Romona Youngquist, 1960 | Plein air painter

"My lifestyle hasn’t changed much since early childhood.

I live on a little farm with my family in the middle of Oregon wine country; I still hang out in the woods with the dogs and my own kids; and I still collect a wide range of critters.

When I’m not painting outside, I paint in my studio in order to keep an eye on my kids and pets, while listening to my favorite Bach, Handel and Mozart" - Romona Youngquist.

Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Impressionist figurative painter

Polish painter Emilia Wilk was born in Wałcz County, Poland.

She specializing in oil paint, began painting at the age of 6.

Wilk's work can be described as impressionistic realism.

The woman figure has always been at the center of her work which she try to capture with a great atmosphere and light.

Education: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

Nancy Crookston | Figural Impressionist painter

Nancy Seamons Crookston (1948-2023) was a California-based artist awarded the title of Master Oil Painter of America.

One of the most widely recognized artists in the nation, Nancy Seamons Crookston passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on November 17, 2023 from complications of shoulder surgery.

She was 74, a week away from her Thanksgiving Day birthday.

Nadezda Streltsova, 1973 | Ballet dancers

Надежда Стрельцова was born in Leningrad, St. Petersburg.

1983-1991 studied at the Art School at the Institute Repin in St. Petersburg (Academy of Arts).

1992-1998 studied at the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Repin in the studio of prof. Непринцева and Еремеева and Eremeeva.

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi, Io ti cielo, 1947

You rain on me - I sky you

You’re the fineness, childhood,

life - my love - little boy - old man

mother and center - blue - tender-

ness - I hand you my

universe and you live me

It is you whom I love today.

- I love you with all my loves

Martha Medeiros | Lentamente muore / Die slowly / A morte devagar, 2000

Lentamente muore

chi diventa schiavo dell’abitudine,

ripetendo ogni giorno gli stessi percorsi,

chi non cambia la marca o colore dei vestiti,

chi non rischia,

chi non parla a chi non conosce.

Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers

Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy /Екатерина Василенко Сирси is a Russian-born American figurative and portrait painter, living and working in San Diego, California.

Her drawings and oil paintings respect the technique and style of old masters of Renaissance and baroque period of Italian, Flemish, French and Russian masters.

Pakayla Biehn, 1986 | Surrealist painter

Pakayla Rae Biehn is a young and talented artist born and raised in California.

She uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures.

Her talent is definitely polyhedric expressed with several techniques and approaches, from painting to installation to design.

Christine Peloquin | Mixed media painter

Christine Peloquin is a 2-D mixed media artist who has been selling her artwork for 30 years.

She is currently showing her work at Arts on Douglas Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Bennett Galleries in Knoxville, TN, and Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens.

She has also shown in numerous galleries around the country including Atelier Galleries in Asheville, NC and Charleston, SC, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Longstreth-Goldberg Gallery in Naples, Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Loretta Goodwin Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Orlando Museum of Art Gift Shop and Kristal Gallery, Sugarbush, VT to name a few.

Erin Hanson, 1981 | Impressionist painter

Hanging precariously and horizontally from red sandstone, hundreds of feet above the ground, may not seem like it would inspire the creation of beautiful oil paintings, but that is exactly what happened with Erin Hanson.

After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature.

Regina Hona, 1956 | Seascapes painter

Regina Hona is an Australian artist, art show judge and tutor who's speciality is painting portraiture and water subjects.

Regina has held many group and solo exhibitions and has been winning many major awards since 1999.

Her works have been printed in several issues of the Australian Artist Magazine and a feature article published in the International Artist Magazine.

Although she is predominantly known for her seascapes and landscapes, she is equally at home painting portraits, still life and other subjects.

Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková | Ballet dancers

Czech artist Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková (1909-1991) was an traditionalist post-impressionist painter.

During the 1937-1938 Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Czech Abstract painter František Kupka (1871-1957).

Besides the dancers, the ballet scenes and portraits, Miloslava Vrbova also painted landscapes and the Prague urban motifs, religious scenes (the Crucifixion in the church Žinkovie), still lifes and flowers.

Helen Allingham RWS | Victorian era painter

Helen Allingham RWS (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 - 28 September 1926) was an British* watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.

Biography

Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson.

Helen Paterson was the eldest of seven children. The family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire when she was one year old.

In 1862 her father and her 3-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic.

The family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived.

Romee Kanis, 1953 | Figurative sculptor

Romee Kanis was born in Jutphaas.

Currently she lives in St. Maartensbrug in Zijpe in a farmhouse, where her sculpture garden and her studio are located and she also works in her workshop in Schermerhorn.

At age 18, Romee began in Spain and France with drawing portraits.

On the Place du Tertre in Paris and by working in the major cities of Europe, she got a good look at the people around her.

Frida Kahlo: “Vorrei essere ciò che ho voglia di essere”

Vorrei poter fare tutto ciò che mi piace dietro il sipario della "follia".

Allora: disporrei fiori, tutto il giorno,

dipingerei; dolore, amore e tenerezza,

riderei quanto mi pare della stupidità degli altri, e tutti direbbero: "Poverina, è pazza!"

Tina Cassati | Surreal fashion

Berlin based artist Tina Cassati, makes costumes (sculpture le mode and giardino di arte), ruffs, hats-, bags - and shoes-, jewelry objects into modern surreale digital-photo-art worlds and illustrations.

She paints, sews, draws, photographs, digital collage - mixed media, collage, illustration.

She does not care about genres.

Her work is influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Traditional Clothing (Folk Costumes) fairy tales. To her, fashion is fine art.

Sarah Myers, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

Sarah Myers lives and works in Arizona.

As a child her fascination for the artwork in museums - and even for ancient artifacts - formed her feeling that art was the language of a world filled with splendor and possibility.

She continues this today with her love of human expressions, depicting heads, hands, movement, vitality in a range of mediums from line drawing and painting to ceramic sculpture.

Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative painter

Laura Lee Zanghetti is an Award winning self taught artist who mainly works in oils.

She paints full time and enjoys a number of different techniques and styles of painting in her home studio in Walpole MA.

Her favorite subjects vary from beach scenes to cityscapes and her latest.... "umbrella ladies".

She's been painting full time for the past 13 years in her home studio in Walpole.

Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Pop-Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.

After graduating with an MA in Communication and Design at the Università La Sapienza, she took on various agency roles as a graphic designer and illustrator in Rome.

Later she moved to London, where she completed a Diploma in Experimental Illustration at the LCC - part of the University of the Arts London, achieving the highest possible grade.

Gerda Wegener | Lili Elbe’s wife in 'The Danish Girl'

Gerda Wegener: The Lady Gaga of the 1920s

The Danish Girl tells the story of the painter Einar Wegener, who had the world’s first gender-reassignment surgery and became Lili Elbe.

But his wife Gerda had a fascinating life and career of her own.

Gerda Wegener | Ulla Poulsen, 1927