Nikki Marie Smith | Abstract /Vintage style painter

"I am an artist, a mother, and an entrepreneur. My artwork and tutorials are regularly featured in Cloth Paper Scissors and Cloth Paper Scissors Pages magazines. I am following my passions and creating art that I love for the sheer joy of it! I hope it resonates with you as well.

I believe music and art have the power to move and inspire; to change the way we see the world.

My award winning Music Lovers series combines my passions for music, art and self-expression in a signature style uniquely my own".

Edouard Vuillard | Les Nabis Group

Édouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Édouard Vuillard (born Nov. 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France-died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s.

He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Vuillard studied art from 1886-1888 at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Plinio Nomellini | Divisionist painter

Plinio Nomellini (Livorno, 1866 - Florence, 1943) was an Italian painter. Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega as well as Giuseppe Pellizza some time later.

He took part in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and moved to Genoa, where he adopted Divisionism, the following year.

He exhibited a piece inspired by the Genoese workers’ strikes at the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 and was arrested on charges of anarchism in 1894.

Neil Simone, 1947 | Visionary Surrealist painter

Neil Simone is a visionary surrealist artist whose paintings have a concept and style as distinctive as they are unique.

Neil has exhibited both original oil paintings and prints in many leading galleries around the world and recently had an exhibition celebrating 40 years as a professional artist.

Born in London, Neil studied basic graphic art and design at school.

In 1969 he visited Harrogate and quickly discovered the majestic scenery of North Yorkshire.

Raimondo Roberti, 1947 | Venice painting

Raimondo Roberti was born on May 31, 1947 in Naples, Italy.

Members of his family, who were high military officers of the Royal Fleet, strongly influenced Roberti and his lifelong attraction to all things pertaining to the sea. His family’s isolated villa was very near the grounds of G. Gigante.

Gigante was one of the foremost exponents of Neopolitan classical painting, a painting style known as the School of Posillipo, an artistic style that Roberti would study later in life.

Regina Hona, 1956 | Seascapes painter

Regina Hona is an Australian artist, art show judge and tutor who's speciality is painting portraiture and water subjects.

Regina has held many group and solo exhibitions and has been winning many major awards since 1999. Her works have been printed in several issues of the Australian Artist Magazine and a feature article published in the International Artist Magazine.

Although she is predominately known for her seascapes and landscapes, she is equally at home painting portraits, still life and other subjects.

Flip Gaasendam,1957 | Neo-Impressionist painter

Born in 1957, Flip Gaasendam studied from 1977-1982 at the Minerva Academy of Groningen. In 1988 he obtained the 'J. Egberts' price of the Pictura Association. From 1992 on, he was welcomed in the best galleries of The Netherlands.

In 1997 he participated at the ‘Painters of Minerva' exhibition, held at the same time at ‘De Twee Pauwen’ Gallery in The Hague and at Panorama Mesdag Museum. Gaasendam’s works are present in many collections, notably at the Drenthe Museum, Gasunie, ING and Unilever.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Still Life with Roses

• "What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story".
• "La vita è un mazzo di fiori rossi".