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.

Riccardo Benvenuti

Riccardo Benvenuti è nato a Lucca nel 1939. Vive e lavora a Lucca, New York e Los Angeles. Giovanissimo si è imposto all'attenzione della critica. Espone nelle principali Gallerie e Musei d'Europa e delle due Americhe avendo all'attivo oltre 300 mostre personali.

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).

Emile Claus | Luminist / Genre painter

Emile Clause (1849-1924)🎨 was a Belgian painter🎨 who developed the distinct style of impressionism known as "Luminism🎨".

Emile Claus was born on 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West-Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys.

Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor.

Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring.

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.