Vickie Wade ~ Figurative painter

Vickie Wade is a wife, mother, and passionate artist. She grew up in Puyallup, Washington and from 11 years of age painted at her grandmother’s easel. Vickie married her college sweetheart Jeff and her love and joy for him and painting grew strong. When their boys started school they moved to Nampa, Idaho to raise them in a rural setting. Teaching art classes was a delight and put Louie and Charlie through Christian education. Louie is a dentist and loving daddy to Samuel and Sydney. Charlie is a college graduate and an orthopedic rep working in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by loving family and friends, Vickie shares with you a bit of the fresh wonder in our world. Many of her realistic images focus on special nostalgic moments. Her desire is to bring you heartfelt joy and beauty through the paintings she creates.

Walter Girotto, 1953 | Figurative painter

Walter Girotto is an Italian painter ⎆, known for work in the Figurative style.

Girotto was born in a small northern Italian town called Rovigo and it was May 4th when his family moved to Turin -Italy, to seek their fortune.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Girotto see:

• Walter Girotto ⎆

Stephan Sinding | Adorazione

Stephan Abel Sinding (1846-1922) è stato uno scultore Norvegese-Dnese.

Si è trasferito a Copenaghen nel 1883 e ha avuto la sua svolta nello stesso anno.

Nel 1890 ottenne la cittadinanza danese.

Nel 1910 si stabilì a Parigi dove visse e lavorò fino alla sua morte nel 1922

Vita e formazione

Stephan Abel Sinding nacque a Trondhjem come figlio dell'ingegnere minerario Matthias Wilhelm Sinding (1811-1860) e Cecilie Marie Mejdell (1817-1886).

Sinding era il fratello del compositore Christian Sinding e del pittore Otto Ludvig Sinding e nipote di Nicolai Mejdell (1822-1899) e Thorvald Mejdell (1824-1908), ed attraverso il primo cugino di Glør Thorvald Mejdell, che sposò la sorella di Stephan, Thora Cathrine Sinding.

Stephan Sinding era anche cugino di primo grado di Alfred Sinding-Larsen e dei tre fratelli Ernst Anton Henrik Sinding, Elisabeth Sinding (1846-1930) e Gustav Adolf Sinding (1849-1925).

Mirjam Appelhof ~ Dreaming of another world

Dutch Artist Mirjam Appelhof living in the Netherlands. "I started with making images 4 years ago. I had a enormous urge to translate my inner feelings. Fortunate I found my way to translate it…the camera.My creations reflect movement because I believe that nothing is static ”there were the moment stops, movement continues in time“.
My favorite lens is the macro lens.I love to created worlds from little materials…
I give them a meaning. My work is mostly build up with different images. I put them together in Photoshop.Everything you see I created myself. Sometimes I ”paint” on my images or use different materials. The figures you see are mostly me… I use the self-timer.
The little black man with the wings on the image opposites is a dragonfly.
Around this little black man I created a serie about 30 images.. I love to build new worlds…."

Anatoly Korobkin, 1974 | Figurative painter

Анатолий Коробкин was born in Krasnodar, Russia. Committed to the Russian realistic school, graduate of the of Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he aspires for absolute fidelity in reproducing the reality. Tackled various genres, for the most part it is portrait, landscape and historical painting.

His works are in private and corporate collections of Russia, USA, France, Germany, Denmark, England and the museum Russian Academy of Painting.

As a member International Federation of Artists.

Olga Gouskova, 1974 | Figurative painter

Ольга Гуськова was born in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in Belarus.

1985-1992 - Byelorussian Art lyceum, Minsk, Belarus

1992-1996 - Byelorussian Academy of Arts, Design department, Minsk, Belarus

In 1996 she immigrated to Belgium.

Since 2002 she lives in Bruges and works as graphic designer.

Nico Vrielink, 1958 | Figurative painter

Nico Vrielink was born in Reusel in the south part of the Netherlands. He was educated at an Academie of Art in Belgium to become a teacher. But teaching wasn't his cup of tea and since 1984 he working as an artist.

