Painter Spotlight: Adrian Gottlieb, a Poet With Paint
Adrian Gottlieb is considered to be one of the best living portrait painters in the world. A true poet with paint, he manages to imbue his works with an exceptional sensitivity that sets him aside from...
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French-born painter Marina Dieul remembers spending more time painting and drawing than playing with other children. Her family encouraged her and she enrolled at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France....
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Carlo Russo, ‘Calm and Peace in a Chaotic World’
Though Carlo Russo (born 1976) had been fond of drawing and painting since his early childhood, the idea of ever making a living out of it never really occurred to him. “I was probably in my twenties,...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Stephen Bauman, the Continuous Search for Art
When Stephen Bauman was young, he used to sneak into his brother’s room to rustle through the notebooks of the grafitti he was making. “I would go back to my room and try to sketch them out in whatever...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Arantzazu Martinez, Dream Chaser
Art is a matter of pure passion for the Spanish painter Arantzazu Martinez. When her craving to paint like the 19th century masters could not be met at the academy in Madrid, she left Spain to study at...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Cornelia Hernes and ‘The Tapestry of Life’
Norwegian-born painter Cornelia Hernes spent much of her youth living on three different continents: Europe, Africa, and North America. She studied psychology at university of Victoria in British...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Renato Muccillo, Distilled Nature
Canadian born Renato Muccillo, son of Italian immigrant parents, started out painting high realism paintings in the late ’80s. He remembers working months on end to finish his photo-realistic pieces,...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Patricia Coonrod, an Inviting Place to Be
After Patricia Coonrod earned her bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved on to the graduate course at the New York Academy of Art. “People were very focused on conceptual...
View ArticlePainter Spotlight: Camie Salaz, Transformation Through Art
Tarrytown, the home of painter Camie Salaz, lies about 20 miles north of New York on the Hudson River, where the great landscape painters Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Sanford Robinson...
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