In the mid 1800s a group of French painters began painting landscapes inspired directly from nature. It was as much a revolt and revolution as anything imagined by today's youth, an approach to painting which flew in the face of the fashionable and accepted Romantic approach of the time, which strove to utilize nature as a backdrop and allegory to the struggles of the human spirit as opposed to a subject in its own right.

An avid sea-glass collector and coastal wanderer, Charlie's work is a meditation on the ebb and flow of the natural world, the evolution of the seasons and the way all of it fits together into a mystical whole. His technique is that of the abstract color field, a contemporary technique which embraces the transparencies of washes of color. His works are meditative and peaceful, playing with the sensation of color and the expansion of the field of view.

Mlinar's art style is best described as luminous. He paints from both life and the imagination, often blending scenes and landmarks of coastal Croatia into vaguely surrealistic postcards from places that might only exist in dreams. His use of flat planes of color is juxtaposed with the intensity of the attention to detail and form which he pays to the concrete representative aspects of his work.

Contemporary artist Carol Young came about her preferred subject matter in an extraordinarily personal way. Growing up, her family had a home on the North Fork of Long Island, New York where Carol spent her summers as a child. The landscape of that place became imprinted on her soul; the lush rolling farmland, the temperamental sea, and, of course, the architecture of old seaside cottages and tumbledown barns.

Jeff Sabol's work celebrates the peaceful joy of being out on the water. An avid sailor since his youth, Sabol grew up at the mouth of the Housatonic River and spent his early years exploring the Connecticut coastline. These early experiences shaped the way Sabol understands, and paints, the water - a place where one can experience the world as complete and whole.

Marinelli studied under the infamous pastoral painter Thomas Kinkade, himself a native Californian, and it was during this time that she began to develop her distinctive blend of realism and fantasy. Christy works in many styles and with many subjects, from animals to boats to hyperrealistic paintings of food, but her distinctive approach shines through in every genre. She is known for the brightness of her images, the saturation of the colors she uses and the almost graphic quality of her linework.

Brien Cole, affectionately known as "The Wine Artist", is a master of the lost art of still life. His works are incredibly detailed, with a photographic and 3D nature that causes jaws to drop wherever they are hung. In the grand tradition of the Dutch masters Cole's work seeks to capture the poignancy of every day moments and the almost spiritual act of sharing food and drink with those you love.

Born in 1962 in Lancashire, England, Adrian Rigby grew up surrounded by nature. Drawn towards art from an early age he has always been inspired by the woodland and moors of his hometown. A keen naturalist, Rigby spent much of his childhood learning about nature through observation.

Craig Mooney’s first art teacher was the streets of New York City where in his childhood he would spend afternoons with his father (himself an artist) learning how to make art with what could be found around them. His father, an amateur artist, taught him how to create oil paintings from discarded art supplies found on city streets. To Mooney, the city was an endless source of inspiration at an early age.

Born in 1953 in Freeport New York, Dan Pollera became inspired to paint at a young age. Even when he wasn't painting Dan actively sought inspiration in the coastal landscape. In 1977 he achieved his captains license and began a career giving boat tours along the Long Island coast. It was during this time that Dan, emboldened by his experiences at sea and the landscape around him, started painting again.