Rajat Subhra Bandopadhyay

Rajat was born in the famous Steel City of Jamshedpur, famous for its art, crafts and dancing. Colours and painting played an important part in his life from a very early age and he pursued arts with graduation from Government College of Arts and Crafts (GCAC) Kolkata with his debut art show in 1994 at the Chitra Kala Parishad in Bangalore.

Rajat focuses on watercolour and his speciality and strength depicts nature, landscapes and scenes from the environment. Rajat hopes that his art and its messages will draw his followers into a place of balance with mother nature. His brush strokes draw and colour nature that was and nature that is using his brush strokes with maturity and growth both spiritually and mentally with much emphasis on texture, each different form having a different flavour, beauty and texture.

Rajat represents India as it's country leader for FabrianoIn Acquerello, Italy, head of In Watercolour India as well as the Global Brand Ambassador for Daniel Smith Watercolour, USA. Rajat works as a progressive art promoter, teacher and enthusiast for all who are looking for direction in this vast industry.

Rajat's philosophy much like nature is : "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. May we all prosper and grow together now and forever."

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Ramesh Jhawar

Ramesh works as a full time artist in Erode, India. He was born into a business family and thus business was the obvious choice of profession so he graduated in Commerce. However mid-way in his college days, the art bug caught up with him and that changed the entire course of his life.

Ramesh has experimented with various mediums but his beloved medium is watercolour. His paintings are rooted in the impressionistic realism depicting people, places, seasons and times of the day as they actually appear. He has travelled all over India capturing the country's diverse population and landscape in his exquisite paintings.

Randy Hale

Randy is a Colorado artist, workshop instructor, signature member, juror and has had the good fortune of being able to conduct workshops for painters throughout the US.

His introduction to watercolor came about as an undergraduate art major at Principia College above St. Louis where his mentor was James Green, an original member of a coterie of notable watercolourists coming out of Choinard and Art Center in Los Angeles during the the early 1930's. This group of painters were his close friends and had great influence upon his work. They included such notable names as Robert Woods, Rex Brandt, Barse Miller, Milford Zornes and Millard Sheets. Their distinct style has become known as the California school of watercolour.

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Renato Palmuti

Renato Palmuti is a fine artist, illustrator and designer from São Paulo, Brazil. Renato started his artistic career working as an illustrator and art director in several advertising agencies and founded his own studio in 2005. His studies and personal works took him to a more artistic approach in his process, mainly with the consistent practice of the watercolour technique which he incorporated in his illustration projects, studies with life models and in his work of personal expression.

Today, in addition to illustration, he works as a visual artist, and teaches courses and workshops on drawing and watercolour painting to companies, groups and institutions related to art and culture. He is an international instructor for Urban Sketchers and Brazilian co-representative of the International Watercolour Society.

Robert Dutton

Robert Dutton BA (Hons), worked for over 25 years as a professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator, before becoming a full time artist. His studio paintings maintain this ethos and his popular and accomplished award winning style has won many national awards and international acclaim. He is a UK Ambassador for Canson papers (France) and Nitram Charcoal (Canada), and is an associate artist for Derwent art materials (UK) and Unison Colour pastels (UK). Robert regularly contributes to ‘The Artist’ magazine and exhibits with ‘The Pastel Society’ and ‘The Society of Graphic Fine Art’ in London. He also teaches popular adult education classes, workshops and art holidays throughout the UK which are often over subscribed.

Robert Mee

I moved to France from the UK a few years ago. Since then, we have been renovating an old farmhouse. I'm lucky enough to have my dream studio as we converted the barn into an art studio for me to paint a run my workshops.

I have been a full time artist for 10 years or more and since moving to France I have really put my focus into teaching and growing my YouTube channel. This has been a great way to meet fellow artists along the way who also share my passion for art. I travel in a campervan regularly in France painting on location.

Ryno Swart

Ryno Swart is founder and leader of romantic figurative art in South Africa. After working in film storyboarding, Ryno travelled to Paris to learn his love of painting. Upon returning to Johannesburg, he spent four years painting at a ballet company, training his eye and hand in unison with the dancers training their bodies. In his paintings there is a sense of truth and respect that gives depth, dignity and beauty and as a teacher he shares the ideas and concepts that has formed his own art and philosophy over many years.

In Ryno's work there is always one simple message: "This I see, This I love".

Sarah Roche

Sarah has been teaching botanical watercolor for 30 years, both in the UK and the USA and is now Education Director for the Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration program at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and is Founding Director of the New England Society of Botanical Artists. She has exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society, the Horticultural Society of New York, the New York Botanical Gardens and the Smithsonian Botanic Garden in Washington DC. She has won many awards for her artwork, which is included in numerous publications and collections internationally.

Sarah Wimperis

Sarah Wimperis is a traditional figurative artist, painting plein air in oils or watercolour. Her larger studio paintings are completed using plein air reference either at home in her Cornish studio or on her travels in her mobile studio.

Sarah, a compulsive sketchbook keeper, gathers painting inspiration through travel and visiting new places and finds herself drawn to domestic subject matter; complex interiors, markets, gardens.

Sarah was born into a family with artistic roots that began on the Lizard, Cornwall in 1650 and stretched as far as New Zealand. At an early age, she ran away to sea to study Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and graduated with a degree in sculpture. She then exhibited with several galleries including the Portal Gallery in London and illustrated for the BBC and the National Trust.

Sarah travelled the world, painting all the way, to China, Russia, Israel and Norway, living and teaching art in Norway and France. She returned to Cornwall and set up a mural company as well as working as an illustrator while her five children were young.

She has worked as a gallery manager and was the only English artist/ animator who worked on the film “Loving Vincent”. Sarah also works for Artlook Software as Client Support and Artist Ambassador.