Herman Tulp, 1955 | Magic realism painter

Herman Tulp is an incredible Dutch painter who is best known for his intimate, nostalgic still lifes.

However, he has many subject to his repertoire such as landscapes, houses, cows, trains and models all characterized by his very own style of painting.

Clear and realistic, sober but colored and often provided with magic-realistic elements.

However, in recent years his paintings of women increasingly step to the forefront.

Teresa Brutcher, 1955

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Teresa Brutcher lives and works in Spain, a country she came to know as an exchange student while getting her BA degree at the University of California.

Mesmerized by the old masters that populated the Prado Museum in Madrid and by the country itself, she returned there upon completing her BA degree.

Brutcher showing her figurative-realist paintings in galleries and museums in Spain as well as in Portugal, Germany, and the US.

Johanne Cullen, 1959

Johanne Cullen is born in Quebec City.

Graduated in Fine Arts at University of Quebec in Montreal.

She lives and works in Montreal.

She paints people whose stare roots us to the spot with its sheer presence and intensity, drawing the viewer willy-nilly into a moment of shared intimacy.

Monet: "Il colore è la mia ossessione.."

"Questi paesaggi d'acqua e di riflessi sono diventati un'ossessione. E' al di là delle mie forze di persona anziana… non dormo più per colpa loro… Mi alzo la mattina rotto di fatica… dipingere è così difficile e torturante. Ce n'è abbastanza da far perdere la speranza. Ciò nonostante non vorrei morire prima di aver detto quello che avevo da dire; o almeno aver tentato di dirlo. I miei giorni sono contati… Domani forse"… - Claude Monet, lettera dell'11 agosto 1908 al suo amico Gustave Geffroy

Gisèle Hurtaud | Pastel artist

Gisèle Hurtaud was born in Charente-Maritime, France.

She lives in the French Atlantic coastal town of La Rochelle.

She has practiced drawing and painting since 1990.

She began with watercolor but upon discovering pastels in 1997, has remained with that medium.

Emma Minnie Boyd

Australian artist Emma Minnie Boyd (1858-1936) was born into the privileged à Beckett family and became known to family and friends as Minnie.

While it was rare for women in late-nineteenth-century colonial Victoria to receive an art education, Minnie's family nurtured her artistic talent and she studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.

She would eventually become one of Australia’s most significant women artists of the late nineteenth century.

Francesco Bergamini

Francesco Bergamini (Rome, 1851-1900) was an Italian artist who specialized in interior genre, portraits and religious motif painting.

He also received several commissions for portraits and frescoes.

He received his formal training at the Academy in Carrare under the direction of Alessandro Venanzi (1839-1916), an artist who specialized in religious and historical scenes as well as portraiture and frescos.