Dick Pieters, 1941 | Fantastic Realism painter

"In life everything seems to be very complicated untill you reach the big exploration that the truth lies in simplicity, the obvious, like nature, the sound, the love. And likewise in my painting".

Dick Pieters worked eighteen months on this portrait of his wife Corrie and himself in a boat on a river. If you stand close to the painting, you can see that it has been painted dot by dot, with almost scientific precision.

Only when you stand further away will the whole image reveal itself. Pieters applied layer after layer (sometimes as much as eight layers) to achieve this impressive effect.

Each layer had to dry first before the next could be applied. Pieters painted the simple moments of happiness.

'Searching all your life for the deepest sources and then discovering that the truth lies in simple things, in the obvious, such as nature, sound, love…,' is how the artist explained his development.

Tina Garrett, 1974 | Portrait /Figurative painter

Award-winning artist, Tina Garrett, paints custom portraiture and figurative work. As a portrait artist, Tina is has earned an Art Renewal Center Associate Living Master.

In 2012, based on her self-taught pastel portraiture, the Scottsdale Artists’ School awarded Tina the first of two merit scholarships and she began working in oil immediately falling in love and hitting the ground running dedicating 5 years to practicing and grasping an understanding of oil painting.

Paul Gauguin | Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897

In 1891, Paul Gauguin* left France for Tahiti, seeking in the South Seas a society that was simpler and more elemental than that of his homeland.

In Tahiti, he created paintings that express a highly personal mythology. He considered this work -created in 1897, at a time of great personal crisis- to be his masterpiece and the summation of his ideas.

Gauguin’s letters suggest that the fresco-like painting should be read from right to left, beginning with the sleeping infant.

He describes the various figures as pondering the questions of human existence given in the title; the blue idol represents "the Beyond". The old woman at the far left, "close to death", accepts her fate with resignation. | © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Roland Palmaerts, 1953 | Watercolour Cityscape painter

Born in Brussels, Belgium, Roland Palmaerts comes from a family of painters. He won First prize* in the National Competition «Tintin» at the age of six. Roland Palmaerts studied at The Athenaeum, at the Institut Saint-Luc and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he won First prize* in drawing and watercolour. In 1972, the artist engages in the Belgian armed forces as a para-commando.

Kemal Kamil Akca | Fine Art photographer

Kemal Kamil Akca, nickname Wafflefineart, is a Fine Art photographer and photo-artist living and creatin in Turkey.

Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter

René Snyman is an awarded* South African professional artist living and working in Sir Lowry’s Pass, Western Cape in South Africa.

Growing up on a Kalahari farm near Upington, her close interaction with nature shaped her remarkable powers of intimate observation. Since discovering her drawing talent as a young child, René dedicated herself to working hard and developing her skills.

Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter

Magdalena Serwin is an Polish artist born in the Jastrzębiu-Zdroju region.

- "I am a graduate of State Higher Professional School in Racibórz about direction of applied arts. Under the eye of wonderful artists I explored the arts of painting, graphical which and photographic.
I am self-taught in great measure, which the painting is passion and at the same time something like the peace, for of breath from everyday matters. The oil painting accompanied me for the youngest years, but in the time was neglected".

Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers

"I am in love with my canvases. It is the beauty and passion of painting and the result that come from those feelings that drives me to fill the canvas every day" - Irene Sheri

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Vishnevskaya see:

• Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter ⤑