Craig Mooney, 1969 | Abstract painter

Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive.

Though a representational painter, the artist incorporates a myriad of abstract qualities throughout his paintings.

In his figurative work, Mooney romanticizes his subjects and presents them in an atmospheric lens that is best described as dreamlike.

Eduardo Argüelles, 1938 | Abstract figurative painter

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Argüelles is a painter, cardiologist and university professor.

Eduardo began painting at the age of 48 years, and sustains up to today, his status of self-taught artist.

To achieve higher levels of quality with his drawings, Argüelles adept the classic style, briefly transitioned to symbolist painting, leading to his current phase.

Amazed with exquisiteness and perfection, especially of woman.

William Blake | Pittore Simbolista / Romantico

Tigre! Tigre! divampante fulgore

Nelle foreste della notte,

Quale fu l'immortale mano o l'occhio

Ch'ebbe la forza di formare

La tua agghiacciante simmetria?

Amor non cerca di compiacer se stesso

Né per se stesso ha cura

Ma per un altro ogni favor rassegna

E il Cielo erige in un oscuro inferno.

Jean-Marc Janiaczyk, 1966 | Dreaming of Provence

French painter Jean-Marc Janiaczyk is a self-taught artist.

He has been passionate about drawing since childhood, and in 1991, he began painting.

Years of drawing provided him with a solid foundation in artistic technique.

He experimented with watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil, but ultimately chose oil paint for its flexibility, creamy texture, and slow drying time, qualities that suited his evolving style.

Renoir: "If painting were not a pleasure to me I should certainly not do it"

Renoir was one of the leading painters of the Impressionist group.

He evolved a technique of broken brushstrokes and used bold combinations of pure complementary colours, to capture the light and movement of his landscapes and figure subjects.

Following a visit to Italy in 1881 his style changed, becoming more linear and classical.

Renoir was born in Limoges in south-west France, where he began work as a painter on porcelain.

Alice Bailly | Cubist painter

Alice Bailly (1872-1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement.

In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris where she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia and Marie Laurencin, avant-garde modernist painters who influenced her works and her later life.

Douglas Girard, 1969 | Imaginative realism painter

"...It is as if the artist has created his own mythology.

It is a very romantic, evocative painting, technically well balanced and very strong, formally" - Lucinda Barnes, curator of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art commenting on the painting "Journey".

Douglas Girard: The results are in for the Art Renewal Center’s 2014/2015 Salon! 2500 paintings were submitted from around the world by 1050 artists. 31% were chosen as finalists.

Hamish Blakely, 1968 | Love letters to my wife

Like many great artists, British painter Hamish Blakely has a muse.

And it is none other than his wife Gail!

The artist explains: "We men folk have a lot to learn, and I have learned a great deal from her since we met.

My art celebrates that mystifying blend of feminine beauty and strength.

While loyal to that enduring genre of the celebrated figure and venerated goddess in art, I also explore the majesty of a woman's presence".