Francesco Bianchini, 1995

Francesco Bianchini was born in Milan, Italy.

After studying at art high school he attended the Brera Academy Of Fine Arts graduating with 110 cum laude with a thesis of art history.

In 2018 he moved to Florence to study at The Florence Academy of Art where he graduated and became teaching assistant.

Miles Johnston, 1993 | Surreal Art

Miles Johnston is a conceptual artist and illustrator known for surreal pencil drawings.

- "I was born in the UK. I spent the first few years of my early childhood living in Brunei, Borneo, something that I am sure had a major effect on me.

The totally different environment gave me the intuition early on that there is no true 'normal'.

In hindsight I have always been interested in anything that helps to transform my perception of the mundane".

Charlotte Bird, 1958 | The Garden of Love

Charlotte Bird is an English photographer and artist, who uses children as models for her photographic shots, and then transforms them into fairies with the help of a digital post-production, or by combining elements and a background painted in watercolors.

His style is purely Victorian, with domestic environments or English courtyards, with warm and welcoming atmospheres.

Jacques Prevert | Sono quella che sono / I am what I am

Sono quella che sono

Sono fatta così

Se ho voglia di ridere

Rido come una matta

Amo colui che m’ama

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Ferdinand Fagerlin | Genre painter

Ferdinand Julius Fagerlin (1825-1907) was a Swedish-German genre painter. Born in Stockholm, Fagerlin first apprenticed as a shipbuilder (1842-1843) before attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1845-1847).

He joined the army (1850-1854) and practiced painting, particularly portraits.

Heinrich Campendonk | Expressionist painter

Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (1889-1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen.

Campendonk was born in Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire.

He was the son of a textile merchant, and served a textile apprenticeship until 1905.

From 1905 to 1909, he received artistic education from Johan Thorn Prikker at the Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule, a progressive school for Arts and Crafts.

Andrii Frolov | Romantic Impressionist painter

"I am an artist from Ukraine.

The reality around us can be very overloaded with details and meanings, and my main goal is to find the key to conveying all the diversity with minimal means, the shortest possible path to the viewer, and I am grateful for the opportunity to convey my work to viewers around the world!"

Julio Reyes, 1982

Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern California.

Often depicting lone figures within the context of a landscape, Reyes' chooses his subjects carefully.

His works focus on intimate dramas, revealing brief moments of unnoticed grandeur, tender souls grappling with the pressures of modern life.

These sensitive portrayals are the result of careful observation, intimate knowledge of his subjects, and are executed with finesse and virtuosity.

Cristina Torre Cáceres: "'Se domani non torno..."

Se domani non rispondo alle tue chiamate, mamma.

Se non ti dico che vengo a cena.

Se domani, non vedi arrivare il taxi.

Forse sono avvolta nelle lenzuola di un hotel, su una strada o in una borsa nera.

Forse sono in una valigia o mi sono persa sulla spiaggia.

Patrick Pietropoli, 1953

Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter artist who represents cityscapes and street scenes along with delicate figural compositions.

He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome and Venice as well as the intimate portrayal of the feminine figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.

Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris.

Jaime Zapata, 1957

Ecuadorian painter Jaime Zapata graduated from the Art Faculty of the School of Plastic Arts at the Universidad Central de Quito in 1972.

In his young years, Zapata appears in the Ecuadorian visual arts.

An oil in canvas called Melele, got a mention at the II Plastic Arts National Conquest in the Central Bank.

The artist based his current work in painting and specially in his own ability, a very special intuition and a deep observation of the masters.

Andrey Zakirzyanov, 1969

Born in Simferopol Crimea USSR, Andrey Zakirzyanov / Андрей Закирзянов is an artist, film director, animator, designer, teacher an so on.

1985 / 1989 - Graduated from V.A. Serov Art school (Roerich Art School).

1990 / 1992 - Russian Academy of Arts.

2001 / 2008 - Professor Design and Animation St.Petersburg State University.

Monica Cattaneo, 1953 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Born in Florence, Monica Cattaneo - artist of Italian origin but naturalised Swiss citizen, seems to achieve in her painting a perfect fusion of the three pictorial styles, Marc Chagall’s Expressionism, René Magritte’s Surrealism and Antonio Donghi’s Magical Realism, giving life to a personal and original language in which nature and the human being’s relationship with it become the focal point.

