Michelle Torrez (American painter, 1956)

Torrez believes that the greatest influences on her work were the circumstances of her childhood and teenage years: "My life has influenced me to look deeper to find the beauty and humanity in people and places. Even at an early age, I knew I was an artist".

Known for her color work, Michelle Torrez does expressionistic oil paintings of figures that are intended to communicate the beauty of unlikely emotion, movement and life.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Torrez is the oldest of four children from a working class family. Caring for her younger siblings while her parents worked, she would sit on the porch and draw to pass the time. "The other children would come around to watch, and art soon became a way of making friends for me". Instead of playing with other children, she drew them on computer paper her father brought home from his job at IBM.

Wilfred Jenkins (British Victorian painter, 1857-1936)

Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins was a little known Victorian artist whose work is, according to the Dictionary of British Artists, now beginning to arouse interest as he painted moonlit street and dock scenes in the style of J. Atkinson Grimshaw🎨.

As with the latter his works, often moonscapes, are incredibly atmospheric depicting a gothic view of Victorian England that inspires as many people today as in Jenkins’s own lifetime.

Alda Merini: "Non mettermi accanto a chi si lamenta.."

Alda Merini by Paolo Vecchio

Non mettermi accanto a chi si lamenta

senza mai alzare lo sguardo,

a chi non sa dire grazie,

a chi non sa accorgersi più di un tramonto.

Chiudo gli occhi, mi scosto un passo.

Carol Cavalaris (?-2020)

Carol Cavalaris ha vissuto nel mezzo di una foresta nell'alto paese del Colorado.

Era la bellezza selvaggia dell'ambiente circostante che ha ispirato i suoi dipinti digitali di fauna selvatica e natura.

Carol espone il suo lavoro in diverse gallerie del Colorado, tra cui la Grace Gallery nel famoso quartiere artistico di Santa Fe Avenue a Denver.

Era è un artista professionista freelance, specializzata in dipinti di animali selvatici, floreali ed animali domestici.

Artista raffinata, Carol Cavalaris celebrava l'unicità di ogni essere vivente con il suo ampio corpus di lavori realizzati con tecniche miste.

Gianni Bellini (Italian painter, 1965)

Gianni Bellini è nato a Carmignano (PO) nel 1965. Autodidatta, fin da giovanissimo, ha dimostrato una particolare attitudine per la pittura: a soli quindici anni ha cominciato a partecipare a numerose rassegne estemporanee, a mostre personali e collettive in varie città, conseguendo, ovunque, numerosi attestati di stima e primi premi.

Fra le mostre più importanti in cui egli è stato protagonista, è doveroso segnalare l'"Esposizione Internazionale" al Palazzo degli Affari di Firenze (1991-1992), quella al "Jacob Javits Center" di New York, al Museo Nazionale di Stoccolma e a quello di Budapest.

Nel 1992 ha affrescato l’arcata principale della facciata della chiesa di San Pietro a Seano, presso Carmignano.

Shusaku Takaoka, 1977 | Pop Surrealist graphic designer

Japanese🎨 graphic designer Shusaku Takaoka reimagines pop culture and art in a funny and sometimes macabre way.

The artist is inspired by our modern society to juxtapose visuals who form a funny set and sometimes denouncing aspects of an ultra-consumer and over-connected world.

Using famous faces like Mona Lisa🎨, Van Gogh🎨, and Vermeer’s "Girl with a Pearl Earring"🎨, Takaoka merges them onto bodies sporting the latest fashions. The playful project gives a whole new meaning to these painted characters, who now look incredibly modern.

Serge Marshennikov, 1971

Serge Marshennikov was born in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. His grandfather was the general manager of a horse breeding company, his father, an electrical engineer and his mother was in pre-school education.

Freom the earliest of times, Serge was always drawing, painting and sculpting from any material he could land his hands on.

His Mother encouraged Serge to study and from early childhood and he had a succession of private teachers and art studies he attended. After receiving a number of awards for his children’s watercolor and pastel paintings, Serge decided to become a professional painter.

In 1995 he finished the Ufa Art College and then continued education at one of the most prestigious art academies in the world, The Repin Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia.