WORLD ART AWARDS Winners In Oil / Figure: PARAMESWARAN, HELDENS, SAAD, BRETTLER, QIONGLIN, MATSUMOTO, LARSON, KUPERMAN, CHIHOTA, GOOBERMAN, CULAFIC, BAKLANE-GRIVINA & PROMIŃSKA

6 min readJun 26, 2023

The WORLD ART AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 1: OIL / FIGURE represent INDIA, THE NETHERLANDS, PAKISTAN, CANADA, USA, ZIMBABWE, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO, LATVIA & POLAND.

Artists from 79 countries competed in the 2023 WORLD ART AWARDS where 20 of the most revered galleries in the world were sent online images to score in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: RAJASEKHARAN PARAMESWARAN

Rajasekharan is holding two individual Guinness World Records.

“The Guinness World Records ‘LARGEST EASEL’ was made by Rajasekharan — Parameswaran. It is 56.5 ft tall and 31 ft wide and holds the painting of EMS of size 50 ft width and 25 ft height and was measured on 19thApril 2008."

“The Guinness World Records ‘LARGEST DEVIL’S KNOT (EDAKOODAM)’ measured with each piece of the puzzle 7.30 m long, 0.60 m wide and 0.60 m high, and was achieved by Rajasekharan Parameswaran, at the Raviz, Kollam, Kerala, India on 27 December 2017. This is the second successful attempt at setting this record.”

Born in Vilavancode Taluk in Kanyakumari, Rajasekharan is a self-taught artist with many accolades for his work. Inspired by the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Rambrant, he started recreating his own world of realist portraits. His portraits of the celebrities are highly praised and features in many celebrated private collections now. www.rajasekharan.in

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: WIM HELDENS has conquered the old-fashioned craft of mimetic expression through painting, and his subjects are taken from his individual life experiences. His artistic development shows a quest for meaning, especially in relationships between people, where he finds the most concrete form of meaning which can exist in life. By depicting scenes from everyday life, he wants to show the universally human in terms of contact and situations.

The multi-award-winning work of Wim Heldens can be found in collections all over the world, among which the collection of the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten in The Hague, the AMC Collection in Amsterdam, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira (New York), the Howard Tullman Collection in Chicago, the MEAM in Barcelona (the European Museum of Modern Art), and various private collections in the USA, England, Australia, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Taiwan and The Netherlands.

ART COLLECTORS — CONTACT THE WINNERS HERE:

CATEGORY 1. OIL — HUMAN FIGURE

1ST PLACE — TIE RAJASEKHARAN PARAMESWARAN INDIA www.rajasekharan.in “Splintered Smile” 35x47" Oil on canvas.

1ST PLACE — TIE WIM HELDENS THE NETHERLANDS http://www.wimheldens.com/ “Reading Time” 110x90cm Oil on canvas.

2ND PLACE — TIE ALI SAAD PAKISTAN “Fishman” 24x18" Oil on paper.

2ND PLACE — TIE RENEE BRETTLER CANADA “Serious Business At Cadboro Bay” 16x20" Oil on board.

2ND PLACE — TIE QIONGLIN (JUDY) FAN USA www.judyfan.com “Green Necklace” 14x11” Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE EDI MATSUMOTO USA www.edimatsumoto.com “At The End Of The Day” 30x24” Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE MARK EVERETT LARSON USA www.marklarsonart.com “Cacophony — Mother Nature With Hand On The Wheel Controlling Sea Levels” 30x48” Oil on panel.

4TH PLACE — TIE EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “The Alchemist” 48x30” Oil on polyester.

4TH PLACE — TIE FREDDY CHIHOTA ZIMBABWE “Water Is Life…Conserve It” 45x60cm Oil on canvas.

5TH PLACE CAROL GOOBERMAN USA www.cggfineart.com “Blue Ballet” 18x24” Oil on canvas.

6TH PLACE — TIE JELICA CULAFIC SERBIA & MONTENEGRO “Montenegrin As Inspired By A. Bess” 40x50cm Oil on canvas.

6TH PLACE — TIE ANNA BAKLANE-GRIVINA LATVIA https://www.instagram.com/anna_baklane/ “The Girl With The Foxes” 150x140cm Oil on canvas.

6TH PLACE — TIE MARTA PROMIŃSKA POLAND www.martaprominska.com “Love” 50x60cm Oil on canvas.

Art collectors can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here:

https://www.americanartawards.com/2023-winning-artists-world-art-awards/

In 2023, WORLD ART AWARDS had submissions from these 79 countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chili, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tobago, Trinidad, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.