Mario Loprete:  is a graduate at Accademia of Belle Arti, Catanzaro (Italy). Painting is his first love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he wants to send a message to transmit his message, is the basis of his paintings. The sculpture is his lover, his artistic betrayal to the painting. That voluptuous and sensual lover that gives him different emotions, that touches prohibited cords.  marioloprete.com

Jim Larimer:  was born and raised in a small farming community in midwestern Illinois. Following graduation from high school in the late 60s he spent 4 years in the Air Force. He then earned a BA and MA in art education from the University of Illinois. Upon graduation he moved to the western United States where he worked as a coal miner, financial planner, and hearing consultant before opening a custom woodworking business. He designed and built custom furniture for 20 years while remaining active as an oil painter and photographer. His work is in countless private collections across this country, Europe, and Canada. He currently resides in Parker, Colorado with his wife, Deanna.

Mike Hawthorne:  an artist based in London, born in 1954. He became fascinated by the engraved illustrations in American Civil War journals and the humorous graphics in the mid–1960s MAD magazines. In the 1970s he spent 8 seminal weeks in Kinshasa learning from Congolese sculptors and painters. African music, Soul, and Reggae became his chief subjects. In the 1980s, he began to work in colour with some good results in silk–screen printing. Nowadays, he finds himself attracted to pen–and–ink drawings; occasionally using charcoal and collages. Commercial success has always eluded him, but he never regretted choosing an artist’s life. In fact, it chose him. (See his Instagram page, hawthorne.mike, for examples of his work over the years.

Ronald Frontin:  was born in Camden, Maine, in 1962 and today resides near the town of Rockland. He is a contemporary Maine painter who continues the American realist tradition of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins with his fastidiously rendered figural images set on the coast and in the countryside. His subjects include the hardworking fisherman and farmers of Maine. The artist, who himself, enjoys working in the open air, is interested in painting people who are physically engaged with nature and who are unaware that they are being studied; the opposite of posed works, these images convey respect for the grueling and absorbing tasks of outdoor life