A year later, in 1985 Nico met his wife Jeane in Singapore. It was love at first sight and since the day he started painting her he never stopped doing so. By this time Nico has made more than 4000 paintings of Jeane.

If there is just one artist whose work can be linked to a muse, Nico Vrielink is far the most outstanding candidate. All over the world, the thousands of portraits he has painted of his muse illuminate many hundreds of private homes, institutions, galleries and museums.

Lorraine Dell Woo ~ Flirty Hat

Lorraine Dell Wood began her career as an artist in the animation divisions of Columbia, Paramount and Warner Bros., leading her into production and behind the scenes of the Old Hollywood major studio system, marrying a production executive. As a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ms. Wood served on nine Blue Ribbon Emmy Awards panels. Extensive travel and being on location for films including “Some Like It Hot”, “West Side Story”, “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Apartment” has inspired the glamour and spice ever present her images.

Ford Smith ~ Abstract Expressionism painter

As the son of an Air Force serviceman stationed in a small Japanese village, Ford's artistic sensibilities began to take root under the nurturing eye of an elderly Japanese painter when he was just twelve. After graduating from the University of Mississippi with a BFA in painting, Ford moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he realized a natural talent for photography. During the late 70's and 80's Ford established his reputation as Atlanta's premier fashion and commercial photographer.

Assaf Frank, 1971 | Misty morning in Venice /Paris

As a young boy, Assaf Frank had an eye for photography. Later at university, his talents were noticed as his artistic gift became apparent. He has had a career in computers for many years, and now he combines his computer knowledge with his photography to produce high quality digital images/produced as art prints for others to buy and share in the enjoyment. Assaf is well travelled and his work touches on people and their lives across the world.

Thomas Dodd | Surrealist photographer

The artwork that Thomas Dodd creates is visionary in scope and dualistic in nature.

Light and darkness, life and death, and beauty and horror exist side by side in his creations.

Mythological and religious themes abound in his work; sometimes with a twisted tongue-in-cheek approach, and at others reverently paying homage to the Old Master traditions that influence his vision.

Surreal world by Amandine Van Ray

Amandine Van Ray is an Estonia-based artist (from Tallinn) who creates Surreal artworks with the use of both photography and digital art. In her works, her subjects portray very expressive emotions as they are surrounded by a Surreal world filled with floating creatures and such.

Her impressive skills and boundless imaginations makes her mix of digital art and the subject's expressions an amazing masterpiece.

Each individual of her figures floats unnaturally through the air in a journey where darkness and isolation seem to be the dominating forces that drive each visual story.

Many of her surrealistic artworks are decored with amazing fish, which is extremely inspiring.

Fedosenko Roman, 1970 ~ Figurative / Impressionist painter

Роман Федосенко was born in 1970.
Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.
A lot of traveling and actively exhibit their work.
Participates in various art projects.

Françoise Nielly, 1960 | Palette Knife painter

Françoise Nielly is a French knife-painter who is famous for painting vibrant and colourful closeup portraits of people such as Barack Obama. She was born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez and is now living in Paris.

Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images.

She has explored the different facets of "image" all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual, computer generated animated graphics. It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion.

Jin Hongjun, 1937 ~ Traditional Chinese painter

Mr. Jin Hongjun / 靳洪軍 was born in 1937 and is a native of Beijing. His family are descendants of the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty. He studied Chinese painting with many well-known artists such as Li Kuchan and Li Keran in the Chinese Painting Department, Central Art College of China. As a professional artist at the Beijing Painting Institute, Professor Jin particularly specialized in fine brushwork. His paintings have been collected by the China National Art Museum and by the Chinese government and many important organizations. One of them was elected into the 13th Exhibition of SECO of the U.N. Jin Hongjun also was invited to visit India and to teach in Japan plus to participate in art exhibitions of his works in the U.S., Singapore, Korea, Canada, Thailand and other countries.

