Roman Frances, 1950

Spanish painter🎨 Jose Miguel Roman Frances was born in Alcoy, Alicante. At The age of fourteen he began to paint in the workshop of Gaspar Frances Rico.

Rico became more of a friend than a teacher, and his work influenced Frances' artistic formation.

Alessandro Tofanelli, 1959 | Surrealist Landscape painter

When asked about his painting, Italian painter🎨 Alessandro Tofanelli states that he wants to investigate the relationship between time and memory, and to properly do this he has chosen landscape his favorite subject.

In 1977 he graduated from the Arts Institute in Lucca and then moved to Milan, where he attended the Brera Art Academy.

Whilst in Milan, Tofanelli collaborated as an illustrator for several magazines published by Rizzoli and Mondadori.

Catrin Welz-Stein | Digital creator

Catrin Welz-Stein is a German graphic designer who creates stunningly surreal works.

Focused on mixed media, she breathes new life into vintage photos by experimenting in Photoshop, taking pictures apart and assembling them into new content.

Ernest Quost | Impressionist painter

Ernest Quost (1842-1931) was a French Impressionist painter.

Painter of animated cityscapes, landscapes, still lifes, flowers and fruit, pastels. Probably a pupil of Horace Aumont (1839-1864) during his stay in Paris.

He began at the Paris Salon in 1866, was a Societaire des Artistes Français, was awarded medals for his work in the years, 1880, 1882, 1889, 1890 and 1900 and was made a Chevalier and then Officier of the Legion d’honneur in 1883 and 1903, respectively.

Antonino Leto | Genre painter

Antonino or Antonio Leto (1844 in Monreale, Sicily - 1913 in Capri, Italy) was an Italian painter, painting mainly genre / landscape subjects in an impressionistic style.

In 1861, sponsored by his uncle, he moved to study in Palermo under L. Barba and Luigi Lojacono.

He adopted the style and subject matter of Filippo Palizzi.

In 1864, he moved to Naples where he was attracted to the Scuola of Resina style of painting fostered by Giuseppe De Nittis. He took lessons from Adriano Cecioni. He painted both in oil, tempera, and watercolor.

Ivan Kramskoi | Portrait / Genre painter

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi / Kramskoj / Kramsky, Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й (8 June 1837 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh gubernia, Russia - 5 April 1887 in Saint Petersburg) was an Russian realist painter of Ukrainian origin.

A graduate (1863) and faculty member (1869-87) of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, he was one of the founders and ideologists of the Peredvizhniki.

In the 1850s he visited Kharkiv, and in 1871 he worked in Khotin village in the Sumy region.

He made frequent trips to the Crimea.

Marilyn Simandle, 1946 | Watercolor painter

Marilyn Simandle🎨 is a master Signature Member of Oil Painters of America (OPAM), a Signature member of the American Watercolor Society, Plein-Air Painters of America (PAPA) and the California Art Club.

She has numerous articles in magazines such as Southwest Art and Art of the West.

In 1996, her first book on Watercolor painting was published by North Light and since, a second book is available entitled "Contagious Enthusiasm".

Bruno Walpoth, 1959 | Wooden sculptor

Italian Figurative sculptor🎨 Bruno Walpoth, who carved these incredibly lifelike wooden sculptures, comes from a long lineage of woodcarvers.

Hailing from a family of wood sculptors, Walpoth simultaneously honors a centuries-old tradition and modernizes it for the 21st century.

Drawing from his ancestry along with contemporary ideas inspired from other forms of art, Walpoth transforms his blocks of wood into detailed sculptures of the human body.