Bonita Springs National Art Festival

Brigitte Dravet is a passionate and versatile artist, inspired by her architect father. Her childhood spent drawing, coloring, and painting allowed her to express herself and find her artistic path. After studying fine arts, she ventured into creating painted décors, photography, video, and painting. Her intuitive and eclectic work reflects her aspirations and life philosophy, blending joy, tranquility, and spirituality. Her abstract and minimalist works, inspired by the horizon, the sea, and the sky, invite contemplation and reflection.

My goal is to satisfy my own creativity and quest for knowledge while entertaining viewers with work that may also provoke thought.

I was born in Argentina and have lived in Israel since 1979. I am married +2. Painting has been my great passion since I was a little girl. My academic studies are in Chemistry, and I worked for the high-tech industry in 27 years. In 2015, I decided to leave my work to fully concentrate on my painting career. I developed my painting skills by attending drawing classes, realistic oil painting workshops, and many hours of self-study, especially the abstract style. I paint Abstract, Abstractive Landscapes, and Figurative styles.

In my art, I posit childhood icons like Mickey Mouse, Oly and Bart Simpson (the eternally ten-year-old child from the TV animation series The Simpsons) in mostly dark, new and surprising background that produces a dark, provocative statement.

Throughout his life, he received significant recognition within the Israeli art community, winning various awards and having his works exhibited in prominent galleries and museums, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum.

Anatoli Labkouski is an award-winning artist based in Germany whose paintings have been exhibied nationally, as well as in Austria,

Ziv Tidhar, a multidisciplinary visual artist from north Tel Aviv, began his journey creating Lego and clay models in his childhood living room in Dimona and is now a prominent creator and curator in esteemed galleries.

I am a professional artist based in East Sussex who creates large semi abstract landscape, seascape and wildlife paintings in oil on canvas. My painting style is very distinct and fuses art-nouveau, impressionist and semi-abstract techniques with traditional portraiture that reflect my love of nature, animals, birds and the flora and fauna of the landscapes around me.

Patricia Benisti Abramovich reignited her passion for painting in 1996, sparking a sort of obsession. She fell for watercolors, aquarelles, and the stories they told on paper.

My WAY of painting emerges from a deep immersion into the magic of colors. Innocent, vibrant, pulsating, questioning... marked... leaving traces.