Lithuania-Born Painter Arturas Slapsys Aims to Astound

Arturas Slapsys
Lithuania-born artist Arturas Slapsys never ceases to amaze. His eclectic body of work is certain to please collectors with an eye for diversity.
Sometimes “old-world” traditional, other times distinctly modern, Slapsys is an artist with immense range.
His latest offerings demonstrate this multiplicity; and offer art buyers an immensely wide array of choice. Arturas’ paintings are highly collectible and promise to increase in value – so buy what you love from this gifted painter.
Featured below are an assortment of Slapsys paintings, all representing different styles and price points.
Thanksgiving Day Sale for Italian Photographer, Gianni Fardelli
Italian photographer, Gianni Fardelli, had one more thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday: a sale on DiscoveredArtists.com!
Gianni sold one of his gorgeous landscape images to a buyer in Southern California. The piece, entitled “Devil’s Marbles”, is a limited edition, signed and numbered fine art print presented on heavy-weight professional satin paper. It’s a fantastic panoramic image sized at 48×16″.
Gianni Fardelli’s work is not limited to traditional landscape photography. He also produces a series of ultra-modern, supremely decorative abstract images based on nature. These are a few our favorite pieces from Fardelli’s series:

New Paintings from Las Vegas Artist Niki Sands
Artist Niki Sands is a masterful painter. Her work represents some of the most important Contemporary Fine Art today. Unbelievably, Sands is a self-taught artist – remarkable given the complexity and maturity of her compelling paintings.
Her pieces are rich in color and are born of the artist’s continual experimentation with various styles and techniques.
Niki works with both oils and acrylics to create her passion-filled, wonderful work. Niki’s art is collected throughout the United States, as well as Canada and Europe.
Her artwork is unusual, beautiful, cutting-edge and highly collectible. Interior Designers…take notice. Your clients will love you for introducing Niki Sands to their projects.
Niki’s work can be seen and purchased in her gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com.
Six new “sexy” images of Russian super-model Daria from London fashion photographer, Clive Arrowsmith
London fashion photographer Clive Arrowsmith is back with six new and fairly racy images of Russian super-model, Daria.
The series truly shows-off Clive’s talent as a fashion photographer. The lighting and staging on all of these images is top-level professional.
Enough from me. On to the images…
Pomeranian Artist Anselm Bonies Unveils New Body of Work
After recovering from a selling-spree that left him with 99% of his art inventory sold, Pomeranian abstract artist Anselm Bonies has been back in the studio creating a new, fresh body of work that will undoubtedly please his ever-growing group of buyers and collectors.
Creating and then selling over 50 original abstract paintings over the course of just a few months would leave any seasoned art professional a bit tuckered. But Anslem Bonies is back with a vengeance, unveiling a new series of work, that in this curator’s opinion, takes the artist to an entirely different level.
His new pieces are bigger, bolder, more refined and come with a significantly higher price tag. Given that Anselm has catered primarily to corporate and office art buyers, it will be interesting to see how his new work and higher prices are received.
So far, Anselm has made just three new pieces available in his DiscoveredArtists.com gallery – with many more promised over the coming weeks. We have included images of these pieces below.
Popular Welsh Artist, Goff Danter, Now Offering Limited Edition Prints of His Sold-Out Paintings
Prolific and extremely popular Welsh artist Goff Danter is now making many of his paintings available as limited edition prints – just 50 prints per painting.
Goff is in a very unusual position as an artist. Due to popularity, his work has steadily risen in value and continues to do so. New paintings are eagerly anticipated by an avid group of collectors and enthusiasts, regularly being sold out within a day or even hours.
Many now regard Goff Danter’s paintings as sound investment opportunities for the future, and clamor for his originals.
Supply of Goff’s originals is limited, due to high demand. In order to offer his customers selection, he constantly provides a diverse range of images and subjects to cater for a wide range of collectors.
We are honored to have the opportunity to market and sell a terrific selection of Goff Danter limited edition prints on DiscoveredArtists.com. And given that Goff’s originals sell in the mid to upper thousands of dollars, we think it absolutely amazing that Goff is offering his high-quality, limited edition prints to the rest of us for just around $100.
Here are just a few samples of what is now available from artist Goff Danter. To see the full collection of prints, please visit Goff’s gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com.
London Fashion Photographer, Clive Arrowsmith, Releases New Work to his DiscoveredArtists.com Gallery
Whenever Clive Arrowsmith releases new images to us to market on DiscoveredArtists.com, I instantly feel a sense of peace – as if all the elements have fallen into perfect place and once again the world is harmony-filled.
A bit dramatic, I know. But, who could blame me? Clive Arrowsmith is one of Britain’s most revered fashion, beauty and portrait photographers. He has photographed a plethora of “A-List” artists, including Art Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Wings, Jamirequi, Lee Griffiths, and many others.
And we’re darn proud to have the opportunity to be one of the galleries to display, promote and sell Clive’s work.
In fact, the very last sale made on DiscoveredArtists.com was one of Clive’s pieces featuring George Harrison and Ravi Shankar – sold to The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai.
Clive Arrowsmith has released 12 new images for sale on DiscoveredArtists.com. I have included a few of these below.
Please take a moment to browse Clive’s entire gallery: http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/CliveArrowsmith.
All pieces are available in multiple sizes and price-points. Please contact me directly with any inquiries.

