Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Pop Art painter

Cristina Fornarelli is an Italian contemporary figurative painter.

Fornarelli was born in Bari, in Southern Italy where light and colors have influenced her art.

After art school, she attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Rome, where she still lives and works.

Michelle Torrez, 1956 | Abstract painter

Known for her color work, Michelle Torrez does expressionistic oil paintings of figures that are intended to communicate the beauty of unlikely emotion, movement and life.

Torrez believes that the greatest influences on her work were the circumstances of her childhood and teenage years:

"My life has influenced me to look deeper to find the beauty and humanity in people and places. Even at an early age, I knew I was an artist".

Sara Teasdale | Cadrà dolce la pioggia / There will come soft rains

Cadrà dolce la pioggia e si diffonderà il profumo della terra,

le rondini voleranno in cerchio stridendo;

canteranno le rane negli stagni a notte alta,

e i pruni selvatici biancheggeranno tremuli;

Jean Béraud

Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor

Bev Jozwiak is an International Award winning Artist.

She has earned her signature status in the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and others, too numerous to mention.

Dorothea Sharp | Impressionist painter

Dorothea Sharp ROI RBA (1874-1955) was a British artist best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.

Life and career

Sharp was born in Dartford, Kent, and began her training aged 21, when, after inheriting £100 from an uncle, she attended the Richmond art school run by C. E. Johnson RI. She went on to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where her work was admired by George Clausen and David Murray.

Sara Teasdale | Paris in spring

The city's all a-shining

Beneath a fickle sun,

A gay young wind's a-blowing,

The little shower is done.

But the rain-drops still are clinging

And falling one by one -

Oh it’s Paris, it's Paris,

And spring-time has begun.

Nathalie Picoulet, 1968 | Dreams in pastel

French figure painter Nathalie Picoulet was born in Amiens, France.

After displaying an early talent for drawing, she studied the history of Art and Design before deciding to pursue a full-time career as an artist in pastels.

Since her entrance into the world of pastels, she has been doing portraits, landscapes, and seascapes. Eventually, she discovered the subject that has brought her the greatest fame and acclaim: the female figure.

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Abstract painter

Professional artist from Saint Petersburg, Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская is a prolific painter.

She has created more than 1000 canvases.

Marina Podgaevskaja graduated from the Higher Art School in 1983 with a degree in "interior designer", in 1998 - the school-studio at the old painting techniques.

Remedios Varo | Surrealist painter

Remedios Varo’s paintings combine Surrealist influences with a distinctive style that evokes mystical or eerie adventures.

She had a life philosophy of non-conformity and a personal story marked by dislocation and tumult.

During her childhood in Spain, Varo was influenced by her engineer father, who taught her to draw, and her strict Catholic schooling, against which she rebelled.

Kim Starr, 1956 | Romantic Realism painter

Kim Starr, American painter, is the preeminent painter of Romantic Realism.

Her meticulous attention to detail, combined with the artistic sensitivity of earlier masters, results in contemporary works of unparalleled beauty.

For much of her life as a painter, Kim Starr created her art in serene and beautiful villages on the islands of Kauai and Maui.

Leonora Carrington | Surrealist painter

Leonora Carrington, (1917-2011), British-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer, known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy and the occult.

Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate called Crookhey Hall.

Alice Bailly | Cubist painter

Alice Bailly (1872-1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement.

In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris where she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia and Marie Laurencin, avant-garde modernist painters who influenced her works and her later life.

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.

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!

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.

Dorothy Spangler, 1928 | Parisienne walkways

Inspired by the great impressionist masters, Dorothy Spangler paints enchanting European scenes.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothy Spangler has spent most of her life in Northern California, which provides a perfect environment for her love of color and light.

After graduating from the College of San Mateo with a major in art, she studied for several years under the distinguished California plein-air painter, William Ward of Los Altos.

Kathryn Trotter | Impressionist painter

Having been nurtured by a family deeply immersed in art, interiors, fashion, travel, and other diverse creative pursuits, Kathryn Trotter’s artistry is inspired by a lifetime steeped in beauty and adventure.

Kathryn Morris Trotter, a native Mississippian, claims that painting is her greatest passion.

After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Trotter had an innate curiosity about life, travel, and the ineffable creative world.

Her passion propelled her ventures into the corporate world of fashion, interiors and textile design, which have been highly influential in her subject and style of painting.

D. Eleinne Basa, 1967 | Tonalist painter

D. Eleinne Basa is an Award Winning American Landscape painter represented by several Galleries across the United States.

A Classically trained artist, Basa began painting at the young age of 8.

Her early training still influences her as it is when she is painting "en plein air" that she is brought back to a time in her childhood when "painting was pure and comes from someplace deep within".