Sharon Yamamoto

Biography:
Sharon Yamamoto. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour during WWII, Sharon Yamamoto’s parents, who came from different parts of California, were evacuated to a relocation camp for Japanese-Americans in the Arizona desert where they met each other, spent the war and married. Sharon’s childhood home was shared with three generations of her family and on both sides. It was a place where traditional Japanese creative activities were kept very much alive. Flower-arranging, doll-making, sewing, origami, carpentry, music and painting were essential parts of everyday life. From these traditional Japanese crafts to medieval art to Disney, it is narrative art, its symbolism and universal themes, that form the driving force behind Sharon’s work. Sharon Yamamoto has had over thirty successful solo exhibitions in Britain, across the United States and in Spain. She has participated in forty group shows, festivals and art fairs. She is the recipient of five major awards including membership of the Fine Art Trades Guild. Her paintings are held in corporate collections such as Atlantis European PLC and First Arabian Financial. Sharon’s work has been critically acclaimed in magazines such as New Art International and Art Connoisseur. She is a former art tutor at Winston Academy Miami, Florida and Queen’s College London. Sharon Yamamoto divides her time between Miami, US and Henley-on-Thames, UK where she has lived for over seven years.

Artista Sergio Nardoni

Sergio Nardoni

Biography:
Sergio Nardoni, Born in Florence in 1947 , lives and works in Chianti , Sambuca Val di Pesa ( Florence province ).

Artista Daniel Ridgway Knight

Biography:
Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) was an American artist born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine. He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893. His son, Louis Aston Knight (1873–1948), is also known as a landscape painter. The catalogue raisonné research on Daniel Ridgway Knight's life and work is being conducted by Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City.

Daniel Ridgway Knight

John White Alexander

Biography:
John White Alexander (7 October 1856 – 31 May 1915) was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator. “Isabella and the Pot of Basil”, oil on canvas, 1897, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Manuscript Book mural, 1896, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.Alexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents and at the age of 12 became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh. His talent at drawing attracted the attention of one of his employers, who assisted him to develop them. He moved to New York at the age of eighteen and worked in an office at Harper's Weekly, where he was an illustrator and political cartoonist at the same time that Abbey, Pennell, Pyle, and other celebrated illustrators labored there. After an apprenticeship of three years, he travelled to Munich for his first formal training. Owing to the lack of funds, he removed to the village of Polling, Bavaria, and worked with Frank Duveneck. They travelled to Venice, where he profited by the advice of Whistler, and then he continued his studies in Florence, the Netherlands, and Paris. In 1881 he returned to New York and speedily achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Henry G. Marquand, R. A. L. Stevenson, and president McCosh of Princeton University. His first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success and was followed by his immediate election to the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. Many additional honors were bestowed on him. In 1889 he painted for Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank a well-received portrait of Walt Whitman and one of her husband, Jeremiah Milbank. In 1901 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1902 he became a member of the National Academy of Design. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and President of the National Society of Mural Painters. Among the gold medals received by him were those of the Paris Exposition (1900) and the World's Fair at St. Louis (1904). Alexander was married to Elizabeth Alexander Alexander, to whom he was introduced in part because of their shared last name. Elizabeth was the daughter of James Waddell Alexander, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at the time of the Hyde Ball scandal. The Alexanders had one child, the mathematician James Waddell Alexander II. John White Alexander died in New York on 31 May 1915.

Alan Fearnley

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Alan Fearnley es reconocido como uno de los principales artistas de automóviles en el mundo. Nacido en Yorkshire, a finales de 1970 comenzó a alejarse de otras pinturas y se dedicó hacia el transporte, especialmente trenes y al automovilismo.

Jonathan Ahn

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Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in 1977 in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in the Boston area. At the age of seven, he began studying under Nancy Angell-Rickenbacker, a former student of Pablo Picasso and Oscar Kokoshka, and quickly became her star pupil. He studied with Mrs. Angell-Rickenback until her untimely death in 1998. Jung continued studying art in Paris in the late nineties, taking time out to complete a degree in computer science degree at the prestigious Bowdoin College. During this time, Jung produced a substantial body of work, although much of it was stolen in Nice, France. After several years of traveling the world, Jung settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University. Jung is skilled in a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paints, charcoal, and pencil, as well as sculpture. He particularly enjoys portraiture and other figurative works. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he divides his time between painting, studying, teaching and doting on his niece, Eloise.

John Ottis Adams

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John Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters. He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years. He studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years. He settled in Muncie in 1876 and opened a studio there in 1887 after spending seven years doing further art study in Munich with T. C. Steele and other members of the Hoosier Group. Adams was the central figure in the formation of an art school in Muncie, Indiana, where he later participated in forming the Art Students League of Muncie, after the Muncie Art School closed. Adams later (with other members of the Hoosier Group) founded the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Winifred Brady Adams, also a painter, lived and painted at The Hermitage in Brookville, Indiana along with T. C. Steele and his wife. Together with William Forsyth, Adams also instructed American Impressionist artist Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971).