James Sant RA | Portrait / Genre painter

James Sant CVO RA (1820-1916) was a British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of women and children and artistic exploration of the symbolism of childhood.

He was a member of the Royal Academy.

George Sant and Sarah Sant were also artists and are believed to have been his brother and sister.

Benjamin Lacombe, 1982 | Pop surrealism painter

Benjamin was born in Paris. In 2001, he attended the école Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris where he pursued his artistic education.

In addition to his studies, he worked as an advertising and animated movie artist before completing his first comic series at the age of 19, along with a few other illustrated books.

His final project «Cherry and Olive», which he has both written and illustrated, became his first children’s book and was published in France by Les éditions du Seuil in March 2006.

The following year, it was released by Walker Books (USA) and nominated one of the top 10 children’s books for the year 2007 in the U.S.A. by the prestigious weekly news magazine Time.

David Walker, 1976 | Portrait / Street Art

David Walker is a London-based portraitist who creates color-explosive portraits using spray paint in the form of street art.

Working in portraiture and using only spray paint David's ability to capture his subject in his trademark multi-layered style has seen him invited to exhibit all over the world and his work becoming highly collectible.

Using self-enforced constraints such as a 'no brushes rule' David is pushing the medium in his own unique direction and challenging preconceptions.

Anastasia Vostrezova, 1981 | Ballet Dancers

Russian painter🎨 Анастасия Вострецова works in a variety of genres: portrait, landscape, still-life. Anastasia's true creativity is evident in her scenes of Russian everyday life, festivals and portraits. The characters presence of mood and soul are delicately transferred on her canvas.

Her works are characterised by the constant search of the illusive language of the soul and the painting culture that changes constantly.

Anastasia Vostrezova /Анастасия Вострецова was born in a family of artists. She spent all of her childhood in Moscow and in Pereslavl-Zalesski where her family had a summer house.

Catherine Alexandre | Surrealist painter

Catherine-Marie Alexandre, painter whose reputation in France and abroad is well established, studies in Fine Arts, National Diploma in painting.

Diploma in contemporary jewelry design. First prize in a fashion design competition.

Easel painting, illustration for advertising and publishing. Currently, paints and writes.

- "When I was two years old, my parents peut a pencil in my hand, that I have never let it go since.

At the end of my secondary school studies, I went to Art'School, where I have obtained my NATIONAL DIPLOMA of PAINTING".

Claude Monet | Flowers and Fruit, 1869

Title: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit;

Artist/Maker: Claude Monet🎨 (French, 1840-1926);

Place: France (Place Created);

Date: 1869;

Medium: Oil on canvas;

Dimensions: 100.3 × 81.3 cm (39 1/2 × 32 in.);

Current location: Getty Center J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Although painted in his studio, this still life shows the influence of the outdoor experiments that Claude Monet undertook in the summer and fall of 1869, while he was living at Bougival on the Seine River.

Stas Sugintas, 1969

Stanislavas Sugintas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Education:

1980-1984 - Vilnius Middle Art School, Lithuania.

1986-1993 - Academy of Fine Arts of Belarus, Minsk Took general courses in painting, drawing and composition.

Sugintas is member of the "Maison des Artists", France and member of the Union of Designers, Belarus.

Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865-1947)

Blanche Hoschedé Monet was a French painter🎨 who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet🎨.

The only child in the Hoschedé-Monet household to become interested in art, Blanche began painting at the age of eleven and developed a fond relationship with Claude Monet. She visited his studio as well as Édouard Manet's🎨.

By the time she was 17 years old, she was Monet's assistant and only student, often painting en plein air alongside him, painting the same subject with the same colors.