Zahi Issa, 1962 | Abstract painter

Syrian artist Zahi Issa was born in Aleppo, Syria. Lives and works in Foggia, Italy. Versatile and refined painter trained in the atelier of his father, the painter Jak Issa.

Numerous solo and group exhibitions in the major European countries. Had his first exhibition at the age of fifteen years.

Z.L. Feng, 1954 ~ Watercolor painter

Growing up in Shanghai, Chinese-born American painter Feng began painting at age seven and never stopped, experimenting with different mediums, including pastel, oil, and egg tempera, before choosing his favorite, watercolor. "With watercolor you cannot cover your mistakes, so you must know what you are doing", he says.

He finds inspiration for his lovely landscapes in the countryside of the New River Valley: "Usually I go around - to the river, the forest, the lake - to try and find interesting compositions".

Those familiar with Feng’s art are also captivated by his portraits of the people of Tibet, Native Americans of New Mexico, Southern farmers and others.

Stéphane Heurion

Nacido en Uccle, en 1964 en una familia de artistas, reside actualmente en Lustin. Posee una licenciatura en Bellas Artes realizada en el Institut Saint-Luc, en Bruselas. Estudió diseño gráfico y trabajó en agencias de publicidad en París y Bruselas. Mas tarde cambió hacia la historieta. Es muy buen dibujante, buen colorista, y basa sus obras en la captura del gesto y en la composición simple y directa. Es profesor de la Escuela de la Acuarela de Namur. Stéphane Heurion ganó el Premio del Público, 2 º Premio del Jurado Aquarelliades Thiérache 96 (Francia) y el Premio del Jurado del Salon de l’Aquarelle de Belgique Internacional 2001.

Mariana Palova | The Art of Alchemy

Mariana Palova is a Mexican painter and writer. She finds within the positive a living and colorful metamorphosis- the essence of her own cosmogony.

Playing with the influence of her experiences and her transformations, Mariana surrounds herself with an aura showing special devotion to the nature elements, analogies, the substitution, human monsters and the astrologic environment.

Despite her young age and relative inexperience, her work has slipped quickly into important art/social circles.

Equally rejected and loved, Mariana's sensitive artwork, evokes overflowing passion and a philosophy of life based on the beauty of human metamorphosis and the allure of imagination, eschewing all that is sick and grotesque in the world.

André Chatelain, 1951

Born in Dorion -Quebec in 1951. André Chatelain has worked with Madeleine Leonard Tremblay and Charles T.Garo.Creative classes with Louise Jalbert and drawing with Claudine Ascher along with training from The Academy of Realist Art, a private institution that teaches drawing and painting in the old-master tradition, have directed the artist to dedicate himself to oil technique on canvas applied in the old-master method of realist art. The artist has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and is fully devoted to oil painting and drawing. His work is part of private collections throughout Canada, the United States and France.

Jeff Barson, 1966

Barson was born in Logan, Utah. At the age of nine, his family moved to England where Barson attended Beechwood Park Preparatory School. Over the next years, Barson traveled extensively throughout Europe and was exposed to its great museums and fine artistic legacy. He credits his early interests in Art and Literature to this move which provided an excellent education and inspiration for the creative young Barson. Barsons paintings have hung in galleries in New York, Boston and Los Angeles. His limited edition prints are distributed nationally and have met with great enthusiasm from the press and public. U.S. Art Magazine named him one of six artists that will change the limited edition print market.

Ermanno Vites, 1936

Ermanno Vites, pittore Italiano, scultore e ceramista, è nato a Gorizia. E' stato diplomato Maestro d’Arte presso l’Istituto F. Mengaroni di Pesaro.
I soggetti: Figure, nature morte, fiori e composizioni.
Le tecniche: Olio, acrilico, tempera, tecnica mista, ceramica e scultura.
Una sua opera si trova al Museo della Ceramica di Faenza e al Museo della Ceramica della Repubblica di San Marino;
Un grande basso-rilievo in ceramica si trova alla Banca Malatestiana di S.Giustina-S.Vito, Rimini;
Una scultura in ceramica “Cristo Risorto“ e le stazioni della Via Crucis si trovano presso la chiesa della Riconciliazione di Rimini.

Ancient Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.

Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th-16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th-6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire.

Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, until its decline during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha.