Marine painters 21st century
Francois Boisrond is a contemporary French painter. He studied from 1977 to 1980 at the National School of decorative Arts. In 1981 he became involved in the Free Figuration movement. Inspired by visual products (advertising products, posters, stickers, video games etc.), cartoon characters, and by using acrylic paint, Francois Boisrond’s works are colourful, figurative and enigmatic, and his simplified shapes are often outlined in black. He portrays mainly characters, frequently symbolic in everyday situations, but he also depicts urban, maritime or rural landscapes. Besides this Boisrond creates humanitarian and publicity posters. Since the 1990’s the artist has become interested in an imaginary public and the everyday life that invades each and every one of us.
Bernard Chaet was an American artist. Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet's works are in the permanent collections of many important museums. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. Having studied with Zerbe, a father of Boston Expressionism, Chaet's early works certainly adhere to the techniques and philosophy of the school.
Detlev James Foth is a German painter. He studied free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 to 1985. During the second semester his first solo exhibition took place at the Galeria de Arte Sala Goya in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 2001 he received an invitation from the Foreign Office in Berlin to hold a solo exhibition at the German Business Club in São Paulo, Brazil. He was the first German artist to have a solo exhibition at the Portuguese Cultural Institute (Instituto Camões) in Luanda, Angola. In 2012 the painter had, among other things, a solo exhibition at the Arthropologie Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. His works can be found in private collections and in public spaces. In addition to painting, Detlev Foth deals with literature and has published numerous plays, novels, short stories and poems.
Frauke Gloyer is a contemporary German artist. She studied freehand painting at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. She has been working as a freelance artist since 1988.
Frauke Gloyer's work includes expressionist landscapes, still lifes, portraits and animal studies.
Antonio Gravina was an Italian painter. He was born in Naples and studied at the Art Institute in that city. The setting, the chromatic range, makes his work a valuable item to collectors the world over. His subjects are hugely varied. Quiet bays bathed in sunlight, the fishermen carefully mending their nets, the transparent emerald sea reflecting the clear sky; or his paintings of stormy seas, portrayed with vivid, essential, sharp brush strokes, those heavy grey skies warning of an imminent storm. Unforgettable too, his restful spring time parks, his characteristically colourful Parisian bistro customers, his sunny cottage scenes with their softness and warmth. All his paintings bring to mind the masterpieces of the great 18th century artists, and yet his work is very much of the 21st century. He has had 48 exhibitions in Rome, Naples, Frankfurt, Sydney and Vancouver as well as occasional ones at Stewart Gallery in England.
Patrice Marchal is a contemporary French artist. Born in Abidjan, he then spent his childhood in Morocco. This look accustomed to wide open spaces, vast blue skies and distant horizons, the artist will transport them to France and transpose them into other landscapes, in the tradition of the painters of the Barbizon School. Self-taught painter, Patrice Marchal paints freely, opening up to everything and marveling at the beauty of the nature that surrounds us!
Jamie Medlin is a British marine artist living and working in Cornwall.
He studied at Falmouth School of Art and Design and in Australia. Combining his two passions, painting and yachting, Medlin creates photorealistic seascapes with picturesque yachts. The artist is talented at capturing the nuances of light, which changes every minute and depends on the time of day and weather.
Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski (Russian: Леонид Яковлевич Межерицкий) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Israeli artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter who specialized in oil painting, a representative of the South Russian (Odessa) school.
Leonid Mezheritski created mainly plein air landscapes, and also worked in the genres of portraiture and still life. His style was based on the coloristic systems of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. His works can be found in state art museums in Ukraine and private collections in various countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, England, Israel and Russia.
Stephen J. Renard is a British marine painter.
Early in his career, Renard worked as a freelance illustrator and also made a living as a portrait painter. In the 1980s Renard developed a passion for sailing, which inspired a new genre and he eventually became one of the world's best known contemporary marine artists, specializing in classic racing yachts.
Renard's work is held in many private and corporate collections around the world.
Gesa Will is a contemporary German artist. 1965-1969 studied painting and graphics in Cologne and Munich. She undertook study trips to France, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Since 1970 she has been working as a freelance artist. Has his own graphic design studio in Munich. She paints plants, landscapes, still lifes, portraits.