In ink and brush paintings of waterfalls and one of a tiger lurking under an overhang of snow, he's an adept practitioner of revered old styles.
A former housing activist, Ms. Quinn is an adept practitioner of the arts of municipal power, unrelenting in her negotiations and not afraid to intimidate.
The earliest works, "Yellow and Blue" (1959) and "Untitled" (1960), reveal Ms. Thomas as an adept practitioner of Abstract Expressionism with a fine feel for color and atmosphere and a suave painterly touch.
Art that snares your attention with a cute and playful appearance and then reveals a dark side is a familiar Japanese export, and the Los Angeles-based Asuka Ohsawa is new and adept practitioner of the genre.
Trained as a graphic designer, Dant is an adept practitioner of traditional printing methods, a skill he acquired almost by chance when he took a student exchange place at an Indian university in the 1980s, and was surprised to find himself presented with wood and chisel, unaware that graphic design in India then meant print-making.
García Márquez may not have invented magical realism, but he was its most adept practitioner, capable of mixing the transcendent and the bawdy, the whimsical and the tragic in equal proportions.
The Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill was adept at executing a crash tack to get clear of the Kiwi boat while it was hanging in the air.
The overall landscape is far more important than the individual strokes, and while Ms. Griggs is adept at executing the movement, it is Mr. Larson who, with exceptional precision and elegance, imparts a noble, timeless tranquillity.
Chicago's architectural talent was adept at executing large projects, maintaining budgets, and creating designs that consistently impressed (albeit grudgingly) the critics from the East Coast.
The Ancients were the most adept practitioners.
The end of that story was as predictable as it was unfortunate, because Mr. Allegretti is one of the city's most adept practitioners of modern French cuisine.
