BTDesign is proud to announce the winners of The MASTER OF 2004 Award.

Zeljko Djurovic Master of 2004 Best Painter
Dolores Valenza Best Sculptor	Lucia Cartoni Best Photographer	Christina Neofotistou Best Digital Artist

The nominees were the artists who won the Golden Art Site Award and subsequently exhibited their artworks here during 2004 as Guest Artists of the Month.
A panel of judges reviewed each nominee's site and granted points for each of the following categories: artistic quality of the artworks, graphic excellence and technical quality of the website. I would like to thank the members of the international panel for their precious help:

Nico Bastone, Italy
Robert Belgrad, U.S.A.
Tantra Bensko, U.S.A.
Nick Chaldakov, Bulgaria
Ray Cologon, Australia
Christopher Cookson, U.S.A.
Alicia De D'Angelica, Argentina
Helyn Davenport, U.S.A.
Ludovico D'Elia, Italy
Nichole DeMent, U.S.A.
Mark Dornblaser, U.S.A.
Basil Filippone, U.S.A
Gene Gill, U.S.A.
Ludwig Haas, Austria
Rocío Heredia, Mexico
Michael Hudson, Australia
Susanne Iles, Canada
Ismo Jokiaho, Finland
Karin Kuhlmann, Germany
Arturo Lini, Italy
Joke Mertens, The Netherlands
Sam Norris, U.S.A.
Derek Oakes, U.K.
Apostolos Panagopoulos, Greece
Ulrich Pokorra, Germany
Rachel Powell, U.S.A.
Eve Riser-Roberts, U.S.A.
Dubi Roman, Israel
Silvestro Rugolo, Italy
Siegfried Schreck, Germany
Parys St.Martin, Australia
Barbara Tampieri, Italy
Valentin Yotkov, Bulgaria

Award graphics by Barbara Tampieri.

Statistics for the best three places:

Master of 2004	Jury votes
1. Zeljko Djurovic	470
2. Christina Neofotistou	469
3. Lucia Cartoni	453

Best Painter	Jury votes
1. Zeljko Djurovic	470
2. Herb Sellin	444
3. Sebastijan Petrovic	435

Best Sculptor	Jury votes
1. Dolores Valenza	433
2. Jerzy Kedziora	418
3. Miguel Martino	408

Best Photographer	Jury votes
1. Lucia Cartoni	453
2. Michal Barteczko	442
3. Silvia Ganora	436

Best Digital Artist	Jury votes
1. Christina Neofotistou	469
2. Ignacio Fusilier	375

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The Master of 2004 is

Zeljko Djurovic was born on December 12th, 1956 in Danilovgrad, Montenegro.
He completed his studies of Art and post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade.
Zeljko considers drawing is favorite technique, which he has been mastering in long years of study and exercise.
A master of symbolist art for over thirty years, Zeljko paints imaginary world populated with the ultimate symbols of life, women, children and animals.
Among the deepest influences in his work there are Renaissance, Baroque and Surrealism.
As a free lance artist he makes drawings, paintings and graphics presented in various exhibition which are always well acclaimed both by critics and the public.
In September 2004 he had an exhibition at the Progres Gallery in Belgrad where he presented a series of triptics he made in the last fifteen years.
Zeljko is very tied to his native land, Montenegro, where he still owns the house he was born in. He often returns there to be close to his other great passion, nature.
He is a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) and Belgrade Ex-Libris Association.
Please visit his page at BTDesign Art Gallery where you can read an interview with him and don't forget to visit his website, where you'll find many other works.

Barbara