Inessa Morozova, 1981 | Plein air /Figurative painter

Inessa Morozova / Инесса Морозова is a plein air and figurative painter who was born in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine.

In 1998, she graduated from the Solntsevo Art school.

In 2004, she graduated from Humanitarian - Applied Institute, with the specialization "Designer of Small Shapes".

The favorite theme of her paintings are flowers and children.

Hans Hassenteufel | Figurative painter

The German painter Hans Hassenteufel (1887-1943) was born in 1887 in Hamburg and studied with Rudolf Zeller in Hamburg, at the Painting School Walter Thor in Munich and at the Munich Academy under Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck.

His favorite subjects were portraits, figures, landscapes and still lives.

Hassenteufel died in 1943 in Munich.

Angelo Asti | Pin-up Girls

Angelo Asti was an Italian painter, born in Milano in 1847 and died, relatively young in 1903, in Gorbio, Mentone - Italy.

Asti is known for his beautiful woman painted onto silks with Italian undertones.

Asti has also been deemed by some as an originator of the “Pin-up Girls”.

Asti immigrated to the United States in his thirties, where he first discovered his aptitude for illustration while working at a lithographic production facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Chung Shek | Ballet dancers

Chung Shekh is a talented Dutch artist living in London. Chung Shek became interested in art during early childhood in the Netherlands and is largely self-taught. He began selling professional artwork by the time he had reached his mid-twenties and was strongly inspired by old masters such as Vermeer, Ingres and Bouguereau.

David Agenjo, 1977 | Conceptual painter

Spanish-born artist David Agenjo is a self-taught artist living and working in London. After a brief career as a graphic designer, he now devotes himself entirely to painting. He has been exhibited in New York, London, Dublin and Madrid.

Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, he did not formally study fine art and has not become embroiled in an obsession with a conceptual avant-garde. Instead he is self-taught and self-supporting with his painting, a way of life he has been developing professionally for over eight years now.

William Henry Barribal | Vintage Art Déco painter

William Henry Barribal (1874-1952) was a London artist who began his career as a lithographer before going on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris.

By the turn of the 20th century, Barribal had become an accomplished painter and designer. He created a series of images that were used on First World War recruitment posters in Great Britain.

During the 1920s and 1930s he created a range of posters for the Schweppes advertising campaign and in 1921 he was contracted to work for Waddingtons, producing work that was used for posters and later a series of playing cards, these works being keenly sought after today.

His bold Art Déco posters designed in 1920s and 1930s for the London and North Eastern Railway are also well known.

Xiao Song Jiang, 1955 | En plein air /Palette Knife painter

Chinese-born Canadian painter Xiao Song Jiang (姜小松) was born in 1955, in Wuhan, China. In 1978 he studied fine arts at the China Academy of Art, formerly the Zhejiang Art Academy, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1982, then began lecturing watercolor at the City of Wuhan Construction College. Four years after, Song was selected to further develop his skill at the provincial Hubei Art Academy. During his time there, he accumulated years of experience, painting, sketching, and working for a refined grasp of color and technique.

Alexander Shandor, 1981 | En plein air / Still life painter

Александр Шандор was born in Ukraine, city Vinogradov, Transcarpathian region.

He studied at the Uzhgorod College of Arts named after Erdeli for metal processing department.

During his studies he studied with teachers - V. V. Petretsky, O. B. Lukach, M. Mihaylyuk.

Member of many Ukrainian and international exhibitions and plein air.

Дмитрий Кустанович /Dmitry Kustanovich, 1970

Dmitry Kustanovich /Дмитрий Кустанович is a Belarusian -born artist that currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

The technique has elements of the impressionism, expressionism, primitive art, conceptual art.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Kustanovich see Dmitry Kustanovich, 1970 | Impressionist Palette Knife painter.

Sir John Lavery R.A. | The Glasgow School of Art

One of Ireland’s leading society portraits painters of the last century, Belfast-born Sir John Lavery R.A. (1856-1941)* was orphaned as a child and sent to school in Scotland, later attending the Glasgow School of Art. Following a commission to paint Queen Victoria’s visit to the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888, he then moved to London as a highly successful society painter. Following the beginnings of the War of Independence, he and his wife became close friends of the Irish delegates to the Treaty talks in London, entertaining Michael Collins and his co-signatories during 1921.

Francesco Di Marino | Impressionist Street Scene painter

Francesco Di Marino (Napoli, 1892-1954), è stato un pittore Italiano di scene di genere, di vedute animate e di paesaggi costieri. 

Allievo di Cammarano e poi di Dalbono, Francesco Di Marino seguì fedelmente la tradizione del buon dipingere all’aria aperta, nella scia della concezione paesistica instaurata a Napoli dalla Scuola di Posillipo.  Così operando venne ad affiancarsi, oltre che ai suoi diretti maestri, a Casciaro, a Pratella, a Scoppetta, e poi a Galante, a De Corsi, a Villani, a Viti, affinando gradualmente i propri mezzi espressivi e giungendo a caratterizzare il suo lavoro per l’immediatezza della percezione, la genuinità del sentimento, la sicurezza esecutiva. Di Marino riusciva a trasferire sulla tela gli aspetti fugaci della natura e del paesaggio con una freschezza di sensazione e con un tocco morbido eppur corposo, che non fu di molti pittori.

