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.
Ja is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles whose work portrays raw emotion and contemplation through the human form. Inspired by the connection between emotions and body movement, her work captures the complexity of the human experience. Through the use of abstract figurative compositions, Ja's use of the body as a communicative vessel enables viewers to gain insight into her inner world.
Hannah Jones is a Berlin-based artist who grew up in Swansea, Wales. She primarily works with acrylics and inks on canvas and paper. She is inspired by songs, colours, and shapes. Her pieces usually begin with a synesthesia experience translated into painting through her compositions. Music is the all-pervading element in each of her works.
Dilara Koselioren is a Turkish artist, currently living in London. She is reflecting on human emotion and focusing on how daily interactions and different socio-economic and cultural differences, and the areas that we live in affect our daily lives. She is asking questions and making viewers of her work think. She reflects on how any part of society can relate to emotions and find something.
Originally from Beijing, Yuchen Lu is an illustrator now based in New York. She received an illustration degree from the School of Visual Arts. She finds inspiration from nature, mythologies, fairytales, and dreams, stemming from a fascination with fantasy since her childhood. Yuchen draws in pen and ink and then colors each piece digitally.
Marta Domínguez is a software engineer and artist based in Spain. Although she paints and draws from an early age, it is with sculpture that she explores the themes that interest her most. Giacometti and El Greco have influenced her use of figurative forms. Only recently, she has looked for recognition as a full artist. She is inspired by nature in her mountain studio, where she finds her models.
Ran Fuchs, an Australian artist and global nomad, is driven by two intertwined passions: an undying obsession for wildlife and nature and an exploration of the fine line separating reality from consciousness. Ran's fascination with the natural world converges beautifully with his enduring interest in traditional Japanese arts, specifically kachoga and sumi-e (ink painting).
Napoleon M. Haboc is a quinquagenarian industrial product design freelancer and an emerging contemporary artist based in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. He has two main mediums in his art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in his artistic approach to his colored art medium.
Hanyu Mu is a talented artist and animator hailing from Beijing, China, and currently residing in Atlanta. With a diverse range of skills, Hanyu excels in various artistic mediums, including illustration, traditional painting, 2D animation, and storyboarding. Through her artistry, she masterfully constructs immersive narratives, channeling her emotions and unrestrained imagination.
Eva Reiska is a visual artist from Estonia, working primarily with installation art and painting. Facing depression in her 20s, real birds that she had been keenly observing reminded her of the preciousness of the present moment and freedom. She began creating these reminders for herself through art and, like birds, after graduating, she migrated, traveling to different countries and recording her experience into drawings every day for five years.
Nugzari Novikoff is a self-taught artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. He is an artistic experimenter, and paints a variety of subjects, transfers sudden ideas to the canvas, and tries to capture the emotions, movements, and moments to share with the viewer. His painting style tends mainly to a realistic representation of painted objects. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism, Eyecandy Frankfurt, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society.
Marika is a visual artist based in Barcelona with a diverse background in design, illustration, and painting, giving her a holistic vision of the creative practice. In her work, she is interested in the never-ending journey of unlearning, erasing, and rewriting what one would define as identity. Her pictures invite viewers to dive into their innate curiosity and sense of wonder while encouraging exploration and (self) reflection.
Matthew Morpheus (Serhii Matveichenko) is a visual artist born in Ukraine. He currently lives in the United Kingdom, after living in Ukraine and Tel Aviv. Serhii is one of the flagships of contemporary art, and the artist's works fully convey the entire atmosphere of the 21st Century New Age concept, with its unique new cultural diversity and unusual genres and ideas.
Maria Fernandez is an Argentinian artist, currently based between Melbourne and Barcelona. Fernandez works predominantly with the painting medium and also sometimes with photography. She is inspired by the diversity of textures and colours drawn from nature and by objects and materials that have been used, has aged, and have then been discarded. She is interested in the history embedded in these objects, in their texture of decay.
Lola Yiting Zhang is a concept artist specializing in the entertainment industry. Her unique perspective and sensibility empower her to extract design inspiration from the most unexpected sources. She's always on the hunt for the bizarre and often overlooked elements in nature. Lola's design aesthetics are deeply rooted in her fascination with exploring the untamed beauty of unconventional forms.
Ronny Reinecke is a German painter and visual artist. In his painting, there are different ways of approaching because feelings and emotions never stand still; otherwise, it would mean a standstill. Art sorts out his feelings and thoughts about moving subjects with the digital world at my side. In painting itself, spontaneity gives chance a little room to grow. With the pursuit of art, he has come to realize what art is.
Qixin Chen was born in 2001 and raised in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Through mixed media and installation, she focuses on the existential anxiety arising from transitional society and culture, which threaten the fundamental values and state of being of individuals in a pervasive and widespread manner. She believes that this painful emotional experience creates a collective emptiness, isolation, and fear.
Alex Bonsanthy is a self-made artist. But he considers himself to be a late disciple of Van Gogh and an unofficial bastard of Picasso. He likes the impression of colors and forms in either realistic or abstract paintings. His artworks should transmit magic and creative energy using expressive colors and forms. He is a fan of Free Art and uses Geometry as a method to abstract the forms and lines of reality.
Born in Italy, Roberto Sabatini was raised in a family of photographers. While he was influenced by their choices, it wasn't until recently that Roberto adopted photography as a visual art. He is not only interested in showing beauty but also in evoking concepts and emotions. His works range from representational to abstract within this realm. In his recent works, he is focusing on reinterpreting famous artworks and exploring motion blur.
Laura Bull is a 22-year-old Birmingham-based artist whose work is characterised by vibrant oil paintings and, more recently, sculptures resembling human form. Her practice explores the relationship between surface and touch, analysing the value of objects through vibrant oil paintings that primarily depict hands and gestures. Her work is influenced by a desire to critique the ways in which the female body is often objectified in contemporary culture.
Francisco Faustino is a Portuguese artist, based in Lisbon. The series Daydream” focuses on the use of frame burn and flashing the film rolls to develop photographs that show the duality between the cold, rational energy of the physical world and the warm fantasy of what it means to daydream. All the photographs were taken on a 35mm film camera in 2022.
