Claudia Newman is a self-taught artist and illustrator from Germany. Her artwork serves as a reflection of her personal growth, encapsulating her profound thoughts and emotions. Her pieces are captivating, evocative, and filled with deep meaning. The beauty emanating from her artworks pays a unique homage to the complexities of human experiences and the diverse forms present in our universe.
INTERVIEW | Donna Gough
Donna Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media, investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of geometry as a universal language and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos. She has exhibited in the United States, Germany, and Australia.
INTERVIEW | Gís Marí
Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.
INTERVIEW | Abdulrahman Naanseh
INTERVIEW | Masha Eretnova
Masha Eretnova is a nomadic abstract artist working with acrylics, texture, and mixed media. She went from corporate to being an artist and chose abstract forms to be her messengers. Her work is intended to be imbued with personal meaning and reflects on identity, character formation, and personality development.
INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi
Judit Bodrogi, a textile artist from Budapest, uses yarn like other artists use their pencils, drawing on canvas with needle and yarn. Her pictures present the pressures placed on us by our own society. Judit often deals with these deep topics through her own emotions, working and processing her own traumas throughout the art.
INTERVIEW | Germán Muñoz
Amidst the vibrant landscapes of Querétaro, Mexico, Germán Muñoz is a painter and product designer whose narrative transcends borders and disciplines. Germán Muñoz invites the world to traverse the multi-dimensional landscapes of his creativity, a journey marked by the interplay of engineering precision, artistic expression, and the enduring bonds forged in the crucible of shared artistic endeavors.
INTERVIEW | Hadeel Alzoubi
Hadeel AlZoubi is a contemporary artist based in Toronto. Her artistic journey is a constant exploration of mediums and techniques. She thrives on pushing the boundaries of artistic expression by incorporating a diverse array of materials. Ultimately, Hadeel's art is an invitation to transcend the chaos of modern life and find solace in the simplicity of her creations.
INTERVIEW | Hushang Omidizadeh
Hushang Omidizadeh, born in 1968, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Germany. In his art, Hushang Omidizadeh delves into diverse facets of human nature, interpersonal relationships, diversity, and human needs. In his series "SURFACE," the artist abandons the use of traditional brushes and instead directly applies color to his models' bodies. These colors are then transferred onto the canvas when pressed, leaving imprints of the models' own bodies.
INTERVIEW | Marco Almaviva
Marco Almaviva (1934 -) is an Italian painter, the protagonist of a long artistic journey that began in Milan in the early 1960s. Evolving from a testament to life's drama, his practice, which he named Filoplastica, became a metaphor for continuous research that plunges into the depths of matter. His works are effectively "oils on canvas" produced without the canvas to paint on.
INTERVIEW | Rou Jiao
Rou Jiao's expertise in graphic design extends beyond traditional boundaries, as she adeptly combines her skills in AI art, motion design, and 3D art to create a truly immersive and captivating visual experience. Based in New York, she has been honing her craft since 2016, constantly pushing herself to explore new avenues and expand her creative horizons.
INTERVIEW | Robert van de Graaf
Robert van de Graaf is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is interested in the connections and relations between the mystical in this world, in all its manifestations (the sea, the sky, nature, human-built environments, light and darkness), the sense and the dimension of the spiritual world and our soul. Each piece gives substance to his ongoing journey to seek meaning in life.
INTERVIEW | Pepe Hidalgo
Pepe Hidalgo’s style is figurative and abstract narrative. His figurative is not related to realism, and it is created from his imagination. Art has allowed him to “free himself” and express himself without prejudice and to dare to do what he feels without expectations. In his work, he mixes his knowledge of astrology, mythology, history, life, and experiences.
INTERVIEW | Audrey Messas
Audrey Messas is a French-Israeli mixed media artist of Moroccan descent. She lives in Tel Aviv and works at an intersection of visual art and embodiment practices. Her creations include photography, acrylic and oil paint, collages, and calligraphy. Her evolving work addresses more urgent collective issues, such as culture wars and ecological collapse.
INTERVIEW | Koo J
Koo J is a South Korean artist, currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She works on photography with a warm color film camera. The loneliness and anxiety of everyday life in the crushed image, while recalling the feeling of excitement, also express various emotions, such as moments of the past and fears and expectations for the future. For painting, she works on abstractions to convey emotions.
INTERVIEW | Rachel Jag
Rachel Jag is a self-taught artist. Exploring the approach to the unknown, trying to get closer to the creative process of turning one flash of inspiration in a single moment into something with a life of its own, is the most fascinating to the artist. Intuition leads the way. The communication between the artist, the source of her inspiration, and what is being created on paper opens up new, unseen doors and unexplored fields.
INTERVIEW | Lewis Deeney
Lewis Deeney is a Scottish painter, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In his latest series, the Emergence Collection, the thread is meditatively layered upon the painted surface. Through mindful repetitive layering, complex patterns emerge and pockets of order disperse across the canvas. The emergent order created by the thread is contrasted with the expressive application of paint creating transcendent paintings with an iridescent glow.
INTERVIEW | RUNA
RUNA (aka Rute Norte) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She is now finishing a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon. Her paintings can either refer to a memory, or be simple ideas and concepts that pass at the moment. As an artist-traveller, she writes travel chronicles accompanied by photos and tells a story through this trimediality: text, photography, and painting.
INTERVIEW | Robert West
West has established a unique painting language that has been created through the combination of original and derived techniques, executing paintings that represent the now as he sees it. In his ongoing series Borderline Painting West works within abstraction and focuses on colour, energy, form, and technical expansion. His broad range of methodology forms bodies of work that are dynamic and non linear.
INTERVIEW | Lin Li
Linda Lin likes both the texture of sand and stone and the mottled feeling of watermarks, so she has been researching how to simultaneously present the simplicity of texture and the fluidity of watermarks in her pictures. She tries to find a strange harmony in this contradiction and finds a space of balance between Western classical sculpture and Eastern traditional artistic conception.