Painting

INTERVIEW | Yanqing Pei

INTERVIEW | Yanqing Pei

Yanqing Pei works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her practice is an exploration of the intimate symbiotic relationship between human beings and their surroundings with a focus on nature, as well as imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters.

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

Jiaming Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in America. He is an avid observer and constantly draws inspiration from the space and dynamics around him.In his latest series, Space #, Zhang uses simple lines to express his environmental awareness on canvas. Sensual and innately, exposed to the space, each painting carries its own emotional tone and narrative - just like every inch of air, with a unique smell, movement, and mood.

INTERVIEW | Kwong Kwok Wai

INTERVIEW | Kwong Kwok Wai

Kwong is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on oil painting and fiction writing. After learning the basics from art teachers, he developed his own artistic approach while serving in the journalistic field for 30 years. He usually starts with concepts in his painting process, and concepts are converted into symbols, which he uses to build up a connection between contemporary art and memories, history and his community.

INTERVIEW | Anita Tiwary

INTERVIEW | Anita Tiwary

Anita Tiwary is an Indian visual artist, currently based in New Delhi. Anita Tiwary's paintings are the thread of her inner journey of known, unknown, and beyond for an eternity which reflects in her Soulscapes, Dream Narratives, and Abstract representational art. Anita Tiwary's work is about the interconnection of all kinds of beings with nature and the universe.

INTERVIEW | Ettore Albert

INTERVIEW | Ettore Albert

Ettore Albert’s art is meant to inspire and awaken, question everything, bend the rules, break laws, dissolve the solid and connect the strange. It should animate to play. His art should point out the illusory nature of our transient environment. It's a realization that frees you, that makes you realize that serious is only what you take seriously.

INTERVIEW | Lewis Deeney

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 | Liza Odinokikh

INTERVIEW | Liza Odinokikh

Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.

ON KAWARA: ONCE IS ENOUGH; TODAY SERIES

ON KAWARA:  ONCE IS ENOUGH; TODAY SERIES

Billy De Luca is a non-fiction and short story writer and visual artist practising in Madrid. His fields of knowledge are based in the arts and culture spheres, including fashion, contemporary and modern art, and travel. His cultural background has heavily influenced his perspectives. In this article, he delves into the production and ultimately the core meaning of Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara.

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

Rūta Matulevičiūtė is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She is based in Vilnius, where, with five colleagues, she co-founded the artist-run space and studios "Tapytoju studijos". Her method is consciousness-based creativity with a focus on personal development. For this reason, she focuses on meditation, psychology, ancient traditions, and, most importantly, the broad Baltic mythology rooted in Indo-European culture.

INTERVIEW | Gianluca Lattuada

INTERVIEW | Gianluca Lattuada

Gianluca Lattuada is an Italian artist, who was born in 1988. Currently, he lives and works between Milan and Madrid. The recurring themes in Lattuada’s work are the energy of bodies, eroticism, violence and the transience of life (“memento mori” philosophy). His work has two goals: to give an overview of the issues of contemporary society and to create a new vision of the world that can help taking a step forward tomorrow.

INTERVIEW | Caitlin Smith

INTERVIEW | Caitlin Smith

Caitlin is a multidisciplinary surrealist completing her master's degree at the University of Sunderland. Working with a plethora of mediums, Smith favours relief printmaking processes & painting, acrylic being her preferred choice. At present, her practice explores the figurative narrative of the internalised femme fatale, conjuring fragmented paintings and prints.

INTERVIEW | Xuanlin Ye

INTERVIEW | Xuanlin Ye

Xuanlin Ye tasks himself with finding a new genre of visual expression that is representative of the contemporary Asian geopolitical psyche without the influence of Western stereotypes. The two main strands of his work include taking the imagery of traditional Asian tropes and questioning it on the canvas in a humorous or insouciant way through the physical manipulation of paint.

INTERVIEW | RUNA

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 | Ruth Egon

INTERVIEW | Ruth Egon

Ruth Egon is a British artist based in Scotland. Uplifting and inspiring people through her bold colour palette, she hopes to engage people in their environment and explores nature through a positive and intriguing lens. Taking reference from abstract artists, her landscapes are a tapestry of beautiful abstract space and symbolic representations. She is fascinated by natural beauty and the human experience.

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.

INTERVIEW | Sophie Ruoyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Sophie Ruoyu Zhang

Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.

INTERVIEW | Michael Kwong

INTERVIEW | Michael Kwong

Painting is just like a bridge for Michael Kwong, linking himself and the outside world together. He can express his attitude toward life and his thought about things, and more importantly, he can interact with people through his artworks. He wants to use his painting to spread a positive power to people and bring a better and prettier world to people through his paintings.

INTERVIEW | Haoxuan Chen

INTERVIEW | Haoxuan Chen

Haoxuan Chen is a Chinese artist, based in Changsha. Chen Haoxuan often paints teenagers in different scenes, and those teenagers are symbolic and can be seen as his own narrative about himself. There will also be frequent images of black cats, for whom the black cat is symbolized by the other. These objects are very important to him, and they are related to them, and then uses strong colors to express their concern for their relevance.

INTERVIEW | Allan Linder

INTERVIEW | Allan Linder

Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.

INTERVIEW | Robert West

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.