Robert Cannon 1969 | Terraform Sculpture

Robert Cannon, born in Flemington, New Jersey, May 10, 1969, is an american sculptor. He holds a BA with distinction from Yale University. While attending Yale, Cannon studied under the American Sculptor Alice Aycock. Nature is the inspiration and foundation for Cannon’s terraform sculptures. Terraform, literally translates to "Earth-shaping", the process of deliberate modification of the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans.

Ottorino De Lucchi, 1951

Il pittore Italiano Ottorino De Lucchi è nato a Ferrara. Si è laureato in Chimica 1975 e Farmacia 1977 presso l’Università di Padova. E’ membro della Società Chimica Italiana dal 1977, dove ha ricoperto la carica di Presidente della Divisione di Chimica Organica e dal 1979 è membro dell’American Chemical Society. Nel 1984 ha ricevuto la medaglia Ciamician dalla Società Chimica Italiana, nel 1993 il premio Federchimica e nel 1997 il prestigioso Zeneca lecture prize, presso Wilmington, USA.

Jeff Legg, 1959 | Still Life painter

Jeff C. Legg’s artistic interests developed in childhood and by age 13, he was apprentice to a well known regional artist and college art professor Darrel Dishman. This nearly four years of mentoring under Mr. Dishman laid the foundation for his drawing and painting skills which led him to study at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Marcos Damascena, 1981 | Realist painter

Marcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest names in art education in his country.

He studied drawing technique and live figure drawing with professor Luis Alberto, in the Association Paulista of Fine Arts. Afterwards, he studied the theory of color and anatomy of animals, with emphasis on the study of horses with the master, Jorge Abraham Esteves.

His talent developed with surprising speed.

Inmaculada Juárez, 1975 | Portrait painter

Inmaculada Juárez is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, known for working in the Figurative style.

Juarez was born in Mota del Marqués (Valladolid) Spain and presently residing in Madrid.

Juarez works are so realist with a sense of warmth and are full of emotions.

Gilles Charest, 1947 | Still Life painter

Gilles Charest was born in Montreal, Canada.

He studied education, literature, and administration at the University of Montreal.

He taught for a few years before changing his career in 1975 when, along with two associates, he founded an advertising agency and assumed the role of creative director.

Yasmina Alaoui, 1977 | Body Painter

Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love to tantalize their audience.

In their life-sized photographic series "one thousand and one dreams", statuesque bodies apear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters.

Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion.

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, a town located on the west side of the Hudson River, to a middle-class family that encouraged his artistic abilities.

After graduating from high school, he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City (1899-1900), and then he enrolled in classes at the New York School of Art (1900-1906).

In his shift from illustration to the fine arts, he studied with William Merritt Chase, a leading American Impressionist painter, and with Robert Henri, who exhorted his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner.

Bruno Torfs | Sculpture Garden

Bruno Torfs is an artist, born in South America and moved to Australia after traveling Europe up and down, wanting to bring his dream to life.

The Victorian village of Marysville, 95 km from Melbourne, was the perfect place to develop Bruno’s wish to create a sculpture garden.

He bought a property, including a generous piece of sub-alpine forest, and after five months of hard work, he opened to the public Bruno’s Art Sculpture Garden.