Mariusz Lewandowski

Mariusz Lewandowski è nato nel 1931 a Dzialdowo. Fin dall'infanzia ha sentito la necessità di creare. Nel 1975 dipinse il suo primo quadro ad olio. Da allora, inizia a prendere parte attiva all'aria aperta e varie mostre. Oggi i suoi quadri rappresentano l'orgoglio di molti collezionisti, sia in patria che all'estero.

Eser Afacan, 1953 | Figurative painter

Eser Afacan is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian ethnicity.

His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin.

Afacan began drawing at a young age.

Eser Afacan, Turkish painter, studied in Manchester, England before moving to Norway in 1978 to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bergen.

Isabelle Sauvineau, 1965 | Pop Art painter

French painter Isabelle Sauvineau studied nursing during her time spent at Cegep in Granby.

She later started working in the fashion industry where she stayed for 5 years.

After the birth of her two children Sauvineau’s passion for painting emerged.

It’s with enthusiasm and confidence that she launched herself down a new career path, in the visual arts.

Ibe Onyeka, 1971 | Abstract painter

Nigerian-born American painter Ibe Onyeka has achieved international recognition for his dramatic approach to painting.

Described as one of the most exciting young painters to emerge from Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s, he was awarded “The Best SOLO Artist of the Year 2006” at the International Artexpo New York.

Ibe looks for inspiration in “natural and humanistic traditions of contemporary realism and abstraction”.

Christian Deberdt | Fantasy painter

Deberdt (1947-2011) began his career studying printmaking and graphic arts at the Gametta Printing School and the Estienne Graphic Art School in Paris, followed by a stint as an illustrator on the popular comic strip Asterix.

In 1966, at the age of 18, with four years of experience in the graphic arts field, Deberdt decided to leave Paris and to start a new life in Montreal where his eldest brother was already established.

Itching for adventure, Deberdt left Paris in 1968 for North America where, for the next seven years, he traveled extensively across Canada and the United States, absorbing the incredible landscapes.

Scott Harding, 1965

Scott Harding was born in San Antonio, Texas.

His passion for art began at an early age when he spent much of his time drawing.

His need to draw continued through his school years, often getting him in trouble when his teachers caught him sketching in class.

After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree through the Honors Painting Program at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1989, Harding moved to Chicago and began a professional career in illustration.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman | Orientalist painter

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects.

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician.

He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864-65, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art Association and at the National Academy of Design.

Bob Stroody ~ Digital landscapes

Stroody (Bob) is a British digital painter, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator of the UK. Pictures Bob's full of magical beauty and fabulousness and performed at the highest professional level.

Dino Valls, 1959 | Surrealist painter

Having previously obtained a degree in medicine, he is now one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art.

His painting, elaborating and expanding the methods of past masters, centers on the human psyche by using figurative techniques only as a formal support in which to project a conceptual content laden with profound psychic weight, where the most obscure pulsations develop in a symbolic process of intellectualism.

His first one-man exhibition was received in Zaragoza in 1981. The following year he was awarded the San Jorge First Place Award in Painting, after receiving his degree in medicine and surgery in 1982, he decided to devote himself exclusively to painting; the kind of painting which would be influenced by the humanistic perspective that brought about the study of man.

This kind of attitude is reminiscent of the creative climate of the Renaissance.

Roberto Ferri, 1978

Roberto Ferri is an Italian painter who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters (Caravaggio in particular) and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy and Symbolism.

Ferri was born in Fontanaviva, Taranto, Italy in 1978.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Roberto Ferri see Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter.

Katherine Stone, 1986 | Realist painter

Katherine Stone’s approach to art is traditional with an emphasis on technique and fine craftsmanship.

She uses chiaroscuro and other traditional techniques to diffuse hard edges and create dramatic light effects.

Stone also incorporates symbolic objects into her compositions—including skulls, dead birds, flowers, and books—which allude to the passage of time, life and death, and decay and regeneration.

In the past few years she has won First Place and People’s Choice in the biannual Portrait Society of Canada Portrait Competition, First Place in the Still Life Category in the international ARC Salon, and has placed in half a dozen international art competitions including the prestigious ARC International Salon.

Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter | VideoArt

Burmese artist Aung Kyaw Htet paints detailed Buddhist figures on expressionistic and sometimes ethereal backgrounds.
With a strong emphasis on the figurative and facial expressions in particular, he expertly combines color, line and form to achieve balanced compositions, as peaceful to experience as they are beautiful to look at.
For biographical notes and other works by Aung see:

• Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter ➻

Tadeusz Makowski | Cubist painter

Tadeusz Makowski [1882-1932] was a Polish painter who worked in France and was associated with the School of Paris.

From 1902-1906, he studied classical philology at the Jagiellonian University. During that time, he also began studying art at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer.

Upon completing his courses there in 1908, he moved to Paris, where he would live for the rest of his life.

Originally he painted in the style taught by his professors. Then, he painted some frescoes that attracted the attention of a group of Cubist painters, led by Henri Le Fauconnier, who worked in Montparnasse. This had a decisive influence on his work.

Karen Aghamyan, 1946

Karen Aghamyan is an armenian-born painter. Born in 1946 and President of the Artist's Union of Armenia since 1998. In 1969, he graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute and has been a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR since 1970. Since 1970 he has participated in more than 70 exhibitors, 11 of which were one-man shows. His pictures are property of museums of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, France and private collections in many countries of the world.

Ben Goossens, 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer

Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, Goossen's turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive Surrealism style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte.