A childhood spent in the jungles of South America, the cultural centres of Europe, and the mountains of Southern China, have all combined to shape the creative vision of British born artist Simon Bull, who has since become one of the world's most compelling living artists.  His work is collected by royalty, presidents, celebrities, and museums as well as a growing number of private collectors who find their lives enriched by the color and emotion of his work.  

He studied Fine Art in England, graduating with honors in 1980.  Throughout his student years his art was exhibited in one man shows and group exhibitions including the Royal Academy in London and his first one man show in Hong Kong.  Many more prestigious shows followed including a major retrospective at Harrods, London;  Paris, New York, San Francisco, Bologna, and Amsterdam.

Nenad Mirkovich was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mirkovich’s desire to express his artistic side led him to begin drawing and painting as a young boy. While working as a portrait painter and magazine illustrator in Yugoslavia, Mirkovich began to receive public acclaim for his gift of artistry.

Early in his career, Mirkovich mastered landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. Bentley House and Somerset Publishing recognized his talent and signed him to their companies, which catapulted him to recognition throughout the world.

After years of capturing some of the world’s most beautiful and recognized locations on canvas, Mirkovich began a new series of paintings, which involved his love of music. Working mostly at night, he began painting with Jazz or Classical music playing in the room, acting as his muse. This mood helped Mirkovich develop his unique style of depicting Jazz icons and Rock-and-Roll legends using splashes of color to emphasize movement and sound.

Mirkovich’s recent piece features the world-renowned rock legends, The Rolling Stones, in celebration of their 50th anniversary as a group. Mirkovich painted this impressionistic piece, which evokes high energy and spot on characterization of each member and delights the senses with each stroke of his paintbrush.

His work appeals to a range of collectors, from discerning investors to music enthusiasts. Some of his collectors include Rick Perry, Bob Hope (dec.), Mike Ditka, Cal Ripken, George W. Bush just to name a few.

His artistic mastery makes him one of the most versatile artists of our generation. Mirkovich now makes his home in Texas.
 

Travelling the globe in a blaze of "colour and character", with a style that is highly individualistic, Kendall is taking the art world by storm, leaving a technicoloured trail that leads all the way back to her home in Buderim on the beautiful Queensland Sunshine Coast of Australia. Painting professionally for the past 15 years, Kendall decided three years ago to enter the export market and has since travelled to South Korea, Singapore, Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Toronto,Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, exhibiting and painting "live on location" for Tourism Australia, Tourism Queensland, Austrade and The Office of the Australian Consulate General.

The sales of her artworks and extreme art performance style so popular, she is often booked 12 months in advance. In the coming year she will showcase her work in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and has been approached to exhibit in Dubai, Shanghi, Beijing and Bucharest ,with an action plan to take her new "Kendall by Design " homewares range to the four corners of the globe. From humble beginnings and after being told at school that "no one makes money out of art", Kendall is managing to create a niche in the art world nationally as well as internationally, selling hundreds of paintings a year. Kendall's paintings are housed in public and private collections world wide, and she has already signed with galleries and art dealers in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and India and intends to spread her wings further in the international gallery scene in 2012. Kendall’s personality is reflected in her art, as well as what it evokes from the viewer. Happy, lively, extroverted and sassy.
 

Anna Ataeva is a multi-disciplined artist with an extensive education, both academic and practical. She first attended the School of Oriental Arts in Moscow and the prestigious Moscow Fine Art Lyceum. Anna received her Masters in Fine Arts from The State Academic Fine Art Institute of Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow), where she studied and mastered multiple painting and drawing techniques. She also completed the “Professional Special Course on Modern Traits in Art" at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (director Joseph Bakstein, Moscow), where she graduated with a License in Management in the Field of Visual Arts. Anna’s contemporary art project for her graduate degree was accepted to the National Museum of Russian Fine Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery.

Anna has participated in close to one hundred art shows and exhibitions thus far in her career. Her talent in art design was recognized multiple times, and her fine art paintings have been exhibited in the art halls of Moscow, Brussels, London and in the United States.

