Karen Dupré | Femme fatale

Karen Dupré is a self-taught American artist best known for her evocative and versatile paintings that blend realism with dreamlike, Art Deco-inspired elements.

Dupré’s work is adept to capture a fleeting moment in time and seemingly transport the viewer there.

Born in California, her career began at age nine with pastels before she transitioned primarily to acrylics.

Angela Staehling | Vintage garden

Known for capturing the essence of romantic living, Staehling seeks inspiration from her deep-rooted family values, her Italian heritage, and her strong sense of tradition. Educated in America and England, she has years of experience in graphic design, illustration, and painting.
She can't help but create art that captures the romance of the simple things in life. 

Vintage Flowers ~ Retrò Pop-art style

Lo stile che ora si chiama "Arte Retrò" è un genere di Pop art, sviluppato durante gli anni 1940 e 1950, in risposta ad un bisogno di una grafica audace, accattivante e facile da riprodurre. L'Arte pubblicitaria Retrò ha avuto un ritorno di popolarità grazie al suo stile che si distingue dal moderno computer-generated styling.

Guim Tió Zarraluki, 1987 | Abstract painter

Guim Tió Zarraluki is a Spanish painter who creates stunning abstracted portraits illustrations starting from photographs he likes to cover and transform with paint.

The original picture is almost completely buried by a new geological level.

Only a nose, mouth or ear is left untouched, as a trace of the subject’s past life.

The bold act brings a re-birth.

Ernesto Arrisueño, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Ernesto Arrisueño, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima, a time when migration to Australia was almost exclusively from Britain and Europe. In the past decade however, Australian life has been enriched by migration from many South American countries. Arrisueño studied art in Lima before completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Ricardo Palma University.

Throughout the 1980's he exhibited widely in Peru in both individual and group exhibitions. Architectural drawing, for which he had won a number of prizes as a student, developed as a major theme in his work where figures and objects are juxtaposed with beautifully rendered building fragments.

Nino Orlandi, 1946 | Wood sculptor

Italian sculptor Nino Orlandi is a self-taught artist. In spite of his lack of formal education, has mastered a literary genre of sculpture.

His pieces convey immense talent and dimension, apparent in his many works titled The Book of Life, The Magic Mountain and The Book of Dreams.

While Orlandi's books are for the most part blank, showcasing planks of wood in place of words, he has managed to relay intricate stories to his followers.

Victoria Stoyanova, 1968 | Abstract painter

Bulgarian painter Victoria Stoyanova, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her colorful fantasy paintings reflect the mystery of female beauty, setting light and darkness in harmony and art where human warmth and wisdom dominates.

Her art is kaleidoscopic, setting light and darkness in harmony, and art where human warmth dominates, outlined old traditions, alluding both perennial wisdom and the modern aesthetics imposed by the XX-th century.

Icons and paintings by Victoria are owned by private collectors in Bulgaria, UK, Germany, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Italy, Austria, USA, Hungary, Japan, Canada, The Nitherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Izrael and Lebanon.

Winslow Homer and the Sea

Winslow Homer 1836-1910, American painter, was one of the most authentic and important American artists of the nineteenth century.

He is remembered for his landscapes, many featuring scenes of the sea, boats, and coastlines. His mastery of sketching and watercolor lends to his oil paintings the invigorating spontaneity of direct observation from nature.

His subjects, often deceptively simple on the surface, dealt in their most serious moments with the theme of human struggle within an indifferent universe.

Agostino Arrivabene, 1967 ~ Visionary Surrealist painter

Agostino Arrivabene, a very talented Italian painter, is a painter of decadence, dream and ancient symbologies who uses his own homemade pigments and colors and tries to revive ancient pictorial techniques. Arrivabene was born in Rivolta d’Adda, in the province of Cremona, Italy in 1967. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in 1991. He then travelled to various Italian and international cities seeking out the work of the Old Masters, deepening his knowledge of his craft, and bringing to bear a great influence upon the future development of his own artwork.