Jack Vettriano | Fallen angels

Jack Vettriano (1951-2025) was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951.

After leaving school at 15, he followed his father down the mine, working as an apprentice engineer.

He later moved on to white-collar jobs in management services. Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his birthday and from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint.

He learned his craft by copying Old Masters, Impressionists, Surrealists and a plethora of Scottish artists.

John Currin, 1962 | Pop surrealism painter

American painter🎨 John Currin completed a BFA at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (1984) and an MFA at Yale University (1986).

In his paintings of single or coupled figures Currin confronts his own desires and subjectivity, however unsophisticated, as well as a certain view of painting as a medium that in the late 20th century has become inherently kitsch.

Elio Ferrara, 1945 | Genre painter

Elio Ferrara was born in Naples, Italy. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and then worked as a set designer at the Teatro San Carlo and the Teatro San Ferdinando with Eduardo De Filippo, then worked with the RAI and other broadcasters.

Meanwhile he continues his work as a painter who exercises since 1960 by joining the current of the new figuration, to address later his attention to the traditions and customs of his city, describing it with figurative language, customs.

His production is known to the world, he has a good market in America, Germany, France, Brazil; is also present in many public and private collections, embassies, art galleries, collections of famous artists, politicians and well-known professionals.

Arsen Kurbanov / Арсен Курбанов, 1969

Aрсен Курбанов was born in Mahachkala, Dagestan republic of Dagestan, in the USSR. His mother and father were artists as is his brother.

In 1988 he completed coursework at the Jamal Dagestan Art College, receiving a red diploma - a symbol of scholastic excellence. Kurbanov was immediately accepted into the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, where he studied with the late Neprintsov, graduating in 1994.

After graduating in 1994, Kurbanov exhibited his final artwork to the graduation committee and was accepted into the "Union of Russian Artists".

Evita Medina | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Evita Medina is an artist residing in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

From a young age she felt the need to paint as the best way to express what she could not count on with words.

There is therefore not a moment, a starting point in her life in which she decided to take the brushes, somehow they were always there, traveling the same way and being the reason for her existence.