Beatriz Martin Vidal, 1973 | Surrealist illustrator

Beatriz Martin Vidal was born in Valladolid, Spain.

After studying law for a time and then Fine Arts and Illustration in Bologna, Italy, she now works in her home city as a prize-winning fine artist and illustrator.

She has had several exhibitions of painting and has recently illustrated Ovid s Metamorphoses and a book of classic Russian tales, published in Spain.

Gernot Rasenberger, 1943 | Cityscape painter

Gernot Rasenberger was born in Frankfurt Germany, the grandson of the great 19th Century painter Alfred Rasenberger. Gernot studied at the Fine Art Academy in Dusseldorf where he graduated with honors.

He painted in the traditional “Dusseldorfer” school, a style that his grandfather was one of the founders.

Rasenberger traveled extensively throughout Europe and America and has had many exhibitions throughout the world.

He is well known in Europe for his paintings of Landscapes and river scenes. Today the artist lives with his family on the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain.

Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) | Nabi Painter

Félix Vallotton was a Franco-Swiss painter of portraits, figures, interiors and landscapes, wood-engraver, lithographer, sculptor and writer.

Born in Lausanne. Went to Paris in 1882 and studied at the Académie Julian under J. Lefebvre. Repaired and copied Old Master paintings; admired Holbein, Poussin and Ingres.

Concentrated mainly on wood-engraving 1891-1897, primarily portraits and scenes from everyday life treated with sardonic humour.

Kate Powell, 1995 | Symbolist painter / Illustrator

Kate Louise Powell is an illustrator and animal rights activist originally from Halifax, West Yorkshire, currently based in Glasgow.

After drawing recreationally her whole life, Kate started to take her artistic career more seriously in 2012 and produced a number of popular illustrations with the reoccurring motifs of flowers and butterflies.

Since then she has experimented with photography, mixed media and paint, but still works mostly in pencil/coloured pencil and black ink.

Paul Signac | Art Quotes

"Of the three primary colors, the three binary ones are formed.

If you add to one of these the primary tone that is its opposite, it cancels it out. This means that you produce the required half-tone.

Therefore, adding black is not adding a half-tone, it is soiling the tone whose true half-tone resides in this opposite me have just described. Hence the green shadows found in red.

The heads of the two little peasants. The yellow one had purple shadows; the redder and more sanguine one had green ones".