Paul Jaarsma, 1957

My name is Paul Jaarsma, born in Melbourne, Australia on the 1957. I had many occupations, before I dare to live as a professional artist. My career started as a merchant navy officer at Shell Tankers. After seven years on the high seas. I switched to a quit different profession: Owner and sport instructor of a fitness centre.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist | Neoclassical painter

Marie Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826) was born in Paris.

Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux.

The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émile in his work Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie (1801).

Hernán Valdovinos, 1948 | Magical Realism painter

Hernán Valdovinos was born in Santiago, Chile.

At an early age, he studied art with his mother, Maruja Prats, who is herself an original and respected artist and graduated from the University of Chile's Fine Arts Institute.

At the age of nine, Valdovinos went on to study painting and sculpture with Kurt Herdan and Tótila Albert and showed his individual work for the first time through their gallery.

Valerie Maugeri, 1967 | Abstract / Mixed media painter

Valerie Maugeri was born in Paris. A self taught artist she creates her colorful creations in his studio in Essonne. Valerie Maugeri worked in the art that combines painting and collage, with plenty of things that can be considered for a long time.
In her work at first bright colors catch the eye, and then hidden in the picture details, which are sometimes not drawn with a brush, and set up manually. Perhaps the bright colors in his paintings of Valerie brought their long journeys, where “Ochre and Purple” is the spirit of Asia and the East.

Erwin Guillermo, 1951 | Expressionist painter

Guillermo was born in Guatemala City.

He is actually one of the best representatives of Guatemalan Art.

His creative production started in the 60s and throughout the 50 years of 30 years it has been enriched constantly with many experiences, acquired through his constant curiosity to explore new ways of expression.

The intelligent management of artistic mediums has given him the capacity to excel in different techniques and express his own experimental manifestations to a level that situates him between the best artists of his generation.

Francis Sevitt, 1942

Sevitt born in 1942 in Dublin, Ireland. Sevitt Francis art works are predominately women, not associated with any particular time or place -although Renaissance and Moorish influences are evident, writing alone or reading in groups of two mounting golden staircases, holding bouquets of lilies, or meditating near a vase of roses by a open window. The artist's studies of life and ambiance long gone are filled with gentle passion and sensuality. Through intricate details and rich, lustrous, yet somehow muted colors, each canvas conveys a personal imagination that suffuses everything it beholds - and represents - with quiet magic. Sevitt Francis work has been the feature of many exhibitions throughout Europe, Israel, Canada and the United States.

Boyan Bolyarski

Occupation - portraitist. I paint mostly with oil paints, but I did and "pastel" period. Destination of the workplace - Sunny Beach. While the profession "street artist" is despised by the guild, to the dismay of my teacher Gregory Spiridonov - light his finger, despite 15 years I was there. And no scruples I can say that this job has taught me things that would not be going to university, things that everyone must find for yourself. Small secrets beyond academic stereotypes. They always let you step ahead. Well, I am grateful to this period, although it was very difficult and full of experiences. This period has made me what I am. Now it's time to work to your soul.

Clarence Underwood | Postcards, books, magazines Illustrator

American artist* Clarence Frederick Underwood (1871-1929) studied at the Art Students League and the Academy of Julian in Paris with J. P. Laurens, Constant and Bouguereau, in 1896.
Underwood create images for magazines Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ World magazine and others, as well as works by many literary works.
Underwood was born in Jamestown, NY, during his studies took place in Paris, after which he chose for himself a career illustrator.
Underwood was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York City in 1910 and was on staff of the New York Press.