Barbara Schilling, 1955

Barbara Schilling OPA, AIS is an impressionist oil painter from Michigan.

Her work is loose and fresh, mostly painted alla prima style.

She is known for both her landscapes and her still life/floral paintings.

She has won many awards and shown in many juried competitions.

Luo Li Rong / 罗丽蓉, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

Luo Li Rong is a Chinese artist and sculptor who creates realistic sculptures, primarily in bronze.

Luo was born in Hongqi, Hunan province, China.

In 1998, Luo entered the Changsha Academy of Arts in Changsha, Hunan and studied with Xiao Xiaoqiu.

From 2000 to 2005 she studied sculpture at the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China) with Sun Jiabo.

Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

A French artist of the post-World War II School of Paris, Françoise Gilot is perhaps most famous as a muse and lover to Pablo Picasso.

While her story may be inextricably linked to 20th century art’s most towering figure, Gilot’s remarkable life and vast oeuvre deserves recognition on its own merits.

In a career spanning over seven decades, Gilot’s distinct language of form and color reveals an enduring preoccupation with both the personal and universal forces of nature, time, space and mythology.

Evan Wilson, 1953

Evan Wilson remains true to his mission to bring realist painting back into the forefront of American art.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Wilson attended the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts to complete high school, and later went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he met his lifelong mentor, Joseph Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed realist painter in the Old World tradition.

His works are included in many public and private collections, including the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina and the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Abbiamo l'arte per non morire di realtà"!

• "The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world".

• "Il grande fine dell'Arte è colpire l'immaginazione con la forza di un'anima che rifiuta di ammettere la sconfitta anche nel mezzo di un mondo che crolla.".

Anelia Pavlova, 1956

Anelia Pavlova / Анелия Павлова, also known as Annael, is a Bulgarian-born Australian artist.

She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1956, and in 1993 moved to Adelaide, South Australia.

Her best known image is the Semillon label for the Semillon wine in the Peter Lehmann Wines "Art Series" range.

Chris Dunn | Watercolor children's book illustrator

Chris Dunn, was born and lived in the Riddlesden area of Keighley.

He has been a fine artist and illustrator since 2008 and his anthropormorphic animal illustrations have gained him a strong following and the attention of a major gallery in Paris.

He attended Bingley Grammar School, where he began to develop his talent for art in a newly built art block at the school.

After leaving school, Chris went to Bradford College, where he completed an art foundation course, followed by advanced study at Swindon School of Art, where he graduated with a degree in illustration.

Kaoru Yamada | Digital / AI illustrator

Tokyo based illustrator and copywriter Kaoru Yamada / 山田カオル was born in Kamakura, Japan.

Yamada finds beauty in nature, in people's expressions and gestures, and in living things.

She believes that people find something beautiful when they are at peace and when they have the space to feel compassion.

- "As an illustrator, I enjoy drawing seasonal landscapes and illustrations of everyday life.

Lee Alban, 1948 | Realist painter

Lee Alban began drawing as a child and learned basic art techniques from television programs and library books.

Throughout his school years his interest intensified and, though encouraged by teachers, chose not to pursue an art career.

It was a life choice based on the limited ability of an artist to support a family and other social considerations.

Le Yack, 1972 | Pop urban art

Alexandre Pelletier, also known as "Le Yack", is a talented native of Tours.

He first graduated in design and arts, then in communication, and was naturally attracted by graphic design.

He chose to devote his professional career to it. Art director in publishing and web for over 20 years, he evolves daily in the middle of images and stories.

During the Covid crisis, Alexandre feels the need to find a new space of expression and launches himself into "graffiti painting". Just 2 years later, "Le Yack" is already exhibiting at the gallery "l'Empreinte" in Orleans.

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.

Reuven Rubin | Post‐impressionist painter

Reuven Rubin (1893-1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.

Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children.

In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Claire Denarie-Soffietti, 1923

Born and raised in Versailles, Claire Denarie-Soffietti was an autodidactic art student from the outset.

After eight years living in Barbados and four children, the artist and her husband (an Italian architect) decided to settle for good and now reside in beautiful Dolphin Coast of South Africa.

