Pencil Fashion is an exploration in art and design, the theme of Fashionable models always fascinated me and it’s being a long time since I wanted to do something along those lines. I would classify it as a contemporary painting although I really hate doing that….I tried to keep female figure somewhat abstract and stylized but not overdue it and maintain pretty close resemblance to the real human proportions and figurative expressions.

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Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images.  She has explored the different facets of 'image' all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual, computer-generated animated graphics.  It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion.  She gets her sense of space and construction from her father, who was an architect.  Growing up in the South of France where she lived between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, is never far from the light, the color sense and the atmosphere that permeates the South of France.  This is coupled with her studies at the Beaux arts and Decorative Arts, and her sense of humor and of celebration.

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We are proudly represent you amazing paintings by Paul Roberts. Paul Roberts’ paintings have been described as "dreams made uncomfortably a little real". At the heart of his work is always the desire to create energy on the canvas - to draw the viewer into a fragmentary still of a world that is between realities.

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Zhang was born in 1958. He came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on his painting. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and joined a young group of young avant-garde painters who came to prominence during the 1980s. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang belongs to the best-selling contemporary painters in China and is a favorite of foreign collectors.

Referring to the Bloodline paintings, Zhang noted that old photographs "are a particular visual language" and says: "I am seeking to create an effect of 'false photographs' — to re-embellish already 'embellished' histories and lives." He said: "On the surface the faces in these portraits appear as calm as still water, but underneath there is great emotional turbulence. Within this state of conflict the propagation of obscure and ambiguous destinies is carried on from generation to generation."

Obviously influenced by China's political upheavals on his paintings, Zhang said, "For me, the Cultural Revolution is a psychological state, not a historical fact. It has a very strict connection with my childhood, and I think there are many things linking the psychology of the Chinese people today with the psychology of the Chinese people back then."

His portrait like paintings present characters in a very calm almost frozen way,

 "Posing for a photograph, people already display a certain formality. It is already something artificial. What I do is increase this artificiality and this sense of formalism."