Rita Kirkman | Pastel painter

Rita Kirkman was born an artist. She has been using pastel since she was 11 years old and had her first paid portrait commission at 17. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988. Meanwhile, in 1986 she began a 12 year career sketching quick portraits at amusement parks.

Dmitry Patrushev / Дмитрий Патрушев, 1969

Dmitry Patrushev / Дмитрий Патрушев was born in city Glazov. Has graduated Glazov's Art School in 1982. Was engaged in sculptor, painter, watercolourist and teacher Leonid Mordvin and prepared to act in V. Surikov's Institute, and has acted in the Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow, parallelly visited S. Andriyaka's School of Watercolor, and also N.Smirnov's workshop.

Jeff Faust, 1952 | Surrealist painter

Jeff Faust, American painter, has fond memories of spending hours getting lost in art books that his parents kept round the house as a child.
Each page told a story, both about the artist themselves, and of their work and this fed his eager mind that to create art is not just an amazing ability to possess, but that it was also his calling.

Hiroko Sakai | Surrealist painter

Japanese artist Hiroko Sakai has been living and working in San Francisco California since 1998. The intense passion that she conveys in her art has inspired deep expressions of emotion in viewers over the years.

In the early 90's, her professional art career started in the graphic arts field in Japan. After graduating from Nihon interior design school with a BA degree in design and rendering, she founded "Atelier Yume-Tsumugi Ltd".

Mahira Ates, 1960 | Surrealist painter

Roger Alexandre, 1942

Roger Alexandre, Canadian painter, was born in Montreal. Roger Alexandre taught for a few years before studying painting for two years with Brother Jérôme. This teacher passed on automatist techniques and Borduas’ teachings to his student, a largely self-taught artist. Since then, his work has been featured in many exhibitions in Quebec, the United States and Europe. In recent decades, Roger Alexandre’s style has matured: a stylized and pared down approach with soft colours in camaieu. His canvases encourage contemplation and introspection. This deeply humanist artist creates and directs a boundless world.

Marco Rubiero, 1976

Nato a Cavarzere il 22 maggio 1976, Marco Rubiero vive da sempre ad Adria (Rovigo). Nel 2002 inizia a dedicarsi al disegno e allo studio della figura umana. Nel 2003 frequenta nella città di Venezia, un corso di pittura, alla scuola di grafica Internazionale. Nel 2004 presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia frequenta il corso libero di nudo per qualche lezione. Numerose sono le sue mostre in Italia e all’estero e i suoi quadri sono entrati a far parte di collezioni pubbliche e private. L’esposizione permanente dell’artista è nel suo studio d’arte in Loc. Botti Barbarighe 10 Comune di Cavarzere (Venezia).

Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960

Polish artist Joanna Sierko-Filipowska was born in 1960 in Bialystok. In 1985 she graduated Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an honors degree. Artworks of Joanna Sierko invite the viewer into an illusory magic world, full of internal harmony, as well as memories of great holidays from a distant childhood. Looking at her paintings, we can go back there even for a moment.

Patricia-Lysiane Beck

With Patricia-Lysiane Beck, creation comes to life in the magical universe of places of encounters: old bistrots, restaurants, hotel halls. In her paintings, enthusiasm and joy reach out in pure spontaneity. The emotions surrounding nostalgic places of tradition fire our imagination and in the halo of the atmosphere, transport us into light and movement. Patricia-Lysiane Beck stirs her performances with intense passion, at the tireless rhythm of life in the beauty of the moment.