Her protagonists, predominantly women, seem to emerge from a parallel world in which the atmosphere is rarefied, suspended between reality and dream, between images traceable to details that the eye recognises and an almost paradisiacal dimension in which all that surrounds the human being is the element of flora and fauna, which becomes the co-protagonist of the canvas itself.

Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1937)

Ferdinand Leeke was a German painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.

A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843-1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter.

Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.

Christine Swann | Pastel Artist

Christine Swann has been designated as an Eminent Pastellist by the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS).

In 2015 Southwest Artist Magazine selected Christine Swann as an "Artist To Watch" and her artwork has evolved since then.

Although she originally started out by painting her children by bribing them with candy, she now works with live models.

Known for her "personality portraits" she started as an illustrator and is now an award-winning artist on the international level, including winning the IAPS Best of Show "Prix de Pastel" Masters Circle Exhibition award in 2020 and in 2015.

Oleg Turchin, 1964

Oleg Turchin was born in Kishnev, Republic of Moldova, and began his studies of art at the children’s art school Sciusev under V.B. Bulba.

In 1981, he began his studies at the Fine Arts College (I.E. Repin) under S.S. Babjuk and Proniaev.

He later studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts under painting faculty leaders I.I. Serbinov and V.I. Kazakov.

Alexandra Nedzvetskaya, 1981

Александра Недзвецкая was born in St. Petersburg.

In 1999 finished the Academic lyceum at the Academy of Arts.

In 2006 finished the Academy of Arts, faculty of painting, portrait painting workshop of prof. V.V. Sokolov.

2006 to 2009 - postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting.

Since 2007 - a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

State scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture, RF 2012.

Winner of the Muses of St. Petersburg grant competition in 2008.

Laureate of the First International Christmas Ballet Festival, art competition "Nutcracker" - II degree diploma, 2006.

Diploma-recipient of the International Forum "Youth and Society - Meeting Each Other", LENEXPO, St. Petersburg, 2007.

Laureate of the Russian competition "Modern Academic drawing" - Diploma of the 1st degree, 2009.

Diploma-recipient of the exhibition "Young Artists of Russia" Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2010.

Member of the Youth Salon. Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2013.

Participant of the Russian exhibition "Russia - XII" Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2014.

2015 - Winner of the competition "Plein air on large formats", Furge, France (Forges, Haute-Normandie, France).

2014 - permanent participant in exhibitions in France with the support of the Russian-French association.

Permanent participant in annual exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.

Permanent participant of collective exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Works are in private collections in Europe and America.

Александра Недзвецкая è nata a San Pietroburgo, in Russia

Nel 1999 ha terminato il liceo accademico presso l'Accademia delle Arti.

Nel 2006 termina l'Accademia delle Belle Arti, facoltà di pittura, laboratorio di ritrattistica del prof. V.V. Sokolov.

Dal 2006 al 2009 - studi post-laurea presso il Dipartimento di Pittura.

Dal 2007 - membro dell'Unione degli artisti russi. Titolare di borsa di studio statale del Ministero della Cultura.

Vincitore del concorso per borse di studio Muse di San Pietroburgo nel 2008;

Vincitore del Primo Festival Internazionale del Balletto di Natale, concorso artistico "Lo Schiaccianoci" - diploma di II grado, 2006;

Diplomata al Forum internazionale “Gioventù e società - Incontrarsi", LENEXPO, San Pietroburgo, 2007;

Vincitore del concorso russo "Disegno accademico moderno" - Diploma di 1° grado, 2009;

Destinataria del diploma della mostra "Giovani artisti della Russia" Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2010.;

Membro del Salone della Gioventù. Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2013.;

Partecipante alla mostra russa "Russia - XII" Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2014.

2015 - Vincitore del concorso "Plein air sui grandi formati", Furge, Francia (Forges, Alta Normandia, Francia).

2014 - partecipante permanente a mostre in Francia con il sostegno dell'associazione russo-francese.

