Takanori Oguiss 荻須高徳 | Paris painting

Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), a Japanese Expressionist painter known as "the Parisien born in Japan", was active in the Parisian art world in the early 20th century. He is noted for capturing the alcoves and street corners of the French capital with his characteristic lack of showiness and aesthetic balance, often choosing to forgo the inclusion of human figures.

Sally Swatland, 1946 | Plein air Figurative painter

Sally Swatland was born in Washington, DC and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut when she was seven. Her father was a successful attorney, which allowed her family to spend long periods in the countryside with many vacations at various seaside locations throughout the United States. She shared a passion with her family for beaches, sunshine, and fresh air. Most summer days were spent at the beach playing in tidal pools, chasing minnows, collecting shells and exploring.

Maria Giulia Alemanno | Magical Realism painter

And the ORISHAS are like dead thar are not dead.

A long chain that rivets the present and the past, linking the souls of today and yesterday, beyond time and space.

Africa and America, what it was and it will be, hearth and sky.

They are like the ancestors’ spirits, the incarnation of generations, the survival of ties, the alphabet of continuità and memory.

Maria Giulia Alemanno, Lellina, like a Malinke griot, lives to tell stories.

And she, an Italian, has searched and found them in the deepness of Cuba.

Giampaolo Talani, 1955 | Abstract Symbolism painter and sculptor

Giampaolo Talani was born in San Vincenzo (LI). After attending Art School in Lucca and in Florence he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he met Goffredo Trovarelli as his teacher. Throughout his studies he experimented with all art classical techniques but finally he chose painting, he also devoted himself to the fresco technique in which he is one of the greatest contemporary experts.

In his youth he painted the great cycle of fresco paintings in the church of San Vincenzo, and that was followed by other works: the "Preaching of San Bernardino" in the Episcopal Palace of Massa Marittima, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Frassine.

Aldo Mazzi, 1937 | Plein air painter

Aldo Mazzi was born in Livorno, Italy where he lives and works without rest in his studio located inside of the historical "Casini di Ardenza".

Mazzi is a self-taught artist who paints since his early youth and who can be appreciated as a part of the "macchiaiola" and "post-macchiaiola" tradition, always strongly related to the live painting, the so-called "En plein air".