Leonid Afremov – From the bottom of my soul

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“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and palette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different [...] Read

Hengki Koentjoro – Underwater world

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Born in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, on March 24, 1963, Hengki Koentjoro is an accomplished black and white photographer. He is a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California, where he majored in video production and minored in the fine art of photography. Hengki returned to Indonesia [...] Read

Michel Rajkovic – Magical moments

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Michel Rajkovic born in France and living at Asnieres-sur-seine near Paris. He started photography in 2000 with a digital compact. The discovery of the long exposure technique and the black & white technique was a real revelation for him. These techniques best fits his sensitivity for many reasons: he’s sensitive [...] Read

Brian Despain – Symbolic visual vocabulary

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Brian Despain born in the far reaches of Upper Michigan. Started drawing since he could hold a pencil and never stopped again. He’s been doing almost every kind of art form, from graphic design, illustration, designing video games and painting. Now he’s focussing on his fine art career, drawing, painting [...] Read

Dorina Costras – Imaginative reality

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“I worked as a designer and as teacher of fine arts. Now I collaborate with decorating companies as indoor designer and I paint. I paint from imagination and the favorite theme whereat revert again and again is costumes and masks of carnival and also a fantastic universe with the atmosphere [...] Read

Carlos Killian – Painted sensuality

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“I began working as an illustrator, cartoonist and painter in the 70′s. In 75 I traveled to Spain, drawing for Spain , Europe and USA, starting in Madrid and Barcelona. In 1994 I traveled to New York. I was a member of the society of illustrators New York, exposed the [...] Read

Marc Adamus – Under amazing light

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Marc Adamus is a young and upcoming landscape photographer based in Corvallis, Oregon. He spends much of his year traveling and shooting various projects around the Northwest region. His style is one of big, bold, dramatic and dynamic images utilizing wide angles and amazing light that have instant impact with [...] Read

Antoine Blanchard -Impressionist of modern times

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Antoine Blanchard was often introduced to collectors as the foremost artist of Parisian street scenes of his day. Like his predecessors, the French masters Galien-Laloue, Cortes, Loir and Utrillo, Blanchard has made an impact on contemporary art. He is considered one of the great impressionists of modern times. renoirinc.com Read

Phan Thu Trang – Colorful comeliness

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Phan was born in 1981 in Hanoi. In 2004 he graduated from Theatre and Cinema University and is a member of the Vietnam Young Painter Association. Exhibitions: 1999 Students’ Exhibition in Hanoi 2000 Students’ Exhibition in Hanoi 2001 Students’ Exhibition in Hanoi 2003 Group Exhibition of Younger Painter Association in [...] Read

Leping Zha – Truly magical images

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Leping Zha concentrates his passion in grand landscapes as well as fine natural patterns in both western and eastern worlds. Constantly searching and studying the forms, order, balance, inner relationship, grandeur, and drama of nature, he has been tirelessly exploring to capture truly magical images with ultimate quality and finesse [...] Read

Ismo Jokaiho – Never ending process

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“I was born in 1965 in a place called Saarijärvi in the middle of Finland. Currently I live in a city called Tampere working as an artist. I began to paint when I was about twenty after a one crucial trip to different European art museums. After that experiment my [...] Read