José Luis Ceña, 1982 | Abstract figurative painter

Spanish painter José Luis Ceña was born in Malaga in 1982.

At the age of 15 he moved to Madrid, where he graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in the specialty of Plastic Arts in 2005.

In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Royal Casa de la Moneda for the expansion of its studies in the disciplines of Engraving and Graphic Design.

Training in these fields allowed him to investigate about resources and tools that, although alien to traditional painting, are incorporated into his creative process, giving him work a special plasticity.

Scott Conary, 1971

Raised where the East Coast suburbs filtered into the woods and farms, Scott Conary (Rhode Island School of Design, BFA ’93) creates oil paintings of everyday objects and places with which we have complicated and often ambiguous relationships.

Pulled from their context, these objects say something about how we interact with the world and one another.

Giovanni Muzzioli | Macchiaioli painter

Giovanni Muzzioli (1854-1894) was an Italian painter.

Muzzioli was born in Modena, after his family had moved from Castelvetro.

At the age of 15 years, he began to attend the local Academy of Fine Arts of Modena, working under Antonio Simonazzi and Asioli.

At the age of seventeen (1871), years later, he gained the Poletti scholarship entitling him to four years residence in Rome studying at the Accademia di San Luca, working first under professor Podesti, and later after 1874 under professor Coghetti.

Noemi Martín, 1975

Noemi Martin was born in Barcelona.

She has shown a great love for painting since her early childhood.

At the age of sixteen, she entered the Massana School in Barcelona where she studied painting.

Noemi Martín’s work revels in imaginary spaces in which perspective is the only form of architecture, and in which her unmistakable ochres, greys and yellows bathe every detail, creating a world which, although imaginary, reflects an infinite number of realities and the most intimate of our sentiments, like a mirror.

Kalliopi Asargiotaki, 1959 | Figurative painter

Καλλιόπη Ασαργιωτάκη was born in Ierapetra, Crete.

She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Giorgos Mavroidis and Ilias Dekoulakos (1979-1983) thanks to a Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) grant.

She pursued her studies in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1985-1986) on a French State scholarship (CROUS), under Vladimir Veličković.

Colin Fraser, 1956 | Egg tempera painter

Colin Fraser has long been established as one of the world's leading egg tempera painters.

Colin Fraser is a contemporary Scottish-born painter known for his detailed still lifes, landscapes, and interiors.

Fraser's use of egg-tempera gives his work a light-filled, translucent quality unequaled in other mediums, it is notoriously hard to control and seldom used by contemporary artists.

"It's a medium fraught with technical difficulties, but therein lies its charm.

François Pagé, 1962 | Conceptual painter

François Pagé was born in Tours where he currently lives.

He defines himself as a conceptual painter.

Pagé graduated with a degree in History of Art and finished a National Postgraduate Degree in Expression in Visual Arts at l'École de Beaux Arts de Tours.

He particularly admires the work of Gerhard Richter, a painter from former East Germany who was one of the first artists to examine society in his artwork.

Stylistically speaking, Pagé, who hates the idea of chance and limits the size of his canvases to the nearest cm2, is impossible to define.

Charles van Beveren | Romantic painter

Charles Van Beveren (1809-1850) was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most important colorists of his time.

Charles van Beveren, was a portrait, history and genre painter of the Romantic period, who spent much of his life in Amsterdam.

He was born at Mechlin in 1809, and studied art at the academy of his native city and at Antwerp.

He settled in Amsterdam in 1830, subsequently visiting Paris, Rome, and other cities of Italy, and distinguished himself as a painter of history, genre and portraits.