Art is a life-giving source for design harmony. Get a dose of design inspiration in the set of wise and powerful ideas from famous creative people of different times.
SEP 16, 2021
W. Shane Logan is a mixed media artist, illustrator, and graphic designer with a passion for creating elegant, impactful pieces capturing female beauty and iconic figures from history.Read More
JUL 6, 2021
FEB 08, 2021
Coming from a family whose entertainment was sketching in the countryside, it’s no surprise that art school was in Vicki Renfro future. She spent her childhood drawing everything from landscapes to boxcars, animals and family members.Read More
JAN 27, 2021
Seek One, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, began writing graffiti at the age of 15 under the name Seek One. Read More
JUL 21, 2020
I love books. My personal collection probably exceeds 1,000 books. I read novels from the classic to the obscure. I buy coffee table books to look at the photos and art books just to look at the art. Read More
JUL 21, 2020
Robert Cardinal, originally from Montreal, has been living on Cape Cod for most of the past fifty years. In the late 1950’s, he left Canada and moved to Greenwich Village. From there, he followed fellow artists on their spring pilgrimage to Provincetown. Read More
JUL 21, 2020
From 1974 – 1979, Ferjo trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts – an institution long-recognized for its tradition in realist painting and sculpture. During this five year period, he began painting cubist-style landscapes in the tradition of the early Georges Braques, eventually moving to realist portraiture.Read More
JUL 21, 2020
I was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 26 September 1970. I matriculated in 1989. In 1990 I enrolled to study a three year Graphic Design Diploma course at the Technicon of the Orange Free State.Read More
JUL 21, 2020
Fabian Perez was born on November 2, 1967, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a teenager, Fabian was fascinated with material arts and fine arts. Therefore, he dedicated himself to studying both disciplines, Karate helped influence his character giving him great discipline as well as opening him up to other forms of art.Read More
JUL 21, 2020
A New York native, Kate McCavitt currently lives and works in Oceanside. She began painting in 1985 after switching coasts, starting what would become ten years of training in Sumie (Asian Brush) with a contemporary Zen style master.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Born in 1976, John-Mark Gleadow had already achieved gallery representation by the time he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1999.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Born in 1958 in Hidrolandia, a small town located in central Brazil, Jozza comes from an artistic family. His mother was an art teacher and instilled a passion for art in Jozza since he was a young child.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
David Bromley (born in 1960 in Sheffield, England) is an Australian artist. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter but is now best known for his painting and sculpture, in particular his portraits, and his paintings of children, birds, butterflies, and female nudes.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
The luminescent beauty and lyrical quality of Richard S. Johnson’s work is what captivates collectors today. “Old Masters” technical virtuosity, pre-Raphael romanticism, and contemporary expressionism and abstraction all combine to create his unique works of touching depth and artistry.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
My work is to paint souls. It is to entice the eye and the senses with sensual paintings which resonate with kaleidoscopic colors. Nicole Mathieu also known as the artist NIKO was born in Montreal. Being submitted at an early age to the influence of her artistic family, she quickly developed a fondness for the visual arts. Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Louise McNaught received her BA Hons in Fine Art from Greenwich University in 2012. Louise McNaught‘s creations feature nature, animals, and the celestial realm in glorious, blazing neon hues, where the animals are God-like, Sublime and ethereal in their luminescence.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Texas native, Ali Mignonne, comes from a family of gifted women. Daughter of well-known artist, Sherri Mignonne, the tradition and love of painting was passed down through the generations beginning with her great-grandmother. With no formal training, she honed her skills by working side by side with her mother and grandmother, studying techniques of artists she admired, and following her most treasured guide: Intuition.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Brian Porter is an artist whose work has evolved from the street to the gallery and from the wall to the canvas. His use of pop culture icons combined with an explosive color palette gives his work a “timeless” appeal and sensibility. Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Thomas Arvid possesses an unerring ability to refine a moment. In doing so he captures our wonder and has become an art world phenomenon. Art Business News (May 2003) credits him with “launching a major art trend…” with his oversized still life compositions of wine and the rituals surrounding it.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Srinjoy Gangopadhyay was born in Kolkata, India in 1986. He received his Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, India in 2010. He also earned his Master’s of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art & Design in Atlanta, GA in 2015. While at SCAD, Srinjoy was awarded the prestigious juried residency at the Elizabeth Foundation of Arts in New York.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Born in 1940s Jersey City. Raised around the skillful art and craftsmanship of a New York City textile designer. Mentored by real American carpenters and tradesmen. Inspired by the nautical vista of the New England coast.Read More
JUL 20,2020
Myung Mario Jung was born on September 14th, 1949 in Seoul, Korea. His promising career as an artist began in the mid-’80s, but his life changed dramatically after a catastrophic fall from a third-story balcony left Mario blind, deaf, and paralyzed.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain.Read More
JUL 20, 2020
Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well-known for his portraits, seascapes, and landscapes. Karl’s numerous accomplishments are evident; You can find his work hanging in over 250 public and private collections, including Interpublic Companies, Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, and the Heisman Trophy portrait collection.Read More
JUL 2, 2020
Steve Tracy was born in Santa Clara, California, in 1953. His childhood was spent growing up in Colorado and California. He was given his first set of oil paints at the age of 10 and quickly discovered that art could free him from the chaos of everyday life.Read More
JUL 2, 2020
Anna Razumovskaya is best known for her classic, romantic figures that carry a sense of elegance and grace. They carry an aura associated with the Renaissance yet due to her signature expressive, dynamic technique they are refreshingly modern.Read More
JUL 2, 2020
Alexander Volkov is a Russian-American oil painter who was born in St. Petersburg in 1960 and has lived and worked in Hunterdon County for 25 years. He started painting with oil as a high school student. From the age of 7 to 17 he attended a special English school and in 1986 graduated from the Department of Physics at Leningrad State University.Read More