Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Mediterranean paysages

Anatoly Metlan was born in Yalta, a southern Ukranian city.

He developed an interest in art at a young age, and was encouraged by his parents who also had a love of art.

His talents were recognized and he attended a high school specializing in the arts.

He graduated high school in 1985 and went to Krivoi Rog University to continue his art studies.

Pier Toffoletti, 1957 | Splash painter

Pier Toffoletti is an Italian painter🎨 from the province of Udine.

Pier's passion for art was obvious from a very early age, and his family quickly realized he had inherited his grandfather's artistic talent.

The term splash signi_es a splotch, a drop, a spot but it also means to highlight something through a gush of a substance to underscore the arrival of an astonishing event.

Gabriel Pacheco, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Gabriel Pacheco is an Mexican painter🎨 and illustrator, known for working in the Surreal Visionary style.

Born in the City of Mexico in 1973, Gabriel studied scenography at the National Fine Arts Academy.

He has given several design workshops at the ENAP and illustration courses for children books in Mexico, Italy and Spain.

He began his career as an illustrator when his sister asked him to illustrate a story for her.

David Park | Figurative Expressionist painter

American painter David Park (1911-1960) was a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.

David Park was part of the post-World War II alumnae of the San Francisco Art Institute which was called the California School of Fine Arts at the time.

He revived an interest in figurative art, at first experimenting with still-abstracted forms that relied on color for their impact, dynamics and warmth.

Alexandre Renoir, 1974 | Impressionist painter

French painter🎨 Alexandre Renoir is the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨.

Alexandre Renoir was born in Cagnes Sur Mer in the south of France.

When he was 4, the family moved to Canada, but even after leaving France, as the great-grand son of the great French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alexandre grew-up surrounded by art and artists.