Nadežda Petrović (1873-1915) | Impressionist painter

Nadežda Petrović / Надежда Петровић was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region.

Considered Serbia's most famous impressionist and fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter🎨 of the period.

Born in the town of Čačak, Petrović moved to Belgrade in her youth and attended the women's school of higher education there.

In 1893, she became an art teacher at the school and later taught at the women's university in Belgrade. Afterwards, she obtained a stipend from the Serbian Ministry of Education to study art in the private school of Slovenian artist Anton Ažbe in Munich.

Percy Bysshe Shelley | Love's Philosophy / Filosofia dell'amore

Caspar David Friedrich🎨 (German Romantic painter, 1774-1840) | On the Sailing Boat | State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law divine

In one another's being mingle-

Why not I with thine?

Willem Haenraets, 1940 | Romantic lovers

Willem Haenraets is an Hollandaise painter, known for the Plein-air watercolors.

When he was 16 years old, he started his education at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht.

Four years later he obtained a scholarship from the Belgian Government to study at the National Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp, in the Master class of professor Sarina (Atelier Opsomer) and professor Vaarten.

Laila Bell | Figurative sculptor

Laila Bell is a Danish born artist working and teaching in Byron Bay Australia.

Laila was born north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

From an early age she knew the path in her life would be too express herself in some form of art.

This desire brought her to study full time for 5 years at Copenhagen Art School, examining many different mediums and learning the classical way of drawing and studying the figure.

Hodges Soileau, 1943 | Plein Air painter

American painter Hodges Soileau is a native of Southwest Louisiana with a career that has taken him to live in many parts of the country.

His Cajun accent is all but gone, but his cultural ties remain strong. His most successful 25 year illustration career has presented him with opportunities to work with major publishing houses in New York City gracing the covers of more than 300 books.

Hodges was a 23 year member of the prestigious Society of Illustrators in New York City. During this time, he received many citations of merit for work exhibited in annual shows.

He was selected to execute the painting for the Illustrators 29th Annual Call for Entries, and chaired 35 annual exhibitions.

Louise Breslau | Impressionist painter

Louise Catherine Breslau (1856-1927) was a German-born Swiss painter, printmaker and pastel artist active in France.

She trained at the Académie Julian in Paris and exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the late nineteenth-century.

In 1874, after having taken drawing lessons from a local Swiss artist, Eduard Pfyffer (1836-1899), Breslau knew that she would have to leave Switzerland if she wanted to realize her dream of seriously studying art.

Henry Lerolle (1848-1929)

Henry Lerolle was a French painter🎨, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe.

His work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868, 1885 and 1895.

In 1889 Lerolle painted the murals "The Crowning of Science" and "The Teaching of Science" in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.

Fred Calleri, 1964 | Romantic Figurative painter

Fred Calleri’s experience at The Maryland Institute College of Art 1988-1993 was a watershed event artistically.

The excellent training he received opened the window to all fields of art.

Ironically, Fred took one painting class in college and only became seriously interested in professionally painting after the birth of his son in 1997.

After an extensive period in Graphic Design and Marketing, Calleri decided to move to Flagstaff and take advantage of the history, scenery, people and especially the astounding light offered in the western regions of the U.S.A recent move has brought Calleri to Santa Barbara, CA.