Painting

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

INTERVIEW | Shazia Ahmad

Shazia Ahmad’s practice and research interests are centered on the notions of home and belonging, tied to the broader theme of otherness due to her interfaith and mixed-race background. Her latest project, A Year, A Garden, A Feeling (COVID19 Diary), is a personal and semi-autobiographical series.

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

INTERVIEW | Yijun Ge

Yijun Ge is a Chinese artist based in San Francisco. Yin and Yang are the basis of her visual language, representing passion and calmness. The contrast creates balance and tension, often represented through warm and cool colors. The elements that show up in her dreams, such as spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons, help create a painting's theme. They are a unique symbolic language representing larger concepts.

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

Dipo Doherty is a Nigerian artist based in Lagos. As an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, he seeks to define a vocabulary in his work that unites his African heritage and scientific background. Doherty has interpreted the human anatomy in his own ideology, increasing its dimensionality in abstraction in his paintings, while expanding his visual language to other forms of media that reference socio-economic issues.

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

INTERVIEW | Xiao He

Xiao He is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting and visual communication design. In her works, Xiao records ordinary life moments such as soaking in the warm bathtub as well as random conversations that she had with a stranger in Mexico. Consciousness the magician would fabricate these fragments together, and she records them faithfully, in the form of paintings and artist's books.

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

Olga Shcheblykina (1986) is a visual artist currently based in Steyr (Austria). Her main media are painting, installation and photography. She is exploring themes of sensitivity, vulnerability, corporeality and feminism. Living the experience of isolation and changes in the world around me in 2020, she explored suppressed and hidden emotions and manifested sensitivity.

INTERVIEW | Sam Kelly

INTERVIEW | Sam Kelly

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

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

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 | Sebastian Mueller-Soppart

Sebastian Mueller-Soppart is a former advertising executive and creative director. His work has an intentional criticism towards the impact we, as humans, have on the planet, our generation's out-of-control consumerism, and the shared concern of how effective recycling really is.

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

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

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

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

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 | Mary Stefanou

Painting mostly with her hands and body, Mary Stefanou creates her natural extensions in direct contact with the colors and the canvas. Then, to the sound of inspiring music and her inner voice, through the flow and improvisation, come the moments of creation, moments of ecstasy and release.

INTERVIEW | Samanta Masucco

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

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

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

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

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

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.