Michael O'Toole | Impressionist painter

Michael O'Toole (1963-2018) was a renowned Canadian painter from British Columbia.

He attended BCIT where he studied architectural design and later moved to Toronto to work for several architectural firms.

Eventually he was drawn back to the beautiful West Coast where he now resides.

Michael's love for design led him to explore his creativity in variety of media including watercolour, pen and ink, graphite, gouache and acrylic.

Eugene Paprocki, 1971 | Modern impressionist painter

Eugene J. Paprocki is an internationally collected American contemporary impressionist painter celebrated for his vibrant en plein air landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, his artwork captures the essence of light, color, and nostalgic atmosphere across ordinary subjects.

He has always dabbled in painting, even in his childhood.

He formally studied Fine Art at Loyola University in Chicago.

To augment his already considerable skill, he traveled the world extensively, visiting the work of the great masters.

Leo Stans | Naturalist painter

Leo Stans (April 12, 1953 - March 22, 2011) was a celebrated American wildlife and landscape painter known for his meticulous detail, rich colors and deep commitment to environmental conservation.

Born and raised in Chaska, Minnesota, his background as an avid outdoorsman heavily influenced his artistic career

Stans held a degree in forestry and initially worked in life insurance sales before choosing to pursue a professional art career full-time in 1980.

To hone his talent, he took art classes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

His professional legacy continues to be recognized through his versatile array of realistic wildlife depictions and impressionistic period pieces.

Daniel Garber | Impressionist painter

Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania.

He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River.

He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching.

Erica Hopper, 1949 | Impressionist Figurative painter

American painter Erica Hopper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, studied graphic and industrial design at San Diego State University, and continued her art education at the University of The Americas in Puebla, Mexico.

During the 70's and 80's she was a successful illustrator with many published works in national periodicals.

Today Hopper concentrates on oil media and textile design.

It is clear one influences the other by the rhythm and texture found in her paintings.

I giardini idilliaci di Willem Haenraets

Nato a Rotterdam, Willem Haenraets è un celebre pittore impressionista Olandese universalmente riconosciuto per il suo stile romantico, aereo e caratterizzato dall'uso di colori pastello soffusi.

Haenraets aveva solo 16 anni quando iniziò la sua formazione all'Accademia di Maastricht, ad cui seguì un ulteriore percorso di studi presso l'Accademia d'arte di Anversa.

Grazie ad una borsa di studio per studenti di talento, acquisì la sua maturità artistica come allievo maestro dei rinomati professori Sarina e Vaarten.

Wolfgang Lettl | Surrealist painter

Wolfgang Lettl (1919-2008) was a surrealist painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany.

Success with his freelance art led him to develop his surrealism, and he participated in the 1963 Grosse Kunstausstellung München - the "Grand Art Exhibition Munich", becoming a member of the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft - "New Munich Artist Cooperative Society".

One-man shows in Germany and abroad followed.

Jeffrey Watts, 1970 | Impressionist painter

Jeffrey R. Watts is an acclaimed American fine artist, illustrator, and educator based in Southern California.

He is best known as a Living Master of classical realism and impressionism and as the founder of the prestigious Watts Atelier of the Arts

Growing up in rural San Diego county with an artist father, Watts demonstrated an early aptitude for the visual arts.

But it was competitive sports that held his interest as a teenager.

After an injury cut short his budding career in professional cycling, Jeff turned his focus back to art, enrolling at the California Art Institute in Calabasas.

Mònica Castanys, 1973 | Impressionist Figurative painter

Spanish painter Mònica Castanys was born in Barcelona.

She graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona in 1993.

In 1990, she assisted a course at the Lorenzo di Medici School in Florence, Italy.

She received several national prizes for young artists.

Mònica’s art has been exhibited at numerous personal and group exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

Egidio Antonaccio, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Italian painter Egidio Antonaccio is an Impressionist whose oil paintings express his love of nature and a man gifted with a rare talent.

Having studied with some of the great Italian masters of fine art, he has developed a brilliant and commanding style.

Born in Castelluccio, Italy, Egidio Antonaccio graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Castrovillari, Italy, in 1973.

Then in 1978, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Claude Monet | The Path through the Irises, 1914-1917

Irises, among Monet's favorite flowers, lined the pathways leading up to the house and Japanese bridge on the artist's property at Giverny.

This bird's-eye view of a garden path belongs to a series of monumental works painted during the First World War that capture the vital essence of these flowers with intensity and breadth of vision.

Late in life, as his eyesight faltered, he dispensed with subtlety and "took in the motif in large masses", waiting "until the idea took shape, until the arrangement and composition inscribed themselves on the brain". | Source: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | The Path through the Irises, 1914-1917 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Aaron Coberly, 1971 | Figurative Impressionist painter

Aaron Coberly, American painter, was born in Seattle.

He has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

He started taking art seriously as a teenager after being invited to attend a life drawing class.

Living and traveling in Europe further inspired him.

He began oil painting in 1999.

Sung Sam Park, 1949 | Neo-Impressionist painter

Korean painter Sung Sam Park was born in Soeul, where he began painting at the age of twelve.

His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the age of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught painting at the local high school.

Early on, Park attracted the attention of prominent artists and heads of state.

Byen Si-Jin, former university president of Jo-Joo Island, was his private art teacher and mentor.

The former president of South Korea, Yoon Bo-Sun, personally awarded him many First Places in the national competitions of the Mok-Woo Art Society.

Richard S. Johnson, 1953 | Impressionist painter

Richard S. Johnson is an award-winning contemporary American painter based in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson was born in Chicago to a family of artists.

While still in primary school, Johnson was accepted as a scholar to the Art Institute of Chicago.

A graduate of the American Academy of Art, he embarked on a career as an illustrator.

Johnson's style has been regarded as having the technical excellence of Pre-Raphaelite Romanticism mixed with contemporary Expressionism and Abstraction.

Alexey Khlebnikov, 1960 | Still Life of flowers painter

Alexey Alexandrovich Khlebnikov / Алексей Александрович Хлебников lives and works in St. Petersburg, painting distinctive landscapes, still lifes and floral scenes.

Has received an academic art education.

Khlebnikov described himself:

Geoffrey Johnson, 1965 | Abstract Impressionism painter

Geoffrey Johnson is a contemporary impressionist painter who draws much of his inspiration from his travels and first-hand observations.

Using a monochromatic palette of sepia hues, the artist says he always strives to reproduce the places that inspire him while allowing his paintings to "almost dance on the water of abstraction or of just being".

In the past, he has often painted New York City, which continues to provide new ideas and inspiration for him.

Robert Krogle, 1944 | Impressionist painter

American painter Robert Krogle was born in Santa Monica, California.

After high school Robert applied to Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles and was accepted but after two years was called to duty by the California Army National Guard.

He spent five and a half months in Vietnam and was awarded the bronze star and purple heart for his service.

Upon returning to civilian life, Robert completed his last two years of art education in 1970.

Roman Fedosenko, 1970 | Ballet dancers

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, Roman Fedosenko / Роман Федосенко is an international artist who paints in both Impressionist and Realist styles.

A lot of traveling and actively exhibit their work.

In his works the author seeks to reflect the beauty of his native land, its originality and uniqueness.

For the most complete transfer of impressions, the artist often turns to the expressive palette and methods of impressionism in his work.

Eva Gonzalès | Impressionist painter

Eva Gonzalès (1849-1883) was a French Impressionist painter.

She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-95) and Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916).

Gonzalès began her professional training and took lessons in drawing in 1865, from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin, who was also Mary Cassatt's teacher.

Brent Heighton, 1954 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter Brent Heighton has been a professional artist for over 40 years.

His career in fine arts has allowed him to travel throughout the world in search of adventure and subjects to paint.

He is an explorer by nature, constantly trying out innovative techniques.

He paints with intensity and economy, rarely wasting a motion or brush stroke, and is often called upon to give instruction in the art of painting.

Brent Heighton’s watercolors, oils and acrylics have won many awards and are found in corporate and private collections in more than 25 countries.