Kelly Denato | Pop Surrealism painter

Brooklyn-based artist Kelly Denato works in a variety of industries and mediums. She works professionally in animation, illustration, and design with clients such as Nickelodeon, American Eagle Outfitters, Clinique, InStyle Magazine, and Timex. Denato also regularly exhibits her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and soft sculptures in galleries across the US.

What inspires Denato is the beauty of optimism, and its inherent tragedy, just before disappointment. Her paintings, which are marked by darkness as well as gleeful exuberance, are emotional expressions of this elusive pursuit for meaning and the simultaneity of ill-fated happiness.

Solmaz Tohidlou, 1975 | Abstract portrait painter

Solmaz Tohidloo is an Iranian artist who was born and working in Iran.

Solmaz Tohidloo has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Seyhoun Art Gallery.

Alan Giana | Fantasy painter | VideoArt

Alan Giana is an American award winning painter, known for working in the Fantasy style.

His work has won many awards, including the Pro-Comm Award of Excellence by the Business Marketing Association, the Premier Print Award by the Printing Industries of America, and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award.

Alain Dumas | Romantic painter

Alain Dumas was born into an exotic and artistic bohemian family in Marseilles, France.

His father was an itinerant musician and his mother, Amandine, was a retired showgirl.

Both parents raised Dumas to be an outgoing and confident individual, following their own philosophy of liberalism and freedom of expression.

In addition, both parents positively encouraged the young Alain to allow his creativity to blossom.

Dumas now, almost exclusively, paints figures from life. His abilities to persuade young women to pose for him without hesitation were the inspiration for a novel written by his elder brother.

Dariusz Żejmo, 1966 | Fantasy /Figurative painter

Dariusz Żejmo is an Polish painter, known for working in the Fantasy Figurative style.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Żejmo see Dariusz Żejmo, 1966 | Fantasy /Venice painting.

Pedro Fausto, 1955 | Abstract painter

Pedro Fausto Rodriguez Pérez was born in Tijarafe, La Palma.

From 1974-78 studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of S / C de la Palma and the College of Fine Arts S / C de Tenerife.

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.