Partecipante permanente alle mostre annuali dell'Unione degli artisti di San Pietroburgo.

Partecipante permanente a mostre collettive in Russia ed all'estero.;

Le opere sono in collezioni private in Europa ed America.

Lavely Miller, 1978

Lavely Miller paints portraits that narrate the effects of trauma, exploring visual cues that speak to loss, suffering, recovery and salvation.

Physically still, her figures exist in moments of emotional action, their frequently direct gazes challenge the viewer’s attention.

This sense of movement is translated through transparent layers of glazes, sometimes upward of 100 separate applications of color combining to create the final surface.

Gideon Börje (1891-1965)

Gustav Gideon Börje was a Swedish painter.

Gideon Börje studied at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm and worked gainfully for a few years, at the same time he conducted evening studies in croki at Wilhelmson's painting school.

He was persuaded by Eric Hallström to devote himself to painting seriously and the two then worked together for a time, including in a joint studio on Kungsholmen.

They also exhibited together in 1918 in Arturo Ciacelli's art gallery on Strandvägen in Stockholm.

Tomás Sánchez, 1948 | The Enchanting Forests

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban Master.

His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist is not so much the recreation of reality as it is displaying the magnificence of a lyrical universe.

Tomás Sánchez, born in Cuba in 1948, invents richly spiritual images of nature in his art.

Sánchez graduated in 1971 in National Art School, Cuba.

Tomás Sánchez was awarded the 1st prize of Drawing for Young Artists in the National Exhibition of Arts.

Hanie Soltani, 1992

Born in Iran, Hanie Soltani is an representational figurative painter based in Tehran.

She earned an MFA in painting from Tehran University, faculty of fine arts.

She pursued her further training on her own, and taking part in many courses under supervision of contemporary figurative painters; Zoey Frank, Vincent Desiderio, and Alex Kanevsky.

Paul Schulenburg, 1957

After receiving a gold medal from the National Scholastic Art Awards in 1975, Paul attended Boston University School of Fine Arts.

Contrary to the trends of that time, Boston University provided an educational foundation that emphasized the fundamentals of classical art training: anatomy and form, color, composition and draftsmanship.

His professors included Joseph Ablow, David Aronson, and John Wilson.

He received his BFA degree in painting in 1979.

Mara Light, 1970

Mara Light was born in New York, and raised in Southern California from the age of three.

She comes from a family of visual artists.

"Painting seemed very natural to me since my early years growing up", says Mara.

She considers herself extremely fortunate to have been given the opportunity to be around parents who look at the world in an artistic, visual way.

She was encouraged, and at times pushed, to make her very personal artistic expression part of her life.

AnnaMaria Lindholm Rogberg, 1972

AnnaMaria Lindholm was born in Stockholm.

- "I have been painting since childhood and exhibiting since the age of 20.

Have attended different Art Schools over a period of 4 years.

Paint in oil and inspires by my daughters and our daily lives together".

Vishma Maharaj, 1984 | Fantasy dress | Ai Art

Vishma Maharaj, who goes by the name Whizical Mermaid, is an American multimedia artist who creates art assisted by Artificial Intelligence.

"Born and raised in the Northern Mountains of Trinidad, I spent my years chasing after chickens goats ducks and rabbits. While running through the thick forest canopies.

We spent our summer vacations at the beaches that are blue for miles.

I was that little girl running down the sea shore tossing Star fishes making wishes.

Vincenzo Sguera, 1950

- "When 18 years old, in 1968, I joined the Architecture Faculty of Florence (Italy) and graduated with the maximum in 1977.

In those 9 years in Florence I alternated study and work, as an artist, advertising illustrator, comics designer and advertising art director.

Once the obligations of military service and University were fulfilled, I opened a Studio for advertising, illustration, fashion and product design, then entering into business with the company "NEXT" in 1982".

Dave Coulter | Cityscape painter

Dave Coulter is a British artist who specializes in cityscapes.

As part of the Northern Art movement, his particular focus is on painting the streets of Manchester and Salford.

In his paintings, he captures the dynamic movement of the multifaceted cities that have been the inspiration for many painters before him.

Dave Coulter is, in essence, as much a part of the North as the scenes he paints.