Alexei Khlebnikov / Алексей Хлебников ~ Still Life of Flowers painter

Alexei Khlebnikov / Алексей Хлебников is a painter from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Has received an academic art education.

Gabriel García Márquez | La marionetta / The Puppet Poem

Lo scrittore premio Nobel colombiano Gabriel Garcia Marquez è morto ieri, il 17 aprile 2014, a Città del Messico dove viveva.

L'autore di 'Cent'anni di solitudine' aveva compiuto 87 anni il 6 marzo scorso.

Era stato insignito del Nobel per la letteratura nel 1982.

Il presidente della Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ha scritto in un tweet: "mille anni di solitudine e tristezza per la morte del piu' grande dei colombiani di tutti i tempi. Solidarietà e condoglianze a Gabo e la famiglia". |ANSA

Vladimir Ryabchikov, 1967

Владимир Рябчиков was born in 1967.

In 1994. graduated from Rostov State Pedagogical University, Arts - Graphic Department.

In 1988. began to exhibition activities.

Party more than two hundred group exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including exhibitions in the project «Die Russen Kommen» 1992-2002.

Dmitriy Kalyuzhny, 1975 ~ Figurative painter

Дмитрий Калюжный was born in 1975. Graduated from the Kharkov State College of Art. Graduated from the Kharkov State Academy of Art and Design. Member of the Union of Young Artists of Ukraine.

Dorus Brekelmans, 1972 | Figurative Palette Knife painter

Dutch painter* Dorus Brekelmans was born in Waalwijk, Netherlands. After a three year (1991-1994) study in advertising drawing at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp, he continued his training in applied graphics and illustration at the Carolus Magnus University of Antwerp (1994-1998). 

Since, Dorus regularly participates as independent illustrator and painter, in exhibitions in the Netherlands, where he is also represented by a number of distinguished galleries.

"My paintings are figurative, realism is often the basis of my canvases. Yet I am as an artist rather than a realist, but rather to mention. An impressionist I work alternately in acrylic or oil on canvas or panel, the sizes of my paintings range from small to large.
The paint is often spontaneous and expressive with brushes or applied with a palette knife.
My color palette is mostly sunny mention".

Charlene Van Den Eng, 1971 ~ Portrait painter / Fashion designer

Dutch painter Van Den Eng Charlene studied at some of the most prestigious art institutes in the Netherlands, including the Amsterdam Art/Fashion Institute AMFI. Her main technique is oil painting and over the years she gradually focused her work in portraits. Before she starts her paintings, she captures a series of photographs in locations significant for the subject.

Kareem Iliya, 1967 ~ Fashion watercolor designer

Lebanese-born American artist Kareem Iliya was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He moved to Texas in 1976 and studied fashion design initially at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. Then he continued his studies at the Institute of Fashion Technology, in New York. He graduated in 1990. Kareem is now living in New York, USA.
Kareem started his fashion career workjing with Giorgio Armani, and from 1992 also freelanced as an illustrator.

Nadia Wicker, 1981 ~ Fashion illusions photography

French photographer Nadia Wicker is an illusion artists, a master in the art of transporting oneself into their own visual universe.
Self-taught photographer and makeup artist, Wicker works in the genres of fashion and fine-art photography.

Kemal Kamil Akca ~ Parfum d'Orient

Laurentino Marti, 1946 | Watercolor painter

One of the best watercolorists in Spain, Laurentino Martí was born in Costur, Castellón.

He is one of the best watercolorists in Spain and began to win recognition and awards since 1988 with the Grand Prix Societé Beaux Arts XXXII Salon Int. d’Arts Plastiques 1988 and he didn’t stop from that date.

His art can be found in several museums not only in Spain. He has also permanent exhibitions in Barcelona, Valencia, Castellón, Lleida, Tarragona, Málaga, Sevilla, Novo Sancti Petri, Sitges, Madrid and much more.

Kyle Stuckey, 1987

American painter Kyle Stuckey, born in New Hampshire, began his formal art education at age 18 studying drawing and painting privately with Lori Woodward.

