Roman Lyapin /Роман Ляпин, 1966

Роман Ляпин born in Leningrad, Russia, is one of the brightest representatives of modern Italian art, whose works are in private collections in Spain, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, America, France, Canada and Japan.

Lyapin began his career in Leningrad, after which he moved to Italy and more than a decade taught at the local Accademia di Belle Art di Roma.

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape painter | Part. 2

With over 20 years of design experience in the creative industry, British painter Richard Macneil has enjoyed huge success and worldwide notoriety for his very distinctive style, composition and rich colour palette.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Macneil see:

• Richard Macneil, 1958 | Cityscape painter.

Vitaly Petrovsky /Виталий Петровский, 1975 | Cityscape painter

Russian painter Vitaly Petrovsky /Виталий Петровский was born in the city of Vinnitsa, Ukraine. He graduated from art school in the winery, and in 1990 the Kiev School of Industrial Art. 

Works in the genre of landscape, at least - portrait, still life. The main theme of his work - the urban landscape. The implementation of this work requires the artist accuracy. Multilayer technique. The storyline is simple and realistic.

Jacques Le Nantec, 1940 | Figurative Sculptor

Jacques Le Nantec, pseudonym of Jacques Métayer, is an artist, born in Nantes in 1940

At the age of 13 he started learning sculpture by himself while studying in secondary school - classical studies.

First one-man exhibition at 16, Galerie Peuple et Culture, Annecy, France.

Jane Eccles | Figurative Narrative painter

Jane Eccles is an British painter, known for working in the Figurative style.

'As a mature student, I studied art at Stroud Art College followed by Visual Arts at Cheltenham Art College, graduating with a first class honours degree in 1998. I live in beautiful, rural Herefordshire and work full time as a professional artist exhibiting both locally and nationally.

I specialise in figurative painting, working predominantly with oil on canvas. Increasingly, I have focused my work on narrative paintings'.

Cai Yushui, 1963 | Ink wash painter

Cai Yushui /蔡玉水 is born in Ji’nan, Shandong Province.

He is a professional painter in Beijing Fine Art Academy, a first-class artist in China, and a member of Chinese Artists Association.

He used to teach in Shandong University of Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), and Shandong University of Art Design.

From 1981-1985, Yushui Cai studied at the Art Department of Shandong University of Arts and remained their as a teacher after graduation.

He is specialized in Chinese inkwash painting, heavy variety and sketch.

Chris Maynard | Featherfolio art / L'arte delle piume

Chris Maynard is an American artist who creates delicate sculptural compositions using real feathers. Chris Maynard has worked with feathers since he was 12 years old but only began showing his work in 2010.

Chris Maynard combines his scientific knowledge, his artistic sense, and his love of feathers and life in a new art form. His message is one of beauty, appreciation of life-especially birds, and conservation. His inspiration originates mostly in his native northwestern United States though his themes appeal worldwide. He is a member of Artists for Conservation and a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. Maynard is represented by the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Kostas Rigoula Tsigris, 1954 | Symbolist /Figurative painter

Greek painter Kostas Rigoula - Tsigris /Κώστας Ρηγούλης - Τσίγκρης, was born at Megara. Began his studies at the Mathematics Department of the University of Athens but his love for the painting turned in other directions. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the teachers and D. Mitaras P. Tetsis.

In the early years of paintings dealt with almost all issues but mainly landscapes with scenes inspired by ancient sculptures and compositions where the dominant element was the human figure with realistic display.

Inessa Morozova, 1981 | Plein air /Figurative painter

Inessa Morozova / Инесса Морозова is a plein air and figurative painter who was born in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine.

In 1998, she graduated from the Solntsevo Art school.

In 2004, she graduated from Humanitarian - Applied Institute, with the specialization "Designer of Small Shapes".

The favorite theme of her paintings are flowers and children.

Hans Hassenteufel | Figurative painter

The German painter Hans Hassenteufel (1887-1943) was born in 1887 in Hamburg and studied with Rudolf Zeller in Hamburg, at the Painting School Walter Thor in Munich and at the Munich Academy under Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck.

His favorite subjects were portraits, figures, landscapes and still lives.

Hassenteufel died in 1943 in Munich.

Angelo Asti | Pin-up Girls

Angelo Asti was an Italian painter, born in Milano in 1847 and died, relatively young in 1903, in Gorbio, Mentone - Italy.

Asti is known for his beautiful woman painted onto silks with Italian undertones.

Asti has also been deemed by some as an originator of the “Pin-up Girls”.

Asti immigrated to the United States in his thirties, where he first discovered his aptitude for illustration while working at a lithographic production facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Chung Shek | Ballet dancers

Chung Shekh is a talented Dutch artist living in London. Chung Shek became interested in art during early childhood in the Netherlands and is largely self-taught. He began selling professional artwork by the time he had reached his mid-twenties and was strongly inspired by old masters such as Vermeer, Ingres and Bouguereau.

David Agenjo, 1977 | Conceptual painter

Spanish-born artist David Agenjo is a self-taught artist living and working in London. After a brief career as a graphic designer, he now devotes himself entirely to painting. He has been exhibited in New York, London, Dublin and Madrid.

Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, he did not formally study fine art and has not become embroiled in an obsession with a conceptual avant-garde. Instead he is self-taught and self-supporting with his painting, a way of life he has been developing professionally for over eight years now.

William Henry Barribal | Vintage Art Déco painter

William Henry Barribal (1874-1952) was a London artist who began his career as a lithographer before going on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris.

By the turn of the 20th century, Barribal had become an accomplished painter and designer. He created a series of images that were used on First World War recruitment posters in Great Britain.

During the 1920s and 1930s he created a range of posters for the Schweppes advertising campaign and in 1921 he was contracted to work for Waddingtons, producing work that was used for posters and later a series of playing cards, these works being keenly sought after today.

His bold Art Déco posters designed in 1920s and 1930s for the London and North Eastern Railway are also well known.

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.