Alexandra Nedzvetskaya, 1981

Александра Недзвецкая was born in St. Petersburg.

In 1999 finished the Academic lyceum at the Academy of Arts.

In 2006 finished the Academy of Arts, faculty of painting, portrait painting workshop of prof. V.V. Sokolov.

2006 to 2009 - postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting.

Since 2007 - a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

State scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture, RF 2012.

Winner of the Muses of St. Petersburg grant competition in 2008.

Laureate of the First International Christmas Ballet Festival, art competition "Nutcracker" - II degree diploma, 2006.

Diploma-recipient of the International Forum "Youth and Society - Meeting Each Other", LENEXPO, St. Petersburg, 2007.

Laureate of the Russian competition "Modern Academic drawing" - Diploma of the 1st degree, 2009.

Diploma-recipient of the exhibition "Young Artists of Russia" Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2010.

Member of the Youth Salon. Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2013.

Participant of the Russian exhibition "Russia - XII" Moscow, Central House of Artists, 2014.

2015 - Winner of the competition "Plein air on large formats", Furge, France (Forges, Haute-Normandie, France).

2014 - permanent participant in exhibitions in France with the support of the Russian-French association.

Permanent participant in annual exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.

Permanent participant of collective exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Works are in private collections in Europe and America.

Александра Недзвецкая è nata a San Pietroburgo, in Russia

Nel 1999 ha terminato il liceo accademico presso l'Accademia delle Arti.

Nel 2006 termina l'Accademia delle Belle Arti, facoltà di pittura, laboratorio di ritrattistica del prof. V.V. Sokolov.

Dal 2006 al 2009 - studi post-laurea presso il Dipartimento di Pittura.

Dal 2007 - membro dell'Unione degli artisti russi. Titolare di borsa di studio statale del Ministero della Cultura.

Vincitore del concorso per borse di studio Muse di San Pietroburgo nel 2008;

Vincitore del Primo Festival Internazionale del Balletto di Natale, concorso artistico "Lo Schiaccianoci" - diploma di II grado, 2006;

Diplomata al Forum internazionale “Gioventù e società - Incontrarsi", LENEXPO, San Pietroburgo, 2007;

Vincitore del concorso russo "Disegno accademico moderno" - Diploma di 1° grado, 2009;

Destinataria del diploma della mostra "Giovani artisti della Russia" Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2010.;

Membro del Salone della Gioventù. Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2013.;

Partecipante alla mostra russa "Russia - XII" Mosca, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, 2014.

2015 - Vincitore del concorso "Plein air sui grandi formati", Furge, Francia (Forges, Alta Normandia, Francia).

2014 - partecipante permanente a mostre in Francia con il sostegno dell'associazione russo-francese.

Partecipante permanente alle mostre annuali dell'Unione degli artisti di San Pietroburgo.

Partecipante permanente a mostre collettive in Russia ed all'estero.;

Le opere sono in collezioni private in Europa ed America.

Lavely Miller, 1978

Lavely Miller paints portraits that narrate the effects of trauma, exploring visual cues that speak to loss, suffering, recovery and salvation.

Physically still, her figures exist in moments of emotional action, their frequently direct gazes challenge the viewer’s attention.

This sense of movement is translated through transparent layers of glazes, sometimes upward of 100 separate applications of color combining to create the final surface.

Gideon Börje (1891-1965)

Gustav Gideon Börje was a Swedish painter.

Gideon Börje studied at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm and worked gainfully for a few years, at the same time he conducted evening studies in croki at Wilhelmson's painting school.

He was persuaded by Eric Hallström to devote himself to painting seriously and the two then worked together for a time, including in a joint studio on Kungsholmen.

They also exhibited together in 1918 in Arturo Ciacelli's art gallery on Strandvägen in Stockholm.

Tomás Sánchez, 1948 | The Enchanting Forests

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban Master.

His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist is not so much the recreation of reality as it is displaying the magnificence of a lyrical universe.

Tomás Sánchez, born in Cuba in 1948, invents richly spiritual images of nature in his art.

Sánchez graduated in 1971 in National Art School, Cuba.

Tomás Sánchez was awarded the 1st prize of Drawing for Young Artists in the National Exhibition of Arts.

Hanie Soltani, 1992

Born in Iran, Hanie Soltani is an representational figurative painter based in Tehran.

She earned an MFA in painting from Tehran University, faculty of fine arts.

