Peter Doig, 1959

Considered one of the most significant representational painters working today, Peter Doig has crafted a body of work that melds landscape, autobiography and personal style.

Doig was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but as a very young child his family lived for several years in Trinidad, before ultimately relocating to Canada.

Early in his career, he studied at various institutions in London, including the Wimbledon School of Art, Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Chelsea School of Art, where he eventually earned his MA in 1990.

Leonard Koscianski, 1952 | Visionary painter

Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

An American painter, with a unique visionary style, he has exhibited his psychologically charged artwork worldwide.

He is represented by the Meisel Gallery in New York, and the J Willott Gallery in California.

Michelle Doll, 1969 | Figurative painter

Michelle Doll’s paintings capture quiet, private moments hinged on personal connections between herself and her subjects.

Her paintings are infused with themes of intimacy and introspection and explore contemporary ideas about family, love, desire and femininity.

The subject matter, although not idealized in form, implies idealized moments of intimacy that we all either consciously or unconsciously crave.

Phyllis Shafer, 1958

American painter Phyllis Shafer lives and works in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin region.

Although her formative years as an artist were spent in New York and the San Francisco Bay area, over the past two decades she has worked primarily in the American West to develop a style of landscape painting that is uniquely her own.

Shafer’s profound love for her subject matter is unquestionably authentic, reminiscent of another extraordinary artist of the American West, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Giovanni Gasparro, 1983

Italian painter and printmaker Giovanni Gasparro was born in Bari.

He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2007, as a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Modica, with a thesis in art history on the Roman stay of Van Dyck.

His Last Supper painting is exhibited in the film Saturno contro by Ferzan Ozpetek.

The first solo exhibition in Paris is in 2009.

Olga Dandorf, 1973 | Romantic painter

Olga Vladimirovna Dandorf / Ольга Владимировна Дандорф was born in Tomsk, Russia.

As a child, she lived in Brest, studied at the Children's Art School, then graduated from the Art School at the Academy of Arts of Belarus.

Now he lives and works in Yalta.

Y.G. Srimati (1926-2007)

Born in Mysore into a cultured Mandayam Brahmin Tamil family and educated in Madras (present-day Chennai, in South India), the Indian artist Y. G. Srimati, at a young age, received classical training in the four traditional South Indian arts-voice, music, dance, and painting.

She became a highly accomplished vocalist and performer of classical Indian music and kept a lifelong friendship with the preeminent Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi.

She also toured in India and the United States, and in the United Kingdom with the influential classical Indian dancer Ram Gopal.

Ismaël Costa, 1965

Coming from a family from Barcelona in Spain, Ismaël has lived in Provence since the age of nine.

His childhood was devoted to the practice of drawing, and more particularly to the genre of comic strips which he was fond of.

As a teenager, his interest led him more towards the study of portraits.

Ismaël began working at the age of sixteen, first as a designer for a publishing house, then as an illustrator in a Parisian communications agency.