Natalia Leonova

Natalia Leonova graduated from the Monumental department of Omsk State Pedagogical University. She studied with talented artists - teachers, such as Dorokhov, Maslov, Dolgushin, Kichigin and continued her creative formation engaged in the fine arts. Creative search originating in the last year at the university, led to experiments with soft materials.

The artist often uses textured bases and skillfully combines them with different materials., especially soft pastel. Natalia work performed usually in a mixed technique based - pastel, charcoal, etc. The author is not afraid to experiment, but her work is always recognizable. It is characterized by a decorative approach, mostly low-key colors.

A favorite theme in the work of Natalia is still life. Her graphic works are filled with the rhythms of light and shadows, ornaments, items that are of everyday poetich- positive. Every job has its own mood, but it's always bold in composition and educated tone of the work.

The artist has a lot of creative works, which is expressed in an active exhibition activities. Her works have participated in most of the major regional and All-Russia exhibition projects, such as;

-All-Russia Print Triennial "Figure Russia" in Tomsk

-Interregional Youth Art Exhibition and Competition "AzArtSibir" in Barnaul

-Interregional Youth exhibition project "Omsk-St. Petersburg.

-TRANSIT "in St. Petersburg, Russian competition for young artists in Tyumen… and many others.

Her work is always distinguished by professionalism and skill. This is confirmed by the fact that for the exhibition industry Natalia were received diplomas of various degrees.

Judy Drew

Australian painter Judy Drew was born in 1951.

Her passion for the Post-Impressionism period and the influence of Japanese art in the late 1880’s, along with her creative sense of colour and form, allow Judy to create beautiful and modern work, even though Judy’s work is contemporary she retains a touch of sentiment in all her pieces. 

Her rich and textured pastels convey her emotion and love for this medium creating refreshing and strong compositional work, which is sensitive to the subject matter.

Judy’s love for figurative work and her sensitive portraits of the Bougainville people gained local and international attention whilst living and working on Bougainville Island in papua New Guinea from 1976-1984. 

After living in Papua New Guinea, Judy returned to Melbourne and continued to concentrate on her figurative work and still life compositions. 

She studied Graphic Art at Prahran College of Art in Melbourne and has been recognized with numerous Awards including the Omega Contemporary Art Prize and the Portrait Prize, Melbourne Savage Club.

With sell-out exhibitions, Judy’s reputation continues to soar as one of Australia’s most talented and exciting female artists.

Sarah Bee

UK painter based in Devon, UK

Sarah Bee´s work has always been informed by nature. She is constantly inspired by the visual commotion and the landscape, and in the paintings, she strive to capture this interplay of light, atmosphere and texture. The combined effect is sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic – and too easy to miss if you don´t take time to really look.

Ultimately, it´s the challenge of portraying the various juxtapositions of the natural world, which gets her into the studio each day; the scratchiness of the undergrowth next to a flat expanse of the sea, or the gnarly trunk of a tree against a brooding drawn too.

Alongside acrylic painting, she developed a mixed media approach when she was introduced to soft pastels whilst painting with the Blockley group.

She found that a layered combination of materials – gesso, acrylic paint, and finally pastel and charcoal- allows her to give her work depth, but also facilitates the kind of energetic, expressive mark making “that I have always been drawn to”.

It is a process that´s always evolving, and often challenging –“But I hope to keep learning as long as I´m painting”.

She generally works in the studio from copious sketches and notes gleaned on location. “I find this helps me to paint the essence of what I´ve seen and felt, without the distraction of extraneous information”

“Really that´s what painting is for me. Capturing the heart of that moment of seeing – distilled, perhaps heightened, and above all – alive.