Gwen Manfrin embraces the unconscious body language of the figure and, through a variety of mediums, strives to convey the subliminal intent. Her figures are placed in the frame without context to time or place, allowing the expressive quality of their pose to be the narrative.

Elena Caravela’s fascination with the human face and the contortion of subtle, fleeting and intimidate human gestures culminate in her oil paintings, which portray such moments. These are instances in which we can all relate. Her varied series of works offer heartfelt and again, subtle insights into both cultural and political ideals.

Deborah Scott is an artist/painter dedicated to creating visually engaging figurative works. Scott left a successful business career managing multinational brands, including Cheerios, Betty Crocker, and Amazon.com, to follow her true calling and enrolled in the Contemporary Painting and Drawing Atelier at Gage Academy of Art.

My name is Sheryl Boivin. I am a mother of four beautiful independent daughters. I am a self-taught artist, born and raised in the Sudbury area, in Northern Ontario, Canada. I am of mixed indigenous and European ancestry but identify mostly with my French and Huron roots.

I am a visual storyteller. I tell my stories through drawings and oil paintings. There is usually a portrait of the protagonist in my images and his or her story is told within their environment. Wherever the focus of the painting falls, is where the source of emotions is revealed.

Schappler is an East Coast painter and draftsman with a focus on the human figure. Showing nationally, she is an active member of several societies including the Portrait and Pastel Societies of America, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, and PoetsArtists.

Narelle Zeller is an award winning Australian representational artist, best known for her highly detailed figurative and still-life paintings.

 I have been painting for many years, the seeds being sown when I was a child and my grandmother took me to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where I was able to view so many incredible works of art at a very young age, which had a huge influence on me.   

Natalie was taught painting and drawing as a young child from her grandmother. She went on to study printmaking, including etching, lithography, along with history of art, and anthropology.

Best known for her ethereal landscape and figurative paintings, Kristen Santucci's body of work has the ability to transport viewers to the space between shadows and light, allowing us to witness the transmutation of the changing luminescence.

Nadia Ferrante is an Italian artist who has shown her artistic streak since childhood. During her adolescence she attended a drawing and painting course but over the years she mainly deepened her knowledge of the main techniques she uses, soft pastels, oil colors and graphite, by herself.

Anna Toberman is an American portrait and figurative artist working in the Chicago area. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia, trained as a print journalist and as an artist. Combining these disciplines to become a graphic designer, she founded her own company in 1997 and continued to draw and paint.

After a long while using self-created photographic references for my artwork I decided to only draw from life. My new work is drawn from carefully composed fabric still lives. My hope is that the resulting image gives way to various narrative interpretation depending on what the viewer brings to the image.

Lorena Lepori  is an Italian painter, born in Rome in 1974 and based in the Netherlands. Lorena Lepori's figurative oil paintings have a narrative based on the representation of feminine energy beyond the gender, relating to everybody who can express the power of femininity. She uses cross-dressing to reach out and create iconic alter egos to expand and embrace a hidden part of her models’ personality through look transformation.

Cynthia Cabrera is a Mexican-Canadian watercolor realist painter. At a very young age she developed a sensitivity for drawing and at 8 years old influenced by an older cousin, she asked for her first tubes of oil paint and brushes. A few years later, she discovered watercolor and fell in love with the approachability yet the immense possibilities of the medium.

Barbara Hack’s work is an ongoing reflection on people and their emotions. Working predominantly in painting mediums, Barbara relishes the challenge of realistic portraiture, and her subject matter reflects her love for figurative work. But she pushes beyond realism, as well, in her desire to capture resonant moments in time. Her work pursues figures from the past with their moods and their contexts. Ephemeral figures are momentary presences that are nonetheless powerful enough to make lasting, even shaping, impressions. Barbara attempts to understand these figures and their ephemerality and to share that understanding with others.

A graphic designer by profession, Ivonne Bess (Cuban born) started creating colored pencil portraits in 2011. Since then, her work has been displayed in various group shows as well as in a successful solo show at the start of 2020.

Ariane` Kamps is a figurative painter who works in traditional mediums to create other worldly works. Her work reflects a deep interest in memory, hubris, dream worlds and the human story. Her work ranges from portraiture to surreal dreamlike landscapes that she creates out of her home studio in central Alberta.

Shannon Vaught is a representational realist painter, born in 1996 just outside of Detroit, Michigan. After earning her BFA in painting at the Laguna College of Art + Design in 2019, Shannon moved to Columbus, Ohio where she is currently exploring a body of work focused on the fragility of life and the resulting anxiety and fear related to one’s own mortality.

Amy Gibson, b. 1976 in Alliance Ohio.  She best known for her rich color and tonal hyper-realistic portraits that portray the complexities of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from people she is closest to; she creates oil paintings that capture their quirkiness, sarcasm, hope, neurosis, and ways they view and interpret everyday life and their environment.