Eugenia Gapchinska / Евгения Гапчинская, 1974

Евгения Гапчинская is one of the most famous Ukrainian artists, lives and works in Kyiv, her galleries are located in the capital and in several cities of Ukraine.

Gapchinska was a student at Kharkiv Art College and graduated from The Institute of Industrial Arts in Kharkiv.

Eugenia Gapchinska also had an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany.

Barbara Schilling, 1955

Barbara Schilling OPA, AIS is an impressionist oil painter from Michigan.

Her work is loose and fresh, mostly painted alla prima style.

She is known for both her landscapes and her still life/floral paintings.

She has won many awards and shown in many juried competitions.

Luo Li Rong / 罗丽蓉, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

Luo Li Rong is a Chinese artist and sculptor who creates realistic sculptures, primarily in bronze.

Luo was born in Hongqi, Hunan province, China.

In 1998, Luo entered the Changsha Academy of Arts in Changsha, Hunan and studied with Xiao Xiaoqiu.

From 2000 to 2005 she studied sculpture at the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China) with Sun Jiabo.

Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

A French artist of the post-World War II School of Paris, Françoise Gilot is perhaps most famous as a muse and lover to Pablo Picasso.

While her story may be inextricably linked to 20th century art’s most towering figure, Gilot’s remarkable life and vast oeuvre deserves recognition on its own merits.

In a career spanning over seven decades, Gilot’s distinct language of form and color reveals an enduring preoccupation with both the personal and universal forces of nature, time, space and mythology.

Evan Wilson, 1953

Evan Wilson remains true to his mission to bring realist painting back into the forefront of American art.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Wilson attended the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts to complete high school, and later went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he met his lifelong mentor, Joseph Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed realist painter in the Old World tradition.

His works are included in many public and private collections, including the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina and the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Abbiamo l'arte per non morire di realtà"!

• "The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world".

• "Il grande fine dell'Arte è colpire l'immaginazione con la forza di un'anima che rifiuta di ammettere la sconfitta anche nel mezzo di un mondo che crolla.".

Anelia Pavlova, 1956

Anelia Pavlova / Анелия Павлова, also known as Annael, is a Bulgarian-born Australian artist.

She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1956, and in 1993 moved to Adelaide, South Australia.

Her best known image is the Semillon label for the Semillon wine in the Peter Lehmann Wines "Art Series" range.

Chris Dunn | Watercolor children's book illustrator

Chris Dunn, was born and lived in the Riddlesden area of Keighley.

He has been a fine artist and illustrator since 2008 and his anthropormorphic animal illustrations have gained him a strong following and the attention of a major gallery in Paris.

He attended Bingley Grammar School, where he began to develop his talent for art in a newly built art block at the school.

After leaving school, Chris went to Bradford College, where he completed an art foundation course, followed by advanced study at Swindon School of Art, where he graduated with a degree in illustration.