He supplemented his education with art videos by Morgan Weistling and Daniel Gerhartz, and studied with Mike Malm via a scholarship he received from Scottsdale Artists School in 2006.

Jiang Debin /蒋德斌, 1963 | Watercolor lotus

Chinese painter🎨 Jiang Debin [蒋德斌] was born in Chongqing City. In 1987 he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Southwest Normal University. From 1987-1992 he worked as a teacher at the Sanxia Science and Technology Institute. In 1992 he moved to Zhuhai Established and his studio.

His work "Colorful Melody" was shown at the Fifth Exhibition Watercolor and Gouache. "Sunshine" was Displayed at the First Guangdong Watercolor Exhibition.

In 2001 he was Invited to a group show held in Zhongshan city. In 2001 he held his solo show at the gallery Yaxuan Liu. Some of his works have been in private and corporate collections at Home and Abroad.

His main subject, the lotus series of works can be said to be a combination of a breakthrough from a rigorous traditional realism toward Chinese painting freehand techniques.

Lucia Coghetto, 1961 | La nebbia dei ricordi | VideoArt

Lucia Coghetto, in arte «Ghetto», è nata a Mestre.

Vive e lavora in provincia di Vicenza.

Dopo vari anni di tecnica ad olio su tela, con soggetti paesaggistici, si dedica all'acquerello, ottenendo anche premi e segnalazioni.

Affascinata da una tecnica diversa, il dipinto su malta, la sperimenta e la personalizza, dedicandosi interamente alla figura, sua vera passione.

Lucia Coghetto, 1961 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Lucia Coghetto, known as Ghetto, was born in Mestre, Venice.

She currently lives and works in the province of Vicenza.

Ghetto has been painting all her life, learning side by side with established artists, and following private courses.

For over a decade she has been painting on plaster, in the style of the frescos.

Peter van der Ploeg, 1954

Dutch painter** Peter van der Ploeg was born in Rhenen, in the Netherlands. Graduated at the Art Academy in Arnhem in 1976.

Independent artist since 1976. The theme of his work is the silence of the landscape and the tension within it.

Anatoly Piatkevich, 1969 | Figurative painter

Анатолий Петкевич was born in a small town in the heart of Belarus, once a Republic of the former Soviet Union.

The countryside has a mixture of serene forests, rivers, meadows and ruins of old castles and other remnants of his predecessors.

Anatoly recalls fondly that his childhood home was filled with paintings of Belarus landscapes as painted by his mother and grandmother.

Alexey Tchernigin, 1975 ~ Impressionist painter

Alexey Tchernigin [Алексей Александрович Чернигин] is born in Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated from the College of Arts and Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod State Architectural and Construction University degree in "Industrial Design". Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1998. Painter, graphic, an interior designer. The works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Timothy Martin | Surrealist painter

Timothy Martin is a classically trained painter and sculptor who first gained widespread recognition when he was selected by Tiffany and Company to display artwork in its Manhattan flagship on Fifth Avenue in 1993. Since that time Martin’s renown has spread internationally with the publication of dozens of reproductions of his charming work, as well as exhibitions from New York to Paris.

Jorge Maciel, 1972

L'artista Brasiliano Jorge Maciel è nato nella città di Pocos de Caldas. Autodidatta ed amante dell'arte, Maciel sta scoprendo il suo talento essendo critico nei propri concetti, cercando di perfezionare la propria tecnica in ogni lavoro con grande ispirazione ed armonia, giocando con i colori e la nitidezza, dando una distribuzione convincente della luce e dell'ombra, mettendoci tutti i sentimenti e la passione per l'arte.

Vincent van Gogh ~ Dell'Arte..

"A tutt’oggi, non ho trovato miglior definizione dell’arte di questa:
- L’arte è l’uomo aggiunto alla natura – natura, realtà, verità.
Ma col significato, il concetto, il carattere che l’artista sa trarne, che libera e interpreta".