Dao Hai Phong, 1965 | Landscape painter

Vietnamese painter Dao Hai Phong, the son of the well-known artist Dao Duc, studied at the Hanoi College of Film and Theater from 1982-1987 and won an award for his outstanding designs at the Vietnam Film Festival. His main medium is oil on canvas. Although he had painted as a hobby from the age of six, it was only after his graduation that Phong started to focus on developing his unique painting style.

Andy Scott | The Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland

The Kelpies are 30-metre high horse-head sculptures, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. The sculptures form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. The Kelpies are a monument to horse powered heritage across Scotland.

Thomas Schaller, 1956 | Architecture in Watercolor

"There is a universe of possibility that spans the distance between what we look at and what we see.

And in that space is our experience of the world.

This is what I try to paint - the experience of seeing my world - from perspectives both external and from within.

And as such, dreams, memories, and pure imagination are every bit as valid as is anything that can be physically observed" - Thomas Schaller.

Following a 20-year career in New York City as an architect and architectural artist, Tom Schaller is now based in Los Angeles, California where he devotes himself full-time to artwork in the watercolor medium.

He has long been considered one of the foremost architectural artists in the world. In the field, he has won every major award for his artwork - including being a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize.

Alan King, 1952 | Massurrealism Art Movement

Alan King was born in Greenwich, South East London. His current style of artwork only really developed in 1999 when he decided to experiment with combining photography with his geometric illusionary pieces with the aid of computer software. His contemporary Surreal style was soon recognised and he was invited to join the Massurrealism Movement in 2004.

James Gwynne | Figurative painter

An award-winning artist, Dr. James Gwynne is a professor of visual arts at County College of Morris, who discovered his talents through chance and circumstance.

He initially attended college thinking he would become a doctor. When he took a drawing class during his first year of college, however, he knew he needed to switch majors.

"I knew from then on that art was my passion and I had to follow it", says Gwynne.

Don Hatfield, 1947 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Don Hatfield, who born and lives in Napa, California, is one of the most innovative Impressionists of our time. His style of painting softly blends figures of realism with the gentle touch of classic impressionism. Don strives to create paintings that bond themselves to the viewer. In the vein of Romantic Impressionism.

He shows the viewer that beauty can arise from one stirring moment; a family reunion, a young boy searching for shells on the beach or the warmth of the sun touching a mother and her child. His paintings carry light and form to a new and extremely personal degree.

Julian Alden Weir | Tonalist painter

Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading American impressionist, was born in West Point, New York. He was the son of Robert Weir, a drawing instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and half-brother of John Weir, first director of the art program at Yale University.

He took art classes at the National Academy of Design before traveling to Paris in 1873 to study under the noted French Academician Jean-Léon Gérôme and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

After trips to the Netherlands and Spain between 1873-1877, and summers spent painting in French villages, Weir returned to New York and took a studio near Washington Square, where many of his contemporaries also resided. On a second trip to Europe in 1880, Weir won an honorable mention at the Paris Salon.

John Henry Twachtman | Tonalist painter

John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) was born in Cincinnati to German immigrants.

Among the various jobs that Frederick Twachtman took to support his family was that of window shade decorator, work that young Twachtman also assumed when he was fourteen years old.

Concurrently, John Twachtman attended classes at the Ohio Mechanics Institute.

After 1871 he was enrolled part-time in the McMicken School of Design, where he met Frank Duveneck.

Sally Storch, 1952 | Storyteller artist

Sally Storch comes from an artistic family with roots in the Paris school of the early Twentieth Century. Her great aunt Bertha Rihani lived and painted in Paris during the 1920’s and kept the company of Henri Matisse🎨 and in particular Kees Van Dongen🎨.

Another aunt, painter Stephanie Stockton, attended The Art Students League in New York and apprenticed with John Steuart Curry in the 1930’s. Storch spent a great deal of time with both aunts, and both of these women painters were particularly influential to her as a young girl.