Anna’s artwork has been published and reviewed in multiple publications including: the encyclopedia “The Brilliant Europe" (Russia and Europe); art almanac “The Most Important Russian Artists" (Russia); art newspaper “Isograph" (Russia); art journal “Kultura" (Russia); and, television program “Cultural News" (Moscow, Russia).

Anna seeks to capture an individual’s imagination as their attention flows through the space of her work with effortlessness and grace. She has worked using multiple techniques and styles, including such unusual and complex techniques like as and etching. At this mature stage of her career she works almost exclusively in oil on canvas, but performs commissioned drawings and murals of various sizes. Anna’s vision embraces ethnical, modern and traditional traits in fine art. The unique quality of her artwork is the combination of classical aesthetic beauty, confidence in mastery, and creativity.

Lidia Dinner was born in Kazakhstan. She has shown extraordinary and unique talent from a young age. Her father, a professional musician, sent her to study painting and fine arts at the Art college in Yakutsk, Russia, a very famous art school in this part of the country.

She got her Master’s degree in 1985 and, as a winner of the annual Award of “Best student work”, she was invited to the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, which has the highest rank among all art schools in Europe. Since then, St. Petersburg became Lidia's hometown. Due to her brilliant talent and extraordinary capacity, Lidia Dinner was able to study painting technique, as well as composition, graphics, drawing, and monumental art.

She graduated from the Academy of Art and got her “Excellence” diploma, special Award of State Board of Examiners, and “Big Gold Medal” of the best graduated student of the Academy of Art for her fabulous monumental piece “Seeing off troops of Alexander Nevsky”. Winning her “Big Gold Medal” of the best-graduated student, Lidia Dinner took her turn after the famous Russian painters of the past, such as Karl Brullov, Alexander Ivanov, Isaak Levitan, and Ilia Repin. This work was bought by the Museum of Academy of Art in St. Petersburg. In 1998, she got her Ph.D. in Art, and became a professor of Painting in the Academy. Lidia Dinner has been a member of Artist's Union of Russia since 1996.

The Artist has had more than 10 personal exhibitions. Among them numerous exhibitions held in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Prague, Barcelona, Florence, Beverly-Hills that can be considered as part of her artistic treasury. The paintings by Irina Aleksandrina were presented to several politicians of European countries. Moreover, her paintings are on display in corporate collections of some leading banks and are enjoyed by some private collections all over the world
 

Tim Hovde's history in the arts is intricately tied to his life as a painter. He grew up in Minot, North Dakota, between hills and valleys and next to a major river. The youngest of three children, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, collecting insects, being in the outdoors. He really loved the natural environment at the town of his childhood. He, then, discovered that he had a natural talent for music when he started studying trumpet. He studied jazz and classical music for eight years.

His father, a professional portrait and event photographer, introduced him to photography at a very early age. Tim Hovde’s life was all about music and photography until he came across a book of Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers, when he was a teenager. He saw those images in the book and he knew that was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life: paint. He started experimenting with different mediums and different techniques, on canvas, paper and wood.

He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2011 where he found a warmer climate, a better market for his abstract artwork and where he is now a full time artist. His work is shown in galleries and museums, holds group and solo shows. His work is in private collections in the United States and Europe.
 

Reg Stark was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1942 and began to show his talents as early as the third grade when he received a blue ribbon for his colorful drawing of an Easter lily.  He went on to receive awards throughout his school years as well as other local contests, including those held by the Art League of Houston. He studied commercial art at the Texas Academy of Art before entering the University of Houston to earn his Bachelor of Science degree. Stark has tackled all sorts of subjects and has experimented with a wide variety of media while being inspired by artists such as Magritte; Hopper; Andrew and Jamie Wyeth; and John Alexander, who was also born in Beaumont.  Both collectors and critics alike have noted Stark’s ability to create paintings that evoke a mood of reflective solitude whether through is popular seascapes or whimsicals.  He has exhibited in Houston and Chicago.  Stark lives just outside of Houston with his son and continues to dedicate his work to his late wife, Linda.
 

Raised in Suzhou, China by his grandmother, Jie Zhou’s memories of his homeland figure prominently into his work. He is particularly fascinated by the breathtaking beauty that lies just under the rough surface of simple village life. 

He received his M.F.A.from Academy of Art College in San Francisco and has participated in group and solo exhibitions across the country.