Alfie Gatt, 1985 | Surrealist figurative painter

Alfie Gatt, an award-winning painter - best known as AlfieAlpha, was born on the small and sunny island of Malta.

His drive and passion for his love of art started in his early childhood years.

He pursued his studies and was successfully awarded a degree from the Institute of Art and Design, in Malta in 2005.

Alongside painting, he also explores digital to expand his way to express himself such as through illustrations, video editing and 2D animations.

Archan Nair, 1982

Archan Nair is a Visual artist, Illustrator and Digital Artist, specializing in mixed media, illustration, and digital art based out of Berlin, Germany.

Archan's visual expressions are part of a journey which is really influenced by the mysteries of our existence and how every action, emotion, and our interconnectedness in a universal scale sets of a chain of reactions.. which we experience from the micro to the macro scale.

Formerly a fashion major and entrepreneur, Archan started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift as an independent artist in 2007.

Dawn Whitelaw | Plein Air painter

Dawn Whitelaw is one of the artists in On Track Studios in Franklin, Tennessee.

Painting Plein Air with colleagues in Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and The Chestnut Group adds a richness and honesty to her studio work.

Whitelaw is currently on the the board of the Portrait Society of America where she serves as vice-chair.

She has also been featured as faculty for Plein Air South and the Plein Air Convention and Expo.

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.