Xiao Song Jiang, 1955 | En plein air /Palette Knife painter

Chinese-born Canadian painter Xiao Song Jiang (姜小松) was born in 1955, in Wuhan, China. In 1978 he studied fine arts at the China Academy of Art, formerly the Zhejiang Art Academy, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1982, then began lecturing watercolor at the City of Wuhan Construction College. Four years after, Song was selected to further develop his skill at the provincial Hubei Art Academy. During his time there, he accumulated years of experience, painting, sketching, and working for a refined grasp of color and technique.

Alexander Shandor, 1981 | En plein air / Still life painter

Александр Шандор was born in Ukraine, city Vinogradov, Transcarpathian region.

He studied at the Uzhgorod College of Arts named after Erdeli for metal processing department.

During his studies he studied with teachers - V. V. Petretsky, O. B. Lukach, M. Mihaylyuk.

Member of many Ukrainian and international exhibitions and plein air.

Дмитрий Кустанович /Dmitry Kustanovich, 1970

Dmitry Kustanovich /Дмитрий Кустанович is a Belarusian -born artist that currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

The technique has elements of the impressionism, expressionism, primitive art, conceptual art.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Kustanovich see Dmitry Kustanovich, 1970 | Impressionist Palette Knife painter.

Sir John Lavery R.A. | The Glasgow School of Art

One of Ireland’s leading society portraits painters of the last century, Belfast-born Sir John Lavery R.A. (1856-1941)* was orphaned as a child and sent to school in Scotland, later attending the Glasgow School of Art. Following a commission to paint Queen Victoria’s visit to the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888, he then moved to London as a highly successful society painter. Following the beginnings of the War of Independence, he and his wife became close friends of the Irish delegates to the Treaty talks in London, entertaining Michael Collins and his co-signatories during 1921.

Francesco Di Marino | Impressionist Street Scene painter

Francesco Di Marino (Napoli, 1892-1954), è stato un pittore Italiano di scene di genere, di vedute animate e di paesaggi costieri. 

Allievo di Cammarano e poi di Dalbono, Francesco Di Marino seguì fedelmente la tradizione del buon dipingere all’aria aperta, nella scia della concezione paesistica instaurata a Napoli dalla Scuola di Posillipo.  Così operando venne ad affiancarsi, oltre che ai suoi diretti maestri, a Casciaro, a Pratella, a Scoppetta, e poi a Galante, a De Corsi, a Villani, a Viti, affinando gradualmente i propri mezzi espressivi e giungendo a caratterizzare il suo lavoro per l’immediatezza della percezione, la genuinità del sentimento, la sicurezza esecutiva. Di Marino riusciva a trasferire sulla tela gli aspetti fugaci della natura e del paesaggio con una freschezza di sensazione e con un tocco morbido eppur corposo, che non fu di molti pittori.

Mathurin Janssaud | Genre painter

Mathurin Janssaud (1857-1940) was born in Manosque, Provence. Like many other painters, he lived and painted in Paris. But the reputation of Concarneau draws and before the First World War, he dropped his native Provence for changing skies of Brittany, which became his only source of inspiration. A Concarneau, it is the local color they are looking for.

What matters, and indeed for the artist in search of picturesque, genre scenes, characters typed, that the port of Cornwall! Everything is to do everything is to be painted. The sea, the sun at sunset, stormy skies, sails and men to the penalty or rest, women dressed busiest market, this whole life teeming offered to his eyes.

Maja Wronska, 1989 | Watercolor Cityscapes painter

Polish watercolor artist Maja Wronska is an architect and freelance illustrator. Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, Architecture faculty. Wronska continues to paint explosively colorful depictions of European architecture, most recently in Poznań, Poland.
She first renders each piece as a detailed drawing and then adds layers of watercolor, an unpredictable medium that can be difficult to control, making her paintings all the more incredible.

Krzysztof Ludwin, 1962 | Architectural watercolour painter

Kristof Ludwin /Krzysztof Ludwin was born in Krakow. In the years between 1981-1987 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Krakow and from 1987-1988 at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts.

For 11 years he lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Krakow in the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Constantin Kluge | Parisian street scenes

Constantin Kluge /Константин Константинович Клуге (1912-2003) was an French award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen.

He is known for his French landscapes and romantic scenes of Paris.

Constantin Kluge was born on January 29, 1912 in Riga, then a large industrial port city in the Russian Empire. Kluge was born into a family of means and some status.

His paternal grandfather had spent years in France studying the cultivation of vines and wine making. Returning to Russia he developed a successful winery. Kluge's father, also Constantin, was a member of the Russian Army General Staff and a White Army sympathizer.

Alfred Mira | Cityscape painter

Italian-born American painter Alfred S. Mira (1900-1980) and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. Born in 1900 in Sicily, Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to attend.

He did make a career out of painting though; he listed his address as East 8th Street and his occupation as painter in the 1940 census. And he sold his work at the Washington Square outdoor art exhibit, a heralded event decades ago.