Archives: Artists

Phillip Anthony creates photorealistic compositions through a unique style called Monochromatic Reflectionism. Drawing on his photography background, he depicts romantic landscapes and seascapes in black and white tones rather than warm, bright colors, presenting timeless imagery that invites viewers to connect with his art through their own memories.

Born on December 17, 1978 in Glendale, California, Anthony later moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he frequently drew and sketched during his youth. He attended Full Sail University in Florida for Film and Photography, graduating in 1999, but felt photography couldn’t accurately capture the world around him. His introduction to fine art occurred in his mid-20s after visiting a local gallery in Orlando. When he returned to Idaho in 2001, he taught himself to create photorealistic portraits using watercolors and acrylics. Galleries encouraged him to try oil paints, which led him to experiment with seascapes and eventually develop his signature black and white style.

At his first major exhibition in Key West, Florida, Anthony sold nearly every work available. Within three years, his art was displayed in galleries and cruise ships around the world, and is now represented by Park West Gallery. His work is also featured in numerous hotels, including the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. Anthony credits photographer Ansel Adams for igniting his passion for black and white imagery, while Pablo Picasso, Roy Tabora, James Coleman, Pino, and Salvador Dalí have influenced his artistic career.

Gregory Arth captivates the imagination by exploring the beauty of technology, whether through larger-than-life murals or collages of repurposed circuit boards forming robots. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 17, 1955, Arth moved to Texas with his family when he was 2 years old. He demonstrated talent in drawing and painting at a young age, and when he traveled to Europe in the mid-1970s to visit family, he was awed by the artwork he viewed.

Despite his father’s discouragement, Arth studied drama and fine art in high school, then briefly at the American School in London and the University of Texas at Arlington. He designed sets, theatrical backdrops, murals, and paintings, leading to professional opportunities with movie studios, ballets, operas, and companies including Six Flags Corporation and Cinemark Theaters. Arth and his family currently live in Colleyville near Fort Worth, Texas.

In the early 1990s, Arth began using circuit boards in his work after realizing they bear an uncanny resemblance to an aerial view of a city. Through a fusion of collage and paint, he creates cityscapes, robots, space cowboys, and American flags. He gathers his supplies through recycling companies dealing in computer parts, transforming ordinary objects into dynamic and textured art. Arth is represented by Park West Gallery.

Rory Browne is widely celebrated for his vibrant, richly textured mixed media landscapes that capture the imagination of collectors worldwide. After completing his secondary education in Dorset, he attended the foundation course at Middlesex University, where he earned distinction. Between 1985 and 1988, he studied Illustration at the Chelsea School of Art, though he devoted most of his time to fine art printmaking and mixed media painting during the latter stages of his degree.

Following graduation, Browne worked as a freelance artist primarily within the corporate sector, where he acquired numerous awards for his cityscape mixed media works. His achievements include winning the prestigious Apthorp Award for Young Artists in 1994 and receiving the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award twice, in 1988 and 1991. He was also a finalist in the Hunting Observer Art Competition in 1991 and 1992, earning high commendation, and won first prize in the Artist at Work Competition in 1990.

Browne has contributed to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition on multiple occasions and his work is featured in public and private collections in the UK and abroad, including British Gas, Rank Xerox, London Borough of Barnet, and Hertfordshire County Council. He has been featured in numerous publications, including Country Living magazine. Represented by Park West Gallery, Browne lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire with his wife and three sons.

Alexander Calder transformed modern sculpture with his innovative mobiles and stabiles, which now grace major museums worldwide. Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania on July 22, 1898, he came from a distinguished artistic family—his grandfather sculpted for Philadelphia, his mother studied at the Académie Julian and Sorbonne, and his father helped found the Art Museum at University of California Berkeley. Despite this heritage, Calder initially pursued mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, graduating in 1919.

After working as a hydraulic engineer and draughtsman, Calder returned to his artistic roots and enrolled at the Art Students League in New York City, studying with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. A 1926 assignment covering the Ringling Brothers Circus for a local gazette sparked themes that would resonate throughout his career. That same year, he established a studio in Paris’s Montparnasse quarter, befriending Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Piet Mondrian, and Marcel Duchamp.

In 1929, Calder married Louisa James, grandniece of writer Henry James. The couple returned to the United States in 1933, settling on a farm in Roxbury, Connecticut, where they raised their family. Calder, represented by Park West Gallery, remained there until his unexpected death in 1976, which came immediately after the opening of his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan.

Jean-Claude Carsuzan was born in Bordeaux, France, and discovered his passion for painting at an early age. He honed his skills at the Bordeaux Art School, where he studied for six years. His talent emerged quickly, and at just 22 years old, he held his first solo exhibition in 1960.

Since the age of 13, Carsuzan has built an impressive international presence, exhibiting his paintings in over 100 shows across England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States. Beyond canvas work, he has created numerous murals and mosaics for both public and private collections throughout his career.

His artistic achievements have earned him recognition from the French government, which has commissioned his work on multiple occasions. His sculpture can be found in corporate and public spaces throughout France. Over the years, Carsuzan has received extensive honors, including numerous grand prizes and an honorary doctorate. Today, his work is represented by Park West Gallery, where collectors continue to appreciate his distinctive artistic vision and decades of creative excellence.

