Lee Lufkin Kaula | Impressionist painter

Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865-1957) was born on December 23, 1865 in Erie, Pennsylvania into an affluent family.

Lee Lufkin’s father was a wealthy lawyer who evidently left his daughter a comfortable income that allowed the painters [Lee and her husband] to concentrate on their work without needing other jobs.

A painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes throughout her career, she first trained in New York with Charles Melville Dewey, the American tonalist painter who had studied in Paris and worked with Carolus-Duran on a ceiling painting at the Louvre.

Gwen Murphy | Shoe Sculptures

Gwen Murphy, American sculptor, is a brilliant artist who breathes new life into old shoes, by transforming them from fashion accessories into intriguing works of art.

Ever since she was a little girl, Gwen liked to look at shoes and found that they were staring back at her, each pair with its own character and personality.

Depending on model and how worn out they were, some shoes sometimes looked sleepy, other times grouchy or fierce, some even looked like they were singing.

Hubertus van Hove | Genre / Romantic painter

Hubertus (Huib) van Hove (13 May 1814, in The Hague - 14 November 1865 Antwerp) was a Dutch painter, the son of Bartholomeus van Hove (1790-1880) and a teacher of some artists who became members of the Hague School.

Hubertus or Huib van Hove was taught painting not only by his father, but also by Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

Jacob Maris | The Hague School

Jacob Hendricus Maris (1837-1899) was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters.

He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852.

Coderch & Malavia | Figurative sculptors

Coderch and Malavia is a sculpture project in which the human body is at the core of the plastic discourse.

A universe of meaningful forms centred on the idealised human figure. And a clear horizon: Beauty as an everyday tool.

Joan Coderch and Javier Malavia came together in 2015 to carry out sculptural work featuring a refined technique, which is present from the modelling in the studio to the final piece cast in bronze.