She pursued her further training on her own, and taking part in many courses under supervision of contemporary figurative painters; Zoey Frank, Vincent Desiderio, and Alex Kanevsky.

Paul Schulenburg, 1957

After receiving a gold medal from the National Scholastic Art Awards in 1975, Paul attended Boston University School of Fine Arts.

Contrary to the trends of that time, Boston University provided an educational foundation that emphasized the fundamentals of classical art training: anatomy and form, color, composition and draftsmanship.

His professors included Joseph Ablow, David Aronson, and John Wilson.

He received his BFA degree in painting in 1979.

Mara Light, 1970

Mara Light was born in New York, and raised in Southern California from the age of three.

She comes from a family of visual artists.

"Painting seemed very natural to me since my early years growing up", says Mara.

She considers herself extremely fortunate to have been given the opportunity to be around parents who look at the world in an artistic, visual way.

She was encouraged, and at times pushed, to make her very personal artistic expression part of her life.

AnnaMaria Lindholm Rogberg, 1972

AnnaMaria Lindholm was born in Stockholm.

- "I have been painting since childhood and exhibiting since the age of 20.

Have attended different Art Schools over a period of 4 years.

Paint in oil and inspires by my daughters and our daily lives together".

Vishma Maharaj, 1984 | Fantasy dress | Ai Art

Vishma Maharaj, who goes by the name Whizical Mermaid, is an American multimedia artist who creates art assisted by Artificial Intelligence.

"Born and raised in the Northern Mountains of Trinidad, I spent my years chasing after chickens goats ducks and rabbits. While running through the thick forest canopies.

We spent our summer vacations at the beaches that are blue for miles.

I was that little girl running down the sea shore tossing Star fishes making wishes.

Vincenzo Sguera, 1950

- "When 18 years old, in 1968, I joined the Architecture Faculty of Florence (Italy) and graduated with the maximum in 1977.

In those 9 years in Florence I alternated study and work, as an artist, advertising illustrator, comics designer and advertising art director.

Once the obligations of military service and University were fulfilled, I opened a Studio for advertising, illustration, fashion and product design, then entering into business with the company "NEXT" in 1982".

Dave Coulter | Cityscape painter

Dave Coulter is a British artist who specializes in cityscapes.

As part of the Northern Art movement, his particular focus is on painting the streets of Manchester and Salford.

In his paintings, he captures the dynamic movement of the multifaceted cities that have been the inspiration for many painters before him.

Dave Coulter is, in essence, as much a part of the North as the scenes he paints.

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers and foliage, with children.

He was a cousin of James Hornell. His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel.

Hornel was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, of Scottish parents, and he was brought up and lived practically all his life in Scotland after his family moved back to Kirkcudbright in 1866.

Karl Wilhelm Bauerle (1831-1912)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle - (also: Carl Bauerle/Bowerley) - (1831-1912) was a German painter who achieved international fame as a portrait painter at German courts and later at the British one Court of Queen Victoria.

Little has been published about Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle.

He emigrated to Ohio, learned to engrave from an uncle in Cincinnati, then returned to Stuttgart to pursue a career as a children's portraitist and genre painter (his patrons included Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Queen Victoria, Edward Prince of Wales).

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890

Throughout his career, Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) made several extended trips to Europe, where he was inspired by the sights and the many artists he met there.

A Back Road, completed the year after his first European tour, demonstrates a compositional daring and freedom of brushwork that were still unusual in American art of this period.

Influenced by the work of the nineteenth-century French Barbizon School, Hassam emphasized heavy brushstrokes and intense lighting effects.

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890 | Brooklyn Museum

Scottish Art History and Sitemap

Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times.

It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art.

The earliest examples of art from what is now Scotland are highly decorated carved stone balls from the Neolithic period.

From the Bronze Age there are examples of carvings, including the first representations of objects, and cup and ring marks.

Stanley Cursiter | Post-Impressionist painter

Bessie MacNicol (1869-1904)

Scottish painter Elizabeth MacNicol was born in Glasgow on the 17 July 1869 to a schoolmaster and his wife.

She attended Glasgow School of Art from 1887 until 1892 before travelling to Paris to study at the Academie Colarossi.

On her return to Scotland, MacNicol took on a studio in St Vincent Street and became closely associated with the circle of Glasgow Boys.

Marcos Rey, 1978 | Realist painter

Marcos Rey is a self-taught Spanish painter born in the Galician city of Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain.

He has devoted his life to painting professionally for more than ten years.

Drawing was always a very important part of his life since he was a child.

