Born in Moscow, Vladimir Sobolev, was awarded his first international art prize at the age of twelve years and over the past forty years has traveled extensively , exhibiting and carrying out commissions in many corners of the world. A former Professor of Fine Art at the Moscow College of Fine Art and currently visiting Professor he remains a truly Russian painter, with aschool of realist paintings as his basis. Admiring the masterpieces of ancient architecture wherever he has been he conveys that special flavor characteristic of each place- be it the walls of the ancient towns of the ‘Golden Ring” of Russia, to the brightly painted facades of Australian cities, the urban landscape of the USA or the gingerbread festiveness of Amsterdam.
Родился в 1952 г. в г. Калининград (ныне Королев) Московской области. В 1976 г. окончил Московское высшее художественное училище ( б. Строгановское) по специальности реставратор. Любимый стиль живописи – "обманка" ( atrompe-l'oel) -старинный голландский стиль. С 1997 г . он является членом международной федерации художников Профессионально – творческого союза художников России. Выставки.
Jean-Pierre Bedarrides was born in Aix-en-Provence on 15 March 1954. From his youngest age he was attracted by drawing an colour, and started a carreer as a technical and advertising draughtsman. He was first attracted by landscapes and by water-colour painting, his first exhibition took place in Aix-en-Provence in 1985. In 1986, a publisher asked him to illustrate a work about Aix-en-Provence in water-colours. Then, highly interested in chiaroscuro and still-life painting, he turned to oil painting. As always concerned with details and the good quality of his work, he makes his supports himself (canvas fixed on wood panels with skinglue and palster) and paints with thinned amber. This technique had been used by the Flemish painters since the 13th.C. After several journeys in Marocco, elated by the beauty of landscapes and light, he realize 2 exhibition in Aix-en-Provence, on this theme where were grouped still-life painting and landscapes