Terelak

John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America’s finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vesper George School of Fine Art. Terelak’s love of paint and canvas and his thorough understanding of color theory and paint technique eventually led him to become Headmaster of the Gloucester Academy of Fine Art. As demand …

Holmquist

Ben Holmquist was born in Salt Lake City, UT in 1982 and by the age of 6 had lived in 6 different states and countless cities and towns all over the New England area and the Midwest. His grandparents lived in Vermont on an idyllic farm where he was blessed with the opportunity to help with the maple syrup tap …

Donaldson

Amy Donaldson’s passion for painting comes through in every brush stroke. Her influences span the centuries, including European Romanticism, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary street art. Nonetheless, she has created a signature style that connects the past with the present with a vibrant sense of immediacy and freshness. Many paintings burst with joy and light from the heavenly realm, while …

Akiyama

Megumi Akiyama was born in Kawasaki, Japan.  Her childhood memories of summer festivals, elaborate kimonos and fireworks displays were a major influence on her works.  In addition to her childhood her current desert environment in Phoenix, Arizona, where she now resides, is also a strong influence on her works.  Akiyama received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Illustration from California State, Long Beach, …

Cascales

José Vicente Cascales holds Fine Arts degrees from the University of Valencia ( Spain ) and spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice ( Italy ) working on his post graduate studies. After completing his Doctoral courses he celebrated his first solo exhibition in 2002.  Since then, he has participated in many solo and group exhibitions …

Bartus

Francisco Bartus is a Spanish painter born in 1975 in Valencia. His high school professors encouraged him pursue art in his higher education studies due to his vision and talent.  Upon completing his education, he started his career as a professional designer and plastic artist. The artists Juan Genoves had a great influence on him. After working with him, Bartus …

Garay

Descended from a family with artistic tradition.  Mauricio Garay began to arouse his interest in art at an early age, with some artistic guidance from his uncle Carlos Garay, an internationally recognized artist who painted beautiful sceneries of the Honduran countryside as well as it’s people’s traditions. Mauricio is a figurative and impressionist artist who was awarded the prize award of …

Azarin

Azarin is a very successful self-taught Artist. His paintings are in the best collections around the world, including the USA, England, Italy, Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia. Azarin was born in Iquitos, Peru in 1969. He lived most of his life in Peru except for a long excursion to Ecuador where he studied at the famous painting school of Quito. In …

Grayson Stoff

Grayson Stoff was born in Glens Falls, NY in 1992. His family relocated to South-West Florida, where he grew up making friends with the native micro-verse of plant and animal life. He would often climb trees, collect bugs and make intricate drawings for friends and family. As a high school student, he excelled in his studies and found an interest …

Julius Lira Salazar

Born in Madre de Dios, Peru, in 1973, Julius Lira Salazar comes from one of the poorest but nicest areas in South America. By the age of 15, he immigrated to the big city, Lima, in search of a future. To his surprise, making a living in Lima was very difficult; it was a matter of survival. Little did he …

Meyer

Karen Meyer has been working with clay off and on for 30 years. Having been self taught in both wheel thrown and hand built forms, she enjoys doing both functional and sculptural pieces. The design for many of her sculptural pieces is influenced by her love of nature and especially the sea and its wonderful creatures. Every piece is completely …

Tiersky

Born in a small, farming community in Illinois in 1959, P.T.’s growing up years were spent immersed in the elements of nature. After graduating from college in Iowa, a move to Minneapolis is where a love for artistic endeavors first emerged. As a hobby, the future artist started mixing artistic papers and paint with found objects. Through a job promotion, …

Sissi Janku

Sissi Janku was born in Munich, Germany. She studied Graphic Arts at the Academy of Art in Munich and worked as a graphic designer for a German magazine. In 1984 she fulfilled a childhood dream to visit the Hawaiian Islands. The tropical beauty inspired her artistic passions and she made Hawaii her home. While in Honolulu, Sissi became a student …

Alfredo Candela

Alfredo Candela was born in Alcoy (Alicante), in 1959. He attended his first painting studies at the School of Fine Arts in Alcoy, then moved to Valencia. It was here where he attended his preference for marine subjects, being one of his great specialties. It dominates the color both in cold tones and the warmest quality that we can observe …

Antonio Velfin

Antonio Velfin was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1970. Upon graduating from high school he moved to Valencia where he matriculated at the prestigious University of San Carlos receiving his degree in art. Velfin has been a professional artist ever since. At the beginning of his career, Velfin’s imagery was exclusively classical — following Velazquez and Sorolla – beautiful and luminous …

Antonio Garcia Soler

Antonio Garcia Soler was born in Alcoy (Alicante), Spain in 1957. He was born into an artistic family. Antonio’s father, Jorge, was a teacher in the “Escuela de Bellas Artes de Alicante”. His father passed on his passion for art to his son when he was very young. Soler Completed his artistic studies in the prestigious “San Carlos Fine Art …

Tyson Estes

Estes was born in Hoquiam, Washington, and graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Filmic Art degree, after which he moved to Los Angeles to pursue work in film and television. After many successful endeavors as a producer and art department specialist, Estes decided that a more personal approach to art was needed, and traded his entertainment career for a …

Gabriela Villarreal

Gabriela was born in México, contemporary artist Gabriela Villarreal Villarreal is continually creating new, captivating Works of art. Using modern forms and unique textures, Gabriela is known for her ability to capture color through an innovative use of light and shape. Encouraged to become an artist from a young age,Gabriela began her career in the company of her mentor and …

Pablo Munoz

Pablo Munoz comes from a family of painters that flourished in Cuzco, Peru and emigrated to the capital, Lima, several years ago. According to Pablo, his ancestors assisted the famous Spanish artists, brought by the Spanish elite to Peru, with the painting of religious subjects to spread the word of God. Pablo Munoz studied at the School of Arts of …

Pablo Rojero

“I enjoy the process of making contemporary art as it gives me a sense of freedom and fulfillment that I have always wanted as an artist,” explains artist Pablo Rojero. Born and raised in Oceanside, California, Pablo Rojero grew up amidst a strong military presence and was proud to share his hometown with the First Marines. In 1993, true to …

Rabo

Clayton Rabo hails from Detroit, Michigan and currently resides in Arizona.  He graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design with a degree in graphic design.  He worked in the fields of illustration and design for over twenty-five years. Rabo has since shifted his focus from the commercial art world to fine art.  Trading his computer mouse for a paintbrush allowed him to …

Stoff

Alyssa Stoff was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1993. Her family relocated to Florida in 2001, where she grew up surrounded by the beautiful tropical landscape. Along with the natural influences from the Florida landscape, she is also influenced by her Filipino grandmother. She spent many summers at her grandmother’s home in Chicago painting, practicing origami, taking pictures in the …

Villasante

Villasante is an individual possessing a tremendous natural insight into his surrounding and environment, allowing, through pure intuition, the spontaneous creation of masterful works. Every character study, every architectural painting and every harbor scene is a personal interpretation of life, of his surrounding and of his environment as seen through his eyes, totally void of academic influence; exposure to other …

Martin

Fran Martin was born in 1966 in Castellon, Spain.  He started his art studies in his hometown. Martin growing up near the Mediterranean coast, and his passionate and bold inspiration came from the sea and its reflective lights.  He fully understands how to intensely and delicately express the complexities of this light in his canvas. The reality of the ambiance …

Mack

Born and raised in Oakdale, Pennsylvania Jacqueline was the youngest of 5 children. By age two she was painting with watercolors. Her mother found that large buckets of water kept her busy for hours when she wanted to paint the back porch. After mastering pencil, pen and ink, calligraphy, and oil paints in high school and winning many awards she …

