Daniela Astone was born in Pisa in 1980 and raised in the town of Porto S. Stefano in Maremma, Italy. She discovered her passion for drawing and painting at a very young age and thus began cultivating this desire. In 1997, after graduating from the Visual Arts High School of Maremma, her motivation for the arts initiated a move to Florence. The cultural city of Florence provided her with the opportunity to deepen her knowledge and love of the art by both challenging and motivating her. Daniela’s first experience in Florence was working in the illustration school. In 2001, she enrolled in the Florence Academy of Art, one of the most serious art schools of Florence. Upon graduating in 2004, she received the painting award, the highest honor of her class. Daniela‘s accomplishments include participation in the exhibition “Realism Revisited” in the Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen Germany in 2003 as well as two successful solo shows with Ann Long Fine Art in 2005 and 2007. Daniela currently teaches at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence and resides in the nearby countryside.
 
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Travis Seymour is an emerging artist trained in the classical tradition. A native of North Carolina, Travis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2001 with degrees in both studio art and Art History. From 2002 to 2007 Travis studied the Old Master techniques of drawing and painting at The Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.
 
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Travis Schlaht (1975) is a graduate of The University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA., where he also starred on the school’s basketball team. After graduation, he moved to New York and became affiliated with the Water Street Atelier and blossomed as a painter under the mentorship of the Atelier’s founder and leader, Jacob Collins.

Travis Schlaht‘s paintings include still-lifes, landscapes, florals, interiors and figurative works, displaying his prowess in all areas of the realist genre. His palette is alluring; ranging from moody darks to sensuously saturated reds, yellows and blues. With confident, academic execution deeply introspective moods are created that are at once personal and painterly. Schlaht‘s subjects have a powerfully seductive quality that draw you in and keep you there to observe and contemplate his carefully designed compositions. His richly detailed still-lifes display both his sensitivity and daring bravura as a painter. His recent paintings of the Catskills, done while teaching at the great Hudson River School, are beautiful examples of the classic landscape. Travis Schlaht‘s powerful paintings stand out, he is a young artist with endless potential and collectors nationwide have taken notice.
 
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