Bronwyn Hill, 1989 | Portrait /Figurative /Hyperrealist painter

Based in Brisbane, Bronwyn Hill is a portrait and figurative artist. Using oil paint and layering techniques she creates realistic images of women in natural settings. These women are representative of the artist; the way she felt at the time or the way she wanted to feel. Bronwyn is influenced by light, nature and many artists, although her work is primarily a way of expressing herself in vague, allowing interpretation of the viewer.

Completing a Diploma of fine art at Noosa in 2011 and producing her first series of work in 2012, Bronwyn is in the early stages of her artistic career.

Henri Manguin | Fauve painter

Henri Charles Manguin (23 March 1874 - 25 September 1949) was a French painter, associated with the Fauves.

Manguin entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Henri Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends.

Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.

Manguin was greatly influenced by Impressionism, as is seen in his use of bright pastel hues.

Alberto Pancorbo, 1956 | Surrealist / Romantic painter

The basis of Pancorbo's technical mastery is a traditional and complete art education, a method of training that provided discipline and total understanding of the media of painting.

With his knowledge and extraordinary ability to paint, Pancorbo creates his own original and personal style outside the formality of the academic tradition.

Born in the city of Soria (Spain) Pancorbo begins to paint from a very early age in his native city.

At the age of 18 he transferred to the city of Barcelona with the ultimate goal to dedicate himself only to painting.

In 1980 he became an exclusive artist of Sala Gaudi (Barcelona), which exposed his paintings for the first time in the international fair of art of Basilea (Swiss).

H. Momo Zhou, 1981 | Figurative painter

Born in Guangzhou, China, Awarded painter H. Momo Zhou has followed in her family footsteps of creating fine artistic works.

Her parents, highly respected professors of fine arts at the prestigious Guangzhou University of Art, China, nurtured Momo’s unique gift of spatial awareness of color, juxtaposition of line form, and a broad brush stroke of creativity.

Her images embody the quintessential nuances of romanticism, realism and impressionism.

Derek Jones, 1945 | Watercolor / Figurative painter

Derek Jones is a coal miner's son, born in County Durham, and he is currently based in Berwickshire. He went to Art College at Hartlepool and followed this by completing a degree in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Following a year working in a museum, Derek began to teach art. He later helped to run a gallery in Berwick upon Tweed. For the last twenty years, Derek has been concentrating on his own work, which consists mainly of figurative drawing.

António Macedo, 1955 | Magic Realism painter

António Pedro Urbano Veiga de Macedo is a Portuguese painter, born in Oporto, Portugal.
I attended the local art school, the "Escola Superior de Belas Artes" in 1973-74.
In 1975 I moved to London, where I continued to research into all kinds of painting techniques so as to develop my own style. Over the years, the close proximity to the great Art collections in the Capital, the study of so many great images, and contacts and friendships with artists in the U.K. and Portugal did much to help me learn what cannot be taught at Art School.

Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Bruno Di Maio is an Italian painter, known for working in the new Figurative style. Di Maio, born in North Africa to Italian parents, lives and works in Tuscany, Italy.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Di Maio see:
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Surrealist Figurative painter ➦
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Ballet dancer ➦
Bruno Di Maio / Pablo Neruda ➦
Oscar Wilde / Bruno Di Maio ➦

Rafal Olbinski, 1945 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

"In front of a painting, as in front of a beautiful woman, one must revel in wonder" - Rafal Olbinski*.

- "Poetic humor is a quality rarely found in the fine arts" - says Andre Parinuad, President of the International Arts Salon in Paris.

- "Rafal Olbinski has this gift.He wants to show us that our imagination is a magical world, which we are recreating forever. He draws us into a different universe, and forces us to use our eyes to participate in a marvelous world which is the true dimension of dreams".

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

• Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter ➺

Jean Metzinger | Cubist painter

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (June 24, 1883 - November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes, developed the theoretical foundations of Cubism.

His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neo-impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross.

Between 1904-1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works.