Hamish Allan | Surrealist Landscape painter

Hamish Allan is a Christchurch artist working mainly with the New Zealand landscape as subject matter.

Having completed two health-related degrees, Hamish worked as a physiotherapist before embarking on his artistic career in 1999 - initially concentrating on sculpture, then moving his attention to painting.

Hamish’s style is characterized by clean precise imagery, depicting stylised representational New Zealand landscapes and incorporating distinctive architecture.

Jaime Gubaton | Surrealist painter

Filipino painter Jaime Gubaton was already winning art contests as far back as he can remember, beating other kids twice his height and age.

Gubaton is a Fine Arts graduate with a major in Advertising from the University of the East Caloocan.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was a French Neoclassicist painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix.

His exemplars, as he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator".

Vladimir Kush, 1965 | Flamenco Dancer

Dance is an ecstatic state that changes the dancers, igniting their passion and, one and all, placing them on fire in the flame of love.

The metamorphosis of people into plants or vice versa was widely used in the mythopoetic ideas of the ancients.

"It is only the gods who taste of death," remarked Oscar Wilde, "Apollo has passed away, but Hyacinth, whom men say he slew, lives on. Nero and Narcissus are always with us".

Tullius Heuer | Surrealist painter

"Hi, i’m Tullius Heuer and i live in a city called Maceió, located at the state of Alagoas, Brazil.

I’m a self-taught digital artist. I’m actually working with freelance works for living, including stuff like CD covers, posters, book covers, logos/branding/visual identity, advertisement etc.

My personal artworks consist in my thoughts and feelings about life and existence. I don’t have a specific theme to focus in my works, but most of them usually have strong emotional touches with positive messages.

Jose De la Barra, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Jose De la Barra, Peruvian painter has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing.

The expressions and the sensual movements that appear in each piece, create mystic allegories about the universe.

By combining his interest in the human form with his desire for symbolic content, he has engendered a language that explains the human condition through a unique perspective.

There is a method through with he develops his art replying on material and composition to develop his personal, magical universe.

Antonietta Varallo, 1954 | Landscape painter

Born in Talsamo (Taranto province, Southern Italy) and a livornese adoptee, Antonietta Varallo approaches painting when she was just fifteen. Varallo, for one year, attended at the Free Academy "Trossi-Uberti" directed by Voltolino Fontani, then the maestro Luciano Torsi has been her guide up to her artistic maturity after eighteen years of teaching.

On 1976 Varallo won the first prize🎨 "Chimera" held in the city of Arezzo (Tuscany).

Nowadays she’s still a honorary professor of the Academy of "Machiavello" in Florence as well as in the Academy "G. Marconi" in Bologna.

André Martins De Barros, 1942 | Fantastic Realism painter

André Martins de Barros: "The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions.

Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent".

André Martins de Barros was born in Pau, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.

He started to paint from the age of 15 and just after completing his military service decided to devote all his time to passion- Painting.

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Gyuri Lohmuller was born in Gataia, Romania.

Self-educated painter, having exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France and Hungary, is willing to share his inner world.

His paintings reflect his deepest emotions.

"The emotion", he says, "Is Art".

He prefers the surrealist themes.

Jim Tsinganos | Surrealist / Conceptual painter / Illustrator

Jim Tsinganos is a Sydney🎨 based Illustrator with over 20 years experience who has had 2 working stints in Amsterdam.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, both locally and internationally and is represented in the UK and the US. Working primarily with pastels and watercolor, he is interested in creating work with a strong conceptual basis.

Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

From: MoMa - The Museum of Modern Art

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In 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, "If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts".

Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription.

Although he remains best known as a Dadaist, his work ranged from Impressionist painting to radical abstraction, from iconoclastic provocation to pseudo-classicism, and from photo-based painting to Art Informel.

He relished courting controversy, making regular engagements with the press a part of the construction of his artistic persona.

