Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (1861-1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions.
From 1936, Walker was a member of The London Group.
Kesja Tabaczuk, 1989 | Figurative painter
Kesja Tabaczuk was born in Opole, Poland and is currently living in Oslo, Norway.
She started studying art as soon as she could.
At the age of 12, Kesja applied to a school of Art in her home city of Opole.
She passed the test of drawing and painting with full score at first try.
After 3 successful years she decided to continue studying art in "OSSP" high school in Opole.
Jesse Mockrin, 1981
Jesse Mockrin (born Silver Spring, MD) received her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 2011, and her B.A. from Barnard College, New York in 2003.
She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York), and Galerie Perrotin (Seoul).
Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Rubell Family Collection, among others.
Pierre Bonnard: "Art will never be able to exist without nature".
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists.
Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.
He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.
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.
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.
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