Don Hatfield, 1947 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Don Hatfield, who born and lives in Napa, California, is one of the most innovative Impressionists of our time. His style of painting softly blends figures of realism with the gentle touch of classic impressionism. Don strives to create paintings that bond themselves to the viewer. In the vein of Romantic Impressionism.

He shows the viewer that beauty can arise from one stirring moment; a family reunion, a young boy searching for shells on the beach or the warmth of the sun touching a mother and her child. His paintings carry light and form to a new and extremely personal degree.

Julian Alden Weir | Tonalist painter

Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading American impressionist, was born in West Point, New York. He was the son of Robert Weir, a drawing instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and half-brother of John Weir, first director of the art program at Yale University.

He took art classes at the National Academy of Design before traveling to Paris in 1873 to study under the noted French Academician Jean-Léon Gérôme and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

After trips to the Netherlands and Spain between 1873-1877, and summers spent painting in French villages, Weir returned to New York and took a studio near Washington Square, where many of his contemporaries also resided. On a second trip to Europe in 1880, Weir won an honorable mention at the Paris Salon.

John Henry Twachtman | Tonalist painter

John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) was born in Cincinnati to German immigrants.

Among the various jobs that Frederick Twachtman took to support his family was that of window shade decorator, work that young Twachtman also assumed when he was fourteen years old.

Concurrently, John Twachtman attended classes at the Ohio Mechanics Institute.

After 1871 he was enrolled part-time in the McMicken School of Design, where he met Frank Duveneck.

Sally Storch, 1952 | Storyteller artist

Sally Storch comes from an artistic family with roots in the Paris school of the early Twentieth Century. Her great aunt Bertha Rihani lived and painted in Paris during the 1920’s and kept the company of Henri Matisse🎨 and in particular Kees Van Dongen🎨.

Another aunt, painter Stephanie Stockton, attended The Art Students League in New York and apprenticed with John Steuart Curry in the 1930’s. Storch spent a great deal of time with both aunts, and both of these women painters were particularly influential to her as a young girl.

Hans Jochem Bakker, 1948 | Portrait Mixed media painter

Dutch Conceptual Artist Hans Jochem Bakker as a self taught undergone remarkable development. He was initially inspired by the mystical world of Salvador Dali with his talent was not trained for that of his fellow artists. Even celebrities like Miró and Picasso influenced the early work of Jochem. Between 1980-1990 took place a sensational change. The very detailed at times surreal work gave way to the broad approach of the expression. Notable are the movement and energy that are reflected in the new work. Old motifs such as birds, horses, bullfights and women remain interested in his work and persistence.