Mathurin Janssaud | Genre painter

Mathurin Janssaud (1857-1940) was born in Manosque, Provence. Like many other painters, he lived and painted in Paris. But the reputation of Concarneau draws and before the First World War, he dropped his native Provence for changing skies of Brittany, which became his only source of inspiration. A Concarneau, it is the local color they are looking for.

What matters, and indeed for the artist in search of picturesque, genre scenes, characters typed, that the port of Cornwall! Everything is to do everything is to be painted. The sea, the sun at sunset, stormy skies, sails and men to the penalty or rest, women dressed busiest market, this whole life teeming offered to his eyes.

Maja Wronska, 1989 | Watercolor Cityscapes painter

Polish watercolor artist Maja Wronska is an architect and freelance illustrator. Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, Architecture faculty. Wronska continues to paint explosively colorful depictions of European architecture, most recently in Poznań, Poland.
She first renders each piece as a detailed drawing and then adds layers of watercolor, an unpredictable medium that can be difficult to control, making her paintings all the more incredible.

Krzysztof Ludwin, 1962 | Architectural watercolour painter

Kristof Ludwin /Krzysztof Ludwin was born in Krakow. In the years between 1981-1987 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Krakow and from 1987-1988 at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts.

For 11 years he lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Krakow in the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Constantin Kluge | Parisian street scenes

Constantin Kluge /Константин Константинович Клуге (1912-2003) was an French award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen.

He is known for his French landscapes and romantic scenes of Paris.

Constantin Kluge was born on January 29, 1912 in Riga, then a large industrial port city in the Russian Empire. Kluge was born into a family of means and some status.

His paternal grandfather had spent years in France studying the cultivation of vines and wine making. Returning to Russia he developed a successful winery. Kluge's father, also Constantin, was a member of the Russian Army General Staff and a White Army sympathizer.

Alfred Mira | Cityscape painter

Italian-born American painter Alfred S. Mira (1900-1980) and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. Born in 1900 in Sicily, Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to attend.

He did make a career out of painting though; he listed his address as East 8th Street and his occupation as painter in the 1940 census. And he sold his work at the Washington Square outdoor art exhibit, a heralded event decades ago.

Gino Piccioni (1873-1941)

Gino Piccioni [Foligno (Perugia) 1873 - Biella (Vercelli) 1941] è stato un pittore e scultore Italiano.

Poco nota l’attività di questo pittore che, dopo avere ricevuto la propria formazione a Roma, sotto la guida di A. Vertunni e R. Franzi, soggiornò a lungo in Germania. Dai cataloghi delle esposizioni si desume che dovette concentrare la sua produzione nell'arco di un quindicennio (1899-1912), misurandosi per lo più con temi di paesaggio, non estranei a toni di compiaciuto sentimentalismo.

Angiolo Tommasi | Macchiaioli Art Movement

Angiolo Tommasi (Livorno, 1858 - Torre del Lago Puccini, Lucca, 1923) was an Italian painter, active in the Macchiaioli movement. He was the brother of the painter Ludovico and cousin of the painter Adolfo Tommasi all three were influential for the arts in their native Tuscany in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. Angiolo painted both genre and landscape themes. The second of the five brothers, Angiolo was born in Livorno.

Akira Tanaka | Abstract Figurative painter

Akira Tanaka /田中阿喜良年譜 (1918-1982) is a Japanese figurative painter who mainly worked in France. We owe him in particular numerous scenes describing the daily life of the Parisians, his main source of inspiration.

Born in Osaka in 1918, Tanaka studied at the School of Fine Arts of Kyoto (1943) before settling permanently in France in 1959 (in direct line with other Japanese artists such as Tsuguharu Foujita or Takanori Oguiss). Starting in 1955, he participates in several exhibitions (in Japan, United States, Australia as well as New Zealand) and receives in 1957 the 1st Prize of the Japanese critics («Grand Shell Prize») and the Grand Prize of the Kodobijutsu show.

Trent Gudmundsen, 1978 | En plein air painter

Raised in a small farming town in eastern Utah, American painter Trent Gudmundsen spent his childhood surrounded by people who worked hard and lived simply, and he was driven from an early age to record his impressions of life in paint.

With little training to go on, he would confidently head out into the pastures and hills near his house to paint whenever he got the chance.

The artist feels indebted to VaLoy Eaton, an award-winning* landscape artist who guided Gudmundsen's passion, and introduced him to the works of various master painters of the past and present.

Jan Rijlaarsdam | Paris painting

Jan Rijlaarsdam (1911-2008) was born in Nieuwkoop, Holland in 1911. He started painting as a young man having attended the Amsterdam Academy of Art. For many years he lived in Hilversum and is regarded as belonging to the "Het Gooi" Artist's Association and the "Het Gooi" school of art. Student of A.G. Hulshof Pol, a wellknown painter and art teacher 1883-1957. Rijlaarsdam also spent a considerable amount of time in Belgium and France. The buildings and street life of Paris were of particular interest to him.

Ingrid Christensen | Figurative Impressionist painter

Award winning and professional oil painter artist, Ingrid Christensen, was born and raised in Golden, a small town in British Columbia, Canada. She studied art and English at UBC in Vancouver and received an Education degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and, for a time, taught in the public school system. But art was always Ingrid's primary passion, and she quit teaching in order to pursue it wholeheartedly.

Jordi Feliu, 1952 | Abstract painter

Jordi Ezquerra Feliu was born in Barcelona, Spain and currently lives in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Architect graduated from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Jordi Feliu received bachelor's and master's degree in Fine Art in The Savannah College of Art and Design.

His works participated in 98 group exhibitions and 11 personal exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

In 2003 he established the "Art and Art Gallery", where he works with paintings in galleries, companies and private collectors.

Feliu is considered an experimental artist and creates his works with great versatility from the use of various techniques and styles.

Ingrid Tusell, 1978 | Surrealist painter

Ingrid Tusell is an artist who was born in Barcelona and is now living in an old restored mill in the mountainous terrain of Teruel, Spain.

Ingrid paints women who are reminiscent of strong female indigenous warriors.

Their frozen, intense gaze permeates a sense of "otherworldly" knowledge and feminine universal energy.

Often riddled with animal and plant life, Ingrid’s female subjects meld within their environments allowing them to have a symbiotic connection to nature. Ingrid’s heroines are not only eco-warriors at heart but spiritual mystics in soul.

Nino Chakvetadze, 1971 | Children painter

Nino Chakvetadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received art degrees from Nikoladze Art Institute (1986-1990) and Tbilisi State Academy of Art on the faculty of painting (1990-1996). And become a member of Georgian Painters’ Union in 1997.

Dao Hai Phong, 1965 | Landscape painter

Vietnamese painter Dao Hai Phong, the son of the well-known artist Dao Duc, studied at the Hanoi College of Film and Theater from 1982-1987 and won an award for his outstanding designs at the Vietnam Film Festival. His main medium is oil on canvas. Although he had painted as a hobby from the age of six, it was only after his graduation that Phong started to focus on developing his unique painting style.

Andy Scott | The Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland

The Kelpies are 30-metre high horse-head sculptures, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. The sculptures form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. The Kelpies are a monument to horse powered heritage across Scotland.

Thomas Schaller, 1956 | Architecture in Watercolor

"There is a universe of possibility that spans the distance between what we look at and what we see.

And in that space is our experience of the world.

This is what I try to paint - the experience of seeing my world - from perspectives both external and from within.

And as such, dreams, memories, and pure imagination are every bit as valid as is anything that can be physically observed" - Thomas Schaller.

Following a 20-year career in New York City as an architect and architectural artist, Tom Schaller is now based in Los Angeles, California where he devotes himself full-time to artwork in the watercolor medium.

He has long been considered one of the foremost architectural artists in the world. In the field, he has won every major award for his artwork - including being a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize.

Alan King, 1952 | Massurrealism Art Movement

Alan King was born in Greenwich, South East London. His current style of artwork only really developed in 1999 when he decided to experiment with combining photography with his geometric illusionary pieces with the aid of computer software. His contemporary Surreal style was soon recognised and he was invited to join the Massurrealism Movement in 2004.

James Gwynne | Figurative painter

An award-winning artist, Dr. James Gwynne is a professor of visual arts at County College of Morris, who discovered his talents through chance and circumstance.

He initially attended college thinking he would become a doctor. When he took a drawing class during his first year of college, however, he knew he needed to switch majors.

"I knew from then on that art was my passion and I had to follow it", says Gwynne.

Don Hatfield, 1947 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Don Hatfield, who born and lives in Napa, California, is one of the most innovative Impressionists of our time. His style of painting softly blends figures of realism with the gentle touch of classic impressionism. Don strives to create paintings that bond themselves to the viewer. In the vein of Romantic Impressionism.

He shows the viewer that beauty can arise from one stirring moment; a family reunion, a young boy searching for shells on the beach or the warmth of the sun touching a mother and her child. His paintings carry light and form to a new and extremely personal degree.

Julian Alden Weir | Tonalist painter

Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading American impressionist, was born in West Point, New York. He was the son of Robert Weir, a drawing instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and half-brother of John Weir, first director of the art program at Yale University.

He took art classes at the National Academy of Design before traveling to Paris in 1873 to study under the noted French Academician Jean-Léon Gérôme and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

After trips to the Netherlands and Spain between 1873-1877, and summers spent painting in French villages, Weir returned to New York and took a studio near Washington Square, where many of his contemporaries also resided. On a second trip to Europe in 1880, Weir won an honorable mention at the Paris Salon.

John Henry Twachtman | Tonalist painter

John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) was born in Cincinnati to German immigrants.

Among the various jobs that Frederick Twachtman took to support his family was that of window shade decorator, work that young Twachtman also assumed when he was fourteen years old.

Concurrently, John Twachtman attended classes at the Ohio Mechanics Institute.

After 1871 he was enrolled part-time in the McMicken School of Design, where he met Frank Duveneck.