Peter Graham Roi, 1959 | Modern Colourist painter

Peter Graham Roi has earned a reputation as one of Britain's most gifted and distinctive Modern Colourists.

Still life occupies an important place in Peter Graham’s output, affording an opportunity to explore colour in a reflective manner.

"In the peace and quiet of my studio", he wrote in a recent article for ‘The Artist’, "I can focus on the particular characteristics of a pigment, trying to get to the truth of what colour actually is and understanding more about the special relationships between specific colours like red, green or yellow. Still Life painting is the perfect vehicle for this type of expression".

Emilio Longoni | Divisionist painter

Emilio Longoni (1859-1932) was an Italian painter, known for working in the Neo-Impressionism style.

He was born in Barlassina on July 9, 1859, fourth of twelve children, from Garibaldi’s volunteer and horseshoer Matteo Longoni and from tailor Luigia Meroni.

Since he was a child he felt a great passion for painting.

After he finished elementary school he was sent to Milan to work as a boy.

From 1875-1878 he attended the Brera Academy where he received many awards.

Henry Herbert La Thangue | Genre painter

British painter🎨 Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859-1929) was noted for his strong convictions and forceful personality.

In 1886, having completed his studies in Paris, he was the instigator of an abortive movement to reform the Royal Academy.
Though he did not attend the meetings held by his contemporaries which led to the foundation of the New English Art Club (NEAC), La Thangue was arguably its most controversial exhibitor.

Bruno Vallino, 1949 | Plein Air painter

Italian painter Bruno Vallino was born in Locana Canavese. He lives and works in San Germano Chisone, (TO) Italy.

He lost his father while still a child and his family were compelled lo move to Pinerolo (Piedmont).

Here Bruno attendees the local boarding school where he remained for nine years.

- "I was in third year - he says - when the painter Beretta did Vigone was called on to restore the Chapel.

His art enchanted me and I spent all my spare lime watching him and dreaming. How I would like to he like that painter, I thought".

Vangelis Rinas /Βαγγέλης Ρήνας, 1966

Vangelis Rinas is a Greek painter🎨 and sculptor🎨 having his roots in the Northeastern Aegean Sea.

He was born in Samos island, but grew up in Ikaria island. His first tutor in painting was professor Vassilis Korkovelos. Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Professors Dimosthenis Kokkinides (painting) and Thanassis Exarchopoulos (engravinγ).

Phillips Collection find a mystery man under a Picasso's The Blue Room

"The Blue Room" 1901, one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces sits under a microscope at The Phillips Collection, on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Washington. Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath the painting.

Advances in infrared imagery reveal a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand, with three rings on his fingers.

Now the question that conservators at The Phillips Collection in Washington hope to answer is simply: Who is he? It’s a mystery that’s fueling new research about the 1901 painting created early in Picasso’s career while he was working in Paris at the start of his distinctive blue period of melancholy subjects. | Evan Vucci, Associated Press

David Leffel, 1931 | Baroque Era style painter

David A. Leffel is a twentieth-century artist who paints in the classic Flemish /Dutch old master style, much in the manner of Rembrandt* or Chardin. His subject matter is Still Lifes, Landscapes, Portraits and figures, but the real subject of his work is the light as it gently drifts from one object to another. It pauses here, then moves on.

"Light is the concept of the painting"
- David A. Leffel.

Hans Thoma | Symbolist painter

Hans Thoma (1839-1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.

Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.

He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich.

He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85.