Richard Ramsey, 1954 | Portrait photographer

Richard Ramsey is a highly celebrated, award-winning portrait photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee, who is best known for his mastery of digital portrait painting.

Spanning a career of over four decades, he blends traditional portrait photography with classical painterly aesthetics.

He has been honored eleven times with the prestigious title of "Photographer of the Year".

Farewell to Sergio Cerchi (1957-2026), the Artist of "Quadrantism"!

Italian artist Sergio Cerchi (1957-2026) was born in Florence, where he lived and worked all his lifem.

Sergio Cerchi worked in what could be defined as the quadrantism painting style.

The artist passed away on July 17, 2026.

He was educated at the Art Institute d'Arte di Porta Romana and studied at the Cherubim Conservatory courses.

From childhood, Sergio Cerci was "torn" between music and the visual arts: two indivisible passions cultivated with tenacity and determination, forcing him to simultaneously attend the workshops of local artists and play in various musical groups.

He began painting at the age of 15, trying different techniques and approaches before his personal style matured.

Duma Arantes, 1973 | Pop / Fashion painter

Duma Arantes is a prominent Portuguese contemporary painter born in Lisbon, best known for her signature pop-art and fashion-influenced portraits of the female form.

She frequently lives and works out of Oeiras, Portugal.

Duma lives and works in Oeiras, Portugal where she studied advertising in IADE -Visual Arts, Design Marketig Institute and also Painting and Drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon.

Vladimir Fechyk, 1970 | Cityscape painter

Vladimir Fechyk (Fecik) was born in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

He began painting early, and he began attending the Children's School of Art at 10, and continued there for 4 years.

At the age of 15 he attended the State School of Art in Charkov, Ukraine, also for 4 years.

Randolph Rogers | Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1859

"Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii" by Randolph Rogers (Waterloo, New York 1825-1892 Rome) was the most popular American sculpture of the nineteenth century.

According to Rogers, it was replicated 167 times in two sizes.

The subject was drawn from "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), a widely read novel by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which ends with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79.

Rogers’s evocative portrayal of Nydia highlights her heroic attempt to lead two companions out of the burning, ash-covered city.

Timur Tsaku,1972 | Surreal / Hyperrealist painter

Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater decoration and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater.

In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (The G-d’s Angels) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series.

This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre.

He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.

Il Realismo magico di Alex Colville

David Alexander "Alex" Colville (Toronto, 24 agosto 1920 - Wolfville, 16 luglio 2013) è stato un pittore Canadese.

Nato a Toronto (Ontario), si trasferisce da piccolo con la famiglia in Nuova Scozia.

Frequenta la Mount Allison University dal 1938 al 1942.

Nel 1942 si è sposato con Rhoda Wright; per alcuni mesi parte all'estero come artista di guerra.

Tiene la prima mostra personale nel 1951 a New Brunswick Museum.

Cecil Kennedy | Flower painter

Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997) was a painter in oils who specialised in flowers becoming one of the popular British flower painters of his time.

Cecil Kennedy was celebrated as one of the finest horticultural and still-life artists of the 20th century.

He is best known for his extraordinarily detailed and luminous flower arrangements, which critics frequently compared to the works of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Old Masters.

After training at art school in London, Paris, Antwerp and Zürich, Kennedy studied under a number of artists, the most influential being Nieco Jungmann.

Sabrina Garrasi | Abstract painter

Italian illustrator Sabrina Garrasi based in Pesaro, Italy, known for her abstract paintings and whimsical fashion illustrations.

Her work balances material texture and ethereal concepts, focusing on themes like memory, space, time and femininity.

She divides her professional time working between Italy and Switzerland.

She frequently combines acrylics, watercolor, gouache, pure pigments, and pencil on premium cotton and fine art paper.