Gerard Di-Maccio, 1938 | Visionary painter

Gérard Di-Maccio was born in Algeria to an Italian father and a Spanish mother. Di-Maccio is student at several of the most famous art academies in Paris: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Académie Julian, Ecole des Beaux-arts.

In parallel, Di-Maccio starts teachers training, and in 1966 he presents a thesis entitled "Morpho psychology".

The artist participates in an important number of group exhibitions, in Paris and surroundings, also Brussels and Osaka.

In 1985, Gérard Di-Maccio a personel exhibition in Paris, Gallert RÂ, Art fair Stockholm Sweden, King Gustav of Sweden is touched by his art.

Johanna Harmon, 1968 | Figurative painter

Johanna Harmon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but spent most of her childhood in Tempe, Arizona.

Johanna began designing and recording visual observations at the age of seven, but it wasn’t until almost two decades later that she was introduced to the traditional language of art at the Scottsdale Artists’ School in Arizona, the Fechin Art Institute in Taos, New Mexico, and the Art Students League of Denver in Colorado.

There, she studied painting alongside prominent figure artists with varied artistic philosophies and approaches such as Carolyn Anderson, John Asaro, Mark Daily, Daniel Gerhartz OPAM🎨, Quang Ho OPAM🎨 and C.W. Mundy OPAM🎨.

Following her 2014 OPA award🎨, she expanded her understanding further by studying contemporary realism with Daniel Sprick, and abstract realism with David A. Leffel OPAM and Sherrie McGraw OPAM.

William A. Schneider, 1945 | Figurative painter

>William A. Schneider is a full time professional American painter working in oil and pastel.

He views figures, landscape or still life as opportunities to explore the effects of light on form.

Painting from life, he seeks to capture the emotion of a particular moment and place.

Sargent, Zorn, Repin, Fechin and Sorolla have been influences.

Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Romantic impressionist painter

Andrew Atroshenko /Андрей Атрошенко, Russian painter*, was born in the city of Pokrovsk, Russia. Accepted as a gifted child in 1977 into the Children’s Art School, Andrew graduated with honors in 1981. Two years later, Andrew entered Bryansk Art College, and in 1991 was accepted at one of the most prestigious art schools in the world, the St. Petersburg Academy of Art.

In 1994, Andrew began taking part in exhibitions such as St. Petersburg Artists in Reutlingen, Germany, the exhibition of a group “Academy” in St. Petersburg 1996, and “Teacher’s memory” 1997.

David Hettinger, 1946 | Impressionist painter

Award winning painter David Hettinger began drawing around the age of 8. His subjects were T.V. and movie cowboys.

At age 13 he was given a set of oil paints by Mike Spencer, a local artist who ran the barber shop across from St. Joe's School where Hettinger was a student.

Formal art training began at the American Academy of Art in Chicago under Joseph vanden Brouck.

Under Mr. Van, as he was called, Hettinger learned classical realism and the techniques of the Flemish, Dutch and Spanish Masters.