Painting

INTERVIEW | Isamu Shimada

INTERVIEW | Isamu Shimada

Isamu Shimada is a professional painter from Japan. For 45 years, he has worked as a professional oil painting abstract artist. He graduated from Musashino Art University Junior College and studied under Professor Makoto Terao at Keio University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and won numerous awards in France, Hungary, China, Austria and Spain.

INTERVIEW | Marie Wuithier

INTERVIEW | Marie Wuithier

Marie Wuithier is an autodidact artist born in Reims (France) in 1990. Inspired, curious, and sensitive, Marie likes to offer herself the freedom to imagine and create without codes but her feelings, taste, instinct, and careful balance. She likes to sprinkle glitter on life to reveal its true emotional richness between contrasts, sensitivity, and magnificence.

INTERVIEW | Brigit Kovax

INTERVIEW | Brigit Kovax

Brigit is a Hungarian-born painter living and working in London, UK. Brigit forms universal themes to cover more than one answer to a question or aspect of a topic. She already visited the themes of the light within, human completeness, and more. Recently, the theme of the cycle of life and mortality became her interest to focus on her current series.

INTERVIEW | Ivan Suvanjieff

INTERVIEW | Ivan Suvanjieff

Ivan Suvanjieff is a multifaceted artist and painter. His most recent solo exhibition, "Quanta Dada", was created by the Monaco Arts Association in partnership with the City of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and held on the French Riviera in June of 2021. He is also an activist, a musical and literary icon, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has been nominated 17 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

INTERVIEW | Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius

INTERVIEW | Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius

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.

INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed

INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed

Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.

INTERVIEW | Shilowska Pretto

INTERVIEW | Shilowska Pretto

Through the representation of otherworldly creatures and realms, Shilowska found a doorway to constantly reinventing her reality. A way of defying the paradigms set upon her regarding ethnicity, place of birth, gender, physical appearance, social status, and age. Through her work, the artist looks forward to the spectator to dream and engage with the message in their own unique way.

INTERVIEW | Katarina Čelebić

INTERVIEW | Katarina Čelebić

Katarina Čelebić is 24 years old artist from Podgorica, Montenegro. Her paintings are very expressive and based on emotions and intuition.In her creative process, she lets things happen spontaneously. Her inspiration usually comes from dreams, emotions, people she meets, spontaneous events, and every detail she finds motivate her to put it on paper.

INTERVIEW | Carol Camp

INTERVIEW | Carol Camp

Carol Camp is a Brazilian visual artist, currently based in São Paulo. She works mostly with photography manipulation, video art, paintings, and poetry. With her art, she attempts to make the now - not the idea of it, but its intricacies - tangible. Using bright colors and pure black, she investigates the contrast between the so-clear now and the ever-fading past.

INTERVIEW | Lee Musgrave

INTERVIEW | Lee Musgrave

Originally from Perth, Australia, artist Lee Musgrave currently lives and works in the US. He favors a visual language that explores the shallow picture plane and is abstract as well as representational. Musgrave is intrigued by images that blur the border between the virtual and the real. He specializes in abstract photography, for which he has received several awards.

INTERVIEW | Francesca Falli

INTERVIEW | Francesca Falli

Francesca Falli is an Italian painter and mixed media artist. Her works are inspired by Pop Art painters with revisions, experimentations, provocations. Her ability to experiment led her to create an innovative way of 'artistic work', where painting and decoration are contaminated by the opportunities of the new digital technique. Continuous research leads her to the production of the "Pollage" series.

INTERVIEW | Caterina Carraro

INTERVIEW | Caterina Carraro

Coming from user experience design, Caterina has extensively studied human perception and sensory interaction (particularly the visual and cerebral variety). As she is fascinated by the study of perception and stimulus processing in immersive human-interface experiences, she decided to ask questions about the future of co-existence on our planet.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Lamona

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Lamona

Rebecca Lamona is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In her works, she mainly uses photography and painting. She defines her work as "pieces of memory", that she creates mixing analog photography and painting, to partially remove elements from the photograph. Lamona's work aims to leave identifiable traces, trapping the memories and transforming them into matter.

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

Mariaceleste Arena is a Sicilian drawer and painter who works with both traditional and digital techniques. She created several urban regeneration works, collaborations with non-profit associations, published in various magazines and catalogs, exhibited in various art venues. For her, art must always be innovative: it is, in fact, a mental process, and therefore it is always in constant transformation.

INTERVIEW | Sandy Michel

INTERVIEW | Sandy Michel

Sandy Michel is a black female artist, business owner, and content creator. Her inspirations for her artwork and photography are nature, textures, patterns, the built environment, traveling, historical places, and the sun. Sandy loves the surprise, the unknown, the imperfection of the printing process. She is known for her use of blending colors and matching them with conventional shapes.

INTERVIEW | Shee Gomes

INTERVIEW | Shee Gomes

Sheila Gomes is a Brazilian artist and designer. For Sheila, art transcends cultures, concepts, ideals, and time itself, connecting us with all that we are. Her purpose is to unveil the new and expand this connection. She has been showcasing her work in a variety of exhibitions, collaborations, and projects, with curated works featuring international books and magazines.