Klieber

Born in a small, farming community in Illinois in 1959, Klieber’s growing up years were spent immersed in the elements of nature. After graduating from college in Iowa, a move to Minneapolis is where a love for artistic endeavors first emerged. As a hobby, the future artist started mixing artistic papers and paint with found objects. Through a job promotion, …

Morante

  Morante was born in Peru in 1963 as the daughter of a professional jockey and, because of her father’s absolute dedication to horses, she held contempt to anything related. This conflict was sufficiently intense to threaten even the state of her father’s marriage. However, at the age of 14 her attitude completely reversed and the horse became the center …

Nuria Miro

Nuria Miro was born in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain in 1961. She studied at the School of Arts in her hometown, and later moved to the College of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, Spain. Nuria is a painter of high quality, sensitivity, emotion, and poetry. Her works are highly expressive in brushstrokes, reflective of pristine colors, and precise in …

Pedro Tapia

Pedro Tapia was born in Tacna, Peru, in 1970. He displayed exceptional talent at an early age and decided to become an artist. He studied art at the Federico Laso Art School in Tacna and later enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Perú (ENBA) in Lima. Tapia’s philosophy is ultimately simple: art is expression. The challenge is for …

Timothy O’Toole

Born in Dayton, Ohio, painter Timothy O’Toole began his enthusiasm and painting at an early age. He was encouraged by his parents and their circle of friends, many of whom were professional painters and sculptures, and he found himself surrounded from the onset by a wealth of creativity and a celebration of personal expression. He attended Dayton Art Institute and …

Manuel Lorente Hernan

Manuel Lorente Hernan was born in 1957 in Alcoy (Alicante). He is a self-taught painter and his figurative works are very popular throughout Europe. Hernan enjoys capturing the beauty of landscapes, still-lifes, Venetian subjects and flowers. With his own abstract style, he displays a perfect synchronization of hues. The strokes of his painting style are quick and free and clearly …

Rikki Drotar

I was born in southern Idaho but moved frequently through my life. My childhood saw the plains of Idaho and Wyoming, the Oregon coast, to the majestic desert of Arizona. Even spending a little amount of time in Pennsylvania and the eastern states. From each place I lived or visited, I would take in the rich beauty and diversity around …

Angela Maritz

Angela Maritz lives and works in the Bay of Plenty on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, having moved there from her native country of South Africa in 2007. Angela believes she was born to be an artist, her earliest memories revolve around an almost compulsive need to create, whether it be with paint or any other medium …

Francisco Casas

Francisco Casas was born in Alcoy, Spain in 1952. He is a vocational artist and from a very early age felt a need to paint. He focuses his work on still life’s, in which he captures a broad range of tones and light, with a hyper-realistic result. Casas understands the profound simplicity behind hyper-realism and the quality of his works …

Bacci

Born in Peru, in 1952, Bacci is one of a group of extraordinary landscape painters that emerged during the last part of the previous decade. Peru has been traditionally a country of figure painters since the Cuzco School painting in the XVII Century. But a movement, probably commanded by Bamse Antunez de Mayolo, commenced in the 1970’s. This group began …

Francisco Dieguez

Francisco Dieguez was born in Havana in 1973. He is a grduate in Graphic Design of the Instituto Superior de Diseno Habana. He is a member of the Fondo de Bienes Culturales and of the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. He currently lives and works in Havana. Personal Exhibitions: 1992 “Reflexion”, Galeria de Arte de 10 de Octubre, …

Josiane Childers

Josiane Childers was born in the smoky mountains of North Carolina but mostly grew up in upstate New York. After excellent training and encouragement from her high school art teacher she completed her formal education in Fine Art at Purchase College, including a semester spent abroad in Amsterdam. She now resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her artist husband, son,and three …

Gudrun Newman

Born and raised in Iceland Gudrun Olafsdottir Newman moved to the USA in 1976. She migrated to Florida in 1978 and has lived in Sarasota since then. At an early age Newman knew she was interested in art. She started off as a child with intricate textile designs. This demonstrated her extraordinary level of talent and patience. She paints as …

