George Tsui – Rare and exotic, elements of fantasy

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“George was born in Hong Kong, and moved to New York in the late 60s, studying first at the School of Visual Arts and later majoring in oil painting at the Art Students League while working at NBC, he was awarded the prestigious 1997 Emmy Award for Best Individual Art [...] Read

Patrick Boussignac – The painter

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Patrick was born in 1956, in Villejuif, France. Drawing and painting have been a part of his life since childhood. He paints his first canvas at the age of 8, while studying with Gilles Cadiou., an expert on trompe l’oeil. He knows he will become a painter. Encouraged by his [...] Read

Lucia Sarto – A special touch

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“Lucia Sarto was born in the Udine area in 1950. In 1961 she won First Prize in a painting competition organised in the Region’s Middle Schools. She trained as an artist in Venice and Turin, cities in which she would successfully participate in a number of group shows. It was in [...] Read

Paul Roberts – Enigma

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Paul Roberts was born in Tiverton Devon in 1948. Brought up by artist parents in Wales. He studied at Newport, Cardiff and Goldsmiths colleges of Art. Gaining early recognition in the 1970′s his career as a painter was interrupted when he had worldwide success with the rockband Sniff’n'The Tears in [...] Read

Freydoon Rassouli – Mystical Journey

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“Freydoon Rassouli  is a visionary artist who has a unique way of reflecting spiritual experience by expressing images from his subconscious onto canvas. He often stimulates creativity by meditating at dawn watching the sunrise in a natural setting, or by envisioning a mystical journey through a night sky. His style [...] Read

Belichenko & Boohtiyarova – Letter from an unknown

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Andrei Belichenko was born in 1974 in Karaganda, Kazahstan. He is a graduate of the Republican Art Schoo (1990). Andrei studied in the Graphic Department of the Academy of Arts. Consumed by the importance of detail, realism, and the individual expression of his subjects, Belichenko’s exceptional talent and excellence in [...] Read

Do Duy Tuan – My inner peace

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“Born in 1954 in Thua Thien Hue in Vietnam, Do Duy Tuan is one of the most prominent names in the world of Vietnamese fine art. The recent emancipation of Vietnamese fine art from its cloistered provincial existence has given the world a chance to see some truly great works [...] Read

Anna Vinogradova – Hidden

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Anna Vinogradova was born on January 3, 1975 in Krasnodar. In 1994 she entered the Yaroslavl Art School, which she left one year later and entered the preparatory course of Graphic faculty of Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Already in the year 1996 she became a student of Graphic [...] Read

Anne Bachelier – Unique

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“Distinct, unique, inventive and immediately recognizable-such are the terms used to describe the spiritual mysticism of Anne Bachelier. The artist captures her auddience with compelling vocabulary of highly imaginative images that are somehow, hauntigly familiar.” B.K Lichtman See more about this beautiful artist and her art in the new edition [...] Read

Duma – Unlimited universe

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“The feminine figure is something natural in my work, it’s like a piece of me represented in each canvas. I like to show to the viewer just a little piece of the full scene. I like to leave space for the viewer’s imagination. In each frame there is an unlimited [...] Read

Johanna Harmon – Observations and emotions

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“Born in Tempe, Arizona in 1968, figure-painter Johanna Harmon remembers being passionate about drawing from as early as seven years old. Unsure of how to apply her vast natural talent in her adult life, she went to work at a design and fabrication firm. In her mid-twenties she began taking numerous [...] Read

Jia Lu – The miracle of art

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“Jia Lu was born in Beijing, China. She strongly feels that beauty is the final measure of all things. True beauty born of self-knowledge and self-understanding, burns in her art like a beacon. The paintings of Jia Lu seem filled with a spiritual light that announces the undeniable presence of [...] Read