Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape / Figurative painter

British painter🎨 Richard Macneil🎨 is a self taught artist who has always worked in the creative industry. Born in Worcester, UK in 1958, he started his working life at Worcester Royal Porcelain and has always worked in the fields of sculpture, ceramics and graphics both in the UK and internationally.

Richard spent many years in the USA where his company Bronn Fine Art, produced large, exclusive sculptures of American western art. One of his greatest achievements was seeing his artwork displayed in the Oval office of The White House.

Juliette Aristides, 1971 | Realist painter

American artist🎨 Juliette Aristides is a mid-career artist living in Seattle, Washington. She has studied at The National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Aristides is an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant recipient. Juliette Aristides is actively dedicated to rebuilding a traditional arts education in the United States.

She was an original member of the Water Street Atelier and currently teaches at The Seattle Academy of Fine Art, where she founded the award winning🎨 Classical Atelier Program.

Founder and instructor of the Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA, Aristides teaches workshops both nationally and internationally and is author of:

• Classical Drawing Atelier;
• Classical Painting Atelier;
• Lessons in Classical Drawing with Watson-Guptill, NY.

Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Realistic figurative painter

Cергей Маршенников was born in Ufa, Bashkiria, Russia. His grandfather was the general manager of a horse breeding company, his father, an electrical engineer and his mother was in pre-school education.

As long as he can remember, Serge was drawing, painting and sculpting from any material he could lay his hands on. His mother encouraged Serge to study and from early childhood he studied with private teachers and attended art studios.

After receiving several awards🎨 for his children’s watercolor and pastel paintings, Serge decided to become a professional painter.

In 1995 he finished the Ufa Art College and then continued education at one of the most prestigious art academies in the world, The Repin Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Camille Pissarro | Autumn at Eragny

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter.

His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter

Hendrik Goltzius, (born 1558, Mulebrecht, Neth. - died Jan. 1, 1617, Haarlem), printmaker and painter, the leading figure of the Mannerist school🎨 of Dutch🎨 engravers.

Through his engravings, he helped to introduce the style of such artists as Bartholomaeus Spranger🎨 and Annibale Carracci🎨 to the northern Netherlands.

Goltzius’s great-grandfather and grandfather were both painters, and his father was a stained-glass painter. He was taught the art by his father as a child and was then instructed in copperplate engraving by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert in Haarlem.

Goltzius’s marriage in 1579 to Margaretha Jansdr., a rich widow, enabled him to set up an independent business in Haarlem, where he spent the rest of his life except for a tour of Germany and Italy in 1590. Owing to his technical facility, he developed into one of the great masters of engraving in Holland.