Man Ray | A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux, 1970

"A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux" is considered to be one of Man Ray’s most iconic images.

The lips featured in the composition are those of Man Ray’s photography assistant and lover, Lee Miller.

Her lips appear as a motif in a range of Man Ray’s work from throughout his lifetime, from a photograph in MoMA’s collection from 1929, to a major series of paintings in 1936, and even a cast-gold version.

They have gone on to inspire a number of images in pop culture, most famously the iconic lips from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Paola Grizi, 1968 | Surrealist sculptor

Italian sculptor Paola Grizi has spent her entire life immersed in the art world.

As the granddaughter of a well known Italian painter and sculptor and the niece of a ceramicist Piero Grizi (1885-1976), her creativity was fostered from a young age.

This has translated into a successful career as an artist, where she is particularly known for her unique terracotta and bronze sculptures.

For many years Grizi has produced incredible sculptures of faces that seem to emerge from the pages of books.

Irina Biatturi, 1975 | Art Déco painter

A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy and the N. Tonitza Art High School, Bucharest, Irina Biatturi has been in contact with painting since she was very young.

After living for a few years in Mexico and New Zealand, she now lives and works in Antibes, a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

Her oil paintings, which have women and sensuality as their subject, are inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but also by the compositions of the Italian Renaissance masters, for the light and the colours.

Cheryl St. John | Following Monet

Cheryl is an artist that paints primarily in the plein-air tradition. She is a fourth generation Colorado native with a great appreciation of nature, the environment, and the preservation of both.

Born and raised at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and with parents that enjoyed the outdoors, Cheryl was introduced at an early age to the beauty of the Colorado mountains and developed her own love for the landscape that influences her artwork today.

Cheryl paints mainly with oil but loves to work with watercolor as well.

Hilma Af Klint | A Pioneer of Abstraction

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history.

A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian.

She belonged to a group called "The Five", comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy, who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "High Masters" - often by way of séances.

Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

Celeste Bergin | Impressionist painter

Celeste Bergin grew up in Elgin, Illinois.

As a young girl she was attracted to the landscape and expressive faces, filling her notebooks with sketches of the gentle rolling plains of the Midwest and with portraits of the people she knew.

After graduating from high school she attended the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.

Unfortunately, some unexpected events interrupted her art education.

She moved to Florida and worked for 7 years in an un-related field.

María Berrío, 1982 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Brooklyn-based Maria Berrio is a contemporary artist primarily known for her prismatic, large-scale paper collages.

The artist completed her BFA at the Parsons School of Design in 2004, after which she received her MFA at the New York School of Visual Arts in 2007.

Berrio’s work sees her filter memories of her childhood spent on a farm in Colombia, and her subsequent experience with migration, through the lens of her studio practice.

Martin Leighton, 1951 | Figurative painter

Born in Montrose Scotland, Martin has lived in Weymouth in the beautiful county of Dorset from the age of 2 years.

Martin is a self-taught artist specialising in oils on canvas and he has been painting professionally since 2003 when he opened his own gallery and working studio close to Weymouth harbour side, situated on the first floor of a beautifully converted Grade II listed building.

However the gallery closed in October 2016 to enable Martin to concentrate on new works for various exhibitions and commissions.