Nikolo Balkanski studied fine art in Bulgaria and Finland and exhibited his first one-man show at age twenty-one. He built a strong following in Europe as a master of portraiture and landscapes, with major exhibitions in Bulgaria, Finland, Sweden, England, France, and the United States. He is highly regarded as an inspirational teacher and mentor. Balkanski's work has been exhibited with Artists of America, the Colorado Governor's Invitational where he received the Collector's Choice Award in 1999, Great American Artists, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale,(Artist's Choice Award 2007), Artists of the West, Bradford Brinton Museum, Arts for the Parks where he won Best Landscape in 1995.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "Expressing the Visual Language of the Landscape"
• International Artist Publishing Inc. 2002
• "Painting the Landscape" Southwest Art, June 2001
• "Selling more or selling out" International Artist, Feb/March.2000
• "Composing with Water" The Artist Magazine. Oct.1998
• "Put it in Print" U.S.Art, April 1995
• "Arts Review", London 1983

Currently available 30" x 40" Oil On Panel Resale $15,000.00

From high atop a mountain peak in Colorado, artist Larry Fanning paints beautiful images, covering a myriad of western and wildlife subjects, including scenes of cowboys living on the American frontier and Native American culture. Larry is also recognized for his renderings of gray wolves, elk, moose, deer, and exotic wild animals, as well as protraits. A self taught artist, he has won numerous awards, and his work has been displayed at prestigious art shows throughout the United States.

Larry was born in Kansas in 1938, and attended Kansas State University, He pursued a variety of interests, including being a radio talk show host, an ordained minister, and a motivational lecturer. He has always been interested in art and began his art career as a commercial artist for the Boeing Company. At the age of 50, he made the step to strictly a fine-art career, painting for exclusive galleries and private collectors.

Born in Colorado in 1932, Dorothy Fitzgerald is a self-taught painter who, by her own account, has been drawing since she was three years old. Her entire lifelong ambition has been to be an artist. In the early years of her development, she visited major museums in the United States and emerged strongly influenced by the great seventeenth century Baroque still life artists and has an abiding fondness for Vermeer.

Her own work, although reminiscent of these influences, bears the marks of her individuality as an artist. Dorothy's paintings have a vital warmth and richness, and an extraordinarily life-like quality.