Alberto Korda

Alberto Korda was born in Havana, Cuba on September 14th, 1928. He began his career as an apprentice in the 1950’s to the eccentric studio photographer, Newton Estapé, who carried his pet iguana around in his convertible Chevy. In 1956, ‘The Korda Studio’ was established and became a cultural meeting place for all the main figures of the cotemporary art scene of Havana in the ‘50’s. His passion for photography was fuelled by his desire to meet women... Read More

Marta Gilbert

Marta Gilbert, born in Bentonville, Arkansas, started drawing when she was just three years old. Marta says, according to her mother, her first pictures were of upside down horses' heads. Having the mind of an artist, her mother motivated her to pursue a career as a concert pianist, for which she studied until her early twenties. She also studied violin and drums, but Marta's heart is with her paints. Her paternal aunt encouraged her painting and gave Marta her first set of oils when she was eight.... Read More

Mike Kleimo

Mike, who has reached his distinguished late 60’s, lives and paints in both Seattle, Washington and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Kleimo came to his painting career by a circuitous path. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in advertising art and design from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and worked in a cabinet shop and as a carpenter. After which Kleimo laboured as a deckhand in Alaskan waters on crab and salmon net boats and fished for herring in northern California ... Read More

Roman Mazurek

The artist was born in Malbork, Poland in 1957. He is self taught, with a natural born talent for precise drawing, and has been practicing his art since 1979. Mazurek first dedicated himself to monochromatic art and later explored the possibilities of colours. In 1994 he studied in the workshop of Professor Lobuckov at the Academy of Bellas Artes in Kiev, Ukraine... Read More

Patrick Denoun

Patrick Denoun was born in Paris in 1950. He began painting at the age of eight, at 15 he entered a preparatory academy located in the well-known Quartier Latin. At 17 he was one of 160 candidates from over 3000 applicants to gain admittance to the famous French art school Boulle, where he studied many art mediums and went on to earn a degree in wood sculpting... Read More

Manuel Adriá

Born in Barcelona, Spain at the end of the 50’s, it was there that he commenced his artistic career. At one time he collaborated with the legendary artist Salvador Dali. One marvels at the diversity of his canvases, with Cubist and Expressionism influences melded with his own unique vision. Since 1985 he has been, and continues to be, an influence on the local artistic community, a non-compromising vanguard of post-Romanticism... Read More

Gregory Colbert

Canadian-born artist Gregory Colbert began his career in Paris making documentary films about social issues. Filmmaking led to his work as a fine arts photographer, and the first public exhibition of his work was held in 1992 at the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert showed no films and exhibited none of his art. Instead, he travelled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, Borneo and Antarctica to film and photograph wondrous interactions between human beings and animals... Read More