Eric Mannella is an award-winning Canadian artist and co-founder and Director of Atelier de Bresoles. He is an instructor of Life Drawing, Cast Drawing, and Oil Painting, and has taught students of all ages since 1993. He has an MFA cum laude from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art in New York City and a BFA from York University in Toronto. While completing his MFA, he was offered an assistant teaching position at the Academy under founding faculty member Edward Schmidt. Mr. Mannella is the recipient of a Forbes Foundation Travel Grant and the Prince of Wales Scholarship from the Prince of Wales Foundation. He also received a merit scholarship from the New York Academy.

Mr. Mannella was featured in the 2007 documentary film L'Art du Nu and is represented by Galerie de Bresoles in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and France, and is included in many private and corporate collections. He has given artist talks and painting demonstrations at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Algonquin College, and Concordia University. He attended a special anatomical seminar in the dissection laboratory at Yale University. Mr. Mannella is related to Sir William Orpen, an important portrait artist of Irish descent, active in London in the early 20th century.

Allana Benham is a contemporary figurative painter and co-founder and Director of Atelier de Bresoles. She is an instructor of Cast Drawing, Historical Techniques of Drawing, and Landscape Painting, and a specialist in artistic anatomy, teaching classes in Anatomical Drawing and Ecorche Sculpture. She has taught specialized courses for Ubisoft in addition to her teaching at Atelier de Bresoles.

Ms. Benham has an MFA cum laude from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy, and a BA in Museum Studies from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She published a print and digital catalogue of the Minassian Collection of Persian, Islamic, and Mughal Miniature Paintings while at Brown University. Ms. Benham also studied landscape painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. She has attended dissection laboratories and observed surgeries for her anatomical research and is currently compiling a book on artistic anatomy and figure drawing. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Canada, and she has been invited to give artists talks and demonstrations at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Algonquin College, and the Beaconsfield Artists Association.