Juan Soler, 1951 | Parisian Streets

Spanish painter Juan Alberto Soler Miret moved to Madrid very young and started in Art by himself.

As a result of his visits to the Museo del Prado he showed special interest in the work of Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer, Holbein and Dürer, from which it attracts not only the subject, but his mastery of technique and design.

He was also interested in artists as diverse as Botticelli, Salvador Dalì or Ingres, which will undoubtedly mark his later work.

Joseph Edward Southall | Arts and Craft Movement

Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) was an British painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen, one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists.

Jim Hansel, 1960 | Wildlife / Landscape painter

Jim Hansel was born in Chaska, MN. and began painting at the age of 15. He developed his artistic skills while attending the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a B.F.A. degree in commercial art in 1985.
In 1989, Hansel was a featured artist in the Courage Card Collection.
He was also a semi-finalist in the Minnesota Deer Hunter's Assn. print competition, several times, a finalist in the Colorado Duck Stamp Competition.

Makoto Muramatsu, 1947

Makoto Muramatsu / 村松誠, è un illustratore Giapponese, in special modo di gatti, ma anche di tanti altri animali.

Le espressioni dei suoi animali, un misto di umorismo e dolcezza deliziosamente fusi insieme, fanno riconoscere immediatamente lo stile di Muramatsu, non appena se ne sia visto uno.

Le sue tenere e buffe immagini hanno fatto il giro del mondo, soprattutto sotto forma di puzzle.

Muramatsu ha ricevuto molti premi e riconoscimenti per la sua opera di illustratore.

Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter | Still life

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin [1848-1903] was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist and writer. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.