Barseghian

A hybrid of painting and sculpture is how Naira Barseghian’s artistic works can be described. Born in Armenia in 1966, Naira Barseghian began painting as a teenager. When she immigrated to the United States in 1991, Naira decided to pursue her love of art. Upon taking art classes at the Glendale Community College in California, Naira Barseghian developed a deep …

Sydney Edmunds

Growing up Sydney Edmunds would sit and draw for hours. In love with the human form, she would take magazine s and draw the person on the cover. “I wanted to capture not only their likeness but their character, what made them real.” She loved the old masters, such as Rembrandt and aspired to be like them. At age 11 …

Tadeo Zavaleta

Tadeo is a Peruvian artist born Tadeo Zavaleta de la Barro in 1977. As part of an artistic legacy, his father is considered one of the greatest Peruvian artists. His father told him that the human body represented both the greatest difficulties but at the same time, the greatest achievements in art. Thus, he pursued figurative art drawing and painting …

Zarin

Born in Shiraz, Iran in 1970, Helen Zarin can remember beginning to paint pictures as early as the age of 5. As a high school student, Zarin studied with the well-known Persian artist and teacher, Saber. Later she enrolled in the Art and Culture Society, a national organization for gifted Persian artists. As a student of Art and Culture, she …

Joshua Schicker

Joshua Paul Schicker was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Raised in a variety of places, Joshua spent time in Izmir, Turkey, Guam and Washington state. These diverse experiences had much influence on his later work. As a child, Joshua was drawing super heroes and chasing around girls with his jacket collar zipped up over his face. Joshua was always interested in …

Jason Jarava

Jason Jarava was born in Baltimore, Maryland and began painting at an early age. He was encouraged by his parents and did much of his early work around Loch Raven, painting luxuriant landscapes, tall trees and reflective waters. He received his BFA from Arizona State. The artist’s style is distinct. He blends the crisp, detailed, exacting technique of realism with …

Farrell Elizabeth Douglas

Elizabeth currently works mainly with acrylic paints due to their versatility and drying time. “I prefer acrylics because it can be combined with a lot of water to achieve the movement and spontaneity that I want in all of my work.” She paints not only on canvas, but on plexi, glass and various metals as well. Her subjects range from …

Smith Carney

Smith Carney was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and spent his childhood surrounded by the colorful landscape of northern New Mexico. Fascination with the beauty in the variety of nature kindled Carney’s desire to create. He later moved to Texas and attended the University of North Texas where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Advertising Art. In …

Natasha Barnes

Natasha Barnes is a South African artist, born in 1969. She has been painting since the age of seven. Her natural talent and pure passion for painting has led this self-taught artist to develop a profound style, exhibiting expressionism, color and movement. Her paintings are inspirations found in her travels and the love for the rich African images surrounding her …

Karolina Sussland

Karolina Vera Sussland defected from Czech Republic at the height of the cold war. Her family adopted Phoenix, AZ as their new home and she grew up in the valley of the sun. She studied chemistry and drawing at Arizona State University and has been a consequentially creative force in Phoenix since the 2000’s. Sussland’s paintings rely on precise drawing …

Jodi Maas

Jodi Maas was born in Manhattan, Kansas and moved several times during her childhood. Having lived in Hong Kong for 5 years, she was able to experience the diverse cultures and fascinating beauty of many exotic countries including India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines. After extensive travels she now calls Arizona home. A lifelong love of art led Jodi …

Silvia Suarez

Born in Pucallpa, Peru, in 1958. Despite her early artistic inclination, Suarez was forced to select a “more productive” field because painting was economically and socially risky. Victim of the circumstances, Suarez had to study conservation and restoration, a field related to the arts but not her choice. Fortunately, today, 20 years later, she is married to a painter and …