Thomas Bossard was born in Poitiers, France and studied Graphic Arts from 1987 to 1993 at the Institut Saint Luc à Tournai in Belgium. He worked for several years at the Théâtre du Capitole of Toulouse as a painter-decorator where he was able to express his artistic ability in all its richness by way of illustration, painting, scenography, frescoes, photography and decoration.

Surpassing the framework of satire akin to a fable or children’s nursery rhyme, his work takes us into a tragi-comic universe in which laughter only makes sense if it can at any time raise in us a feeling of empathy, or perhaps even more, a compassion or kindness towards the weaknesses of being human.

From his main studio in Saussignac, France he produces joyous paintings full of vibrancy and flourish. His bold brushstrokes and marks are energetic and vital. His style pays homage to the Post Impressionists, with echoes of Van Gogh’s swirling stars and Cezanne’s pictorial flatness. The brilliant palette inspired by Fauve era Matisse and Derain. As a painter Michael experiments and plays with abstraction, yet the work retains presentation. His subject matter of floral still lives, sea views from balconies and intimate townscapes reflects his ‘joie de vivre’. It is a world of beauty where the senses are delighted by the fragrance upon a summer breeze. Memories and moment captured in vivid expressions of painterly gestures.

Craig Alan was born in 1971 in San Bernardino, California. Though always drawn to art, Alan’s creativity did not fully develop until his family transferred to New Orleans while he was a child. Inspired by the city’s enthusiasm for creative expression, he began exploring his own innovative impulses.

Alan’s collections run the gamut from abstract expressionism to haunting, graphic realism, each one a reflection of its creator’s unique vision. His prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic knowledge and keen aesthetic sense, one developed not through intensive schooling but deep within recesses of this artist’s brilliant mind.