Team
Eric Mannella
Eric is an accomplished Canadian artist and co-founder of Atelier de Brésoles. His personal work focuses on portraiture and the human figure. He is an inspiring teacher who has taught students of all ages for more than two decades. In addition to teaching at Atelier de Brésoles, Eric Mannella is an instructor of artistic anatomy and drawing at Syn Studio in Montreal. He has an MFA cum laude from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from York University in Toronto. Mr. Mannella is a recipient of a Forbes Foundation Travel Grant and the Prince of Wales Scholarship from the Prince of Wales Foundation.
Mr. Mannella was featured in the 2007 documentary film L'Art du Nu. He has given artist talks and painting demonstrations at a number of arts institutions including Concordia University, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Algonquin College, and ArtNOW Westmount. He has also been a juror for the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada and the Institut des arts figuratifs.
Eric Mannella's artist website
Allana Benham
Allana M. Benham is a contemporary figurative artist living andworking in Montreal. In 2003, she co-founded Atelier de Brésoles. In 2015, she published the first Englishtranslation of Dr. Paul Richer's book New Artistic Anatomy: Female Morphology. She has an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BA in Museum Studies from Brown University, and studied landscape painting at the Florence Academy of Art.
She is a specialist in artistic anatomy and has led courses at Ubisoft and Syn Studio and lectured at the Academy of Realist Art, Boston andthe Sadie Valeri Atelier in San Francisco.
Allana Benham's artist website
