painter spotlight

After college, I felt a little lost for a while. My technical ability wasn’t quite what I wanted, and I didn’t feel I was part of an artists’ community.

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 Jacob Collins’s Water Street Atelier in New York.

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.

For many years Maureen Hyde worked as a book illustrator. Her interest for making a transition to fine art painting was deeply stirred by the works of Italy-based Daniel Graves, which she came across at a gallery.