Vickie Wade | Figurative painter

Vickie Wade is a wife, mother, and passionate artist.

She grew up in Puyallup, Washington and from 11 years of age painted at her grandmother’s easel.

Vickie married her college sweetheart Jeff and her love and joy for him and painting grew strong.

When their boys started school they moved to Nampa, Idaho to raise them in a rural setting.

Teaching art classes was a delight and put Louie and Charlie through Christian education.

Legge di Murphy: "Nulla è impossibile per colui che non deve farlo!"

Della Espertologia | Capitolo Nono

Regola aurea delle arti e delle scienze

• Chi ha l'oro fa le regole.

Legge di Gummidge

• Il costo di una expertise è inversamente proporzionale al numero di parole comprensibili.

Legge di Dunne

• Il territorio alle spalle della retorica è spesso minato di equivoci.

Jonathan Wolstenholme

Ron Hicks, 1965 | Historia de un Amor

Ron Hicks masterfully guides viewers into the emotional realm of art.

His paintings draw viewers into the very personal worlds of stolen kisses, handwritten letters and mysterious bedroom scenes.

"I open a dialogue for a story, and it’s up to the viewer to interpret it", Hicks says.

Just as he employs muted tones - often grays - to render his paintings.

His more traditional style, with influences including 17th century Dutch masters, blends representational art and impressionism, yet the ideas and stories within his paintings convey a much more contemporary feel.

Laurits Tuxen | Skagen painter/sculptor

From: Art Museums of Skagen

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Laurits Regner Tuxen was brought up in Copenhagen. As the son of a naval officer, he originally wanted to be a marine artist. When training at the Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts, he and Peder Severin Krøyer were considered to be the most talented students.

Tuxen first visited Skagen in 1870, and he returned several times during the 1870s. More than 20 years would pass before he returned in 1901.

During that time Tuxen trained as a painter in Paris together with Peder Severin Krøyer and he was one of the co-founders of the Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, which was established as an alternative to the academy.

Tuxen became a popular portrait painter and travelled a lot due to commissions from the royal courts of Europe.

Sir Cedric Morris | Post-Impressionist painter

Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 - 8 February 1982) was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman.

He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia.

As an artist he is best known for his portraits, flower paintings and landscapes.

Painting style

Cedric Morris had a distinctive and often rather primitive post-Impressionist style, and painted portraits, landscapes and very decorative still lifes of flowers and birds.

In his analysis of Morris's paintings, Richard Morphet has suggested that the "unusual force of Cedric's paintings derives from the projection of the subject through a dynamic economy in combination with an acute sense of pictorial realism".