Thursday, 27 August 2015

Alumnus Update: Cesar Santos



Angel Academy of Art, Florence, alumnus and great friend Cesar Santos is working on a painting-demonstration DVD.




Sunday, 23 August 2015

Alumnus Update: Francis O'Toole



Great painter and Angel Academy of Art, Florence, alumnus Francis O'Toole recently posted on his Facebook page:


Francis, let us know what you are doing these days: we would love to spread the word (also the great Gary Louis Smith!!)

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Shane Wolf



In the last week of July, Angel Academy of Art alumnus Shane Wolf won the $5000 top prize in the first ever figure-painting competition given at the Academy of Realist Art, Boston. As well as Shane, from Angel’s, the ten competitors included instructors and students from Juliette Aristides’s academy in Seattle, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and a San Francisco academy.


The painting is on show at the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown.

Bravo, Shane!!!






Vicki Sullivan





Angel Academy’s recent student Vicki Sullivan’s painting Coming up Roses, a portrait of Actor Kerry Armstrong, has been selected for the Australian Black Swan Portrait prize.




Earlier this summer, Vicki gave a 5-day workshop on the Meldrum [tonalist] Method in Tuscany, outside Montalcino. She hopes to give it again in 2016.



Monday, 13 July 2015

Maestro's 2015 workshop




Maestro Michael John Angel's 2015 workshop was a huge success: 31 students, all immensely simpatici and all hard workers. The results were gratifying in the extreme. Here are some photos:


Women from all over the world in maestro's 2015 workshop










Julie Nord

Angel Academy student Julie Nord is in her first painting exhibition. This is taking place in Las Vegas, at The Arts Factory in Las Vegas's Arts District. Julie will be entering her third year at the Angel Academy in September.

In bocca al lupo, Julie!!!



Hayley Brown

Angel Academy alumna Hayley Brown has been awarded a prize in the 154th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists. The prize was given to Hayley by Princess Michael of Kent.

Brava, Hayley!!!