, watercolour and hand drawn digital art, her works represent her way of translating the unseen energies she experiences into something more tangible for others to see.
She hopes her art sparks discussions about other-worldly topics that transcend current human understanding.
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Artist Statement:
I try to capture the invisible and make it visible.
My work is based on intuition, mindfulness and vibrational energies.
My artworks are often created subconsciously from a prayerful meditative place, only once they are finished do I come to understand what they are expressing.
In part through automatic drawing and also through accessing my intuition, I challenge others to see beyond current human understanding by diagramming elements of the immaterial world and exploring altered states of consciousness. To have people look past the 5 senses, that is my goal and inspiration.
Felicity | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″By Your Side | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″A Face In The Crowd | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″Better Together | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 18″ x 24″
In Binna Kim’s artwork, she aims to present a stimulating mixture of nature and a view from her vivid imagination.
Whether in colorful abstract works or visual interpretation of nature, the works demonstrate keen attention to the smallest detail in order to emphasize the depth of expression and emotive beauty of nature. This combination helps bring the audience to a different world, a stage for viewing scenery in an emotionally evocative way. While viewing the works, the artist’s visual expression and interpretation by the audience merge and go hand in hand to evoke a memory, a passion, or a feeling unique to each of us.
Emotions-19 Series focuses on positive emotions that we might have forgotten for a while due to Covid-19 pandemic, such as love, joy, comfort and gratitude.
Binna Kim is a self-taught artist with a few different yet special career backgrounds. She is based in New York as an artist, floral designer and window display designer. Binna’s childhood was spent on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, against the backdrop of mountains and ocean that first inspired her art. Natural forms have remained a central theme in her work, and as her art career flourished she developed an interest in floral design and plant-based installations. Binna’s arrangements have graced vitrines at flagship locations of Beretta, Madison Avenue Gallery and Oxxford Clothes, and at renowned boutiques across New York City.
Apex No.1 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inchesApex No.2 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inchesMetaphysical Joy No.1 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inchesTranquil Joy – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inches
Issue Six is now available digitally for free or $25 for a printed version.
Artists in issue six
Robert Gorchov *Cover Artist
Robert Frankel
Kevin Kemp
Dio D’Brutto
Valentina Fedoseeva
Ernest Compta
Matthew Clarke
RINA Taytu
Nicklas Farrantello
Sven Froekjaer-Jensen
Mitchell Pluto
Richard Reynolds
Gale Rothstein
Thelma Van Rensburg
Jennifer Levine
Susan Spangenberg
Emmanuel Laveau
Samia Farah
Selkie Quan
Bux Dhyne
Bill Skrips
Poete Maudit
Christy Carter
BILL _L47
Sophie Jacobs
Oshi Artist
Michael Chomick
David Sheskin
William Francis
Richard Green
Hermine Harman
The theme of my works is coming from “To Live”. Most of them, if anything, are based on “sorrow” and “trouble” around us. Among these sorrow things, I shift my thought to feel a thanks. When I feel a thank, I see a small “dream” near in the future. It is “drawing” for me to make a form from a small dream.
I spend a lot of time watching paint dry which is fine because I consider myself to be, first and foremost, a painter. Experiments in drawing led me to tear paper and arrange found objects, lifting me off the paint surface into collage and assemblage. The arrival of furniture ‘shards’ seemed a natural extension of this process and allowed me to step outside the bounds of academic art. Recovered from alleys and yard sales, the chairs, tables and dressers introduce a human element to, otherwise, complex gestures. They represent a human scale with human references: arms, feet, legs, backs, seats and so on. An anthropomorphic whisper keens behind the work.
During a year spent teaching in Japan, I visited ancient Kyoto several times and loved the wooden artifacts of rice cultivation–splintered and gray–honored in retirement, placed around the wood-and-paper houses, sometimes mounted on the exterior as decoration. The ‘Kyoto’ series with its layered wooden designs owes its origins to this memory. ‘Debris Fields’ differ in that they are created from just one fractured furniture piece, making them bolder, simpler, and more colorful.
. . . which brings us back to the paint. Except for the base coat and a rare touch with a brush, the paint is poured and sprayed; it flows and drools and cracks and oozes. You’d think it would add a chaotic element. Quite the contrary, the paint imposes order while charging the pieces chromatically and emotionally; it creates harmonies or contrasts that give depth to the human gestures.
Debris Field #12 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 60″ x 35″ x 8″Debris Field #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 51″ x 36″ x 10″Kyoto #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 36″ x 36″ x 3″Kyoto #8 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 72″ x 27″ x 5″
Coming from a severely dysfunctional family which led to group homes and institutionalization in her teenage years, Susan Spangenberg cut her outsider artist teeth at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center’s renown ‘Living Museum’ art rehabilitation program. She was on the vanguard of the ‘Girl Interrupted’ female asylum artist wave that has in twenty years become the new normal, yet Susan has maintained the raw essence of that genre imbued with a twenty-first century sensibility.
Girl In Restraints Looking Through The Seclusion Room Window Girl In Restraints Looking Throughpsychiatric hospital gown, leather, pencil, marker, metal on canvas 2019 (hand sewn) 8″ x 10″Octochrist pencil, text, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons (hand sewn) on canvas 12″ x 16″Girl In Restraints Visits The Octopi Girl In Restraiacrylic, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons on unstretched canvas 2021 (hand sewn) 72″ x 20″Girl In A Straitjacket pencil, marker, fabric on canvas (hand sewn) 8″ x 10″
I like to create energy and motion by contrasting bright colors, heavy brushstrokes, and unusual shapes and textures.
Many people who view my work tell me it makes them happy. My lack of formal art training has enabled me to think and paint “out of the box” in regards to composition, textures, and colors.
I have been in a number of national and international exhibitions which include Van Der Plas Gallery, SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, and Greenfield Gallery in NYC, La Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan Italy. I have exhibited at Saatchgi-The Other Art Fair in Chicago and will be exhibiting in the Saatchi -Los Angeles exhibition in Spring of this year. In 2019 I was one of twenty finalists for the Art Takes Manhattan Competition.
Geschmier #5 | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5 (inches)Geschmier #1 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5Big Bang | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5Geschmier #7 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5 (inches)
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