Neil Simone, 1947 | Visionary Surrealist painter

Neil Simone is a visionary surrealist artist whose paintings have a concept and style as distinctive as they are unique.

Neil has exhibited both original oil paintings and prints in many leading galleries around the world and recently had an exhibition celebrating 40 years as a professional artist.

Andrius Kovelinas, 1958 | Surrealist painter

Andrejus Kovelinas is a Lithuanian painter who has been living in Poland for many years.

His work focuses on oil painting, with a central theme of women, portrayed in a burlesque and boudoir aesthetic.

The artist draws inspiration from theater, opera, and ballet, which is reflected in the theatrical expression of his works.

Kovelinas has extensive experience in applied arts, having designed award-winning posters for cultural institutions.

Mary Alayne Thomas, 1977 | Mixed-media / Fantasy painter

Raised by two full time artists in Santa Fe New Mexico, Mary Thomas has had a strong desire to create since childhood.

Finding constant inspiration from her memories of New Mexico, as well as from the beauty of her current home in Portland Oregon, her paintings continually attempt to capture those magic ephemeral moments we all experience, both real and imagined.

Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers

Stephen Pan 潘仲武 is an extremely versatile artist n the classic European oil painting tradition.

His singular artistic expression is easily recognized in his sublimely elegant and serene paintings.

Since 1987 he has focused primarily on original figurative oil paintings on canvas.

In spite of his close relationship with formal Chinese traditions in art, Pan fell in love with the paintings of renaissance and French impressionist periods.

Paul Gauguin | The figures

The vogue for Paul Gauguin's work started soon after his death.

Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin.

A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.

Gauguin paintings are rarely offered for sale; their price may be as high as $39.2 million US Dollars.

I sogni magici di Tomasz Kopera, 1976

Tomasz "Alen" Kopera è un pittore Polacco, rappresentante del Realismo Magico.

Laureato in ingegneria civile presso l'Università di Scienza e Tecnologia di Breslavia, nel 2005 si è trasferito in Irlanda del Nord, dove ha vissuto e lavorato per oltre un decennio.

Attualmente vive in Polonia.

Il suo talento artistico si manifesta fin dalla prima infanzia.

John Haag, 1980 | Realist / Impressionist painter

John Haag is a professional artist whose work has been described as a fusion of impressionism and realism.

Specializing in oil and charcoal, Haag began painting at the age of 18 and selling his work at age 21.

He had his first solo show at age 24 in Park City, UT.

Working primarily as a portrait artist in his early career, Haag’s work can be found in private collections throughout the US and has been commissioned by many prominent Americans, including the late world renowned author/speaker Steven R. Covey.

Yarek Godfrey | Magic realism painter

Yarek Gofrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki, Olsztyn, Poland 1957 - Paris, 2014) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Studies for Stage Costume design for theater in Cracow.

In 1983 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 2014.

Johann Jungblut | Romantic Landscape painter

Johan Jungblut (1860-1912), a Düsseldorf school, painted winter landscapes of rural Netherlands, Germany, and Norway in an old master style.

Jungblut was born in Sarrebourg on the French/German border in April of 1860, although in 1885 he made the German city of Dusseldorf his home.

Johan Jungblut was a solitary figure who lived alone; he made frequent trips to Holland to paint, specialising in Winter scenes infused with tranquil light.

Remembering Steve Hanks, the Master of Watercolor

Steve Hanks (1949-2015), the Master of Watercolor and Figures passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 after a battle with cancer.

"Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction.It starts with a re-evaluation of your own life, from a search for the source of the impulses and mystery of it all. I think of myself as an emotional realist. Emotion is what I want to portray. Realism is just my way of doing it"- Steve Hanks

James R. Eads, 1989 | Love Forgetting Time

Los Angeles-based illustrator James R. Eads primarily works in acrylic and on a Wacom tablet to create high quality screen-prints and giclee prints that imitate traditional painting and printmaking.

James R. Eads was born in Los Angeles, CA.

He spent his childhood making art and eventually went to a liberal arts school in New York where he studied printmaking, painting and graphic design.

Optical illusion art by Eric Montoya, 1968

Eric Montoya is an American painter who has had several gallery and museum exhibitions.

Continued education through Seattle Art Museum lectures and UW Experimental courses, Technology Project Manager for The Ackerley Group 1996-2001, Journeyman Pictorial Painter, The Ackerley Group 1987 through 1996. Art Institute of Seattle, 1987.

"In my work I tend to blend the boundaries between man and nature".

Dimitri Vojnov, 1946 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Dimitri Vojnov had always a strong interest for the great painters of art history and Renaissance, such as Piero della Francesca or Hans Holbein. He uses as a background coloring an intense cobalt blue that is a reference to the Renaissance period.

Undoubtedly his work shows his long term classical academic education in painting which fascinates with provocative and erotic illustrations, which often are exaggerated in a grotesque way.

Kevin Beilfuss, 1963

Kevin Beilfuss è un pittore Americano, esperto nella pittura ad olio, nella pittura acrilica e nell'arte dei pastelli.

Ha frequentato l'Illinois State University, conseguendo il Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in pittura nel 1985.

Dopo aver lavorato in un'agenzia pubblicitaria per un anno, Beilfuss ha frequentato l'American Academy of Art, dove si è concentrato sulla pittura e l'illustrazione.

Carolina Landea, 1964 | Pittrice Romantica

Carolina Landea è una pittrice Cilena le cui opere si avvalgono di un uso peculiare di luce e colore, trasmettendo atmosfere costiere, in particolare quelle crepuscolari, con un certo tono infantile e malinconico.

L'artista si è cimentata anche nella moda, nella danza, nella ginnastica e nel teatro, evidenziando il suo lavoro come produttrice di moda e modella per la rivista "Paula".

Membro di una nota famiglia di pittori, inizia la sua formazione artistica all'età di tredici anni.

Ha studiato con José Luis Asparren, professore presso l'Accademia Reale di San Fernando a Madrid.

Diane Leonard | Romantic Impressionist painter

Diane Leonard is an internationally acclaimed Impressionist Artist known for her incredible use of light.

A self-taught artist, Diane began painting in her early twenties while she lived in Boston.

- "Late afternoon is my favorite time to paint!

Whether I am on the beach or painting in my yard, capturing that golden light with colors that are enhanced by the warm sun is exciting!

Leonard Cohen / Michael Parkes | Questo è per te.../ This is for you

Questo è per te

è il mio intero cuore

è il libro che ti avrei letto

quando fossimo stati vecchi

Adesso sono un'ombra

Sono senza pace come un impero

Michael Parkes

René Magritte: "The purpose of art is mystery"

"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".

"Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".

Sonia Drabkin, 1961 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Israeli painter Sonia Drabkin is an emerging surrealistic and romantic fantasy artist.

Sonia Drabkin’s art is heavily influenced by Surrealism.

As with artists of this style who preceded her, her sources lie in Paris of the 1920s.

Drabkin celebrates a vision of the world in which the imagination is set free.

Julie Heffernan, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Painter and graphic novelist Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist".

Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997.

She received a B.F.A., at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.