Debra Hurd | Palette Knife painter

Art and music are my passions but it's all art to me.

Internationally acclaimed artist Debra Hurd studied art at both Southern University in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. For 15 years she was a graphic designer in Florida and Austin, Texas.

She is also an accomplished pianist, having studied music since early childhood. Debra's wild boogie-woogie and honky-tonk style still finds her in the recording studios and at live performances in Austin. She loves jazz, classical, and salsa styles, too.

Jim Salvati, 1957 | Conceptual Figurative painter

To look at a Jim Salvati painting, is to experience a snapshot into the soul of his subjects.

Each person portrayed in his work, which is thick and textured with oil paint, is telling a story about the life of the person, the emotion of that moment in time, their world surrounding them, and a warm sense of the human condition and its uniqueness.

"We all have stories,” Salvati says, "and I like telling them".

Charlie Chaplin | Smile, 1936 | Modern Times

"Smile" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) movie Modern Times.

Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954.

In the lyrics, based on lines and themes from the film, the singer is telling the listener to cheer up and that there is always a bright tomorrow, just as long as they smile.

"Smile" has become a popular standard since its original use in Chaplin's film.

It was used as the theme song on NBC-TV'S The Jerry Lewis Show from 1967-69.

Tomasyn De Winter | Floral painter

Tomasyn De Winter was born in Belgium but during her childhood travelled extensively with her parents, which exposed her to many different cultural experiences.

At a young age she showed an interest in the decorative arts making simple sketches and collecting materials which would later be used in her art.

Today Tomasyn works as a freelance artist in Germany and creates mainly floral works which are full of vitality and texture.

Using collage style corrugated papers and metallic paints plus her signature square shaped decorative icons her work is bold, contemporary and full of expression.

Lodovico Tommasi | Italian Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism

Ludovico Tommasi (Livorno, 1866 - Florence 1941) was an Italian painter.

Inspired by the example of his elder brother Angiolo and his cousin Adolfo, Ludovico Tommasi devoted himself to painting, developing his art in close contact with Silvestro Lega, a frequent visitor to the Tommasi family villa at Bellariva. He made his debut at the Florence Promotrice in 1884 with a life study.

After his military service in Milan between 1888-1891, Tommasi and his brother Angiolo frequented the cultural circle that gravitated around Giacomo Puccini at Torre del Lago, and it was here that he came into contact with several exponents of the Tuscan artistic avant-garde, including Galileo Chini and Oscar Ghiglia.

Hartwig Kopp-Delaney | Symbolist / Mystical Digital painter

Hartwig Kopp-Delaney is a German mystical digital artist and photographer that expresses duality and transduality - oneness - love and hate - the split and separated mind trough art. He tries to show a possible way out of the inner conflict and stress.

The artist creates pictures about the path, the inner journey, the experiences, the sufferings, the tragic and the funny illusions that he had. And probably the greatest adventure to be explored is the journey to the source. Looking at his artworks you will discover elements like: Buddhism, psychology, spirituality, symbolism and of course alchemy and the holy grail.

Chie Yoshii | Surrealist /Visionary painter

Japanese by birth, Chie Yoshii moved to the US, where she completed BFA at Massachusetts College of Art in 2000 and studied with Adrian Gottlieb from 2002-2008.

Much of her work is inspired by the analogy between mythological tales and the human psychology.

She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Stephen Cefalo, 1976 | Symbolist / Baroque style painter

Stephen Cefalo is an American artist in the traditions of Symbolism and the Baroque.

He was born in the hometown of Albrecht Durer (Nurnberg, Germany) on the birthday of his heroes, Winslow Homer, Charles Le Brun and Franz Von Stuck, and felt a calling from early childhood to become a painter.

Stephen and his two sisters were raised in Newburgh, Indiana by a single mother who worked full-time at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.

His aunt Marilyn gave him oil painting lessons at twelve, and his mother bought him books on figure drawing and supplies when she found them.