Van Gogh: Sogno di dipingere e poi dipingo il mio sogno!

'Bisogna aver sempre presente la meta da raggiungere e che la vittoria ottenuta dopo un'intera vita di laboriosa fatica vale più di un facile successo. Chiunque viva sinceramente e affronti senza piegarsi dolori e delusioni è assai più degno di chi ha sempre avuto il vento favorevole, non conoscendo altro che una relativa prosperità'.

John Mason ~ Visionary landscape painter

American painter John Mason is not only a brilliant artist, but also a musician, and a computer animator as well. John thinks of his images as "painting from the mind's eye". His images create visionary landscapes that "glow" with life, and John seems fascinated with ancient civilizations and the innate beauty of pristine nature.

Jeremiah Stermer, 1946 ~ Surrealist photographer

'I call myself a realist/surrealist, though I think of my brand of surrealism as being grounded in tradition. At the age of eleven I taught myself how to paint in oils. After a life-changing NDE out-of- body experience when I was 30, I want my art to allude to that sampling of nirvana. I appreciate when someone says my work looks like a photograph, but my goal is for everything to look and feel real, to go beyond the purely visible. I pay a lot of attention to the air around everything. I apply colors in layers in thin flat relief leaving virtually no evidence of brushstroke. The most important aspect of my work is MOOD.

My works are in various renowned collections around the country. I have been represented in galleries in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Baltimore, Maryland. South Hampton, and New York City, New York. Wellesley, Massachusetts. Naples and Palm Beach, Florida. I have two pieces in the collection of a well known television and movie actor, and am in the permanent collection of The Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina. I have several pieces in ‘The World’s Top 200 Collections’. I have given numerous lectures and demonstrations on realistic oil painting and surrealism at various institutions in Maryland.

Paul Klee: "L'arte è quello che c'è fra il colore e la tela"

'I colori, come i lineamenti, seguono i cambiamenti delle emozioni'. Pablo Picasso

Eric Wert, 1976 ~ Hyperrealist Floral Still Life painter

Eric Wert was born in Portland, Oregon. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Northwestern University. He currently paints full time from his studio in Portland.
His work has been shown across the U.S. and in Europe. In the last decade, he has had ten solo exhibits and has participated in over fifty group exhibitions. He has been featured in numerous publications, including American Art Collector, New American Paintings and Artists Magazine. Public collections include the New Britain Museum of American Art, in Connecticut, and the Illinois State Museum. 'I want to create an image that one can be lost within. To me, still life painting is about looking intensely, about intimately exploring a subject. I hope that the paintings can convey that sense of intensity and fascination'.