Liu Yuanshou

One of China's most famous contemporary painters, and member of the 'Artists Association of Beijing', Liu Yuanshou was born in Beijing, China. Awarded at many prestigious exhibitions in Asia. Realist painter, mostly painting young women, draped in scarlet red silk. He now lives in the Jiangsu region, as do his young female models. These young women are seductive, but seem to be desperate and struggling with their inner selves.

Maria Flores

Maria Flores was born in Lisbon, Portugal 1979. As an artist, she combines different languages of plastic arts. Creating objects, costumes and staging imaginary scenes, result in pictures that eventually will be digitally edited. Now she includes paintings and drawings into her images.
Maria Flores; 'In my paintings I am able to express my feelings of sadness and the naive feeling of childhood as if in another universe. By contrast in the photos there is a more ironic and metaphoric background. Stories that are only possible in our imagination and that I am able bring them to live, this way I live through them by dressing up and being in their skin."
Came across Maria Flores' work sometime ago, she had a project gong on with José De Almeida, called 'Four Hands Photo'. But there is little left to be found on the internet about Four Hands Photo.

 Some of the work returns, see here.

Duong Quoc Dinh

Duong Quoc Dinh; an award winning Vietnamese photographer returned to his first passion, 'painting'. And familiar with the bare female form he decided on what his canvas would be.
His first canvas was his wife and soon other women followed. His first submission, entering his new style photography into an international contest, was impressive enough to win another award.
"The line between nudity and pornography remains blurry for many in Vietnam," Dinh Says, "If a photographer isn't qualified enough and he doesn't have a proper concept of beauty, he can easily cross that line!"

“Photography created my international reputation,” Dinh says. “But painting is my life.”

 Duong Quoc Dinh at work on a female canvas.

Hilo Chen

Born in Yee-Lum, Taiwan (1942). Hilo Chen is a photorealistic painter of the female sunbathing figure. Most of his works are called beach or bathroom followed by a number. Being one of the first photorealistic painter, his large, slightly erotic paintings are in major museum collections throughout the world. The skin tones and the sweat pearls are superb, Hilo Chen definitly likes bikinis

Lee Jin Ju

"Life wanders, but memories remain"; from the artist's note.

'an old midday'

Korean artist Lee Jin ju's paintings are curious and strange. Floating little landscapes scattered with objects reborn from negative memories and events. Her paintings are soft and delicate, a lot of things seem to be out of place and incomplete. Her Quest to figure out in what  way memories survive or what the boundaries are between memories, dreams and conscience, is recorded in these extraordinary paintings.

'restraints-boundries' 

detail; 'restraints-boundries'

 'the material of mind'

detail; 'the material of mind'

 'away to remember'

 'conversation of all those whose lips are sealed'

 'dinneronthegrass'

'island'of'borders'

Monica cook

Living and working in New York, Monica Cook was born in Dalton, Georgia. Her paintings look a bit revolting and grotesque at first, and that may be part of her art. There is a lot of shameless behavior, naked, squirming bodies and well defined slime, but most of all there is the glazed eyes and the translucent shiny skin. Sweaty, bruised, disturbing and fascinating at the same time.
Is it intimate or extreme behavior we are looking at...

David Nal-Vad and Denis Rouvre

"Co-Incidence" is a project by sculptor / painter David Nal-Vad and photographer / filmmaker Denis Rouvre. When Denis started taking pictures of Davids work as a sculptor they became friends.
Denis asked David to paint on some of his large pictures. Giving away the control of his own work and trusting David eventually resulted in "Co-Incidence". The painter, photographer and the model start out on a journey, resulting in a tantalizing exotic image.
David Nal-Vad, Franco-Gabonese working in France. Denis Rouvre is french.