Angiolo Tommasi | The Emigrants /Gli Emigranti, 1986

Angelo Tommasi is a Naturalistic painter, influenced by Courbet’s realism, and played an active role spreading the technique employed by the Macchiaioli. The monumental painting The Emigrants shows a common situation in Italy after the unification process. The burning and dramatic theme of overseas emigration is vividly depicted by the packed crowds at the Port of Livorno, people who have resigned themselves to their fate and the expectation of embarkation. The painting's extraordinary dimensions contribute to an illustration of the theme of Italian emigration on an almost epic scale.

Akira Tanaka | Abstract Figurative painter

Akira Tanaka /田中阿喜良年譜 (1918-1982) is a Japanese figurative painter who mainly worked in France. We owe him in particular numerous scenes describing the daily life of the Parisians, his main source of inspiration.

Born in Osaka in 1918, Tanaka studied at the School of Fine Arts of Kyoto (1943) before settling permanently in France in 1959 (in direct line with other Japanese artists such as Tsuguharu Foujita or Takanori Oguiss). Starting in 1955, he participates in several exhibitions (in Japan, United States, Australia as well as New Zealand) and receives in 1957 the 1st Prize of the Japanese critics («Grand Shell Prize») and the Grand Prize of the Kodobijutsu show.

Trent Gudmundsen, 1978 | En plein air painter

Raised in a small farming town in eastern Utah, American painter Trent Gudmundsen spent his childhood surrounded by people who worked hard and lived simply, and he was driven from an early age to record his impressions of life in paint.

With little training to go on, he would confidently head out into the pastures and hills near his house to paint whenever he got the chance.

The artist feels indebted to VaLoy Eaton, an award-winning* landscape artist who guided Gudmundsen's passion, and introduced him to the works of various master painters of the past and present.

Jan Rijlaarsdam | Paris painting

Jan Rijlaarsdam (1911-2008) was born in Nieuwkoop, Holland in 1911. He started painting as a young man having attended the Amsterdam Academy of Art. For many years he lived in Hilversum and is regarded as belonging to the "Het Gooi" Artist's Association and the "Het Gooi" school of art. Student of A.G. Hulshof Pol, a wellknown painter and art teacher 1883-1957. Rijlaarsdam also spent a considerable amount of time in Belgium and France. The buildings and street life of Paris were of particular interest to him.

Ingrid Christensen | Figurative Impressionist painter

Award winning and professional oil painter artist, Ingrid Christensen, was born and raised in Golden, a small town in British Columbia, Canada. She studied art and English at UBC in Vancouver and received an Education degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and, for a time, taught in the public school system. But art was always Ingrid's primary passion, and she quit teaching in order to pursue it wholeheartedly.

Jordi Feliu, 1952 | Abstract painter

Jordi Ezquerra Feliu was born in Barcelona, Spain and currently lives in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Architect graduated from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Jordi Feliu received bachelor's and master's degree in Fine Art in The Savannah College of Art and Design.

His works participated in 98 group exhibitions and 11 personal exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

In 2003 he established the "Art and Art Gallery", where he works with paintings in galleries, companies and private collectors.

Feliu is considered an experimental artist and creates his works with great versatility from the use of various techniques and styles.

Ingrid Tusell, 1978 | Surrealist painter

Ingrid Tusell is an artist who was born in Barcelona and is now living in an old restored mill in the mountainous terrain of Teruel, Spain.

Ingrid paints women who are reminiscent of strong female indigenous warriors.

Their frozen, intense gaze permeates a sense of "otherworldly" knowledge and feminine universal energy.

Often riddled with animal and plant life, Ingrid’s female subjects meld within their environments allowing them to have a symbiotic connection to nature. Ingrid’s heroines are not only eco-warriors at heart but spiritual mystics in soul.

Nino Chakvetadze, 1971 | Children painter

Nino Chakvetadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received art degrees from Nikoladze Art Institute (1986-1990) and Tbilisi State Academy of Art on the faculty of painting (1990-1996). And become a member of Georgian Painters’ Union in 1997.