Derek Gores, 1971

Derek has gained national attention for his collage portrait series, recycling magazines, labels, and found materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores' contrasting interests in the natural beauty of the figure, the angular design aesthetics of fashion (and machinery), and a fearless sense of play. A successful commercial designer and illustrator for 15 years, clients include ESPN, Lenny Kravitz, Lucasfilm, Kings of Leon, U2, NASCAR, Adidas, Madonna, Harley Davidson, 321 Agency, Van Halen, the National Football League, LiveNation, SEIU, Love Haight Apparel, and JCPenney. Derek lives and works in Melbourne, Florida, surrounded by the intellect and culture of the Space Coast.

Bob Barker, 1954

Bob Barker is a UK based artist, born and bred in Yorkshire. It’s taken Bob Barker twenty years for his long time love of painting to evolve from a hobby to the point where interest in his work has taken on worldwide awareness. As a gift one Christmas he received an oil painting set. Bob Barker was immediately struck by what he could create with basic tools and he has been painting ever since, “I eat, breathe and sleep painting”, he says “I love every minute of it”. Bob Barker was born and brought up within the textile industry of Yorkshire; he reflects, “the subjects I paint, most people would just see soot-blackened stone and polluted skies - I see colour”.

Michael Maczuga, 1957

Michael Maczuga considers himself a native Arizonan. Although born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1957, he and his family moved here in 1964. Michael paints daily wherever and whenever time allows. He became a member of the Oil Painters of America in 2004. He is also the founding director of the one and only major plein aire painters show in Scottsdale, “The Wild Wild West Show,” an invitational and juried show. The plein aire show is extremely important to Michael because it allowed him to incorporate a mentorship initiative for local high school art students.

Rita Kirkman | Pastel painter

Rita Kirkman was born an artist. She has been using pastel since she was 11 years old and had her first paid portrait commission at 17. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988. Meanwhile, in 1986 she began a 12 year career sketching quick portraits at amusement parks.

Dmitry Patrushev / Дмитрий Патрушев, 1969

Dmitry Patrushev / Дмитрий Патрушев was born in city Glazov. Has graduated Glazov's Art School in 1982. Was engaged in sculptor, painter, watercolourist and teacher Leonid Mordvin and prepared to act in V. Surikov's Institute, and has acted in the Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow, parallelly visited S. Andriyaka's School of Watercolor, and also N.Smirnov's workshop.

Jeff Faust, 1952 | Surrealist painter

Jeff Faust, American painter, has fond memories of spending hours getting lost in art books that his parents kept round the house as a child.
Each page told a story, both about the artist themselves, and of their work and this fed his eager mind that to create art is not just an amazing ability to possess, but that it was also his calling.

Hiroko Sakai | Surrealist painter

Japanese artist Hiroko Sakai has been living and working in San Francisco California since 1998. The intense passion that she conveys in her art has inspired deep expressions of emotion in viewers over the years.

In the early 90's, her professional art career started in the graphic arts field in Japan. After graduating from Nihon interior design school with a BA degree in design and rendering, she founded "Atelier Yume-Tsumugi Ltd".

Mahira Ates, 1960 | Surrealist painter

Maxfield Parrish | Romantic Painter / Illustrator

Not long ago, Tutt'Art@ published the colorful and romantic landscapes of American artist* Maxfield Parrish and continue to familiarize with his work.

Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 - March 30, 1966)* was an painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Parrish see:

Maxfield Parrish | Golden Age painter / Illustrator ⥅

Roger Alexandre, 1942

Roger Alexandre, Canadian painter, was born in Montreal. Roger Alexandre taught for a few years before studying painting for two years with Brother Jérôme. This teacher passed on automatist techniques and Borduas’ teachings to his student, a largely self-taught artist. Since then, his work has been featured in many exhibitions in Quebec, the United States and Europe. In recent decades, Roger Alexandre’s style has matured: a stylized and pared down approach with soft colours in camaieu. His canvases encourage contemplation and introspection. This deeply humanist artist creates and directs a boundless world.

Richard Ramsey ~ Digital painting

Richard is the owner/operator of Ramsey Photography. For over 35 years Richard has used his talents to produce some of the Mid-South’s finest portraiture. He is one of the highest awarded portrait photographers in the state of Tennessee and has been honored eleven times with the prestigious title of “Photographer of the Year”. Richard holds the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America and the Tennessee Certified and Tennessee Service Degrees from the Tennessee Professional Photographer Association.

Sandra Bierman, 1938 ~ Figurative painter

American painter Sandra Bierman, grandmother of five, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but from age 4 grew up in Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland. Her father was a Swedish immigrant and her mother a Texas farm girl. She was nurtured as a child by her part-Cherokee grandmother. Art scholarships began at age 11. Sandra is married to retired physics professor Arthur Bierman, and they have lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1988. Her oils are widely collected and are published and distributed worldwide.
Influences: 16th Century Italian masters, Mexican masters, Chinese and Japanese classical art.

Marco Rubiero, 1976

Nato a Cavarzere il 22 maggio 1976, Marco Rubiero vive da sempre ad Adria (Rovigo). Nel 2002 inizia a dedicarsi al disegno e allo studio della figura umana. Nel 2003 frequenta nella città di Venezia, un corso di pittura, alla scuola di grafica Internazionale. Nel 2004 presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia frequenta il corso libero di nudo per qualche lezione. Numerose sono le sue mostre in Italia e all’estero e i suoi quadri sono entrati a far parte di collezioni pubbliche e private. L’esposizione permanente dell’artista è nel suo studio d’arte in Loc. Botti Barbarighe 10 Comune di Cavarzere (Venezia).

