Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter

Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter and illustrator born in Tarquinia, living and working in Perugia. He works mainly with oil paint, pencils and coloured pencils.

His subjects are surreal images coming from unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques.

Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter

American painter Howard Behrens (August 20, 1933 - April 14, 2014) - the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.

He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Behrens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He grew up near Washington, DC. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident.

Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions. And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.

The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away.

The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.

Masaaki Sasamoto 笹本正明, 1966

Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto was born in 1966 in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, specializing in Japanese painting.

He has been a permanent participant of solo and group art exhibitions throughout Japan. Masaaki Sasamoto currently lives and works in Yamanashi Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan. The artworks of Masaaki Sasamoto are exhibited at Art Prefectural Gallery of Yamanashi Museum.

Ludivine Corominas, 1976 | Still life painter

French painter Ludivine Corominas is a self-taught artist, acquired her first notion of art by her father. With many elegance, fines and exquisite delicacy, Ludivine declines colors of rainbow by creating tones and nuances which light up the sun of her brushes.

The redcurrants, the luscious grapes, crystalline transparency, fine porcelains are the principal subjects of this artist: The still life.

Antonio Sannino, 1959 | Abstract /Cityscape painter

Antonio Sannino was born in Naples in 1959. He lives and works in Naples and Rome.

He is been focusing for years in portraying "landscapes". Sannino has been able to create new representations of the landscape, by searching new framing, re-drawing the space and its contents. He uses his camera to catch the best light in his pictures, that moment when everything seems to be frozen and timeless. His sea surfaces do not only reproduce water but they emphasize the transparency and light.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Drawings / Study

Inspired by Baroque painters -Caravaggio in particular- and other old masters, Roberto Ferri is an Italian painter known for working also in the Baroque Era style.

Ferri was born in Fontanaviva, Taranto, Italy in 1978.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Roberto Ferri see:

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter

Roberto Ferri, 1978

Roberto Ferri / Pablo Neruda | Il tuo sorriso..

Carolyn Biggio, 1958 | Still life painter

Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1958, Carolyn Biggio grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her formal schooling earned her a Bachelor of Sciences degree; but she later took up studies in art with Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art. Other classes with his followers deepened her commitment, and her career path shifted to painting. Ms. Biggio's paintings are pure light and color, primarily of still life. The thick impasto paint is laid on with a palette knife to create intense masses of color; shadows are equally vibrant, creating dimension with brilliant shifts in hue and value, rather than just local color. Ms. Biggio has exhibited her work nationally, receiving numerous awards.

Edward Hopper: "More of me comes out when I improvise"

• "What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house".

• "After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface".