Andrée Bienfait, 1956 | Figurative pastel painter

Andrée Bienfait was born in Belgium where she spent her youth and there began to paint under the guidance of painters of her native region, the Ardennes.

She started art classes in high school Izel (Gaume), then continued her studies in the Ecole Supérieure des Arts in St Luc in Brussels.

With the desire to further her profession, Andree went from Belgium to Alsace in order to study with the renowned Claude Lapointe at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg.

In 1981, Andrée Bienfait moved to Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, working as a book illustrator for over 20 years, mainly books for children and young people (there’s a considerable list under Bibliographie).

Luxo N. P. 1972 | Figurative Abstract painter

Luxo N. P. was born, lives and works in Salt Lake City. He is best known for Impassioned Freedomism Art movement. If you search in a dictionary reference for the word impassioned you will find definitions "filled with intense feeling or passion" and search online the word Freedomism you will discover the definitions "the doctrine that man has freedom of choice in his actions". Viewing at Luxo’s paintings from this leverage point, one can truly understand why Artist like Luxo express intense passion with no styles boundaries but inspire by imagination to interpretations of our world.

Rauf Janibekov, 1956 | Figurative Abstract painter

Raouf Salim Janibekov - a modern Azerbaijani artist, born in Baku. He graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical Institute.

Being a surgeon by profession Dr. Rauf Janibekov is a self-taught artist. He had never attended any lessons of painting or drawing. He was keen on arts from an early age.

Mainly artist gives preference to oil painting and graphic drawings in pencil, however sometimes also is carried in digital art and photography.

Currently, some of the author's paintings and drawings are in private collections.

Mahnoor Shah, 1991 | Ballet dancers

Mahnoor Shah was born in Islamabad, Federal - Pakistan.

'I am a collaborative and driven Freelance Graphic Designer over three years of experience delivering digital and print materials for a variety of client campaigns.

Adept at visual strategy, layout development, and electronic production for print media.

Excels in peer review environments calling for creative brainstorming to bring ideas from concept to execution.

Pursuing a freelance career serving forward-thinking clients with a shared passion for clean design and the latest visual trends'.

Key Skills: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Digital and traditional Portrait.

Virgil Elliott, 1944 | Classical Realism painter

Virgil Elliott was fortunate enough to have been the first son of Dollye McAlister Elliott, a schoolteacher and amateur artist, who began his art education in the second year of his life. The first lesson kindled a lifelong burning obsession with art, and his talents developed rapidly with constant practice drawing, and, later, painting. The excellent instruction of illustrators Robert Fawcett, Albert Dorne, Austin Briggs, Steven Dohanos, Harold Von Schmidt and others, via correspondence course, helped him tremendously,and by his late teens, he was an accomplished draftsman and competent oil painter.

Nils Kreuger | Paris painting

Nils Edvard Kreuger (11 October 1858 - 11 May 1930) was a Swedish painter.

After studying at the Perséus school of painting, Nils Kreuger came to Paris in 1881. Under the influence of the French plein air style of painting he produced landscapes and cityscapes of Paris and its region, often at dawn or dusk, in the mist, rain or snow. In 1887 he returned home to Sweden and settled in Varberg, where he from 1893 painted together with Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström.

Luigi Bartolini | Colors /Colori

Black, you are Black Hell, its dark portals,
the arch of Styx, the shadow of evening, the breath of night,
the dismal quilt that lastly shrouds our bodies;
black, color and bestower of Death.

Red, you of all colors are the youngest,
before you all sadness fades away and is put to flight;
color of fragrant blooms, of burning lips,
you are the soul of the senses, oh earthly color!

John Burden, 1943

Burden: "In painting my job is to peel away the never ending layers that describe us. Like the archeologist, I use hard won skills. But what I uncover has been waiting – forever. I've been sharpening my skills by drawing, painting, or designing just about every day for the past forty years, or more".

Visual arist P. John Burden is a classically trained Canadian and British subject. Burden's work includes original acrylic paintings, watercolour paintings, and traditional and modern artist’s prints.

His art is symbolic or surrealist, using representational skills from a lifetime of drawing, painting, design. John Burden also illustrates books for all ages and has work in collections worldwide.

Classically trained in printmaking and painting, etc, at City and Guilds, London, U.K. where he was awarded the rare Certificate of Exceptional Merit.