At 26 years old he started making commissions, as he mastered his technique helped by books and his own artistic intuition.

Dame Ethel Walker | Impressionist painter

Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (1861-1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions.

From 1936, Walker was a member of The London Group.

Her work displays the influence of Impressionism, Puvis de Chavannes, Gauguin and Asian art.

Kesja Tabaczuk, 1989 | Figurative painter

Kesja Tabaczuk was born in Opole, Poland and is currently living in Oslo, Norway.

She started studying art as soon as she could.

At the age of 12, Kesja applied to a school of Art in her home city of Opole.

She passed the test of drawing and painting with full score at first try.

After 3 successful years she decided to continue studying art in "OSSP" high school in Opole.

Jesse Mockrin, 1981

Jesse Mockrin (born Silver Spring, MD) received her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 2011, and her B.A. from Barnard College, New York in 2003.

She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York), and Galerie Perrotin (Seoul).

Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Rubell Family Collection, among others.

Pierre Bonnard: "Art will never be able to exist without nature".

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.

A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists.

Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.

Alfie Gatt, 1985 | Surrealist figurative painter

Alfie Gatt, an award-winning painter - best known as AlfieAlpha, was born on the small and sunny island of Malta.

His drive and passion for his love of art started in his early childhood years.

He pursued his studies and was successfully awarded a degree from the Institute of Art and Design, in Malta in 2005.

Alongside painting, he also explores digital to expand his way to express himself such as through illustrations, video editing and 2D animations.

Archan Nair, 1982

Archan Nair is a Visual artist, Illustrator and Digital Artist, specializing in mixed media, illustration, and digital art based out of Berlin, Germany.

Archan's visual expressions are part of a journey which is really influenced by the mysteries of our existence and how every action, emotion, and our interconnectedness in a universal scale sets of a chain of reactions.. which we experience from the micro to the macro scale.

Formerly a fashion major and entrepreneur, Archan started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift as an independent artist in 2007.

Dawn Whitelaw | Plein Air painter

Dawn Whitelaw is one of the artists in On Track Studios in Franklin, Tennessee.

Painting Plein Air with colleagues in Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and The Chestnut Group adds a richness and honesty to her studio work.

Whitelaw is currently on the the board of the Portrait Society of America where she serves as vice-chair.

She has also been featured as faculty for Plein Air South and the Plein Air Convention and Expo.

José Luis Ceña, 1982 | Abstract figurative painter

Spanish painter José Luis Ceña was born in Malaga in 1982.

At the age of 15 he moved to Madrid, where he graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in the specialty of Plastic Arts in 2005.

In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Royal Casa de la Moneda for the expansion of its studies in the disciplines of Engraving and Graphic Design.

Training in these fields allowed him to investigate about resources and tools that, although alien to traditional painting, are incorporated into his creative process, giving him work a special plasticity.

Scott Conary, 1971

Raised where the East Coast suburbs filtered into the woods and farms, Scott Conary (Rhode Island School of Design, BFA ’93) creates oil paintings of everyday objects and places with which we have complicated and often ambiguous relationships.

Pulled from their context, these objects say something about how we interact with the world and one another.

Giovanni Muzzioli | Macchiaioli painter

Giovanni Muzzioli (1854-1894) was an Italian painter.

Muzzioli was born in Modena, after his family had moved from Castelvetro.

At the age of 15 years, he began to attend the local Academy of Fine Arts of Modena, working under Antonio Simonazzi and Asioli.

At the age of seventeen (1871), years later, he gained the Poletti scholarship entitling him to four years residence in Rome studying at the Accademia di San Luca, working first under professor Podesti, and later after 1874 under professor Coghetti.

Noemi Martín, 1975

Noemi Martin was born in Barcelona.

She has shown a great love for painting since her early childhood.

At the age of sixteen, she entered the Massana School in Barcelona where she studied painting.

Noemi Martín’s work revels in imaginary spaces in which perspective is the only form of architecture, and in which her unmistakable ochres, greys and yellows bathe every detail, creating a world which, although imaginary, reflects an infinite number of realities and the most intimate of our sentiments, like a mirror.

Kalliopi Asargiotaki, 1959 | Figurative painter

Καλλιόπη Ασαργιωτάκη was born in Ierapetra, Crete.

She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Giorgos Mavroidis and Ilias Dekoulakos (1979-1983) thanks to a Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) grant.

She pursued her studies in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1985-1986) on a French State scholarship (CROUS), under Vladimir Veličković.

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".