Piet van de Hoef, 1949 | Plein air painter

Born in the Netherlands, Piet van de Hoef has been painting for almost all his life. In 2003 he has decided tot quit his job as doctor and to devote his time to painting art.

Painting is an instrument to observe for him. Perception is always the starting point. The image is formed by experience and history. Therefore it is always a personal view.

The perception and its translation to an image is a journey, whether it is a landscape, model, still life or a portrait. He graduated in 2010 from the Classical Academy for Art Painting in Groningen.

Tong Chin Sye 童振狮, 1939 | Watercolor painter

Singaporean Artist Tong Chin Sye is an avid traveller who sketches and paints on location. He is inspired by architectural and cultural subject matters. Tong’s painting technique is distinctive as his oils and watercolours naturally blend in the beauty of Chinese Calligraphy. Painting the rapidly changing cityscapes and street scenes of Singapore continues to be his passion.

Born in 1939, Tong Chin Sye is a renowned Singaporean multimedia artist and part-time lecturer in Western Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

In 1987, Tong won first prize in the PSA Art Competition held in Singapore.

Takanori Oguiss 荻須高徳 | Paris painting

Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), a Japanese Expressionist painter known as "the Parisien born in Japan", was active in the Parisian art world in the early 20th century. He is noted for capturing the alcoves and street corners of the French capital with his characteristic lack of showiness and aesthetic balance, often choosing to forgo the inclusion of human figures.

Sally Swatland, 1946 | Plein air Figurative painter

Sally Swatland was born in Washington, DC and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut when she was seven. Her father was a successful attorney, which allowed her family to spend long periods in the countryside with many vacations at various seaside locations throughout the United States. She shared a passion with her family for beaches, sunshine, and fresh air. Most summer days were spent at the beach playing in tidal pools, chasing minnows, collecting shells and exploring.

Maria Giulia Alemanno | Magical Realism painter

And the ORISHAS are like dead thar are not dead.

A long chain that rivets the present and the past, linking the souls of today and yesterday, beyond time and space.

Africa and America, what it was and it will be, hearth and sky.

They are like the ancestors’ spirits, the incarnation of generations, the survival of ties, the alphabet of continuità and memory.

Maria Giulia Alemanno, Lellina, like a Malinke griot, lives to tell stories.

And she, an Italian, has searched and found them in the deepness of Cuba.

Giampaolo Talani, 1955 | Abstract Symbolism painter and sculptor

Giampaolo Talani was born in San Vincenzo (LI). After attending Art School in Lucca and in Florence he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he met Goffredo Trovarelli as his teacher. Throughout his studies he experimented with all art classical techniques but finally he chose painting, he also devoted himself to the fresco technique in which he is one of the greatest contemporary experts.

In his youth he painted the great cycle of fresco paintings in the church of San Vincenzo, and that was followed by other works: the "Preaching of San Bernardino" in the Episcopal Palace of Massa Marittima, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Frassine.

Aldo Mazzi, 1937 | Plein air painter

Aldo Mazzi was born in Livorno, Italy where he lives and works without rest in his studio located inside of the historical "Casini di Ardenza".

Mazzi is a self-taught artist who paints since his early youth and who can be appreciated as a part of the "macchiaiola" and "post-macchiaiola" tradition, always strongly related to the live painting, the so-called "En plein air".

Dino Pelagatti | Post Macchiaioli painter

Dino Pelagatti (1932-2016) nasce a Livorno il 2 Agosto del 1932.

Inizialmente influenzato dallo stile dei pittori Post Macchiaioli, nel corso degli anni ha rinnovato la tecnica delle sue raffigurazioni creando uno stile personalizzato e contemporaneo.

Gli anni della guerra vengono percepiti dal giovane Pelagatti come una difficile esperienza umana perché con la sua famiglia non abbandonò mai Livorno. Nel dopoguerra risultò difficile per Pelagatti rendere mestiere vero e proprio la pittura a causa del forte orientamento popolare verso pittori Macchiaioli e Post Macchiaioli già affermati.