Gerard ter Borch (1618-1681)

Gerard ter Borch was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.

He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer.

Enric Torres Prat, 1940 | Fantasy Illustrator

Nato a Barcellona, Enric Torres Prat scoprì la vocazione pittorica fin da bambino, interessandosi sia alla pittura che alla fotografia, ed optando per quest'ultima quando ha scoperto che era il mezzo migliore per catturare le sue idee.

Ha studiato all'Accademia di Sant Jordi e ha girato vari paesi europei e gli Stati Uniti, studiando - strada facendo - la pittura dei vari musei.

Di questi, quello che più lo ha influenzato è stato il Rijkmuseum di Amsterdam, in particolare Rembrandt.

Iniziò a lavorare presso l'agenzia Selecciones Ilustradas quando aveva poco più di 20 anni.

Cercando di trovare un modo per diventare indipendente da Selecciones, si unì a Rafael López Espí ed insieme disegnarono copertine per varie pubblicazioni di suspense e supereroi da Editorial Vértice.

Otto Eduard Pippel | Ballet dancers

Otto Eduard Pippel was born in 1878 in Lodz, then a Russian city but now in Poland.

He died in Planegg on the outskirts of Munich in 1960.

He began his artistic career at the School of Applied Arts in Strasbourg training to work on decorative projects, but his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Russian army for four years.

Oscar Wilde / Vladimir Kush | Quotes

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Lizzie Riches, 1950 | Magical realism painter

Lizzie is a Londoner by birth though growing up near Epping Forest gave her an enduring love of the natural world.

Childhood visits to the National Gallery awakened a passion for painting and visiting Audley End at the age of five began a lifelong interest in Elizabethan Portraiture.

A hopeless student at Art School, Lizzie preferred to develop her own style by going back to study the paintings she had loved as a child.

She joined London’s Portal Gallery in 1976, exhibiting with them in Chicago, New York and Paris and continuously in London ever since. Portal introduced Lizzie to The Red Dot Gallery, close to her home in Norfolk, in 2011.