JRK Illustrations. The art of Robert Kotan

James Robert Kotan is a colour pencil specialist from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He found his muse at an early age. His love of the automobile was nurtured first by his father’s profession as an automobile salesman in the1940’s and continued with his brother Andrew’s first muscle car. Robert’s familial connections to the automobile have developed…

Alex Wakefield

Another talented artist from the USA with an eye for motorsport. Alex Wakefield who we featured in 2015 is getting another visit this week. Alex Wakefield is a motorsport artist and enthusiast. As a little kid growing up in Iowa, he’d always been fascinated by machinery, the pre-race build up and the stories of how…

Sam Barrese automotive art

This week, we have another artist from the USA… Sam Barrese is a self taught painter and illustrator. Spending most of his career as a draftsman (his parents could not afford art school) he still approaches each project as a drafting project. Sam spent a lot of years trying to make a living thru art…

Ilya Avakov

This week’s featured artist is from Russia…     Born in the city of Murmansk in 1984 to a family of artists, its no surprise that he chose the path that he has. His mother was sculptor and his father was an interiors designer and painter. He graduated in 2007 from St Petersburg state in…

The art of Gilbert Verani

This week’s artist is from Nice in France. Enjoy, Born in Nice, France, Gilbert was too close to the Paul Ricard Circuit not to get involved. Seeing Race cars coming and going it wasn’t long before he was involved with cars and mechanics. Having had an interest in painting, he decided one day to gather…

Sonja Verducci Art

This week’s artist is from Germany, Sonja Verducci. Born in 1970 in Schwabisch Hall, Germany, she was noticed as a talented artist at primary school. First her teacher noticed this so she was given much harder subjects to paint than her classmates. A keen artist from very young she got her first camera when she…

RK1 Dsign

This week a different approach to Autoart from France…   Thomas Sébastien alias RK1 Dsign, wants to mix technology with aesthetics. A full time Prototypist had to take a different approach to work because of health issues. He decided to express his know-how through an artistic project. Thus, after much thought and after nine months…

Design by Gaber

A different approach this week from Italy…   Design by Gaber is a young venture born in Milan from the union of the passions of two youngsters, Simone Milanesi and Gabriella Crippa. Their passions? cars and art! “This started almost as a joke, we began to outline this project in 2015 after the realization of…

Racing art by José María Villafuerte

This week’s talent from Buenos Aires, Argentina, we give you José María Villafuerte     As you know over the past years we have featured quite a few artists from Argentina. No exception here as you’ll see the passion of motor racing runs deep here. Born in the 1950’s in Buenos Aires, José María studied…

Pierre Studler

This week’s artist is another talent from France… From the young age of 15 he was hooked! That’s is precisely when Pierre saw his first Grand Prix live at the Circuit of Paul Ricard in France. Well, that was 1971 and since then the passion has only grown stronger as you will see from Pierre’s…

F1 Art by Maria H

This week’s artist is from Sheffield in the UK. Enjoy… Born in 1966 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Maria has been a motorsport fan since a very young age and has enjoyed watching various disciplines over the years. She only began painting her passion around 5 years ago when she started studying watercolours in a local…

Dave Wishart Art

The interest in pencil drawing has been with Dave since childhood, but a demanding career on the railroad, a family, and life in general has always gotten in the way of doing artwork for much more than simple enjoyment. 35 years on the rails will come to a close in the near future, and with…