HANNAH CORBETT, July 9th, 2009

FEATURE ARTIST: Hannah Corbett

Hannah Corbett join us as the feature artist at a special edition of L'Art au Refuge on July 9th, 2009.

Hannah Corbett was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. She began studying oil painting portraiture at the age of fourteen. She received her BA from Smith College in 2000 with Special Studies in Painting.

She has shown her work extensively across the US from solo exhibitions to group collaborations. Hannah currently lives and makes art in Brooklyn, New York.

Her work is focused in figural portraiture. As well as painting, Hannah maintains a discipline in figure drawing, dabbles in curating and enjoys illustration projects.

Her work can be seen online at www.hannahcorbett.com.

ANA DELMAR, June 18th 2009

FEATURE ARTIST: Ana DelMar

Ana Delmar joins us as the feature artist on June 18th, 2009.

With a primal urge to create, Ana Delmar births to canvas and the world a symbolic dialect celebrating baroque romanticism, the wisdom of the ages, cultural heritage and humanity.
Synergizing figurative and abstract techniques, each painting is a unique, rich storytelling masterpiece that embraces the cerebral and the sensual.

Cohesively incorporating meticulously rendered painting, vibrant color, visionary collage, and intricate matrices of channelled geometric patterns; materials and perspectives are ultramodern.
Behold mythic landscapes woven with skill, adventure and honor where genetics, cellular structuring, beauty, architecture, spirituality and the natural world are explored.

Ana DelMar had her first art exhibition at 5 years old in a Bank.
Inspired by travels to the great Museums and Ancient Stone Temples in 26 countries of the World, Ms. DelMar Began Painting in 1999, Trained by Extraordinary Artist Rick Rodrigues and the School of Visual Arts. She made her first major sale of paintings the same year she began.

Ana started to exhibit her work professionally in 2002, in several major shows for Levis and at many galleries and venues in San Francisco and New York City.
Ana DelMar became an internationally collected fine artist.

Music and artists of many eras have influenced Ana DelMar's creative process and consistently inspire the artist to push the envelope.
Ms. DelMar Started to Show her paintings professionally in 2001, in Several Major exhibitions for Levi’s, and at galleries and venues in San Francisco, New York City, London and on the internet.
Ana DelMar works with entrepreneurs and businesses to streamline and aesthetically enhance their public image & photographers and filmmakers to produce, style and edit exceptional media.
Skill, fine art meets commercial appeal and talent in the artwork of Ana DelMar have made Ms. DelMar's works of art very prestigious and smart business investments to own Ana DelMar paintings.
Elite taste makers and intelligent investors claim their aesthetically sophisticated paintings by Ana DelMar to be their favorite purchases in recent years.