The drawings that Sam Kelly creates express a raw and energetic approach. He repeatedly works and reworks the image. The surfaces are dense and textural. Often using a somber color palette, his work takes on a mysterious and darkened mood. The imagery in Sam’s work is not pre-determined, but rather discovered through his laborious process.
INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado
Fernando Madera Alvarado is a Mexican artist. His work is mostly composed of bidimensional surfaces: paper of all sorts, canvases, walls, or wood panels. For the last couple of years, his work has been focused on acrylic ink compositions. He also works with digital software to modify his ink sketches and compile them for use on larger compositions.
INTERVIEW | Zhou Song
Zhou Song is a Chinese artist, famous for his hyper-realistic oil paintings. His recent work explores the shifting political and social landscapes of urbanized societies developed according to principles of technological advancement. Imagining a dystopian future, Song’s latest series probes human realities shaped by technology as much as nature.
INTERVIEW | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart
INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip
Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.
INTERVIEW | Nadra Jacob
Nadra Jacob is a visual artist from Santiago de Chile. Her artistic work is based on the representation, through painting, of a series of environments, landscapes, and elements located both in the internal and external imaginary. From the above, a synergy between both worlds is developed that allows her to create images that move between the figurative and the abstraction through the use of a wide color range.
INTERVIEW | Dolores Mephistopheles
Dolores Mephistopheles is an artist born in Zagreb and currently based in Berlin. Her paintings are a direct extraction and markings of her life experiences, with a story behind each of them. Mainly inspired by life lessons and painted with only red, blue, black, and white, almost every work shows an aspect of a human relationship with oneself and others.
INTERVIEW | Wallace Woo
Wallace Woo is an artist from Hong Kong. Fashion makeup artist in Paris, he is also a Pouring Visuals Artist. He works thanks to the shape of water, as the liquid can blend various shapes. Flexibility is a key concept of his work. Life is supposed to be simple. It is only us who make it complicated.
INTERVIEW | Mary Stefanou
INTERVIEW | Samanta Masucco
The Argentinian artist Samanta Masucco builds her artworks from contemplation, dialogue, and interaction with nature and socio-cultural reality. She explores the intimate encounter of elements, cycles, and poetics using paintbrushes, colors, and textures as creationist instruments of the visual gesture.
INTERVIEW | Fo
Fo is a Bulgarian artist based in London, United Kingdom. He works in the field of painting and digital art with a particular focus on gestural mark-making and asemic calligraphy. His main strive is to look for harmony, interconnectedness and explore territories of consciousness beyond the human psyche.
INTERVIEW | Veronika Spleiss
Veronika Spleiss is a German painter, originally from Tallinn, Estonia. She has been working with fine visual arts for more than fifteen years. Her paintings are in obvious chaos, but they have an inherent order and harmony that only emerges on further contemplative viewing. In the end, the work becomes a panorama of a city, a combination of houses, people, stairs with their own order: an order of perspectives.
INTERVIEW | Reiner Heidorn
Reiner Heidorn is an autodidact painter, he works on oversized and mostly monochrome paintings, where he processes the relationship between man and nature. Over the years he has developed his own unique painting technique and gave it a name - "Dissolutio", which means disappearance. His paintings consist of tiny microscopic elements, flowing various shades of green and blue arrange themselves in gentle transitions on the canvas.
INTERVIEW | Dan Petersen
Dan Petersen is a visual artist from New Jersey, USA. His love for the psychedelic has led to largely abstract works that incorporate vibrant colors, trippy patterns, and dynamic textures. Each piece's intent is to challenge the viewer while also allowing for an abstract simplicity, ultimately leaving it up to the viewer to decide how the piece should be interpreted.
INTERVIEW | Fotini Christophillis
Fotini Christophillis is an American painter based in Greenville, South Carolina. She explores the presence and absence of figurative suggestions, eliminating specific details in order to express a dream-like snapshot from her subconscious, a kind of cinematographic film still that’s neither “here nor there”. Her paintings are a reflection of her current experience as she seek to understand where she is and where she is going.
INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov
Sergey is a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. A genre-defying painter passionately committed to exploring the core principles of hyper-realism, he seeks to redefine the genre with his breathtaking works. The Ukrainian artist creates a stunning anthology of works that he sees as a "burst of emotion," forcing the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas.
INTERVIEW | José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez is a Mexican painter, currently based in Durango, Mexico. One of the characteristics of his work is a sense of freedom, so his artwork is surrounded by key characters from his daily life as a group of random characters who tell their own story but at the same time, they combine into one, creating a deconstructed social analysis that critiques our time.
INTERVIEW | WiseTwo
WiseTwo is a Kenyan Multi-Disciplinary Artist. WiseTwo’s artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues. Often referencing ancient civilizations and the invisible connection between people and cultures, WiseTwo’s work reproduces familiar visual and aural signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered murals and paintings.
INTERVIEW | Patrick Vandecasteele
Patrick Vandecasteele explores the physical, psychological and social posture of humans, the various costumes they wear to dress their intimate hiatuses. He tries to restore the spontaneity of human posture, its fleetingness, the unconscious that inhabits a body and its outfit, the links between composure and thoughts, gestures and intentions, mental melee.
He paint our struggle to face others, to approach others, the struggle between our multiple intimacies, between our imperative of life in society, of submission to servitudes and the imperative need for autonomy, individuality.
INTERVIEW | Anastasia Golovneva
Anastasia Golovneva is a Russian painter, currently based in Moscow. Anastasia lived for many years with Khanty indigenous northern people side by side. Her work deals with the Ugric world. Harmonious, but so fragile, it was destroyed in just a couple of decades because of oil production. Anastasia believes that it is necessary to know and understand the consequences of oil production and depicts it in her art.