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Mary Jane Q. Cross 1951 | Rockville, Connecticut




Born in 1951, Mary Jane Q. Cross received her formal training at the Worcester Art Museum, in 1970 to 1973 in a time of expressionism. Followed by workshops with Daniel Green and mentoring with Fran Hoyt (student of Vincent Dumond), Mary Jane designed her own curriculum based on the Atelier System, to gain the tools necessary to make her art speak with historic purity, and her own unique voice.
Awards accumulated for the artist from early years on the outdoor festival circuit, where 30,000 a year regularly followed her career. She has membership and awards from American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of America, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe club, Oil Portrait Society of America, Exhibits with Oil Painters of America 2006, 2008, 2009 and other notable organizations.








































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Nicoletta Tomas, 1963

"I am a self taught painter, and started my artistic career in Valencia (Spain) 1990, using in depth the pastel technique.
I concentrated on different themes such as indoor motifs, city views and bullfighting scenes.
At this time and since 1998 I have given my paintings a new turn, centered on the human body. I am in a constant search for new ways of artistic expressions, both in style and means
I learn from painting. I express my deepest feelings in such a form of world. From my world to the outside world, both inside and outside are expressed in a mirror way.
The inner world is always fighting. The patterns I draw, the light of human existence, the fragility and his greatness, all of which are accompanied by my imagination".


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Jason deCaires Taylor 1974 | English underwater sculptor


Jason deCaires Taylor is an english sculptor specialising in the creation of contemporary underwater sculptures which over time develop into artificial coral reefs. Taylor integrates his skills as a conservationist, underwater photographer and scuba diving instructor to produce unique installations that encourage the habitation and growth of corals and marine life. His early work includes Vicissitudes, Grace Reef, The Lost Correspondent and The Unstill Life. All are located in the world´s first public underwater sculpture park in Molinere Bay, Grenada, West Indies, commissioned in 2006. More recently his most ambitious project to date is the creation of the world's largest underwater sculpture museum, MUSA, situated off the coast of Cancun and the western coast of Isla Mujeres. Works in the museum include Hombre en llamas -Man on Fire, La Jardinera de la Esperanza -The Gardener of Hope, El Colecionista de los Sueños -The Dream Collector and La Evolución Silenciosa -The Silent Evolution.