Jacqui Faye, 1956 | Red Shoes

A native Texan, Jacqui Faye works predominantly in acrylics and paints a wide variety of subjects, however her focus is primarily on figurative works.

Recognized for her “Red Shoe” series, Jacqui paints playful, innocent and sometimes provocative compositions using the red shoes to tell the story. Anonymity of her subjects plays an influential role in establishing a strong connection with her audience.

Rooted in realism, the artist challenges herself to depict true-to-life details in her work. She is fascinated with varying shades of color, most notably red, and the way shadow and light play upon patterns.

Taras Loboda, 1961 | Abstract painter

Taras Łoboda was born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, into the family of Iwan Iwanowicz Łoboda (1926-2017), famous ukrainian artist. He graduated from the Institute of Art in Kiev (1979-1985).

In 1979 he attended well-known Zaretsky's Studio. He is a participant of many international, republican, all-Soviet Union exhibitions.

Since 1993 he has been living and working in Prague (Czech Republic).

He is a painter creating thematic compositions, portraits, landscapes, still-lives. Presently living and working in Prague, the artist persistently and purposefully develops three main motives: woman's portrait and act (body with melodious lines, a look with a sad solitude feeling), strict classic still life and a phantom landscape.

Objects painted by the artist intrigue, attract due to their escaping mysteriousness.

Ignat Ignatov, 1978 | Impressionist painter

Ignat Ignatov is a contemporary artist with exemplary talent. His interpretation of the spirit of fine art saturates his paintings with a unique expressive richness. Although each new subject seems to dictate the style and approach, his paintings are always alive with color, light, texture, atmosphere, energy, and emotion.
Ignat was born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and grew up in Sevlievo, Bulgaria.

At age thirteen, his promising talent in drawing, painting, and sculpting earned him one of only thirty available spots to attend the renowned Secondary Art School of Applied Arts in Tryavna, Bulgaria. Ignat’s five years there established the foundation for his academic art training.

Following graduation in 1996, Ignat attended St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, where he studied under the demanding atelier approach to fine art. In 1997, at the age of nineteen, Ignat financed his move to the United States using proceeds from the sale of his art. He is now a United States citizen residing in California.

Juan Medina, 1950 | Surrealist / Hyperrealist painter

Juan Medina, Mexican painter, was born in Mexico City, 1950. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.

With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.

Bogdan Prystrom, 1972 | Abstract Digital Photographer

Polish artist Bogdan Prystrom lives in a pretty town of Olsztyn in the north of Poland.

He is a member of Union of Polish Art Photographers.

His work is entirely photo-based and he calls it photo-montage.

He says that his digital art is an extension of the traditional photographic methods he used earlier in his career.

Chelìn Sanjuan | Surrealist painter

Chelin Sanjuan Piquero (1967-2012) was born in the city of Zaragoza, Spain.

In 1968, she emigrated with her parents to Chile where she will live for five years.

Later they travel to Venezuela, the country in which she will reside until 1987.

Her artistic vocation began at a very young age.