Colin Fraser, 1956 | Egg tempera painter

Colin Fraser has long been established as one of the world's leading egg tempera painters.

Colin Fraser is a contemporary Scottish-born painter known for his detailed still lifes, landscapes, and interiors.

Fraser's use of egg-tempera gives his work a light-filled, translucent quality unequaled in other mediums, it is notoriously hard to control and seldom used by contemporary artists.

"It's a medium fraught with technical difficulties, but therein lies its charm.

François Pagé, 1962 | Conceptual painter

François Pagé was born in Tours where he currently lives.

He defines himself as a conceptual painter.

Pagé graduated with a degree in History of Art and finished a National Postgraduate Degree in Expression in Visual Arts at l'École de Beaux Arts de Tours.

He particularly admires the work of Gerhard Richter, a painter from former East Germany who was one of the first artists to examine society in his artwork.

Stylistically speaking, Pagé, who hates the idea of chance and limits the size of his canvases to the nearest cm2, is impossible to define.

Charles van Beveren | Romantic painter

Charles Van Beveren (1809-1850) was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most important colorists of his time.

Charles van Beveren, was a portrait, history and genre painter of the Romantic period, who spent much of his life in Amsterdam.

He was born at Mechlin in 1809, and studied art at the academy of his native city and at Antwerp.

He settled in Amsterdam in 1830, subsequently visiting Paris, Rome, and other cities of Italy, and distinguished himself as a painter of history, genre and portraits.

Paul Verlaine | Autumn Song / Chanson d'automne, 1866

The long sobs

Of violins

Of autumn

Wound my heart

With a monotone

Languor.

Vincent van Gogh | Autumn garden

Shara Hughes, 1981 | Surreal landscapes

Shara Hughes was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Shara Hughes earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

She describes her lush, vibrantly chromatic images of hills, rivers, trees and shorelines, often framed by abstract patterning, as "invented landscapes".