Gilles Charest, 1947 | Still Life painter

Gilles Charest was born in Montreal, Canada.

He studied education, literature, and administration at the University of Montreal.

He taught for a few years before changing his career in 1975 when, along with two associates, he founded an advertising agency and assumed the role of creative director.

Yasmina Alaoui, 1977 | Body Painter

Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love to tantalize their audience.

In their life-sized photographic series "one thousand and one dreams", statuesque bodies apear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters.

Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion.

Duma Arantes 1973 ~ Fashion painter

Duma lives and works in Oeiras, Portugal where she studied advertising in IADE -Visual Arts, Design Marketig Institute and also Painting and Drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. 

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, a town located on the west side of the Hudson River, to a middle-class family that encouraged his artistic abilities.

After graduating from high school, he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City (1899-1900), and then he enrolled in classes at the New York School of Art (1900-1906).

In his shift from illustration to the fine arts, he studied with William Merritt Chase, a leading American Impressionist painter, and with Robert Henri, who exhorted his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner.

Bruno Torfs | Sculpture Garden

Bruno Torfs is an artist, born in South America and moved to Australia after traveling Europe up and down, wanting to bring his dream to life.

The Victorian village of Marysville, 95 km from Melbourne, was the perfect place to develop Bruno’s wish to create a sculpture garden.

He bought a property, including a generous piece of sub-alpine forest, and after five months of hard work, he opened to the public Bruno’s Art Sculpture Garden.