Shahin Gholizadeh | Hollywood stars of the golden age

Digital pastel brushes by Shahin Gholizadeh, Iranian painter, to honour the memory of the great Hollywood stars and songs icons of the 20th century.

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Nicola De Luca

Nato nel 1953 a Torre di Ruggero, dove tuttora vive e lavora, Nicola De Luca, pittore Italiano, intraprende negli anni '60 gli studi artistici presso il Liceo Artistico di Reggio Calabria. Nel 1972, dopo aver completato gli studi liceali, si trasferisce a Napoli e si iscrive alla facoltà di Architettura.

Yarek Godfrey, 1957 | Figurative painter

Polish painter Yarek Godfrey (1957-2014), is best known for his work showcasing the human form in all its beauty, in exquisite modern day neoclassical romanticists style.

- I'm not quite sure we can talk about painting or music.

This is a domain of different senses which words can't describe, that's why I'm using often the colors without names to translate the unknown sounds of my soul".

Alexander Sergeev,1968 ~ Still life painter

Александр Сергеев, Russian painter, has ended architectural institute. Being the student, has taken a great interest in painting and a sculpture. After study seriously was engaged in the fine arts. I paint in oils, a brush, palette knife.My painting bright, pastose, full of light, movement and a musical rhythm. It harmoniously merges with soul of the nature which lessons infinitely valuable and various, I try to comprehend and realise in the creativity. I have music education on a piano class. Member of the Creative Union of professional artists of Moscow.

Daniel F. Gerhartz, 1965 | Figurative painter

Daniel F Gerhartz compelling paintings resonate an honesty, integrity and a directness immediately evident to the viewer. The artist's skillful and technically adept work celebrates the created world, human form personal relationships and connection with landscapes and environments of special importance.

The artist’s skillful and technically adept work celebrates the created world, the human form, personal relationships with a connection to landscapes and environments of special importance. Many of his figures are dressed in dramatic clothing which he often invents for its aesthetic appeal and lyrical quality so as to achieve a sense of other worldliness.

Claude Sauzet, 1941 | Abstract Figurative painter

Born in the South of France, Claude Sauzet, french painter, studied drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Nîmes.

He moved to Paris for more than twenty years.

It is in his studio that he redraws the sketches executed from the original life.

On the bases of a strong outline, colours and light take the foremost place.

His colors, always warm, ochres mixed with reds and browns, tinted with a hint of green or blue, recall his Mediterranean origins.

Dmitry Brodetsky, 1976 ~ Surrealist painter

Дмитрий Бродецкий was born in USSR, Chisinau, Moldova.
- Painting and art in general have captivated me since I was a child. It all started as a mere game, but it later became a means of communication. Painting is actually the only communicative channel still available to me today. That's because I am not a social being, in the sense of taking reality as it is and simply complying with the prevailing, mainstream rules.

Ilene Meyer | Surrealist painter

Ilene Meyer (1940-2009) was a self-taught artist, who was inspired by her mother's drawings as a child. She began showing her surreal oil paintings in Washington and California in the 1970's.

She paints in the Salvador Dalì 1904-1989 and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) style, but with more life and feeling.

She makes her paints come alive with her use of light, color, shadows and "all the details".

Extraordinarily rich and expressively rendered, Ilene Meyer's oil paintings and prints wrap viewers in the mists and myths of creation, exploring fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes with piercing clarity and passion.