Denarie works have evolved over the years.

Ryan Jensen | Plein Air painter

Ryan Jensen, born in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved around a bit growing up.

But his earliest memories are of family and include his father, a painter, and his mother, a graphic designer, arched together over a drafting board in their in-home studio; or his father's paint-covered hands on the steering wheel as he drove his son to school.

On the mornings Ryan's father left early for work, there would be a sticky-note sketch on the kitchen table, usually a comical depiction that always made Ryan laugh. Jensen began to sketch as a child and never stopped.

Robert Neffson, 1949 | Photorealist painter

Robert Neffson is an American painter known for his photorealistic street scenes of various cities around the world, museum interiors and for early still lifes and figure paintings.

Neffson was a member of the First Street Gallery in New York from 1978 to 1985, during which time he had numerous solo exhibitions, as well as group shows with such fellow artists as Catherine Murphy.

Kent R. Wallis | Romantic Impressionist painter

Kent R. Wallis, born in Ogden, Utah, began his formal art endeavors rather late compared to most other artists.

He received his Bachelors' and Masters' degrees from Utah State University in Business Administration in 1969; after which he was employed by the B. F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio.

He worked for six years in the fields of marketing and finance.

During that 6-year experience, personal feelings kept reoccuring that his career was not fulfilling his creative needs.

Hans Versfelt, 1968 | Impressionist painter

Dutch painter Hans Versfelt is an Impressionist.

He goes out almost every day with a painting box. He records what he finds.

Versfelt was born in 1968 and currently resides in Breda.

Hans Versfelt started his studies at the Minerva Academy in Groningen but stopped after a year.

After a few years he studied again at the Academy for Art and Design St. Joost in Breda and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

John Patchett, 1946 | Pastel painter

Born in Deal, Kent, John Patchett is a well-known East Anglian professional artist, who is a member of the East Anglian Institute of Artists and whose pastel paintings are much sought after, both in England and abroad.

After attending Grimsby School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames College of Art and Brighton College of Art, John settled in Australia where he lived for 19 years.

In 1994, he returned to this country, settling in East Anglia where he has easy access to some of his favourite locations.

Salvo (1947-2015)

Salvo aka Salvatore Mangione was born in Leonforte in the province of Enna on May 22, 1947.

He spent his childhood in Sicily and in 1956 moved with his family from Catania to Turin.

Since childhood he shows a strong aptitude for drawing and in 1963 participates, with a work taken from Leonardo, depicting an old man's head, at the 121^ Exhibition of the Promoting Society of Fine Arts.

He paints and sells copies from Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Fontana, Chagal, etc.

William Hays, 1956

For Vermont artist William Hamilton Hays, the idea of positive and negative is everything but black and white.

He takes the simplicity of linoleum block printing to new levels with his beautiful and complex prints.

Each of Hays' prints unfolds, color by color into a layered mosaic of carved shapes, carefully fitted into a composition that conjures a sense of mood and place dear to the heart of the artist.

Carmen Drake, 1964

Carmen Drake (Owens) was born in Lincoln, Maine and grew up in Meriden, Connecticut.

Since childhood, she has had a passion for drawing and painting, winning numerous awards as a young artist.

In 1984 she attended the Paire College of Arts until she moved to North Carolina in 1986.

With a child on the way, she put her focus on family and filled any extra moments with creating decorative pieces and custom work for a boutique shop, Rosemary Etc. of Pinehurst, NC.

Jef Bourgeau, 1950 | Post-conceptual painter

Jef Bourgeau regarded as one of the art giants of Detroit, founder of the Museum of New Art in 1996.

Jef Bourgeau is a Detroit painter, curator, photographer and conceptual artist.

He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across Europe, Asia and the USA.

René Jansen (1956-2022)

René Jansen was an Impressionist painter of portraits, still lifes and landscapes.

A great draftsman and painter, who shows stilled moments in an intense manner with a skilful and passionate play of light, color and form.

René Jansen has already established his name as a painter for a long time.

His famous still lifes are characterized by 'coincidentally setups'.

He prefers his compositions to emerge spontaneously and randomly.