John Atkinson Grimshaw (British painter, 1836-1893)

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds, his father was a policeman, and he started work as a railway clerk. His parents were opposed to his taking up art as a career. Grimshaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in his youth produced vivid, highly finished landscapes.

Gradually, Grimshaw developed his own highly distinctive style, and subject matter. He became a consummate painter of twilight, night time, and autumnal scenes. Grimshaw spent holidays at Scarborough, and many of his pictures were set there, and in Whitby.

He also painted nocturnal harbour and dockside pictures. He spent some time in London.

Richard Blunt | Historia de un amor

- Born in Stourbridge in the West Midlands I had a happy but pretty average childhood for a kid growing up in the eighties.

My favourite place to be was outside but if I was ever inside I loved to be creative, especially with art and later on playing guitar and music.

On leaving school I went to art college to study 3D design and although I enjoyed the course, as with many teens I was easily distracted and became easily derailed.

I soon began to lose my way and eventually dropped out of art college early.

Sacha Baraz, 1940 | Mamá Africa

French painter Baraz Sacha, son of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants, was born in Paris, was a life whose content seems surreal to ordinary mortals.

Indeed, You have to live it to believe it. To date, Sacha Baraz worked on three periods: surreal, figurative, and now it is in an abstract phase.
Discover Baraz Sacha and his work, is a human adventure like no other. It is a living crossroads of cultures, rare, buried and disparate. It is the expression by the materialization of images and colors of all shapes and kinds of lives.

How not to succumb to so much talent and wealth of the mind? We don 'fate as they came. This is a free and strong spirit in a world where imitation and the standardization of tastes, choices, desires are measures undertaken by the law of the dominant business.

Giampaolo Ghisetti, 1944 | Magic realism painter

Giampaolo Ghisetti, Italian painter🎨, approached painting toward the 50s. In the 60s he takes part in many art exhibitions together with other artists achieving nominees and prizes🎨.

At that time he moves to Murano where he begins his glass decoration activity. Well known for his ability, he receives commissions to portrait very important cultural from all over the world.

At the same time Ghisetti assiduously works on his main art: oil painting on canvas. In 1970 the Academy of Saint Andrea in Rome awards him a Golden Medal🎨 certificate for his great artistic qualities.

Michiel Schrijver, 1957 | Surreal architecture painter

"Travel fuels the imagination" is a variant on an old saying which certainly applies to Michiel Schrijver. Painting is a form of travel for him, after all. And the way it amazes him is a great motivation to paint. Amazement at everything he discovers en route in his inner world, becaust that is what appears in his paintings.

The paintings of Michiel Schrijver give us the opportunity to travel through his world.

We are taken into his inner world where people play a minor role in an often overwhelming architecture.

A minor role but of certain importance. Moreover, you always feel the presence of the sea in his paintings.