Norman Rockwell charmed millions of Americans with his humorous, optimistic, and highly detailed depictions of everyday life and cherished ideals like freedom of speech, civil rights, and acceptance. Born on February 3, 1894 in New York City, Rockwell knew by age 14 that he wanted to become an artist. He studied at the Chase Art School, the National Academy of Design, and finally the Art Students League in New York. He began his full-time career as an illustrator at 17, became art director for Boy’s Life at 19, and illustrated his first Saturday Evening Post cover at 22.

Rockwell’s career with the Saturday Evening Post lasted 47 years and produced 322 original covers, reaching millions of readers. In 1943, he painted his famous Four Freedoms suite, inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech. These four paintings helped raise more than $130 million in war bonds. In 1963, Rockwell left the Post for Look magazine, where he painted controversial subjects like civil rights, including “The Problem We All Live With,” showing young Ruby Bridges being escorted to school on the first day of New Orleans’ integration.

Rockwell, who is represented by Park West Gallery, created more than 4,000 original paintings during his career. He later made lithographs with Circle Gallery and developed a large international market for his prints, paintings, drawings, and collectibles. In 1973, he established a trust that became the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge in Massachusetts. Rockwell died on November 8, 1978, at age 84 in his Stockbridge home.

Edgar Barrios was born in Tacna, Peru in 1960 and went on to build a distinguished career as a fine artist. He graduated from the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes del Perú (ENBA) in 1990, having received an honorable mention the previous year in 1989. Beyond his formal fine arts training, Barrios also studied a diverse range of crafts including batik, macramé, leather embossing, and ceramics painting, bringing a rich understanding of materials and techniques to his artistic practice.

Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, Barrios established himself through numerous exhibitions in Lima and beyond. His early shows included “Dibujo” at the Oechsle Gallery in Lima in 1989, followed by several notable presentations in 1990 at venues such as Club Huanuco for the “451th Anniversary of Huanuco” and the San Borja Community Center for “Nueva Generación.” In 1991, he exhibited “Vivencias” and “Comienzos” at prominent Lima galleries. His exhibition history continued with a 1998 show at the Stella Maris Association.

Today, Edgar Barrios is represented by Park West Gallery, where collectors appreciate his unique artistic vision shaped by both traditional fine arts training and his extensive knowledge of diverse craft techniques.

Gary Benfield was born in England’s West Midlands and trained at Stourbridge College of Art before continuing his studies at Wrexham College of Art. After completing his formal education, he established his own studio near London, where he focused on drawing and painting figures. Within just a few years, his work gained collectors throughout Europe and his reputation became firmly established.

An award-winning illustrator, Benfield possesses a natural gift for capturing subjects as he sees them. His spontaneous approach is evident in the drawn lines and dashes of color that characterize his style. The figures in his work seem to dissolve in and out of their backgrounds, creating movement across the surfaces of his paintings and graphic works. He works rapidly and maintains exacting standards, discarding most pieces and keeping only those he feels are perfected in their conception rather than overworking images that don’t feel quite right.

In recent years, Benfield’s work has begun appearing in galleries throughout America as well as Europe. He is represented by Park West Gallery, where collectors appreciate his dynamic figurative style and spontaneous artistic approach.

At the age of 11, Tricia B. Benson wrote to Walt Disney Studios asking how to become an animator. Disney sent her detailed guidance on reaching that goal, and Benson went on to surpass it. She became an animator for popular television shows and comic strips including “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill” and “Dilbert,” ultimately achieving her childhood dream by finding a home with Disney Fine Art, where she is now represented by Park West Gallery.

Benson combines the beloved Art Nouveau style of the turn of the century with Disney’s cherished characters that audiences have loved for generations. What excites her most about art is line quality, that fluid motion giving a painting life through confident single strokes, a technique mastered by artists like Alphonse Mucha and Maxfield Parrish, and animators Marc Davis and Chuck Jones.

She graduated from Loyola Marymount College with a degree in Film, as animation degrees were not yet available. Benson honed her craft through private seminars, where she was discovered. When the director of “The Simpsons” asked her to test for the series, she was simultaneously testing for “Futurama.” After receiving the call to join “The Simpsons” team, she celebrated by walking away from the other test, never looking back.

Gigi Boldon has been creating art since she first picked up a brush as a child. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and in 1993 made the courageous decision to leave a successful career as a graphic designer to become a full-time artist. Despite facing divorce and single parenthood, her work radiates the positive essence of womanhood and the spirit of love.

Working primarily in acrylics and mixed media on paper, wood, or canvas, Boldon also excels in watercolor, collage, paper sculpture, stained glass, and airbrush. Her artistic inspiration comes from masters including Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Charles McGee, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. She is particularly drawn to the human form, stating that “the human form is one of the most beautiful of God’s creations” and believes the nude in fine art engages viewers differently than in commercial media.

Boldon maintains her studio in Detroit, Michigan, where she works daily from mid-afternoon until the early morning hours. Her art appears in numerous corporate collections including Ameritech and MichCon in Detroit, and Penn Center in South Carolina. She is represented by Park West Gallery and has exhibited widely, including shows at the Museum of African American History in Detroit, Art Expo in New York, and galleries throughout the United States.