Allana Benham is an accomplished and versatile artist with a bold vision of the human figure and the landscape. Ms. Benham is is co-founder of Atelier de Bresoles, where she has been an instructor of drawing, artistic anatomy, historical techniques of drawing, and landscape painting since 2003. She 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. She has studied drawing with Steven Assael, Deane G. Keller, and Edward Schmidt, anatomy with Frank Porcu, figure painting Vincent Desiderio, and 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.
