Luciano “Louie” Drehmer

Louie grew up around painting: his mother is a painter, and he spent his childhood watching her work. He holds a BA in Visual Arts from Istituto Europeo di Design in São Paulo, on a full scholarship, after a degree in Graphic Design from PUC Goiás, and taught at IED from 2010 to 2016.

His own work has shown at the Bienal Brasileira de Design, Galeria Choque Cultural and The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, in Asia since 2016, at Art Shenzhen as a selected artist in 2021 and in a solo exhibition in Hong Kong in 2022. He has spoken on craftsmanship and the future of fine art. Before founding Art & See he served as Creative Director at Amazon and Facebook, leading global creative teams.

The idea for Art & See came during an art residency in a remote village of painters, where local masters had spent decades perfecting single styles. Louie built the studio around one rule learned there: every commission goes to a painter who specialises in that exact style.

The articles here come from the same place. They answer the questions collectors, students and artists actually ask about copying, buying and caring for paintings, in plain language, with the legal and technical details checked.

Every article is written or reviewed by Louie. Legal questions are answered from the primary rules — copyright terms, public-domain dates — rather than opinion, and are updated when the facts change. Where an article mentions Art & See's own paintings, it says so.

How reproductions are actually made, and how to tell a hand-painted canvas from a print. What is in the public domain and what is not. How to choose a size for a wall, and which finish suits which room. Why a style needs a specialist rather than a generalist.

He has spoken at international art fairs and exhibitions on craftsmanship, artistic excellence and the future of fine art, and to design students at PUC Goiás on professional practice.

Write to him directly at [email protected]. His portfolio and personal writing live at drehmer.co.