Susan Rios, 1950 | Romantic designer

Serene settings, gentle harmonies, soft, inviting rooms, lush, floral gardens, quiet seas that evoke tranquility - artist Susan Rios’ distinctive style is evident in every image she paints.  

Susan resides in Southern California, amidst rooms very reminiscent of the images she paints.

Linda Le Kinff, 1949 | Modern Cubist painter

Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents.

She started her career as a painter at the age of 20.

In the 1970s she traveled to India, Tibet, Mexico and Italy.

She lived and worked in Italy for 12 years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno.

Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952)

Laura Coombs Hills was an American artist🎨 and illustrator who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory.

She became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists, and she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters.

Alena Shymchonak | Impressionist painter

Alena Shymchonak is a painter who comes from Estonia. She produces a lot of paintings for collectors in different countries.

She like using palette knife and oil painting to produce her paintings.

Alena’s works found collectors in UK, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey and many European countries.

She’s always available for Individual oil painting commissions.

Maryam Mughal, 1987 | Figurative painter

- I am Maryam Mughal, born and brought up in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Since a child, the air in front of me was the canvas and I was brushing it with colors of my thoughts.

One day I did it on paper and the world around me said, wow, since than I was titled as a natural artist and my hands itch to create more art to beautify life around me.

Shafira Yablonski, 1938 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.

When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine.

There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school.

All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint.

Chen Huimin 陈慧敏, 1943 | Flowers painter

Chen Huiming 陈慧敏 is a Chinese painter🎨. In 1964 she graduated from the Beijing Institute of Arts and Design.

Chen Huiming is an outstanding representative of contemporary art.

For more than 30 years, she expresses in her works the beauty of flowers.

Holly Crocker Garcia | Figurative sculptor

Holly Crocker Garcia explored different art forms including music, ballet, drawing, photography, book illustration and sculpture.

However, after a course in sculpting technique at Silvermine Guild School of the Arts in New Canaan, Connecticut, she realized that sculpting was her primary love and subsequently attended Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ginette Beaulieu, 1954 | Magical realism painter

Ginette Beaulieu was always passionate about drawing and in particular, was drawn to the techniques of the Renaissance masters, of which she completed formal training from 1979-1980.

Beaulieu is educated in art restoration and in ancient painting techniques. She defines herself as a hyperrealist painter and uses oil, pastel and pencil in her work.

Her work is distinguished by the use of mediums that she develops from decanted oils and natural pigments.

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926)

Ritrattista Danese di origini Tedesche, Bertha Wegmann è stata la prima donna a detenere una cattedra presso l'Accademia reale Danese di belle arti.

All'età di cinque anni, la sua famiglia si trasferì a Copenaghen, dove suo padre divenne un commerciante.

Era un amante dell'arte e ha trascorso gran parte del suo tempo libero a dipingere.

Ha mostrato interesse per il disegno in tenera età, ma non ha ricevuto istruzione formale fino a quando aveva diciannove anni, quando iniziò a prendere lezioni da Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen e Frederik Christian Lund.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | Hope / La Speranza

Alex Venezia (American painter, 1993)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all

And sweetest in the Gale is heard

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest Sea

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Virginia Woolf | Quotes about Women

• "As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking".

• "Finché pensa ad un uomo, nessuno si oppone ad una donna che pensa".

• "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size".

• "Per tutti questi secoli le donne hanno svolto la funzione di specchi, dotati della magica e deliziosa proprietà di riflettere la figura dell’uomo a grandezza doppia del naturale".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | A girl reading

Virginia Woolf | Quotes

• • "I wish you’d find the exit out of my head".

• "Io scriverei poesie d'amore anche sulle parti di te che tu non sopporti".

• "My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child-wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry".

