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