Alan Giana | The edge of Fantasy

L'artista multimediale acclamato a livello internazionale Alan Giana è nato e cresciuto nel Connecticut. Una delle sue prime opere risale a quando Alan aveva solo quattro anni: con un pennarello cominciò a scarabocchiare sul muro.

Il padre di Alan è un noto artista di ceramica. Alan guardava spesso suo padre applicare smalti e diverse tecniche di pittura per creare i suoi capolavori. Durante i suoi anni di scuola Alan era sempre attratto dal disegno e dalla pittura.

Ha frequentato il college per studiare la progettazione grafica e la gestione aziendale. Con una laurea in gestione grafica, Alan ha iniziato la propria attività di illustrazione e progettazione nei primi anni '90 con la moglie Pamela.

Isabel Guerra (Spanish painter, 1947)

Guerra was born in Madrid and it seems her interest in painting was sparked at age 12 when someone gave her a box of oil. She is completely self taught and loves the great masters whom she has seen often in the Prado Museum in Madrid, especially Velázquez.

At 23 he entered the Cistercian monastery of Santa Lucia in Zaragoza and from that time has lived her life trying to combine her two vocations: painting and religious life.

Her style is hyper-realistic, her paintings seems to be real photographs and "something that caught my attention when I first knew her paintings is the large domain that she has of the colour and especially the handling of light".

She is a brilliant portraitist and paints mainly young women and children, but also still lifes and landscapes and her characters transmit a spirituality that is evident in their gestures and glances.

Frédéric Soulacroix (1825-1900)

Frédéric Soulacroix was a pupil of Ramney, Cornelius and of Dumont. He entered the School of Fine Arts on 22 September 1845 at the age of twenty and made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1849. Soulacroix’s subjects were taken from the French middle classes. He almost certainly created a special type of soubrette. Soulacroix along with Reggianini and Ricci dwelt lovingly on the richness of texture in the ladies dresses and in the upholstery and draperies.

Le signore d'oro di Stephanie Rew, 1971

Stephanie Rew è un artista figurativo con sede a Edimburgo, nel Regno Unito.

Utilizzando la pittura ad olio come mezzo principale, le sue tecniche pittoriche sono influenzate dai maestri del Barocco e del Rinascimento.

È nata a Carlisle ed ha trascorso i suoi primi anni ad Edimburgo.

Ha studiato arte al Duncan del Jordanstone College of Art di Dundee.

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.