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Pieter Wagemans Chairman Pieter is a Flemish realistic painter who respects the traditions of the old masters. He finds his inspiration in nature and objects, which he expresses in the silence of his still lifes. He is noted for his combinations of shadows and old handmade objects, and for his flowers, which give a sense of perishability.
Metta Myers Vice Chairman Metta is an American contemporary realist painter who works with light and shadow to produce sensual and dramatic paintings. Her techniques are based on those of the old Flemish masters, but she dislikes severe lines and color contrasts.
Nicole Alger's work is inspired by 17th c. masters like Ribera and more recent artists like the 19th c. Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt. The mythological and symbolic content of the work blends traditional realism with modern abstraction.
Sergei Aparin, a Russian visionary surrealist, defends man's right to hope and have faith in the existence of a different world that will transform the illusion of dreams into the illusion of life.
Juliette is an American painter whose art is inspired by the beauty of nature. Her aim is to continue the tradition of working from life and the masters by applying historical methods in a contemporary way.
Erica, who is both Finnish and American, is interested in emotional and spiritual content and the quality of light, color, and texture.
Martha is a sculptress, painter, and art teacher who shows her work at galleries in Virginia and Washington, D.C. Horses and people are the main influences on Martha's artwork. Whether drawing, painting, or sculpting, she is always inspired and challenged by these subjects.
Laila Carlsen's paintings have an ethereal quality about them. She paints from a world between worlds, inspired by nature and dreams. Using painting techniques based on those of the Old Masters, she captures organic matter fused with a timeless spirit of beauty and mystery. She was born in Norway, and at the moment shows her work mainly in the United States.
Raffaele was born on the Italian island of Capri into a family of painters and craftsmen. Classically trained, he is a figurative painter whose style is contemporary realism.
Walter is a third-generation Belgian figurative painter. His paintings are stylistically deeply rooted in 17th-century Flemish and Dutch still life; however, they are infused with a fresh contemporary spirit.
Willem is a Belgian figurative painter who grew up in an artistic milieu, as both his father, Victor, and uncle, Dennis, were painters. He is most famous for his classical still life paintings in the Flemish tradition.
Drago Dosen is a Yugoslav artist living in New Zealand whose images, which are both contemporary and rooted in the past, conjure up extraordinary atmosphere and romance.
This internationally known painter from Italy is best known for her beautiful egg tempera paintings and collages.
Jan Esmann is one of the leading Danish artists of contemporary figurative painting.
Rob Evans is an American realist painter whose luminous interiors, landscapes, and narrative works have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and can be found in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Manfred Hönig, a German realist, is interested in the interaction of emotions, associations, and thoughts between the artist and his outer world, which he tries to convey in his paintings by interpreting and changing what he visually observes.
Robert is an American contemporary realist specializing in still life. A master of color, he paints objects infused with life that illustrate human narratives.
Jesper Jeschko is a Swedish figurative painter who specializes in still lifes and portraits with contemporary objects.
Maya Kulenovic is a contemporary Canadian painter who exhibits her work internationally. Her imagery is a product of her classical upbringing, a tendency to look into the dark side of human nature, and a taste for the nostalgic, foreboding, and hesitant, and sometimes the offensive.
Steven Lawler is a British artist whose paintings are fragments of unknown narratives -- stories steeped in atmosphere with characters that invite the viewer to speculate and identify. Created out of a love of all that evokes nostalgia, his work is crafted from an acute admiration of the old masters (Caravaggio and Rembrandt in particular) and a keen interest in cinema, philosophy, and literature.
Dana Levin is a classical realist painter of still lifes, florals, portraits, and interiors. She uses purely visual information to paint by, to create images that are poetic rather than illustrative. Her training is in the lineage of the Boston School Painters and her collection of reference books are mainly from the 19th and 17th centuries.
An American artist, Shannon expresses herself primarily through texture and deep emotional content.
An American photo-realist pastellist, Felix Maxwell tells stories of ordinary people, trying to capture their expression and aliveness.
Terje Adler Mørk is a Norwegian painter working in the tradition of classical realism. Terje often studies the human figure, his favourite subject, aiming to capture the thinking, psychological aspect along with the the outer form.
An American painter, Marian is a world traveler and her work is in private collections in Australia, France, Italy, and the United States.
Uruguayan artist Santiago Paulós paints expressive psychological portraits in oil.
Osiris Rain is an American realist painter who enjoys the tactile play between texture, color, and light to capture the sentiment and beauty of the human condition. Steeped heavily in ancient and personal symbolism, his paintings strive to transcend the boundaries of place and time.
Jan Valentin Saether is an acclaimed Norwegian figurative painter and sculptor who has exhibited widely around the world and is represented in several public collections and museums in Norway and California.
Jose A. Soto is a Mexican painter who uses charcoal, pastel, and oil to show, primarily, the beauty of his country through the depiction of its people.
Ger Stallenberg from the Netherlands has been exhibiting his magical-realistic oil paintings since 1984. While building on the Dutch painting tradition, he likes to stay in touch with everyday visual reality and at the same time reflect the inner soul of life that permeates it.
Erling Steen is a Danish realist painter. A majority of his paintings are highly illusionistic still lifes with clarity of form and strong contrasts of light and color.
Timothy C. Tyler is an American realist painter who has striven to create paintings that capture a moment of beauty. His sensitivity to color, craftsmanship, and "a certain slant of light" has resulted in paintings critics and collectors have delighted in for almost thirty years.
William is an American who paints in the traditional classic style using the academic approach of the Old Masters of the 15th through the 19th centuries.
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--- Rebecca S. Everest
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