Brian Walker, Owner DiscoveredArtists.com
Contact Brian:
Email: brian@discoveredartists.com
Phone: (877) 711-1167
What’s So Unique About Photographer Eileen Harris’ Work?

Eileen Harris
For one: all of Eileen Harris’ images are captured and processed on her iPhone.
Sounds a bit suspect at first, right? But according to Eileen, her low megapixel, prone-to-blurring, aperture-void iPhone is exactly the creative companion that affords her the freedom to capture the spontaneity of everyday life and to beautifully ‘enhance the mood’ of an image with its on-board digital processing applications.
And the results are spectacular!
To be clear, Eileen Harris is NOT an amateur photographer who one day decided to start taking random photographs on her phone.
Rather, Eileen is a seasoned professional with a background in Sporting Event photography who has made the leap into creating impressionistic, abstract photographic images – which happen to have the unusual and provoking twist of being produced on an everyday iPhone. We think that’s neat!
And her work speaks for itself:
To view more and to purchase works from Eileen Harris, please visit her gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com: http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/EileenHarris
A Wonderful New Black & White Piece From Photographer, Nicholas Bell
Knoxville, Tennessee professional photographer Nicholas Bell continues to astound with his hauntingly beautiful black & white fine art photography.
We took particular notice of Nicholas’ latest offering, “Gothic Sunrise” – a wonderfully mysterious Fine Art photograph that, in our opinion, optimizes the splendor of black & white photography.
See Nicholas Bell’s entire gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com: http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/NicholasBell2010
Featured Paintings of the Week, Volume 11
Each week, we select and feature ten pieces of artwork we think you should consider buying for your home or office. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, including a description of the painting, size and price, simply click on the image. You’ll be taken to our main site, DiscoveredArtists.com.
These are our picks for the week of June 25, 2010. To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured
Featured Fine Art Photography of the Week Volume 11
Each week, DiscoveredArtists.com selects and features ten fine art photographs we think you should consider adding to your collection of home or office artwork. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, simply click on the image. To follow are our picks for the week of June 25, 2010.
To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured
Photographer Nicholas Bell’s primary goal is to capture scenes during rare and dramatic times of beauty.
For him, there is a certain beauty, mystery, and sense of solitude that can only be found in nature. Whether its walking a foggy trail or watching the sun rise in perfect silence, the natural world provides Nicholas with an unlimited source of inspiration.
Bell’s passion as an artist is composing and exposing with a camera in such a way, that his images convey a dream-like quality and evoke emotion in the viewer.
“When my work does this, I consider it a success”, says Nicholas.
About the prints
All prints offered for sale are on premium papers with a standard longevity of 100 years in home display, and 200 years in dark storage. Images in the Nichaols Bell’s gallery are available in various print sizes. If you would like a print in a size not represented in the gallery, please feel free to contact DiscoveredArtists.com at customersupport@discoveredartists.com.
Samples of Photographer Nicholas Bell’s Work
Online Art Promotion Experiments Continue
Over the past year, we’ve experimented with a variety of ways to promote art and artists online. Tweets, videos, Facebook posts, Blog posts, artist promotional videos, commercials, etc. Some have worked, others have not.
One of the promotional activities we’d like to consider “dusting off” is the use of short video productions featuring three artists and their work. A sample of this approach can be viewed below.
The question we’d like to pose to both artists and art buyers: Do you find this to be an effective means of promoting an artist and their work? While these videos are in no way sophisticated, they are, nonetheless, time-consuming in terms of production.
So, what do you think?
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. Your feedback and comments are greatly appreciated.
Animations of Impasto and Sweeping Brush Strokes
My paintings communicate the elements of tension and resolve; thickly exaggerated, agitated gestures that expose the materials and surface of the paint.
I draw my inspiration from the external environment and my internal awareness.
The style depicts sharp circumstances and consequences, as tensions between attraction and repulsion confronts the observer, the dialogue results in a visual copulation, where fabrication amplifies the visual consciousness.
The paint is naive, thick, and viscous it adheres, coagulates, and congeals across the igneous blank canvas. In its wake compositions emerge; forms move and dominate space rich in color; texture develops into environments real or fabricated; into animations of synergy.
The style depicts sharp circumstances and consequences, as tensions between attraction and repulsion confronts the observer, the dialogue results in a visual copulation, where fabrication amplifies the visual consciousness.
A Few Samples of Eul’s Work
A Brief Promotional Video Featuring Eul Hurley’s Paintings
To see more of Los Angeles artist Eul Hurley’s work, please visit his gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com: http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/EulHurley
California Collage Artist Hope Kroll Refreshes Her Gallery with New, Fabulous Works of Art
New framed 3D collage art on antique paper from California artist, Hope Kroll. “Defending Cells”. 5×9 $1200. http://bit.ly/bvU0V5
Featured Artwork of the Week Volume 10
Each week, we select and feature ten pieces of artwork we think you should consider adding to your home or office collection. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, simply click on the image. You’ll be taken to our main site, DiscoveredArtists.com.
These are our picks for the week of May 3, 2010. To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured
Every Monday morning, DiscoveredArtists.com selects and features ten fine art photographs we think you should consider adding to your collection of home or office artwork. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, simply click on the image. These are our picks for the week of May 3, 2010.
To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured

