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INSTRUCTORS AT THE DUTCH ATELIER OF REALIST ART ARE ALL CLASSICALLY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS AND GRADUATES OF LEADING FINE ARTS ATELIERS.

Full-Time Instructors
Thomas Langeveld
Mischa Tranquilli

Visiting Instructors
Davide Barbini
Tobias Berman
Giulia Bucciarelli
Tina Garrett
Diego Glazer
Igor Naskalov
Brian Smyth

thomas langeveld

co-founder, drawing & painting instructor

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Thomas Langeveld (Haarlem, The Netherlands 1984), has been active as an artist for over 15 years and began his career as a self-taught artist in drawing, painting, and sculpture. From 2014 - 2017, he studied at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, where he learned a classical method of painting which he would go on to incorporate in his own personal working approach.

His art has exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions in The Netherlands, Belgium, United States, and Italy, and has been sold in private collections throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.

Thomas has made many travels to far eastern countries, where he draws much inspiration for his personal works. His repertoire varies, but he mostly focuses on portraiture and figural works. He was recently recognized as a top ten finalist in The Representational Art Conference 2018 juried exhibition in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

mischa tranquilli

co-founder, drawing & painting instructor

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Mischa Tranquilli (Connecticut, United States 1992) began drawing and painting from a young age. As a child, she realized her strong desire to become a fine artist while studying from her grandfather, Walter Tranquilli, a skilled draftsman and sculptor whose family emigrated to the United States from Italy.

Mischa's desire to pursue a classical art education led her back to her family's ancestral country when she was 20, where she would go on to study at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence. While she was a student, she and her artwork were featured in an August 2016 episode of Campus Italia, a program highlighting students in Italian vocational schools. After graduating from the academy in 2017, she moved to The Netherlands, where she currently divides her time between teaching and painting. She draws inspiration for her art from her own life experiences and her personal writing. Her work has exhibited and sold in private collections in North America and Europe, and she was most recently named the first place winner of The Representational Art Conference 2018 juried exhibition in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

davide barbini

visiting artist / WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR

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Davide Barbini is an Italian figurative painter currently living and working in Florence. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Art in Venezia with a degree in Painting (2010) and Graphic Arts (2012). In 2017, he then went on to graduate from the 3-year drawing and painting programme at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, where he is currently academic figurative drawing and painting.

In addition to his teaching role at the Angel Academy of Art, Davide has also conducted a series of drawing and painting workshops in Italy since 2012 in collaboration with various art institutions.

Davide's art regularly exhibits in Italy, both in group exhibitions and in solo shows, and his paintings are displayed throughout the country in public and private collections. He has worked as a curator for group exhibitions in Italy, with his most recent curatorial role in 2018 for the Palazzo della Loggia's exhibition "Corrispondenze."

tobias berman

visiting artist / Workshop instructor

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Tobias Berman is a figurative artist from the Netherlands. Although he has always been active with drawing, he only seriously took up painting at the age of 17. He has studied throughout Europe, chasing the knowledge offered by numerous world-renowned classical art institutes and instructors, including the Swedish Academy of Realist Art, the Florence Academy of Art, and the Barcelona Academy of Art, from which he graduated.

His studies at the Swedish Academy of Realist Art taught him all the subtleties of the art of drawing, while the Florence Academy of Art provided the backdrop for his introduction into oil painting. Finally, he honed and further improved his oil painting technique at the Barcelona Academy of Art, and graduated from their core programme. With the knowledge he accumulated throughout these various ateliers, he has spent the last years experimenting with different techniques and ways of working.

Tobias' work ranges from a very careful, multi-layered painting approach akin to the methods of the 16th and 17th century old masters, to a more expressive, impressionistic way of working. His primary focus is on the figure, the portrait, and the plein-air landscape. He always tries to have an interaction between the painting and what he sees, searching for a careful balance and play of focus throughout his work. His work has exhibited in various group shows throughout Europe. Currently, he is based in Arnhem where he has his studio, and teaches portraiture to beginners in Utrecht.

giulia bucciarelli

visiting artist / WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR

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Giulia Bucciarelli is an Italian painter classically trained in Florence. After studying under Florentine painters since an early age, she took art classes at the Fine Art Academy in Florence and later she enrolled at the Angel Academy of Art. She graduated in 2012 and was asked to join the faculty members in the Academy's Drawing and Painting Program.

Giulia presently divides her time between teaching at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence and at the Arts in Rome School in Rome and working on her own projects in her studio.

She has her works in private collections and accepts commissions as well as conducts private art lessons and workshops.

tina garrett

visiting artist / WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR

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Tina Garrett (b. 1974) has studied intently and been heavily influenced by the Selective Start Method described in Alla Prima by Living Master Artist and Author Richard Schmid. Tina subsequently studied in workshops offered by Richard’s students whenever possible, including Romel de la Torre, Casey Baugh, Aaron Westerberg, Kathy Anderson, Jeremy Lipking, Tim Deibler, Michelle Dunaway and Stanka Kordic.

Tina’s philosophy on art can be summarized as such: "The best works reflect the marriage of concept and skill, presented by an authentic voice. True artists hold no jealousy, and love great work even if they did not create it themselves. Artists do not own the information that we have been taught, and it is our responsibility to pass it on, as there is never enough great art."

In the course of her serious pursuit of fine arts mastery, Tina has created a growing family of private collectors and commissioned clients in the U.S., U.K., Netherlands, and Mexico.

Tina is one of few master painters teaching the Selective Start Method and can be found painting and teaching private lessons at her Lee’s Summit, Missouri studio. She also teaches workshops and mentors artists across the U.S., U.K and abroad at these and other venues: The Scottsdale Artists’ School, Denver Art Students League, Village Arts of Putney, The Florence Studio, Oklahoma Academy of Classical Art and Crooked Tree Art Center.

Tina is proud to accept a Master Artist designation through the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society Signature Member Guild and an ARC Associate Living Master designation by the Art Renewal Center. Tina is a proud Gamblin Dedicated Workshop Artist and is sponsored by FASO/BoldBrush and Rosemary & Co. Brushes. Tina is a contributing writer to the Art Renewal Center ARChives and Fine Art Studio Online FineArtViews.

diego glazer

visiting artist / WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR

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Born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised in Querétaro, Mexico, Diego Glazer also has a Swiss nationality which exposed him to a variety of cultures from a young age. He is now an emerging artist who explores the never ending possibilities that oil painting offers to create ambiguous atmospheres, albeit tangible, frequently seeking a nostalgic vibe.

Glazer took part in several workshops in Querétaro including a painting course with Mexican realist painter Ramsés de la Cruz. He later began to study a bachelor’s in visual arts at Instituto Allende, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he learned an impressionistic method with Guillermo Guerrero, as well as other pictorial techniques. After two years, he moved to Florence, Italy, where he lived for three years. There he completed the drawing and painting program at the Angel Academy of Art. He learned the academic methods of the 19th century French school of painting, which proved to be essential in his journey as a figurative painter and awoke in him a passion to transmit his vision of beauty.

Glazer has had shows in Querétaro, San Miguel de Allende, and Mexico City. He also won second place in the Sant Angel Painting Biennial with his painting “Circumstances” He currently explores different genres of figurative painting including figure painting, landscape and still life.