Willem Haenraets ~ Floral Still Life

Willem Haenraets 1940 is an Hollandaise painter. - "I was born in Heerlen, which is a town in the south of the Netherlands. When I was sixteen, I started my education at the City Acadamy at Maastricht. After I graduated, I was awarded a scolarship to study at the Belgium National Institute for Fine Arts at Antwerp and I became a student of Professor Sarina (Atelier Opsomer) and Professor Vaarten. During my life I exhibitioned successfully in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. Since three years I live with my wife Thea in Spain, in the vicinity of Alicante".

Willem Haenraets ~ The Idyllic Garden

Willem Haenraets 1940, is an Hollandaise painter, known for the Plein-air watercolors street scenes. With soft colors, the artist conjures up a romantic world of beautiful illusion on his canvasses in the Impressionist style.

Mustafa Özbakir, 1982

Mustafa Özbakir, Turkish painter, was born in Adana. He graduated from the workshop of Cebrail Ötgün in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mersin University in 2005. In the same year, he won a merit award in the 66th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. In 2006, he received first prize in the Second Painting Competition, which was held in the name of mayor in Ümraniye. In 2008, he received a merit award in the 69th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. Currently, Özbakır continues to paint at his workshop in Adana.

Carl Heinrich Bloch | Post-Romantic painter

Carl Heinrich Bloch (May 23, 1834 - February 22, 1890) was a Danish painter.

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and studied with Wilhelm Marstrand at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) there.

Bloch's parents wanted their son to enter a respectable profession - an officer in the Navy.

This, however, was not what Carl wanted.

Kay Ruane, 1956 | Outside the window

Kay Ruane is an American painter.

For years I've been drawing figures inside a room with micro landscapes out the windows. I think of the drawings as dioramas, or tiny graphite worlds.

At first these drawings were formal in imagery, as well as strictly black and white. Recently, I'm paying a lot more attention to details like the kind of flower, the title of a book on the table or a painting on the wall.

I want these details to relate to specific themes in each drawing, with a dose of humor and sexuality.