Sculptor, Sterett Gittings Kelsey
You can almost hear the symphony and feel the joy of the dance when you see these exquisite bronze ballerinas.
These beautiful investment-level, registered bronze figures are cast by world-renowned artist Sterett-Gittings Kelsey. In her own words, the award-winning American artist seeks to “capture the essence of dance in bronze”.
It’s a purpose she clearly has fulfilled as the most sought after sculptor of bronze dance figures in the world. Kelsey is an artist as lovely as the sculptures she produces, always engaged in the creative process, looking forward to the next creative challenge.
Enjoy “hearing the music” as you admire her work and learn more about this amazing artist in her DiscoveredArtists.com artist profile and gallery.
We conducted an impromptu poll this past week asking art buyers, collectors and Interior Designers where they stood in terms of their art buying plans this summer.
Let’s face it: art sales have been in the pits the past 24 months, and any sign of a recovering art market is welcomed by most of us in the business.
The poll results can be viewed below. Let’s hope these numbers stand true and that more and more lovers of art will get back to the business of buying from an increasingly strapped and frustrated art-creating community.

Artists Wonder What Art Buyers and Collectors are Thinking
As the economy begins to recuperate and word on the street indicates the art market is once again showing signs of life, many artists are asking the same question:
“Now that things are returning back to normal, when can I expect to see a steady flow of sales again?
A great question we’re all eager to have answered.
Perhaps a quick poll of those who matter, the art buyers, will shed some light?
Art buyers, collectors, Interior Designers, art lovers… please take a moment to answer two questions. Your response is important to us. Thanks in advance!
How Technology Has Dealt a Blow to the Arts

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a huge supporter of advancements in technology. In fact, I embrace new software, productivity tools, gadgets… you name it. I’m a guy who works fast to master all of them.
But new technology introduced into the world of art has created unintended results.
I could end this post right now by summarizing the negative impact technology has had on the arts in three bullet points:
- Distraction
- Accessibility
- Marketplace Dilution
Take the music industry, for example. It was the first of the main art forms to be negatively impacted by technology. And the impact came in the form of a double-edged sword:
- by serving as an enormous distraction to great song writers and musicians who spent weeks toying-around with new technology trying to “dial-in” the perfect Reverb and Gate on a snare drum or trying to achieve the ultimate sonic range on a guitar lick – all the while the most important element, the song itself, became secondary to the technology.
- literally driving recording studios (the engineers and producers who were already pros at “dialing-in” the sounds) out of business. Everyone and their brother could now afford to set-up recording studios in their basements – and the “wannabes” came out in droves.
Distraction yielded less than stellar songs. Accessibility led to saturation. Saturation resulted in marketplace dilution.
Photography has also been impacted negatively by technology, for primarily the same reasons as music:
- Photographers, who by their nature are technology-loving beings, have been utterly blind-sided by all the new “toys” available. Their original addiction to the camera itself has been displaced by a new drug: Photoshop, Camera Raw and Color Correction. Processing of images seems to be “riding shot-gun” over shooting raw, captivating and marketable pictures.
- Meanwhile, technology has allowed a flood of truly untalented photographer wannabes into the game – diluting the marketplace and burying the true greats.
Just because you own a digital SLR camera and the latest version of Photoshop does not make you a photographer.
Painters have been less affected by application technology, but have nonetheless found themselves caught up in creating and maintaining websites, managing FaceBook accounts, Tweeting to 50 followers and putting their work on every art site they can find. All of this takes an enormous amount of time and energy away from what they should be concentrating on: Painting.
In a follow post to be released soon, I will discuss the good, bad and ugly of Social Media on artists today, and the false sense of security it has created for many.
In summary, technology is a wonderful thing. But if not managed properly, it has, and will continue to have, a negative impact on the arts.
Maybe it’s time we all got back to basics?

Brian Walker, Owner DiscoveredArtists.com
Introducing Boston Paper Cutting Artist, Joe Bagely
Joe Bagley taught himself the ancient art of paper cutting by mimicking the styles of antique paper cuts from around the world. In college, he found his own unique style drawing from architecture and nature in his native New England, and around the world.
Each of his original pieces are hand-cut from a single sheet of black paper and mounted to illustration board and professionally framed with UV glass.
Joe lives in Boston, where he creates his art from his home studio overlooking the city. A full time artist since 2008, Joe has shown is work in galleries and museums around the country. His work can be found in private collections in almost every US state and 14 countries abroad including the collection of Gavin and Yaena Boyle.
Images really help to fully appreciate the painstaking and intricate detail of Bagely’s work. Here are several visual representations of the the steps Joe takes towards his final product:
STEP 1:
STEP 2:
Final Product :
Here’s another “behind the scenes” look into the creation of Bagley’s “Ropes”:
STEP 1:
Step 2:
The Final Product:
Please take a moment to visit Joe Bagley’s gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com. His work is amazing, contemporary and beautifully priced.
My first job out of college required that I attend a three month training program. Even to this day, I practice one of the main points our trainer continually drove into our brains:
“Never bash or talk-down about the competition. Doing so makes you look unprofessional, the company disreputable and, ultimately, the customer will never do business with you. They may even go directly to the competition.”
Here’s a real-life example of this in action:
A good friend of mine is an art collector. He budgets $15,000 – $20,000 per year for new art. Chris was attending a large, well-known art show here in Chicago. He found the piece he wanted to buy that day, approached the artist to initiate the sale, and two minutes into the conversation, the artist says:
“I don’t know who the show curators are this year, but the majority of the artists in this show are crap. I’m embarrassed to even be here. Look at the work from the guy in the booth next to mine – what an amateur, he calls that art.”
This artist managed to accomplish five things with her snide remark:
- She bashed the competition in front of a prospective customer.
- She discredited the curators of the show – whom selected her for inclusion.
- She lost the sale.
- She made Chris (the customer) feel insecure about his own taste in art (he liked much of what he saw at the show.)
- She watched as Chris bought an $8500 piece from the guy in the booth next to hers.
This type of bad artist behavior runs rampant across the web, too. Nasty criticism from “artists” about other artist’s work can be found on art blogs, Flickr, YouTube; all across the web.
Here are several examples I’ve complied from our own blog and other online venues where we have presence:
- “As an artist myself, I can say this artist’s work is sh*t.”
- “Boring- from a slide projected onto a canvas. wow mind blowing. zzzzzz.”
- “While the lay person may be impressed, as a painting major, i still see paint. keep practicing mr. shub. (This one was sent from a self-proclaimed “art major” directed at a 40 year professional artist.)
- “Everything in your gallery is crap. Get some real artists”. (From a small-time, struggling European “artist”)
- “sh*t”
- “Fu**ing horrible painting. You should look at my work to see what real art is all about.”
- “Amateur art that has no chance of ever selling.” (This “artist” comment was directed at a 30+ year professional artist who, at last count, has sold in excess of $400,000 worth of her paintings.)
- “Looks like somebody took a dump on canvas. Have a look at my work (URL provided). “
- “boring piece of bronze sh*t – I think I’ll go take a nap now.” (This comment from a self-proclaimed “artist” was directed at a $500,000 bronze sculpture that took 14 months to complete and sold to a well-established collector.)
And many of these nasty and bitter “artists” defend their comments as art critique. This is not constructive art criticism. This is bad social behavior that many of us would sternly punish our children for if they behaved this way.
One of the trends that emerges from these types of comments is a self-serving “look at me”, Napoleon-complex mentality. These comments serve only to cause pain by demeaning other’s hard work in an attempt to build-up the obvious low self esteem of a bunch of losers who loosely refer to themselves as “artists”.
No wonder the phrase “starving artist” exists. It’s a self perpetuating phenomena brought on by bad karma having its way with those who put negativity and bad energy out there for all to consume.
So, if you’re one of these “artists” who has nothing better to do than write nasty, useless comments about another professional’s art: STOP! Perhaps you should be painting instead – we’re quite certain that you need the practice.
Meanwhile, the rest of us – true art professionals- will continue on fighting the good fight by painting, photographing, promoting and marketing – and ultimately protecting the very foundation of the entire art business.
Stay out of our way. Stay off our blogs. Stay out of our shows. Stop calling yourselves “artists” – you don’t deserve the professional moniker. And, keep your blatantly hateful comments to yourselves. Nobody cares to hear your poorly-written, self-serving criticisms – that you call “art critique”. You’re attempting to ruin it for everyone else. Something we’ll never allow you to do.
Ten Pieces of Artwork You Should Own, Volume 9
Every week, DiscoveredArtists.com features ten pieces of artwork we think you should consider adding to your collection of home or office artwork. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, simply click on the title of the work. These are our recommendations for the week of April 19, 2010.
To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured

Looking to His Past by Rebecca Zook
Ten Fine Art Photographs You Should Own, Volume 9
Every Monday morning, DiscoveredArtists.com selects and features ten fine art photographs we think you should consider adding to your collection of home or office artwork. To learn more about any of the pieces presented, simply click on the image. These are our picks for the week of April 19, 2010.
To see previous week’s recommendations, please visit: http://www.discoveredartists.com/featured
Artist Stephen Shub is one of the most soft-spoken, low-key and humble artists I’ve ever encountered. And given his incredible, obviously God-given talent, you might expect him to act as if he walked on water.
Not the case with Stephen Shub. All Shub has ever wanted to be is an artist. And after forty years of pursuing his passion and a body of work that leaves most in awe, Stephen has undoubtedly earned the moniker.
I felt compelled to write something special about Stephen today because here’s one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, an artist with unbelievable talent, a professional whose work should be hanging in museums, yet he has had difficulty this past year selling his paintings.
Part of the problem may be that when people first encounter his work, they immediately assume that they are looking at a photograph. Not so. These are oil paintings, folks.
A few weeks ago, after promoting one of Stephen’s paintings on Twitter, we received the following message from another artist:
“Why would anybody bother painting something so realistic?”
I had to stop to think about this question for a moment, initially disregarding the comment as a common case of artists criticizing other artist’s work – something that quite frankly is the absolute bane of the art world. But, I did respond on Stephen’s behalf. The only reply I could come up with: “Because he can.”
Today, I reach out to collectors, designers, buyers and art lovers everywhere. Help us put Stephen Shub “on the map”.
Whether you’re a fan of Stephen’s hyperrealist work, or not, an artist of Shub’s caliber deserves our attention.
Steven Shub should be the poster child of “When an artist blows your mind.”

Brian Walker, Owner DiscoveredArtists.com
Now featuring Italian photographer Davide Dutto on the DiscoveredArtists.com homepage

Davide Dutto
Davide Dutto lives in Piedmont, Italy, where he was born in 1961. He has been working as a professional photographer since 1982, dealing with different aspects of photography and keeping his balance between art and technique.
Presently, his works aim to communicate emotions, as he would steal the soul of his subject with his shots and return it through the images. His photos depict geographical and spiritual places, where the photographer’s lens meets real life.
Davide has recently added some terrific new work to his gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com. Please take a moment to visit. http://bit.ly/uBIHd
“Powerplant Memorial” by photographer Nicholas Bell.
“Powerplant Memorial” by photographer Nicholas Bell. Environmental Fine Art photography. 18×12 digital print. http://bit.ly/cxBH4O















































































































































