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Inspired by Romanian folk art, nature, design, and fashion, Helianas work is created predominantly by drawing with ink and watercolors on paper. #FEMALEART

In 2016 she moved to Bucharest and has been working on a variety of commissions for the likes of L'Occitane France, Google, and has completed the artwork for our Little Gestalten book Easy Peasy–Gardening for Kids.

Heliana Adalgiza's (aka Aitch) 1980s Soviet Romania Traveling through Europe after graduating from graphics at The University of Timisoara, in 2009 she finally settled down in Berlin after years of relocating.

She lives and paints in Middlebury and teaches at Southern CT State University and Paier College #FEMALEART

George Sugarman Foundation and Connecticut Commission on Arts. Since 1996, she has taught and served as visiting artist at many institutions including the Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Hartford Art School and Fairfield University.

She studied painting and art history at Indiana University in Bloomington and received her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art. Her paintings have exhibited widely in U.S. and South Korea and recognized with awards from Pollock Krasner,

Leeah Joo is a Korean-American painter based in Connecticut. Born in 1971 in Seoul, Leeah was raised by a sculptor father and an illustrator mother. At age ten, her family moved to Indianapolis, where she spent her youth..

Rosa Bonheur was a lesbian, cohabitating with her partner Nathalie Micas and, after Micas’ death, with the American painter Anna Klumpke. #FEMALEART

(she made drawings at such places as horse auctions and obtained police permission to wear men's clothes to avoid undue attention). In 1865 she was the first woman artist to become a member of the Legion of Honour.

In 1853 she scored an enormous hit there with The Horse Fair and it repeated its success when it went on tour in Britain and the USA. She became well known not only for her work but also as a colourful and formidable character, outspoken in her female independence

Rosa Bonheur (1822- 1899) French animal painter. She was trained by her father, Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849), and was precociously gifted, first exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1841, when she was 19.

She died in Rome where her funeral was arranged by the Neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova. #FEMALEART

All her life, she enjoyed international patronage such as the family of George III in Britain, Grand Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria among others.

Aside from her popular portraits of aristocratic sitters, the artist depicted many classical and allegorical scenes. She was a prominent figure among her contemporary Neoclassical painters in the late 18th century.

As a young woman, she also trained in Italy where her historical paintings and portraits were well received. After moving to London in 1766, Kauffman was one of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Angelica Kauffman RA (1741-1807) Born in Switzerland, she was the daughter of the muralist Johann Joseph Kauffman. She received artistic training while acting as her father's assistant from a very young age and copying the works of Old Masters as they traveled for commissions.