Kenneth Zammit Tabona (b. 1956) is one of Malta’s most sought-after artists and watercolourists. Educated at St Aloysius College, he worked for Barclays Bank, Mid-Med Bank and HSBC Bank from 1973 to 2001 in various managerial roles. Zammit Tabona reviewed music and theatre for the Malta Times and Sunday Times from 1975 to 2010; served on the Manoel Theatre Management Committee from 1989 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2004 as Hon. Secretary and from 2010 to 2015 as Deputy Chairman. He is the founder and artistic director of the Valletta International Baroque Festival since 2012. Zammit Tabona has also founded the Valletta Baroque Ensemble and The Monteverdi Project to have locally-based performers execute works by 17th- and 18th-century Maltese and Italian composers in the employ of the Episcopate of Malta and the Order of Malta. Zammit Tabona has also founded yet another annual festival: the Valletta Baroque Opera Festival. He is also a well-known Maltese book illustrator. He has many exhibitions under his belt and his paintings found in prestigious collections both in Malta and overseas. His is an instantly recognizable style using strong colours and distinctive shapes always epitomising the beauty of his land of birth; whether through its landscape, urbanscape, or interiors. Zammit Tabona is a board member of Versailles based Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne and former president of the Association of Historic Theatres of Europe. He has been awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and Cavaliere Dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia by the Italian government for his services to culture. Mr Zammit Tabona was also the founder president of the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Peter Quinn is an artist who seeks subject matter both in the everyday of his own locality and in more far-flung locations. He is well known for brightly coloured watercolours of buildings, boats and street scenes. Peter graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1986 and now lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he divides his time between painting and teaching Art History. Peter has a doctorate from the University of Sunderland, has written on the art of the North East of England and is the current Chair of the Bewick Society. Elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2007 he became a full member in 2011. Elected member of the The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2023. His paintings have won awards including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute 149th Annual Show in 2010. Peter first exhibited in Malta in 1997 and exhibited there as recently as May 2016. In print his work features in Nicholas de Piro’s The International Dictionary of Artists who Painted Malta, (2002) . Featured artist in US magazine “Watercolor Artist” June 2014: Drawn to Paint by Ken Gofton pp.40-47. In November 2019 ‘Quinn in Malta’ was published by the late Peter Apap Bologna.

Of Slavic origin, Joël Circhansky-Deleuze was born on October 15, 1956, in Langon in Gironde, France. He graduated from the School of Interior Architecture in Bordeaux. The taste for travel and change of scenery led him to practice his profession “around the world" for 15 years. A self-taught painter, he uses the strong colors of the tropics and his know-how as an architect with rigorous perspectives to represent his world vision. In 1990, Joël moved to Florida, USA, and from 1995, he has participated in several major exhibitions in New York and Florida. In September 2000, he decided to "return to his roots" and returned to France, settling in the Basque region. The return, the joy of rediscovering the landscapes, scents and colors of European seasons, influenced his creations. Little by little his passion for painting led him to search for different materials and textures in his paintings. In 2005, he then moved to Switzerland where he exhibited his work at the Galerie des Arènes in Bayonne and was the Guest of Honour at the 10th Salon des Métiers d'Art des Armées du Sud-Ouest in St Jean-de-Luz placed under the distinct patronage of Mrs. Michèle Alliot-Marie, the Minister of Defence. He has now chosen to set up a home and studio in Kalkara, Malta, where apart from painting, he enjoys sailing around the Maltese islands. Joël is the recipient of several international awards and prizes for his art and is currently represented by galleries in Florida (USA) and several galleries in France.