Jonathan Wolstenholme, 1950 | The Surreal books

Jonathan Wolstenholme is an British painter and illustrator best known for his amazingly detailed works deriving from a love of old books.

Books on Books is a series of illustrations in which the book world is being described by… the books. Jonathan has had three one-man shows in London and has exhibited at the Singer and Friedlander Exhibition several times, also at the Discerning Eye Competition at the Mall Galleries winning a prize in 2002.

In 1997 an exhibition of Jonathan’s work was shown in New York at the ‘Works on Paper’ fair. In 2003 he had a joint show with fellow Portal artist George Underwood, this was a great success, Jonathan also took part in an exhibition of Idiosyncratic Portal Artists in Tanglewood, near Boston in 2004 and Portal painters at the Edinburgh Festival in the same year.

Wolstenholme regularly exhibits with Portal at all the major Art Fairs in London and Glasgow.

Siegfried Zademack, 1952 | Surrealist painter

Siegfried Zademack, German painter, was born in Bremen.

Freelance artist since 1980. Several artshows of his work in and outside his homecountry.

Siegfried Zademack's surrealistic visionary paintings make recipients and reviewers wonder.

The arrangement of his pictorial thoughts immensely exceeds a realistic reproduction.

His pictures allow us to slip in metaphysical dimensions, between humorous irony and the unfathomable deepness of our souls.

Odilon Redon | Symbolist / Colorist painter

Odilon Redon (born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, France - died July 6, 1916, Paris) French Symbolist painter, lithographer and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.

His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements.

Alessandro Tofanelli, 1959 | Surrealist Landscape painter

When asked about his painting, Italian painter🎨 Alessandro Tofanelli states that he wants to investigate the relationship between time and memory, and to properly do this he has chosen landscape his favorite subject.

In 1977 he graduated from the Arts Institute in Lucca and then moved to Milan, where he attended the Brera Art Academy.

Whilst in Milan, Tofanelli collaborated as an illustrator for several magazines published by Rizzoli and Mondadori.

Catrin Welz-Stein | Digital creator

Catrin Welz-Stein is a German graphic designer who creates stunningly surreal works.

Focused on mixed media, she breathes new life into vintage photos by experimenting in Photoshop, taking pictures apart and assembling them into new content.

Alexander Bolotov, 1981 | Unforgettable Paris

Ukrainian painter Александр Болотов was born in Donetsk. In 2002 he graduated from the Donetsk Art School, Department of Painting.

For several years he worked in publishing houses on book illustrations.

He taught at the children's art school. In 2008, he left the genre of illustration and devoted himself entirely to painting.

Initially, the only favorite style was realism in depicting types of nature: forest, sea landscapes, because His favorite artists were the leading figures of the Russian landscape school - Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Aivazovsky.

Maria Amaral, 1950 | Surrealist painter

Exiled from Spain in 1949 after years spent resisting Franco’s regime, her pastor father and teacher mother found refuge in Argentina.

On Christmas Day the following year 1950, in Buenos Aires, Maria Amaral was born.

In 1967, it was her turn to experience exile when she and her family were forced to flee from Argentina.

France welcomed them and they settled in Strasbourg, before she left for Paris and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she earned an honours degree in fine art, setting up her future as an artist.

Jimmy Lawlor, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Jimmy Lawlor was born in Wexford.

He now lives in Westport, in the magnificent West of Ireland. Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 20 years.

His work is based not only on the Irish sense of humour, but on the vivid realisation that the old way of life will have vanished by our next generation.

His work takes elements from his surroundings and mixes them with the people of the place, in their environment and doing what they love best.

Man Ray (1890-1976) Paintings

Man Ray, original name Emmanuel Radnitzky photographer, painter and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements🎨.

The son of Jewish immigrants -his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress- Radnitzky grew up in New York City, where he studied architecture, engineering, and art, and became a painter. As early as 1911, he took up the pseudonym of Man Ray. As a young man, he was a regular visitor to Alfred Stieglitz’s "291" gallery, where he was exposed to current art trends and earned an early appreciation for photography.