Faiza Maghni, 1964 | Abstract painter

The Self-taught painter born in Oran, Algeria, Faiza Maghni lives and works in Paris.

The painting has long been a desire more or less unconscious and totally obscured that has become natural in the future.

Fascinated by Persian miniatures, Arabic calligraphy, but also by tribal art and contemporary painting, she is inspired in his work and creates his own universe.

Faiza Maghni attempts to translate through his portraits the beauty and complexity of women in his paintings symbolized the richness of costume and expression enigmatic look. His approach in the abstract expression joins the world of his portraits.

Antonio Canova | Neoclassical sculptor

Antonio Canova🎨, marchese d’Ischia, (born Nov. 1, 1757, Possagno, Republic of Venice-died Oct. 13, 1822, Venice), Italian sculptor, one of the greatest exponents of Neoclassicism. Among his works are the tombs of popes Clement XIV (1783-87) and Clement XIII (1787-92) and statues of Napoleon and of his sister Princess Borghese reclining as Venus Victrix.

He was created a marquis for his part in retrieving works of art from Paris after Napoleon’s defeat.

Canova, the son of a stonemason who died in 1761, was reared by his grandfather, also a stonemason.

A.D. Cook, 1961 | Abstract painter / Sculptor

I was born with a passion to create. I started drawing a very early age and I learned to paint with a variety of mediums while honing my skills throughout childhood. My family moved a lot from one end of the country to the other, and I often attended two or three different schools on any given year. Fortunately, pencils and paper where easy to pack.

At age 14, we finally settled in the Oregon City area (near Portland, Oregon) for a few years.

There, I discovered the airbrush and other art mediums while further developing my drawing and photography skills. Then off to Phoenix for a few years 18-22.

In the Spring of 1983, I met the love of my life, Kathryn. We married in December of that same year. The next year we moved to Oregon together.

Pierre Farel, 1957 | Abstract painter

Pierre Farel was born in Orange, in the south of France. Former student at the Avignon School of "Beaux Arts", he now lives and works in the Mediterranean Island of Corsica.

To date, he has created 1600 oil paintings, 180 watercolours and oil on paper, 16 lithographs, 1 Art book with 158 pages, 2 jewellery collections, 2 jazz CD covers, 1 Corsican CD «Distinu», a bronze sculpture, a wine label, the covers of 4 novels, illustrations for poems and 35 reproductions of his oil paintings have been edited by Braun editions.

He has exhibited on numerous occasions in Paris, London, Marseilles, Lyons, Saint Paul de Vence, Avignon, Cassis, Annecy, Draguignan, Chartres, Bordeaux, Nancy, in Corsica and on the French Riviera as well as in the international cities of New-York, Miami, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, Lausanne, Hamburg, Beijing, Hong-Kong and Shanghai.

Terje Adler Mørk, 1949 | Figurative painter

Terje Adler Mørk was born in Odda, Norway.

He has a background within IT and programming from Bergen and later in Sarpsborg where he moved in 1987.

In 2001 he quit working with computers and started painting full time.

His favorite subject is the study of the human figure and to recreate it as thinking psychological beings.

Serhiy Reznichenko, 1968 | Abstract painter

Serhiy Reznichenko is an Ukrainian painter, known for working in Abstract style.

Reznichenko was born in Cherkasy, province of central Ukraine.

He graduated from Vira Mukhina state art-industrial college in St. Petersburg, speciality - monumental painting.

Reznichenko is a member of the Ukrainian National Society of Artists.

Charis Tsevis, 1967 | Neo-futuristic designer

Χάρης Τσέβης is an Greek visual designer living and working in Paphos, Cyprus.

He holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Akademie für das Grafische Gewerbe, München and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.

He manages a modest studio on the island of Cyprus serving clients all over the world.

Gustav Klimt | Art Nouveau painter

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) - Austrian painter, draughtsman, and designer, one of the leading figures in one of the most exciting epochs of Vienna's cultural history.

Early in his career he was highly successful as a painter of lavish ornamental schemes in the grandiose tradition of Makart, whose staircase decoration in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna he completed after Makart's death in 1884.