Rolf Armstrong | Pin-up painter

Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960) was born in Bay City, Michigan to Richard and Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. Armstrong's work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926.
A year later, he was the best selling calendar artist at Brown and Bigelow.
In 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and in 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.
Rolf Armstrong died in 1960 on the island of Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best "pin-up" artists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Silvia Pelissero, 1991 | Pop Surrealism / Watercolor painter

Silvia Pelissero is an Italian* watercolour portrait artist with a sort of abstract style, best known as Agnes Cecile. She went in an art high school in Rome, than she has continued as a self-taught. Her influence on a huge number of people, artists and fans, is even more incredible considering the fact she was born in 1991.

Ann Hardy | Impressionist painter | Still lifes

Ann Hardy’s studio is in a treehouse. She has a small gallery/office in a separate building on her property.
Her home is a small, wonderful stucco and rock building overlooking a tributary of water. The large room has a four sided fire place in middle of room with kitchen, eating, TV, and conversation center around the fireplace.

She planned and built all three. Through understanding this, you can see that she is very much an independent thinker and is in touch with her inner child. For Ann, life is fun and focused and hopefully balanced. All subject matter is included in Ann’s work, with an emphasis on still life. She uses a lot of transparent glazes and heavy opaque in a painting.

Angela Sekerak | Impressionist painter

Inclined toward art since a young age, American painter🎨 Angela Burns (née Sekerak) studied representational art at Pensacola Christian College.

While there, she spent a rigorous six years painting under the mentorship of Brian Jekel. Through her training, she was exposed to the great masters of oil painting: John Singer Sargent🎨, Joaquín Sorolla🎨, Cecilia Beaux and the American Impressionists, who have had a profound influence on her work.

Angela also gleans inspiration from modern masters including Daniel Gerhartz🎨, Richard Schmid🎨, Nancy Guzik🎨 and many others.

Ambrosius Benson (1495-1550)

A painter of religious compositions and portraits, Benson was active in the Low Countries but was of Italian origin.

The first information on the artist dates from 1518 when he became a citizen of Bruges.

The following year he was registered as an independent master in the painters and decorators’ guild in hat city, whose records state that he was originally from Lombardy. Benson first worked as an assistant in the workshop of Gerard David who exercised an important influence over his style and against whom he initiated a court case.