Zaha Hadid, the great Dame of Architecture

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 - 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognized as a major figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972.

In search of an alternative system to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as an investigative principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".

Tim Fu | AI Futurist Architecture Designer

Tim Fu is a renowned Canadian architectural designer, specialised in advanced computation and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Emerging from Zaha Hadid Architects, he has founded Studio Tim Fu, a high-tech design practice pioneering the integration of AI into visionary design.

As an active educator, he has run workshops at Harvard GSD, PA Academy, and lectured in various universities and conferences globally.

Greg Beecham, 1954 | Wildlife artist

Greg Beecham has been painting full time since 1978.

He has specialized in wildlife art.

Greg’s vision is to "sculpt with paint" - that is to paint in such a way that there is not only the illusion of dimension, but genuine depth to the paint itself.

He believes that if he can speak with paint more than detail, that the net result will be a life expressing realism.

Gertrude Fiske | Impressionist painter

Gertrude Horsford Fiske (1879-1961) was an American visual artist, figure painter, still life painter and landscape painter.

Fiske was part of the Boston School of painters in the early 20th century.

She was the first woman appointed to the Massachusetts State Art Commission in 1929.

Fiske was born in Boston and was the daughter of a prominent local lawyer.

J Louis, 1992 | Dynamic Impressionist painter

The artist J Louis paints exquisite, abstracted forms creating a vibrant story that cleverly directs viewers toward personal introspection.

J Louis considers himself a Dynamic Impressionist, constructing what he calls "moments of fleeting light, abstracted space and cleverly posed subjects".

"I have always been fascinated by visual harmony", J Louis explains, "by figures that give voice to an emotional and spiritual dialogue".

Fillide Giorgi Levasti | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Fillide Giorgi Levasti (Florence, 1883-1966) was, undoubtedly, one of the most important women painting in Italy in the 1900s.

Deeply influenced by the Macchiaioli movement, Giorgi Levasti (1883-1966) became a student of Giovanni Fattori, attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo at Florence’s Academy, where she made anatomical drawings from live models.

Eléonore Sieulle | Expressionist painter

Eléonore Sieulle: "I focus on expressiveness and emotional feeling and I rely on the momentum of my hand.

Through the speed of execution, I try to establish the immediacy of a movement and make apparent the primitive power of instinct.

Through drawing, I want to draw what is invisible to the naked eye. Drawing is the right to tumult.

Pavel Shumov, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Павел Шумов was born in Yalta.

He graduated from the art school named after F.Vasiliev in Yalta(1978), the secondary art school named after B.Ioganson of the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts of Russia named after I.Repin (1983).

He is a member of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine since 2002, a member of the International Arts Fund since 2005, a member of Union of Arts of Russia since 2014, a member of International Association of Art AIAP UNESCO.