Kevin Beilfuss, 1963

Kevin Beilfuss is an American painter based in Downers Grove, Illinois who created the beautiful paintings.

After graduating from Illinois State University and the American Academy of Art, Beilfuss set out on a free-lance illustration career which lasted thirteen years.

Working mostly in the editorial area of illustration, his work consisted mostly of paintings for book covers and magazines.

Some of his clients include: Penguin Publishing, Viking Press, Houghton Mifflin, Harlequin, Signs of the Times, Guideposts, Readers Digest and Golf Digest.

Jeff Faust, 1952

Artist Jeff Faust has fond memories of spending hours getting lost in art books that his parents kept round the house as a child.

Each page told a story, both about the artist themselves, and of their work and this fed his eager mind that to create art is not just an amazing ability to possess, but that it was also his calling.

He remembers looking at the work of Masters such as Picasso and Miró and being lost in their world as his own stories would unfold from each of their paintings.

Jeff Faust hopes viewers of his acrylic on canvas work can create their own stories when looking at his paintings.

"It often surprises me what collectors see in my work," he says. "My hope is that each piece can be looked at in very different ways by different people. It's more than just visual, it's a story to be told…a poem on each canvas".

Bruno Di Maio, 1944

Bruno Di Maio è nato a Tripoli (Libia) da genitori italiani, vive e lavora da alcuni anni in Toscana.

Si è dedicato per lungo tempo al restauro acquisendo una abilità tecnica prodigiosa.

Pittore, incisore, oltreché eccellente acquarellista, lavora prevalentemente per una committenza internazionale e le sue opere si trovano oltre che nelle maggiori città italiane, anche a Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Tokio e Madrid presso collezioni pubbliche e private.

Laura Robb, 1955 | Oklahoma

Laura Robb è cresciuta a Tulsa, Oklahoma ed è entrata alla scuola d'arte all'età di sedici.

Nel 1974, Laura si trasferì a New York City per studiare con Michael Aviano, e dopo essere tornata nel sud-ovest, ha avuto l'opportunità di ricevere critiche al suo lavoro dal maestro Richard Schmid.

Stephen Pan, 1963

Nato a Shanghai, Stephen Pan si inserisce nella società cinese nel momento di massimo splendore del potere della Guardia Rossa; era in atto la distruzione di tutto ciò che non era puramente cinese.

Pan aveva cinque anni, quando suo nonno, Bo Yin Pan, famoso per la calligrafia e la poesia, gli diede le prime lezioni di disegno e pittura.

All'età di 13 anni, Stephen Pan ha vinto il primo di una serie di premi nazionali per l'eccellenza artistica in Cina per i suoi dipinti ad olio splendidamente resi.

Pan ha iniziato la sua carriera di insegnante a Shanghai all'età di 20 anni e ha scoperto che i suoi giovani studenti erano desiderosi di studiare arte da lui.

Ivan Slavinsky (Russian painter, 1968)

Ivan Slavinsky is a contemporary artist born in Leningrad, Russia. As a son to an art historian mother and a well-known Leningrad painter-Dmitry Oboznenko, it could be said that Ivan was destined to be an artist from an early age.

In his own words: “I was about 5 years when I felt tired of making the same old stuff. I noticed a nice picture on the wall a reproduction of Raphael and decided to make a copy of it.

Jia Lu / 吕嘉, 1954

Jia Lu is an oil painter working in America, known for blending Asian and European imagery in her paintings, predominantly of women.

Jia Lu's works include Chinese ink paintings, oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculpture and prints.

Her early work strongly reflected the traditional aesthetics of her teacher Fan Zeng, but by the time she exhibited in Canada, she was critiquing new social developments, consumerism and power relations in China through a series of mixed-media self-portraits.