Raquel Di Carvalho paintings are connected with trips, experiences, the closest children. Each of her painting carries a series of data and symbols of ancient ethnic groups. From there a connection is made to current world affairs which sometimes express an apocalyptic extreme. Her contemporary reference is the artist Gottfried Helnwein. Her work is related to psychological and sociological anguish, as well as historical and political issues, mainly with children.

Nadia Ferrante is an Italian artist who has shown her artistic streak since childhood. During her adolescence she attended a drawing and painting course but over the years she mainly deepened her knowledge of the main techniques she uses, soft pastels, oil colors and graphite, by herself.

J. Adam McGalliard, a Contemporary Realist artist, blends classical oil painting techniques with cutting-edge technology to investigate identity, myth, and societal divides. His layered work delves into personal narratives, archetypes, and human-nature relationships.

Daria Solar is a teacher and artist living in Łódź, a member of the team of artists who created the Oscar nominated animation "Loving Vincent". A graduate of English studies and the Artistic Computer Graphics at the College of Information Technology in Łódź. Her main artistic mentors are Professor Ryszard Hunger and Professor Grzegorz Chojnacki.

Marianna Foster was born in 1982 Nikolaev, Ukraine. She relocating to Phoenix, Arizona in 2012. In Ukraine she was classically trained, graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev with a Master of Arts degree. Prior to the Institute, she studied for five years at the Children's Art School in Nikolaev, Ukraine. In addition to classes, Marianna studied for two years painting and drawing privately with famous masters of Ukrainian and Russian art.

Victoria Selbach is a contemporary artist focusing on women. She explores the layers of complexity in individuals and examines our shared generational feminine legacy. Each of Selbach’s works contribute a link in her quest to understand ‘who we are and how we arrived where we find ourselves today’.

Kimberly Dow is a contemporary figurative artist. Her realist paintings explore contemporary narratives, most often she celebrates the lives, secrets and empowerment of women. Her themes are executed with playful exuberance. Dow has exhibited both nationally and internationally, her work has featured in many publications and collections around the world.

Benji Alexander Palus is a painter of closeness, intimacy. His work stands out within the genre of figurative realism for the natural, un-posed feel of his subjects. This is because his oil paintings are extensions of his personal relationships with the handful of close friends that he uses as models. He discards the formalities of classical poses and symbolism in order to better speak to who these women really are, without projecting his own ideals and romanticisms onto them.

DebiLynn Fendley is an artist known for her work in multiple mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography. Her themes include loneliness, isolation, self-identity, and the strength of the modern woman. She is influenced by the work of Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Joyce Tenneson, Steve Anchell, and multiple documentary photographers on whom she dotes.

Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn was born in Detroit, Michigan.  She received bachelor's degrees from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan along with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Boston University.

“I am an Italian figurative painter bringing old master’s techniques into a lyrical, symbolic and oneiric contemporary vision influenced by art nouveau.”

Gwen Manfrin embraces the unconscious body language of the figure and, through a variety of mediums, strives to convey the subliminal intent. Her figures are placed in the frame without context to time or place, allowing the expressive quality of their pose to be the narrative.

Elena Caravela’s fascination with the human face and the contortion of subtle, fleeting and intimidate human gestures culminate in her oil paintings, which portray such moments. These are instances in which we can all relate. Her varied series of works offer heartfelt and again, subtle insights into both cultural and political ideals.

Deborah Scott is an artist/painter dedicated to creating visually engaging figurative works. Scott left a successful business career managing multinational brands, including Cheerios, Betty Crocker, and Amazon.com, to follow her true calling and enrolled in the Contemporary Painting and Drawing Atelier at Gage Academy of Art.

My name is Sheryl Boivin. I am a mother of four beautiful independent daughters. I am a self-taught artist, born and raised in the Sudbury area, in Northern Ontario, Canada. I am of mixed indigenous and European ancestry but identify mostly with my French and Huron roots.

I am a visual storyteller. I tell my stories through drawings and oil paintings. There is usually a portrait of the protagonist in my images and his or her story is told within their environment. Wherever the focus of the painting falls, is where the source of emotions is revealed.

Schappler is an East Coast painter and draftsman with a focus on the human figure. Showing nationally, she is an active member of several societies including the Portrait and Pastel Societies of America, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, and PoetsArtists.

Narelle Zeller is an award winning Australian representational artist, best known for her highly detailed figurative and still-life paintings.

 I have been painting for many years, the seeds being sown when I was a child and my grandmother took me to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where I was able to view so many incredible works of art at a very young age, which had a huge influence on me.   

Natalie was taught painting and drawing as a young child from her grandmother. She went on to study printmaking, including etching, lithography, along with history of art, and anthropology.