World’s Best Naïve Artists: PEREZ, SAYAMYAN (SAYAR), SUPPLE, DEYHIM, LYUBOMIROV, SIMOV, CHEN & MATALA / 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards

Thom Bierdz
5 min readMar 31, 2024

Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.

The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.

The ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 27. NAIVE ART — OTHER represent ISRAEL, ARMENIA, USA, IRAN, BULGARIA, CHINA & GREECE.

WINNING WEBSITES: CATEGORY 27. NAIVE ART — OTHER

1st Place RAPHAEL PEREZ ISRAEL https://www.facebook.com/amondamon “Hot Air Balloons On The Tel Aviv Skyline” 240x150cm Acrylic.

2nd Place ARMEN SAYAMYAN (SAYAR) ARMENIA “Christmas Tale” 60x50cm Oil on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie GREGORY SUPPLE USA Watercolor on paper. www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/gregory-supple “Fawncie The Cat” 8x8"

3rd Place — Tie MARYAM DEYHIM IRAN https://www.maryamdeyhim.com “Celestial” 150x90cm Oil on canvas.

4th Place RAPHAEL PEREZ ISRAEL Acrylic. https://www.facebook.com/amondamon “Sharona Park Tel Aviv” 79x59"

5th Place — Tie GREGORY SUPPLE USA 19x14" Watercolor on paper. www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/gregory-supple “Grand Central Station”

5th Place — Tie ALEKSANDAR LYUBOMIROV SIMOV BULGARIA Acrylic. https://simovarch.wixsite.com/mysite “Traditions In The Present” 50x50cm

6th Place — Tie YU CHEN CHINA “Dreamland” 36.5x26.5cm Color pencil, paper.

6th Place — Tie MARIA MATALA GREECE https://mariamatala.blogspot.com/ “Rectangles” 25x20cm Computer art design.

6th Place — Tie MARIA MATALA GREECE https://mariamatala.blogspot.com/ “Plouf” 20x20cm Computer art design.

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

In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

20 international art collectors asked to score art:

Andrew Cameron & Marcus Hamilton — Australia

Jason Stuckless — Toronto, Ontario

Floyd M. Elwell, III — Rancho Mirage, California

Jan Gold — Roseville, California

Michael Gregg Michaud — Los Angeles, California

Judi Evans — Los Angeles, California

Alec Wilder — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans

Eddie Dyer — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans

Michelle Foglesong Wilson — Las Vegas

Thomas Zora — Las Vegas

Paul Iacono — Chicago

Ron Lundin — Naples, Florida / Chicago, Illinois / Vail, Colorado

Jay H. Brewer — Orlando, Florida

Celeste Miller — St. Petersburg, Florida

Alan McMullen — Fannettsburg, Philadelphia

Brian Townley — Waco, Texas

Blaine L. Richards-Miller — Wichita Falls, Texas

Aimee Unakis — Georgetown, Illinois

Karen Valentine — Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mitchell Antesky — Toledo Ohio

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.