Best known for her ethereal landscape and figurative paintings, Kristen Santucci's body of work has the ability to transport viewers to the space between shadows and light, allowing us to witness the transmutation of the changing luminescence.

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.

Anna Toberman is an American portrait and figurative artist working in the Chicago area. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia, trained as a print journalist and as an artist. Combining these disciplines to become a graphic designer, she founded her own company in 1997 and continued to draw and paint.

After a long while using self-created photographic references for my artwork I decided to only draw from life. My new work is drawn from carefully composed fabric still lives. My hope is that the resulting image gives way to various narrative interpretation depending on what the viewer brings to the image.

Lorena Lepori  is an Italian painter, born in Rome in 1974 and based in the Netherlands. Lorena Lepori's figurative oil paintings have a narrative based on the representation of feminine energy beyond the gender, relating to everybody who can express the power of femininity. She uses cross-dressing to reach out and create iconic alter egos to expand and embrace a hidden part of her models’ personality through look transformation.

Cynthia Cabrera is a Mexican-Canadian watercolor realist painter. At a very young age she developed a sensitivity for drawing and at 8 years old influenced by an older cousin, she asked for her first tubes of oil paint and brushes. A few years later, she discovered watercolor and fell in love with the approachability yet the immense possibilities of the medium.

Barbara Hack’s work is an ongoing reflection on people and their emotions. Working predominantly in painting mediums, Barbara relishes the challenge of realistic portraiture, and her subject matter reflects her love for figurative work. But she pushes beyond realism, as well, in her desire to capture resonant moments in time. Her work pursues figures from the past with their moods and their contexts. Ephemeral figures are momentary presences that are nonetheless powerful enough to make lasting, even shaping, impressions. Barbara attempts to understand these figures and their ephemerality and to share that understanding with others.

A graphic designer by profession, Ivonne Bess (Cuban born) started creating colored pencil portraits in 2011. Since then, her work has been displayed in various group shows as well as in a successful solo show at the start of 2020.

Ariane` Kamps is a figurative painter who works in traditional mediums to create other worldly works. Her work reflects a deep interest in memory, hubris, dream worlds and the human story. Her work ranges from portraiture to surreal dreamlike landscapes that she creates out of her home studio in central Alberta.

Shannon Vaught is a representational realist painter, born in 1996 just outside of Detroit, Michigan. After earning her BFA in painting at the Laguna College of Art + Design in 2019, Shannon moved to Columbus, Ohio where she is currently exploring a body of work focused on the fragility of life and the resulting anxiety and fear related to one’s own mortality.

Amy Gibson, b. 1976 in Alliance Ohio.  She best known for her rich color and tonal hyper-realistic portraits that portray the complexities of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from people she is closest to; she creates oil paintings that capture their quirkiness, sarcasm, hope, neurosis, and ways they view and interpret everyday life and their environment. 

Traci Wright Martin is an internationally award-winning charcoal and mixed media artist residing in Greenville, South Carolina.  She shares "The Bank Building Studios," an arts hub in The Village of West Greenville, with artists Janina Tukarski Ellis, Patricia Kilburg, and Barbara Castańeda.

Sarah Warda is an American realist painter from Connecticut. She received her formal education from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York with Harvey Dinnerstein, and workshops with Aaron Shikler.    

Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, print media and drawing. Leutwyler holds concurrent bachelor's degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree.

Brianna Lee American, b. 1987  is a figurative oil painter working in the realist tradition. Her work focuses on the emotional interior world of her portrait subjects, often portraying them against dramatic landscapes that act as a metaphorical narrative of their life. Her work aims to highlight the quiet inward strength and resilience of her female subjects. 

Maria C Jimenez was born in New York City and is a contemporary representational artist. While working towards her undergraduate degree at the School of Visual Arts, she began working as a freelancer illustrating trade and mass-market paperback covers. After graduating, Maria studied in academic schools such as the New York Academy and National Academy and was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio School. In 2017, Maria received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and currently divides her time between teaching high school and pursuing painting/illustration commissions.

John Hyland American, b. 1954

Painter of people, places + things 🎨 Editor @ The New York Times, 1990-2017; reporter + editor @ The Hartford Courant, 1978-90 ✏️ Citizen of Gotham 🗽

Barbara Fox is a painter recognized for watercolor and oil mediums, still life, landscape, and floral subjects. Fox's meticulously crafted paintings are exhibited and collected internationally, have received numerous awards, and have been selected for publication in fine art books and magazines.

Alyssa Fields is a representational oil painter who uses symbolism and narrative to convey the subject of vulnerability and intimacy. She has participated in several group exhibitions including Laguna Beach Art Museum, in Laguna Beach, CA, Brea Gallery in Brea, CA, and AHHA Gallery in Tulsa, OK. She holds an MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design and currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Stephanie Deshpande is a representational painter living in northern New Jersey. She is best known for her psychological portraits and narrative paintings. Her work combines her love of realism with personal allegories.