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.
Junhan Shen is a visual artist born in China and raised in Melbourne, Australia. Shen's creative journey explores the nuances of personal and cultural identity, bridging past and present through her art. Rooted in Chinese aesthetics, she is drawn to the poetic significance of negative space and the fluid interaction of ink tones, which subtly express the fragility of memory and identity.
Bhagyashri Khandare is a self-taught artist who found her artistic voice after completing her architecture studies. She specializes in stippling, a labor-intensive technique that involves creating images with millions of tiny dots. Her art is both minimalistic and complex, and her unique style has garnered attention for its meditative quality and intricate detail.
Lavinia Munteanu is a Romanian architect and visual artist, currently living in the South of Germany. She is interested in spatial concepts and their development over time. As a freelance visual artist and author, she explores the common ground between architecture, art, and literature. Her sources of inspiration range from history to depth-hermeneutics.
Best known as the creator of Morulins, Katerilian's work captivates audiences with its unique blend of imagination and technique. Through oil and acrylic, Katerilian brings vibrant and intricate paintings to life that transport viewers to otherworldly realms. In addition to traditional painting, Katerilian showcases a mastery of illustration, meticulously crafting detailed artworks by hand.
Looking at her artwork, Tyra thinks of her life experiences. Tyra has always loved the scribble technique, and it felt easy to do. She could finally be understood all through the scribbles of a pen, inspired by song lyrics that moved her that day. This is why she creates: to inspire others with her art and to create something that makes them feel connected to the world.
Ariadni Vitastali is a Hellenic visual artist currently based in northern Greece. She is currently working on her latest series of works, which is derived from female characters in ancient Greek mythology but expressed in her own fresh, brutal, and feminine way. This series will be presented in her upcoming solo show in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Stacey (Tingyun) Chen is a celebrated Chicago-based artist specializing in drawing, illustration, digital art, graphic design, and product design. Stacey's diverse artistic endeavors highlight her exceptional ability to blend art, people, and culture into compelling visual narratives. Her work reflects a deep appreciation for the ordinary moments of life, infusing them with profound beauty and meaning.
Anna Ugolkova’s research interests include poetry and memory in art, object-oriented ontology studies in visual art and performance, performative objects, installation studies, and trauma in art. Anna's installations consist of a variety of elements, from paintings and sculptures - found and reworked by her or created from scratch - to photographs and video art.
Daniel Shane Sewell (b. 1978) is a visual artist who lives and works in Pattaya, Thailand. He collaborates with his son, Tristan Athit Sewell (b. 2013), on a wide range of creative projects. Daniel Shane Sewell is a visual artist who, alongside highly original video and sound work, produces lecture content dedicated to traditional techniques and methods from history.
Brunot T. Nseke was born in Douala-Cameroon in 1983 and started painting while studying philosophy in 2003. Intrications are the product of an investigation into the aesthetical and spiritual aspects of ancient symbols and scriptures. They are shapes that coalesce in a lively and harmonious structure, like sounds in a symphony.
Faith Sycaoyao is an artist who gleams as a prodigy and resonates with her 19 years of vivid existence in the realm of fine art. Born in the Philippines in 2004 to a Filipino-Chinese heritage, her self-taught expertise encompasses 40+ art forms/techniques, making her an unprecedented young figure in the contemporary art landscape.
As a student architect, Daniel's drawing abilities are essential for both the course he studies and his future career. In Daniel's spare time, he chooses to draw his secondary passion: animals, specifically birds. While he does draw animals on commission or just for fun, birds have always been Daniel's muse. To him, it's the shape, the feathers, and their many distinguishing characteristics, such as their wings and beaks.
Masoomeh Aftabi, born in 1991 in Rasht, is an Iranian artist and designer. Masoomeh’s first solo exhibition, “Dream of Trees,” was a tribute to the beauty and majesty of trees, with each piece embodying the artist’s unique perspective on traditional design. Within the first three days of the exhibition, all of the artworks were sold, garnering praise from notable designers.
Lee Ellis is an American contemporary artist currently based in the south of France. Since 2020, he found himself drawn to smaller works and started creating a series of works where he put hundreds of post-it notes with individual drawings onto a canvas. With his work, Lee Ellis attempts to reinforce this ethos by giving the audience a glimpse at the overwhelming power we have together.
Zemfira Alaskarzade is an artist and jewelry designer from Azerbaijan. Zemfira paints in her own style, which was born thanks to impressionism and expressionism. She is inspired by the ideas of impressionism in the transmission of the first emotions, impressions, and expressionism - a vivid demonstration of feelings. However, the main genre of her work is portraiture.
Negar Pooya is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Iran in 1971, living and working in Toronto. Her latest project, Mind and Soul, is an ongoing project that started in 2020 when she immigrated to Canada. Women's issues are explored in this body of work. In these self-portraits, she explores the concept of self-reflection and character building as a way to reflect on my life and environment at this time.
Peter Politis (b. 1989) is an artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. In his work, the contrast between black and white tends to emphasize shape, while the fluidity of ink emphasizes motion. Evocative inkwork can be seen as the distillation of what we call “thought” into something almost purely kinetic - though not necessarily focused, or premeditated. Of course, this is only one definition.
Mai Aboassi is an Egyptian-based contemporary artist. Born in Oman in 1997, she grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Mai Aboassi illustrates her feelings against a white wall that allows her voice to speak out for her silence. Her art subjects are based on her memories, emotions, and nightmares. She gets inspired by the past and the present, the psychological state of her mind, and all surroundings as she is interested in human behaviour and mental estate.
Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius is a high-end, South African artist who has been living in the Sultanate of Oman for the past ten years. She is a process artist. Sharmaine reates blueprint, mixed media drawings of her dreams. Then her work gets photographed, and she uses kaleidoscopic computer software to produce digital art copies of the original work.
