Alexander Kornoukhov

RUSSIA

Biography

Alexander Kornoukhov was born in 1947 in the family of artists.

Antonina Fedorovna his mother worked with V. A. Favorsky and P. D. Korin. In 1965 Alexander finished Architectural Art School where S. L. Ter-Gregoryan was his teacher.

He then entered Moscow Polygraphic Institute together with A. D. Goncharov and P. G. Zakharov. After graduation from the Institute he worked in the Institute of Ethnography of the [...]

Alexander Vasiliev

RUSSIA

Born in August, 20th, 1951.
Artist.
Graduated from Mukhina Art High School, Department of Mural Painting in 1985.
Member of Union of Artists of Russia.
A member of A.I.M.C. (ITALY Ravenna).
Prof. at Dept. of Mural Painting in St.-Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design (former Mikhina Art High School).
Art director of the studio “BARS – mosaic SPb”.
Main works in [...]

Dusciana Bravura

ITALY

Biography
The artist Dusciana Bravura was born in Venice in 1969. She graduated from Ravenna’s Mosaic Art Institute and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
Following a family tradition, she began to work with her father Marco Bravura, taking part in nine important works commissioned by local administrations.
Famous for her works from “A Thousand [...]

Giulio Candussio

ITALY

Name: Giulio Candussio
Place of birth: Paularo (Udine)
Date of birth: September 03, 1945
Resident of: Spilimbergo (Pordenone)
Biography
As a young boy, Giulio attended the Mosaic School of Friuli. Since then, he didn’t have any real artistic formation, so in fact he is a self-educated artist.
Since his early apprenticeship, he developed his unique individual perception of the art [...]

Iliya Iliev

BULGARY

Biography
1931 Born in Bourgas, Bulgaria
1954 Graduated from Institute of Architecture – Sofia, Bulgaria
1955–59 Works as an architect in a Designer´s bureau – Bourgas, Bulgaria
1959–66 Finished the faculty of mural painting at Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria
1966–67 Specializes in Paris, France in George Patrix´s atelier
1969 Becomes professor of mural painting at Academy of Fine [...]

Marco Bravura

ITALY

“Working is my favourite way of expressing myself. I use the mosaic technique because it is based on a continual breaking down, a shattering of the old “Order”; I then reassemble it in another way capable of liberating emotions”.
Biography
Marco Bravura was born in 1949 in Ravenna, a city where he still lives and works. He [...]

Marco De Luca

ITALY

Biography
Marco De Luca graduated from the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna in 1968 and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna where he graduated in 1975. From 1976 to 2002 he taught painting and mosaic with the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna.
In 2007 he taught at the [...]

Nall Hollis

UNITED STATES

Biography
Nall was born Fred Nall Hollis on April 21, 1948, in Troy, Alabama. He received a BA degree in Art, with minors in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and spent four years studying at the Ecole Nationale Superiore de Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He had Salvador Dali as [...]

Pamela Irving

AUSTRALIA

Biography

Pamela Irving is a 48 years old prominent Australian artist and educator specializing in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures. The Sculptures and Murals are made using the finest Bisazza and smalti from Orsoni mosaics. She has also worked for a period as a writer.
Born in Victoria, Australia, Irving was formally educated at the Melbourne State [...]

Pelagia Angelopoulou

BELGIUM

Biografia
Pelagia Angelopoulou  was born in Athens, Greece. She studied painting, history of art and mosaics at the University of Fine arts in Athens. While still a student, she worked at the famous Akrotiri excavation on the island of Thera in Greece.
1984-1992 – Professor of mosaic art at the University of Fine arts in Athens, Greece.
1991- [...]

Sonia King

UNITED STATES

Biography
Mosaic artist Sonia King creates one-of-a-kind, contemporary mosaics for gallery, architectural, community and home settings. Her award-winning art is exhibited nationally and internationally and represented in private, public and corporate collections. Mosaics are created using the finest materials gathered from sources around the world: smalti, gold, marble, vitreous glass, ceramic and more.
Sonia recently created [...]

Toyoharu Kii

JAPAN

“I make mosaics as a skin of architecture. A skin woven in marbles and “smalti” on the surface of the architectural space”.
Biography
Toyoharu Kii was born in Ehime, Japan in 1953. Graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1977 and finished the graduate school of the same University in 1980. At [...]