Conor Walton, 1970 | Allegorical figurative painter

Conor Walton is a leading Irish artist and a painter of international renown.

He has had eighteen solo exhibitions in Europe and America and participated in museum exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery (London), MEAM (Barcelona), The National Gallery of Ireland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Museo Páblo Serrano (Zaragoza), Palazzo Litta (Milan), Palazzo Cini (Venice), the American University Museum (Washington DC), WMOCA (Wisconsin), Castello di San Leo (Italy) PO.RO.S Museum (Portugal), Pasinger Fabrik (Munich) and Winchester Museum (UK).

Judy Drew, 1951 | Pastel painter

Judy Drew is an Australian painter.

Her passion for the Post-Impressionism period and the influence of Japanese art in the late 1880's, along with her creative sense of colour and form, allow Judy to create beautiful and modern work, even though Judy's work is contemporary she retains a touch of sentiment in all her pieces.

Her rich and textured pastels convey her emotion and love for this medium creating refreshing and strong compositional work, which is sensitive to the subject matter.

Margaret Dyer | Impressionist Figurative painter

A Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America and award-winning🎨 member of the American Impressionist🎨 Society, Margaret Dyer has made her living for over 20 years selling her work and teaching workshops.

Margaret has lived in and around Atlanta, GA, since her family moved from New York in 1960.

She attended the Atlanta College of Art at the High Museum of Art and furthered her studies under painters Roman Chatov and Kate Fetterolf.

Sergio Lopez, 1983 | Figure / Plein Air painter

Sergio Lopez, American painter and illustrator, was born in Sonoma County, California.

He received his BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Upon discovering oil paint and charcoal, he began filling sketchbooks rapidly, with real life observations and imagined ones alike.

Laura Knight | Ballet dancers

Dame Laura Knight, (née Johnson), (4 August 1877 - 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition and who embraced English Impressionism.

In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain.

Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.

Takeji Fujishima | Romantic painter

Fujishima Takeji / 藤島 武 (1867-1943) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and Impressionism within the Yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

Fujishima was born to an ex-samurai class household in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Shimazu clan daimyō.

Andrey Aranyshev, 1956 | Abstract painter

A painter who is a philosopher costs dear, but it is double as costly if he is a truly master of art. Andrey Aranyshev / Андрей Аранышев carries rare conviction in combining the methods of creating conditional decorativeness, colour surface and figuraly-spatial reality.

His objects are bright and delicate; his images are not flesh but emotion. However the artist doesn't create antropomorphous phantoms.

His actual "characters" are energy of light, colour, an exquisite line and harmony of composition.

Michael Mao | Figurative painter

Michael Mao, Chinese-born American painter, was grown up in Shanghai, China. He began teaching himself drawing and painting at the young age of seven.

He also learned painting through many workshops during the weekends when he was in middle school and high school.

After graduated from Tongji University, one of the most prestigious architecture schools in China, Michael did many architectural renderings while working as an instructor in School of Architecture and Urban Design at Tongji University.

In 1992, Michael moved to the United States to advance his architecture career by pursuing his Master of Architecture at University of Texas at Arlington.