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Artist: Veronika Benoni
Title: Street Life  Medium: Original Mixed Media  
Image Size: 20" x 36"
Price:  £1050   Click Image To See Modern Section

Biography: Veronika Benoni
Veronica liked painting from her childhood. On taking a decision to become a painter, she appreciated that this would require a lot of long and hard study but Veronica was greatly supported in her intention by her grandfather – an architect.
Memories from her childhood connected with the painting and conversations with her grandfather remain the strongest influence on her life.

She studied at the College of Arts in Leningrad and graduated from the college but continued her studies attending the classes in the USSR Academy of Arts.
During one of her summer vacations which she tried to spend at home nr the seaside
She met Ulian Benoni.
Their interests coincided and they turned to jewellery art for some time as Silversmiths,where jewellery pieces designed ct Veronica and Ulian were best sellers in Moscow and Leningrad jewellery stores.
The renowned Central House of Artists in Moscow exhibited their work. The political instability of their then Soviet Union led them to Pradue where they settled in 1994 and Veronica sold pictures strongly influenced by old Prague itself with its fascinating streets and architecture.
In 1998 Benoni established their school of graphics and painting,
In the year 2001 they opened in Mala Strana, Prague central area their first picture gallery.
These days the Benoni school would refer to itself as to a concept of new artistic techniques of rendering the polydimensional reality on a flat picture surface.
The school apprentices directed cy the Benoni masters continue to develop the traditional trends of modern painting,
Alesha Strada, Jarda Khalupka, Natalie Pecha, Ruvim Tartakovsky and Victor Osta are reutable and widely known names of painters belonging to the Benoni school.

Artist: Vichit Nongnual
Title: Entwined
Medium: Limited Edition 6/25    Image Size: 40" x 23"   Price: £1275

Vichit is an award winning artist and a teacher who resides in Bangkok and has won
numerous prestigious awards for this work over the last two decades. His artwork
has also been featured in many European art exhibitions and he is also a master
ceramics maker. Many of the five star hotels in Asia, feature some of his ceramic
creations. He specialises, and is a pure genius, in the production of thought
provoking portraiture work.
Using the inner workings interpretation of the human mind, he seeks to portray on
canvas, what the subject may be thinking at the time. He likes to use monumental
pieces which both catch the eye and scream amazing prescence.

Artist: Nigel Cooke
Title: Rialto Bridge Venice  Medium: Original Mixed Media  Image Size: 36" X 18" 
Price Code: A    Click Image To Buy or See Modern Section.
Biography: Nigel Cooke
Born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, Nigel Cooke joined the Merchant Navy after leaving school and subsequently has held a number of jobs on the road to becoming a full time artist. He sold his first painting at the age of 14 and joined Butlins as their resident caricaturist and entertainer in 1992. He later went on to open caricature concessions on Blackpool’s ‘Central Pier’ and ‘Pleasure Beach’, the ‘Trafford Centre Mall’ in Manchester and Alton Towers. During this time he estimates the number of caricatures completed from live sittings to be in excess of 50,000. He has also worked as a character designer for the Hong Kong based C.I.M. International and remains a member of the National Caricature Network in the USA, a body he joined in 1996. “My art is mainly humorous figurative paintings of people interacting,” he said. “Naturally this has its foundations in my lifelong dedication to portraiture, caricature, humorous illustration and character design.” 

Artist: Nigel Cooke
Title: Side by Side Medium: Original Mixed Media  Image Size: 24" X 24" 
Price: £835   
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Biography: Nigel Cooke
Born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, Nigel Cooke joined the Merchant Navy after leaving school and subsequently has held a number of jobs on the road to becoming a full time artist. He sold his first painting at the age of 14 and joined Butlins as their resident caricaturist and entertainer in 1992. He later went on to open caricature concessions on Blackpool’s ‘Central Pier’ and ‘Pleasure Beach’, the ‘Trafford Centre Mall’ in Manchester and Alton Towers. During this time he estimates the number of caricatures completed from live sittings to be in excess of 50,000. He has also worked as a character designer for the Hong Kong based C.I.M. International and remains a member of the National Caricature Network in the USA, a body he joined in 1996. “My art is mainly humorous figurative paintings of people interacting,” he said. “Naturally this has its foundations in my lifelong dedication to portraiture, caricature, humorous illustration and character design.”

Artist: Alfredo Candela
Title: Happy New Year  Medium: Mixed Media   Image Size: 39" x 39 "
Price:  £1350

Biography: Alfredo Candela

Born In Alcoy (Alicante), in 1959

He attended his first painting studies at the School of Fine Arts in Alcoy, then moved to Valencia. It was here where he attended his preference for marine subjects, being one of his great specialities.
It dominates the colour both in cold tones and the warmest quality that we can observe in it’s bright and luminous marinas, without forgetting the floral themes and the landscapes.
Despite his age, he is still studying at the University of Valencia trying to improve his artistic skills. For these reasons, he is trying with the new tendencies, looking for the modern and young market.
Although he has not lavished much on solo exhibitions, he has frequently collaborated in various group exhibitions.
On his first steps as an artist he did exhibitions in Cultural centers, banks and official institutions, his first individual exhibition was in 1981.
Even though he has participated in more than 100 exhibitions we cite those remarkable ones from recent years.