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Masterpieces The World’s Finest Painters
As The Guide Artists approaches its 10th anniversary, we’re marking this important milestone with something truly special: an exclusive art book that brings together some of the most exceptional painters from around the globe.
This collector’s edition, titled Masterpieces – The World’s Finest Painters, will be released in January 2026. It will feature over 224 pages of vibrant, full-color artwork in a beautifully bound hardcover format.
More than just a book, this is a celebration of a decade dedicated to art, creativity, and the artists who continue to inspire us. There’s no better way to honor our journey than with this timeless tribute to painting at its finest.
Editorial – Issue 76
Even so, it’s not all struggle. Fortunately, we have an incredible community, artists, readers, followers, who support us, who write with kindness, who believe in our mission and help us grow every day. To them, to you, we owe so much. You are the energy that keeps us going when we feel we can’t. You are part of this family we’ve built with so much effort and dedication.
So, thank you. Thank you for being here, for valuing, for sharing, for trusting. Thank you for making The Guide Artists a living, free, and ever-evolving space.
May this September bring new beginnings, new challenges, and new ways to celebrate what we love most: art.v
Book signing with Carlo Alberto Palumbo
It was a true honor to welcome Carlo Alberto, an artist whose vision and sensitivity captivate collectors and art lovers around the world. The evening became a special gathering point for readers, collectors, and admirers of figurative art, who shared unforgettable moments in an intimate and cultural atmosphere.
Editorial – Issue 75
At The Guide Artists, we feel this month as an opportunity to reconnect with our essence and rekindle what we love. That is why, after a necessary and strategic pause, Collector Masters®, one of our most cherished initiatives, returns with greater strength, clarity, and ambition than ever before. We could not let fade a project born from our commitment to contemporary figurative art, to building genuine bridges between artists and collectors, to offering a platform where quality art is valued, nurtured, and projected internationally.
Hiroshi Furuyoshi | The Book
Hiroshi Furuyoshi's story unfolds like a tapestry of culture, history, and a profound appreciation for the beauty of the past. Born in the historic city of Hiroshima in 1959, Hiroshi's earliest memories are intertwined with the scent of aged wood, the glint of polished silver, and the whispers of stories hidden within each artifact and painting.
Santi Pina: Intuition and Mastery
Born in Zaragoza in 1998, Santi Pina has demonstrated from an early age a profound and unwavering commitment to art, a field he has embraced with extraordinary curiosity and dedication. Though young in chronological terms, his career stands out for the depth
of his creative vision and the quality of his technical execution, positioning him as one of the most powerful emerging talents in contemporary Spanish painting.
Book: Guillermo Lorca . Collector Edition
Guillermo Lorca (Santiago de Chile, 1984) is one of the great international references of the new generation of figurative painters. His work is a great pyrotechnic spectacle of light and colour that immerses us in spaces of fable and legend.
The Surrender: The Journey from Casey Baugh to E.C. Baugh.
For 30 years, Eric Casey Baugh painted with surgical precision. His portraits—delicate, cinematic, almost impossibly real—earned him
a place among contemporary realism’s elite. But in the quiet of his Brooklyn studio, far from the Appalachian roots that first shaped him, the artist began to feel something stir. Not a restlessness—but a calling.
Genevieve May | From Soul to Canvas
Genevieve May is an artist based in New York City, celebrated for her distinctive fusion of abstraction and figurative realism. Coming from a diverse creative background, including painters, authors, filmmakers, fashion designers, sculptors and musicians, she embraces different mediums to convey the human experience. Her work often integrates elements of fashion, music and calligraphic poetry, creating a dynamic interplay between identity and visual expression. She considers herself a storyteller while aiming to achieve an illustrative experience with a contemporary flair.
Santi Pina x The Guide Artists | PRAETERITUM
Santi Pina (Zaragoza, 1998) presents PRAETERITUM, a solo exhibition in collaboration with the publishing house The Guide Artists. At just 26 years old, Pina has established himself as one of the most promising emerging voices in the realm of new pictorial realism, blending Baroque-inherited technical mastery with a profoundly contemporary exploration of the human figure.
Romulo Royo Book Review
We are pleased to present the new book of the Spanish artist Romulo Royo. Internationally recognized, he has an extensive professional track record during which he has refined and perfected his personal style. Inspired by mythologies, classical stories and science fiction, Romulo has been able to bring fictional characters to life and create utopian and fantastic worlds from a modern perspective. Interested in the cinema, the comics and what technology can offer, this book presents all the projects in which the artist has been involved in, from comic book covers to the creation of apocalyptic stories, allowing us to get to know him a little better.
Saturno Buttò Book Collector Edition
Impressive, unique and reflexive, from The Guide Artists we present the new book of the Italian artist Saturno Buttò. Recognized internationally by his strong personal style, this book stands as a relic to every art collector due to its exclusivity and singularity. Already available for purchase, it shows a never seen work of the artists, with unpublished paintings that will shock and mesmerize to everyone who acquires it. Available in two versions, one of them limited and numbered to 50 copies for having the particularity of including the sings of Saturno Buttò and the book's editor, Ramón A. Olivares.
Figurativas 2025 Award The Guide Artists
The Guide Artists is proud to announce its collaboration with the Figurativas 2025 awards, organized by the Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes, which will be held at the prestigious MEAM, European Museum of Modern Art, in Barcelona. As part of this recognition, our brand will offer the winning artist a solo exhibition in the Espacio Princesa at MEAM for two weeks in November 2026. The Guide Artists will oversee the full production, organization, and promotion of the exhibition, providing a unique platform to showcase their work internationally.
Philipp Weber – Looking beyond the facade
Philipp Weber’s hyperrealistic paintings explore the complex emotions hidden beneath the surface—life and death, desire and fear, loyalty and betrayal. Weber’s work provokes deep reflection on existential questions.
Elisa Anfuso | Blending Dreams and Reality
Elisa Anfuso, born in Catania (Sicily) in 1982, is a distinguished artist who lives and works in her hometown. She graduated in painting from the School of Fine Arts in Catania and specialized in teaching painting disciplines. Anfuso has developed a unique style that fuses figurative and imaginative levels in her work.
Guillermo Lorca | Collector Edition
Guillermo Lorca surprises us with the theatrical vibration of his works, in which the human and the animal, as well as the real and the dreamlike, coexist in a complex balance of opposing forces. There is always a special beauty.
Takahiro Hirabayashi | Worlds of Fantasy
Explore the mysterious paintings in this book by Takahiro Hirabayashi, where dreamlike landscapes are inhabited by young women who defy the perception of reality.