Vicky Mount, 1975

Vicky Mount is an established artist, known for Humorous figure, town scenes and animal paintings.

Her oil paintings represent the quirkiness and love of everyday life… mostly through cats’ eyes.

Vicky lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her husband, daughter, two cats, and a big old dog.

Jacques Prévert | Per te, amore mio / For you, my love

Per te amore mio

Sono andato al mercato degli uccelli

E ho comprato uccelli

Per te

amor mio

Sono andato al mercato dei fiori

E ho comprato fiori

Marc Chagall | Promenade, 1917

Alfred Kowalski | Genre painter

Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski /Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (1849-1915) was a Polish painter and representative of the Munich School.

He was born on 11 October 1849 in Suwałki to father Teofil Kowalski of the Wieruszowa coat of arms and mother Teofilia (née Siewierska).

Wierusz-Kowalski settled in Munich in 1876 after studies in Warsaw, Prague, and Dresden.

He studied for a year at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and worked under Józef Brandt and Alexander von Wagner.

Françoise Pétrovitch, 1964

Born in Chambéry, Françoise Pétrovitch teaches Fine Arts at the École Supérieure Estienne.

In 1996 she was awarded a special mention at the Lacourière Prize.

She lives and works in Cachan.

Françoise Pétrovitch always leads us gently and gravely where we do not expect to go.

Andrey Shishkin, 1960

Andrey Alekseyevich Shishkin / Андрей Алексеевич Шишкин è un pittore Russo.

Le sue opere sono uno degli esempi più importanti della moderna scena russa di "arte pagana" legata alla fede nativa slava in Russia.

È nato e cresciuto a Mosca.

Si occupa di pittura dagli inizi degli anni 2000 ed attualmente lavora in uno studio privato.

Alexander Goryachev, 1973 | Romantic landscape painter

Alexander Goryachev / Александр Рудольфович Горячев was born in Yalta.

Interest in fine arts appeared from childhood.

The first works were copies of classics: I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, Levitan...

He graduated from the F. Vasiliev art school in Yalta.

In 1986 he entered the Ivanovo Art School.

Victor Hugo: L'uomo e la donna / Man and Woman

L'uomo è la più elevata delle creature.

La donna è il più sublime degli ideali.

Dio fece per l'uomo un trono, per la donna un altare.

Il trono esalta, l'altare santifica.

Angeles Anglada | Pretexto

Wang Yiguang, 1962

Wang Yiguang / 王沂光 is a modern Chinese painter, notable for his Tibetan paintings of flying people, yaks and sheep.

Wang Yi Guang was born in Yimeng Mountain area of Shandong, China.

He is a younger brother of another notable painter, Wang Yidong (王沂东).

He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1990.

Camille Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Camille Corot (1796-1875) an original painter who produced a body of work of exceptional range, has been many things to many viewers.

His silvery landscapes were adored by nineteenth-century collectors, and his sparkling sketches painted in plein air were later hailed as precursors of Impressionism.

Art lovers have prized his figures paintings, the least well known and perhaps the most modern of all his works.

Luigi Benedicenti | Hyperrealist painter

Luigi Benedicenti (1948-2015) was an Photorealist painter from Chieri (Torino), Italy, recognized for his seductive representations of sweets, pastries, and other still life compositions.

Benedicenti’s sensual use of light, reflection, and his invisible brush strokes make his gloss-like paintings seem edible enough to eat.

For his work, he chose the theme of food.

Dubi Roman, 1957 | Impressionist photographer

Dubi Roman, born in Haifa, is an Israeli artist whose roots in the holy city of Safed span five generations, influencing his deep connection to spirituality and geographical landscapes.

Despite residing in Tel Aviv, the country's bustling urban center, Roman consistently draws artistic inspiration from the untamed beauty of Israel's trees, fields, and flowers.

In his pursuit of encapsulating the play of light in nature, Roman’s work goes beyond mere visual representation.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist.

His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism.

His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann.

Sergej Pisarenko, 1967 | Impressionist painter

Sergei Pisarenko / Сергей Писаренко was born in Molodechno, Minsk region, Belarus.

Professional artist.

Studied at the Academy of Arts in Minsk (Department of Easel Graphics).

Works in watercolor and oil painting techniques.

Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists since 2008.

Susan Entwistle | Pointillist painter

British artist Susan Entwistle is one of the few pointillist painters practising their art.

Her unique style of painting is created with layers of colourful dots.

This technique captures the vibrancy and essence of beautiful gardens, flowers and landscapes.

Susan's work has sprung out of the nostalgia of a childhood that was so often centred on the garden and the natural landscape around her.

Mihail Aleksandrov, 1949

Mihail Aleksandrov is one of the most influential and recognizable Russian painters in the world.

He is collected in more than 20 countries.

Aleksandrov was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.

He attended the Vilnius Art School classes for five years and then studied at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute.

He received his degree in Russian Language and Literature in 1971.

Robert McGregor | Genre painter

Robert McGregor RSA (1847-1922) was a Scottish landscape painter, genre painter, portrait painter and marine painter.

His genre was particularly painting working men such as fishermen, shepherds, crofters, pedlars, and farm labourers.

However he also painted Scottish, French and Dutch country and coastal scenery.

He usually signed his work in the right hand bottom corner.

Vadim Markevich, 1969

Vadim Markevich was born in Riga, Latvia.

He graduated from the Lyceum of Arts and Restoration in St. Petersburg, and has exhibited since 1994 in the State Museum of Modern Arts, Minsk.

He went on to study at the Royal College in London in 1999, where he received an expert assessment of his work by Sotheby's.

The artist describes his work as neoclassical; a return to the more traditional style of painting.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Il pittore Romantico delle figure

Il maestro padovano Antonio Sgarbossa, nato 'a Fontaniva (Padova), si avvicina all'arte giovanissimo, quando i genitori lo mandano ad imparare il mestiere di decoratore di piatti di ceramica in un laboratorio di Bassano.

È l'inizio di una lungo percorso di ricerca sulle potenzialità della materia cromatica e della rappresentazione pittorica, che lo porterà nel 1971 in Svizzera, favorendo una sua formazione in ambito europeo.

Thomas Faed | Genre painter

Thomas Faed RSA (1826-1900) was a Scottish painter.

Faed was born on 8 June 1826, at Barlay Mill in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of the artists James Faed, John Faed and Susan Faed.

He received his art education in the school of design, Edinburgh and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849.

He went to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893.

David FeBland, 1949

David FeBland è nato a Londra e si è trasferito negli Stati Uniti all'età di sei anni.

Ha iniziato a dipingere come autodidatta a metà degli anni '80.

Si è diplomato prima presso l’Università della Virginia, negli Stati Uniti e poi presso l’Università di Manchester, in Inghilterra.

Artista completamente autodidatta, FeBland aveva iniziato una carriera in Architettura del Paesaggio e Communication Design, e conduceva programmi radiofonici di jazz, finché, alla metà degli anni Ottanta, ha deciso di diventare un pittore a tempo pieno.