• "Se il mio cervello, distratto da un'ansia o da altra causa, deve distogliersi dalla carta bianca, è come un bimbo sperduto, che gira per casa e siede a piangere sull'ultimo gradino".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | The Dark Pool, 1908-1918 | Laing Art Gallery

Anja Bührer | Surreal silhouettes

Anja Bührer, aka Latoday, is a Berlin-based photographer and digital artist. Bührer uses her hauntingly beautiful aesthetic to depict a myriad of dreamy scenes. Bührer's conceptual photographs lie somewhere between dreams and nightmares, as though one is trapped in this in-between state of unconsciousness.

There's a haziness throughout her dreamed, souls, and street collections that somehow balance the familiar with the unknown.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Embrace painting

Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen is a full-time artist exhibiting in various galleries.

Oosthuizen was born in Paarl (Western Cape) South Africa. She currently resides in Mossel Bay, a small coastal town in South Africa, with her husband, and three children.

Maria is a qualified hairdresser.

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) | Pittrice Manierista

Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 24 agosto 1552 - Roma, 11 agosto 1614) è stata una pittrice Italiana del tardo Manierismo**.

Lavinia era figlia del pittore Manierista Prospero Fontana, nella cui bottega poté attingere, accanto agli insegnamenti del padre, ad una vasta gamma di esperienze pittoriche, emiliane (dal Parmigianino a Pellegrino Tibaldi), venete (Veronese, Jacopo Bassano), lombarde (Sofonisba Anguissola) e toscane.

Presso il padre poté anche frequentare i Carracci (Ludovico, Agostino e Annibale), poco più giovani, ma che non mancarono di influire su di lei.

Si narra che, ricevuta dal pittore Giovan Paolo Zappi la richiesta di sposarlo, la già attempata (25 anni) Lavinia pose la condizione di poter continuare a dipingere. Zappi accettò la cosa, tanto che rinunciò in pratica a lavorare in proprio e assunse il ruolo d'assistente della moglie.

Carol Carter, 1955 | Pittrice acquerellista

Carol Carter è una pittrice di St. Louis, uno degli artisti più interessanti che oggi lavora principalmente con acquerelli ed acrilici su larga scala.

Ha esposto ampiamente negli ultimi diciotto anni sia a livello regionale, nazionale che internazionale, comprese diciassette mostre personali e numerose mostre collettive e su invito.

Sebbene dipinga anche acrilici in grande formato, le armonie dei colori trasparenti rendono i suoi acquerelli molto particolari.

Elizabeth Forbes (1859-1912)

Elizabeth Adela Forbes è stata una pittrice Canadese, principalmente attiva nel Regno Unito.

Il suo stile è stato influenzato dal post-impressionismo, dai Preraffaelliti e dai pittori realistici della Scuola di Barbizon.

Apparteneva alla Scuola di Newlyn

Helen McNicoll | Impressionist painter

Helen Galloway McNicoll (1879-1915) was a Canadian impressionist painter. She was one of the most notable female artists in Canada in the early twentieth century and achieved considerable internal success during her decade-long career.

She played an important role in popularizing Impressionism in Canada at a time when it was still relatively unknown.

McNicoll was born in Toronto to an affluent family. Her parents were David McNicoll and Emily Pashley.

Montserrat Gudiol (1933-2015)

Montserrat Gudiol Corominas (Barcellona, 9 giugno 1933 - 25 dicembre 2015) è stato una pittrice Spagnola.

Nel 1981 diventa la prima Donna ammessa alla Real Academia Catalana di Belle Arti di San Giorgio (San Jordi in catalano).

Nel 1998 riceve la Croce di San Giorgio ("La Creu de Sant Jordi" assegna annualmente alle persone od entità sociali che si sono distinte nella diffusione e promozione della lingua e della cultura catalane) assegnato dal governo della Catalogna.

Montserrat Gudiol è nata a Barcellona. È la figlia dell'architetto e storico dell'arte Gudiol Ricart.

Nel 1950 studia il restauro dei dipinti antichi e si dedica in particolare alla pittura su legno e carta. Parte in Spagna ma anche in Sud Africa, Stati Uniti, Russia e Canada.