Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Nestan Mikeladze (b. 1986) is a Georgian-born artist based in Tbilisi. She recently became a feminist, and in her work, you will see how a woman emerges from being blended and uncertain to bold and defined. She uses thin oil paints not only to convey transparency but also because it is an unpredictable medium. Her work has been featured in several art magazines and on Contemporary Art Collectors' platforms.
Judit Nagy L. is a Slovak artist, currently living and working in Switzerland. She invented her method in 2015 and called it "IVVArt - In Vino Veritas Art Method ©". Judit is a mixed media painter who paints with real wine and soil samples from vineyards, to create portraits of selected wines. Judit likes to work with found objects and transform them into high-quality, recyclable artworks, which she calls ReMixArt.
Maximilian Girardi is a young Italian artist. He loves colorful drawings and solid colors because he thinks they give positive feelings and help him to be happy. He is also a lover of patterns, which he draws by hand to convey memories and give character to the works. The artist thinks that "ha.nds," in addition to aesthetics, can communicate messages, emotions, and memories.
Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.
Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Art Magazine Haewon Jang is a Korean artist currently based in New York. She pursues contemporary and indie art, and her artworks stem from her prior experiences, feelings, and philosophical thoughts around life and death. Her illustrations demonstrate the differential effects of emotions throughout an individual’s stages of life, including suffering and celebrations.
Honey is an Iranian artist currently residing in Calgary, Canada. She focuses on art, painting, graphic design, photography, installation, digital painting, poem, and theatre, as well as artistic production and cultural promotion. She explores memories, good and bad, through creative multimedia artworks. She wants to show stories about people, humanity, suffering, true love, and real life all over the world.
Katerina Brovkova is an artist, illustrator, and clothing designer from Ukraine. She believes that art can communicate global values and influence the design and fashion industry. And, of course, art is the best way to convey meaning, special feelings, and vibrations through art. All her work is created when she is happy and full of energy, so all this energy of love and growth is transmuted into her art.
Sangeeta Singh is an experienced artist with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry for over three decades. Over the years, she has worked on developing her skills in both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her journey as a professional artist started with exploration and experimentation with different media and then with educating herself through formal and informal means.
Siham El Kandoussi is a self-taught abstract painter and amateur photographer. Born and raised in Morocco in 1980, she is now living in Kuwait since 2008. Siham is inspired by the avant-garde abstract expressionist artists, the enriched and omnifarious culture of her homeland, and the different cultures and colors of the cities where she dwells her soul in.
Nikki Gal is an American-born digital artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Gal expresses the importance of mental health awareness throughout her pieces, giving those a meaningful yet strong take-away. Her latest series, STATE OF A WOMAN, is a series of digital pieces that construct a firm image of different mental health disorders. Gal's mission is to not only make mental health a topic of conversation but a topic of conversation through creativity.
Desirée Jung is a Brazilian artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found on her website.
Joshua Wells is a British artist, born in Chatham, Kent, in 1998. He is an expressionist artist that bases his practice around the absence of control. His research-based practice has the born motive of filling the blurred line between reality and delusion, conforming with the ground-breaking research into communication patterns and their correlation to psychology.
Mariken Heijwegen is a visual artist, stylist and art teacher based in Rotterdam. She uses painting to make self-portraits and put her emotions on the canvas. Her paintings reflect feelings like panic attacks, fear, anxiety, insecurities, and all mixed emotions. She uses art as a form of therapy for mental illnesses and to shed a light on such a common theme.
Ivan Kanchev is a Bulgarian artist and ceramist. His latest series, Man, where are you?, concerns current problems of the present existence. Everything is fragmented in ecological, social, and political terms. The earth is "notched". The man is small and naked, confused and defenseless, represented with outstretched arms and legs apart - in a poetic and artistic crucifix. It is an object-subject, center and periphery, meaning and time.
Pamela Chrabieh is a Lebanese-Canadian visual artist, researcher, activist, writer, and consultant with 20+ years of international experience. At the crossroads of Western Asian iconography, calligraphy, and digital arts, Chrabieh’s artworks express pieces of wounded memories by sublimating reality. Each icon is an experience of the sublime that lurks within and beyond the ambiguity of traumas in a quest for the healing of life.
Stanislav Bojankov is a Bulgarian artist, specialized in Painting, Drawing and Graphic Design. His work analyzes the Roots, classic traditions and philosophies. Through his work, he wishes to contribute to these local and global cultural traditions and simultaneously create new expectations within the modern individual’s universal perceptions, transforming them into widely understood signs, symbols, and codes.
