Richard Ramsey ~ Digital painting

Richard is the owner/operator of Ramsey Photography. For over 35 years Richard has used his talents to produce some of the Mid-South’s finest portraiture. He is one of the highest awarded portrait photographers in the state of Tennessee and has been honored eleven times with the prestigious title of “Photographer of the Year”. Richard holds the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America and the Tennessee Certified and Tennessee Service Degrees from the Tennessee Professional Photographer Association.

Sandra Bierman, 1938 ~ Figurative painter

American painter Sandra Bierman, grandmother of five, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but from age 4 grew up in Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland. Her father was a Swedish immigrant and her mother a Texas farm girl. She was nurtured as a child by her part-Cherokee grandmother. Art scholarships began at age 11. Sandra is married to retired physics professor Arthur Bierman, and they have lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1988. Her oils are widely collected and are published and distributed worldwide.
Influences: 16th Century Italian masters, Mexican masters, Chinese and Japanese classical art.

Marco Rubiero, 1976

Nato a Cavarzere il 22 maggio 1976, Marco Rubiero vive da sempre ad Adria (Rovigo). Nel 2002 inizia a dedicarsi al disegno e allo studio della figura umana. Nel 2003 frequenta nella città di Venezia, un corso di pittura, alla scuola di grafica Internazionale. Nel 2004 presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia frequenta il corso libero di nudo per qualche lezione. Numerose sono le sue mostre in Italia e all’estero e i suoi quadri sono entrati a far parte di collezioni pubbliche e private. L’esposizione permanente dell’artista è nel suo studio d’arte in Loc. Botti Barbarighe 10 Comune di Cavarzere (Venezia).

Giotto ~ The allegories of Vices / Le allegorie dei Vizi, 1303-1305

L'ira - La Cappella degli Scrovegni

In the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, between 1303-1305, Italian painter and architect from Florence Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 - 1337), painted 14 allegories, in monochrome - seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see: Giotto ~ The allegories of Virtues / Le allegorie delle Virtù, 1303-1305 ➦

La Temperanza e l'Ira

Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960

Polish artist Joanna Sierko-Filipowska was born in 1960 in Bialystok. In 1985 she graduated Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an honors degree. Artworks of Joanna Sierko invite the viewer into an illusory magic world, full of internal harmony, as well as memories of great holidays from a distant childhood. Looking at her paintings, we can go back there even for a moment.

Georgios Iakovidis | Genre/Portrait painter

Greek painter Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης [1853-1932] founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens. Georgios Jakobides was one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He was one of the thirty “immortal” members of Athen’s Academy when firstly created, in 1926. His paintings, over 200, are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patricia-Lysiane Beck

With Patricia-Lysiane Beck, creation comes to life in the magical universe of places of encounters: old bistrots, restaurants, hotel halls. In her paintings, enthusiasm and joy reach out in pure spontaneity. The emotions surrounding nostalgic places of tradition fire our imagination and in the halo of the atmosphere, transport us into light and movement. Patricia-Lysiane Beck stirs her performances with intense passion, at the tireless rhythm of life in the beauty of the moment.

Jean-Claude Desplanques, 1936

Ancien élève à l’école des Beaux Arts, Jean-Claude Desplanques se consacre à la peinture depuis 1960. Né en Normandie en 1936, il se passionne pour le dessin dès l’âge de huit ans. Ses créatures mythiques, ses personnages mystérieux et sublimes, nous emmènent vers son univers pictural riche et fantastique, parfois théâtral, où la beauté règne.