Giotto ~ The allegories of Vices / Le allegorie dei Vizi, 1303-1305

L'ira - La Cappella degli Scrovegni

In the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, between 1303-1305, Italian painter and architect from Florence Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 - 1337), painted 14 allegories, in monochrome - seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see: Giotto ~ The allegories of Virtues / Le allegorie delle Virtù, 1303-1305 ➦

La Temperanza e l'Ira

Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960

Polish artist Joanna Sierko-Filipowska was born in 1960 in Bialystok. In 1985 she graduated Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an honors degree. Artworks of Joanna Sierko invite the viewer into an illusory magic world, full of internal harmony, as well as memories of great holidays from a distant childhood. Looking at her paintings, we can go back there even for a moment.

Georgios Iakovidis | Genre/Portrait painter

Greek painter Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης [1853-1932] founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens. Georgios Jakobides was one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He was one of the thirty “immortal” members of Athen’s Academy when firstly created, in 1926. His paintings, over 200, are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patricia-Lysiane Beck

With Patricia-Lysiane Beck, creation comes to life in the magical universe of places of encounters: old bistrots, restaurants, hotel halls. In her paintings, enthusiasm and joy reach out in pure spontaneity. The emotions surrounding nostalgic places of tradition fire our imagination and in the halo of the atmosphere, transport us into light and movement. Patricia-Lysiane Beck stirs her performances with intense passion, at the tireless rhythm of life in the beauty of the moment.

Jean-Claude Desplanques, 1936

Ancien élève à l’école des Beaux Arts, Jean-Claude Desplanques se consacre à la peinture depuis 1960. Né en Normandie en 1936, il se passionne pour le dessin dès l’âge de huit ans. Ses créatures mythiques, ses personnages mystérieux et sublimes, nous emmènent vers son univers pictural riche et fantastique, parfois théâtral, où la beauté règne.

Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter

Aung Kyaw Htet paints the faces of monks and nuns in great detail to show their humanity. This is in contradiction to most Burmese artists who usually omit facial details to focus on monks as symbols of religion rather than as human individuals.
Aung Kyaw Htet was born in Myaungmya and studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Rangoon.
He is a devout Buddhist and grew up in a small village, two factors which have a strong influence on his art.
His paintings of religious life in Burma show monks and nuns in a realistic manner, though non-essential objects are omitted from the paintings in order to draw attention to the individuals.

Pascale Pratte, 1974 | Abstract / Mixed Media painter

Canadian painter** Pascale Pratte began her artistic career at a very young age, initially selling her handmade greeting cards in Old Montreal at age of 10.

Four years later, her cards had grown so popular that they could be found throughout Quebec, in France, as well as in Belgium. At the age of 27, Pascale Pratte received her second wave of success, this time as a painter.

Thierry Garnier-Lafond, 1960 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Thierry Garnier-Lafond is an Algerian painter.
From 1978-1981: diploma of the College of Decorative arts of Poitiers;
From 1982-1984: graphic designer freelance in region Poitou-Charentes;
From 1984-2009: Painter, graphic designer in the press and the printing office and on Web.

Manage at once his two activities of graphic designer and painter for 25 years. Some of his paintings are present in numerous collections deprived in France, Italy, Slovenia and USA.

Paul Jaarsma, 1957

My name is Paul Jaarsma, born in Melbourne, Australia on the 1957. I had many occupations, before I dare to live as a professional artist. My career started as a merchant navy officer at Shell Tankers. After seven years on the high seas. I switched to a quit different profession: Owner and sport instructor of a fitness centre.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist | Neoclassical painter

Marie Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826) was born in Paris.

Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux.

The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émile in his work Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie (1801).

Colours of Pompeii

The Roman world was a mass of colour - most clearly preserved in Pompeii.

In wealthy houses, mosaics, frescoes and marble panelling formed a multi-coloured backdrop to painted sculpture, terracotta objects and furniture - as well, of course, did textiles and soft furnishings.

Public temples and other monuments featured vibrant decorations, while the streets blazed with painted signs and adverts for shops, bars, and politicians.

Hernán Valdovinos, 1948 | Magical Realism painter

Hernán Valdovinos was born in Santiago, Chile.

At an early age, he studied art with his mother, Maruja Prats, who is herself an original and respected artist and graduated from the University of Chile's Fine Arts Institute.

At the age of nine, Valdovinos went on to study painting and sculpture with Kurt Herdan and Tótila Albert and showed his individual work for the first time through their gallery.

Valerie Maugeri, 1967 | Abstract / Mixed media painter

Valerie Maugeri was born in Paris. A self taught artist she creates her colorful creations in his studio in Essonne. Valerie Maugeri worked in the art that combines painting and collage, with plenty of things that can be considered for a long time.
In her work at first bright colors catch the eye, and then hidden in the picture details, which are sometimes not drawn with a brush, and set up manually. Perhaps the bright colors in his paintings of Valerie brought their long journeys, where “Ochre and Purple” is the spirit of Asia and the East.