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.
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.
July Cortes Cardenas is a self-taught Soap Artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, and originally from Bogota, Colombia. As a former Pastry Chef, she has transferred her skills into soap making and has developed her own techniques. She experiments with shapes, colours, materials, and lots of soap, constantly looking for the extraordinary side of ordinary things, using her unique perspective as a foundation.
Claudia Habringer is an Austrian artist based in Wien. Claudia never allowed herself to be classified. All that matters is the dedication to the freedom to create. Recently she found one of her drawings when she was three years old and realized it had been all there already. Through years of living and exploring, she just had to learn that art needs freedom to express itself. There is a new "baby" now. She redesigns her artworks for fabric prints.
Dandi Gu is an illustrator, Painter, and Curator based in Shanghai and New York. As a female artist, she also hopes to show women's strong spiritual power and social role. For years, she has been observing and experiencing that women are increasingly valued, respected, and playing an important role in society. Her work draws upon lines and shapes derived from dance, and especially Latin dance, and dancers bodies.
Ahmed Lebourgeois Njifenjou is Cameroonian artist, born and raised Paris but currently based in Cardiff. He is the founder of Tribaart, an online gallery that showcases African art through its website and other platforms. Tribaart works on different aspects of promoting African art, from exhibitions, to festivals, music events, workshops and more. On the website and YouTube channels art lovers can discover more about African art.
Badria Shamsi is an expressionist artist from UAE. Her work is an interpretation of how she feels and understands the emotions around her, as well as how she reacts to them. Her intention is to portray the complexity of emotions from one person to another. In each painting, there are different eyes: happy, laughing, careless, curious, boring, and many more. Therefore, it is interesting to define your mood today in a gathering and which eye is yours.
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.
Ran-ae Ham is a contemporary artist who combines abstraction and figuration. She can be said to be a non-figurative artist in the sense that she intuitively visualizes daily experiences without reproducing or explaining them with pictures. Some of the so-called non-representatives are lyrical and extremely turbulent, while others visualize and study mysterious experiences from the deep roots of human consciousness.
Nuria Gonzalez Alcaide (Barcelona, 1995) is a self-taught visual abstract artist. Her abstract painting draws inspiration from thoughts and life situations, emotions and feelings that she experiences and renders with brush strokes. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Vic, Madrid, and London. She is currently based in Indonesia.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but presently living and working in the heart of Fort Lauderdale, USA, Claudia creates visually compelling portraits through bursts of vibrant colors. Using alcohol-based inks as a medium, Claudia highlights her characters with striking backgrounds and vibrant colors reflecting the beauty and fluidity of the inks - crafting pieces almost impossible to ignore.
Samira Debbah is an artist, painter, and sculptor based in Morocco. Her work is an interpretation of everything she is and what she connects with the most in life, especially her sentimental side. She likes to create art that allows the spectator to create a debate between him and the work. She doesn't limit herself to just one style or concept. She likes to play with shapes and nuances to create a unique combination.
Born in Ukraine and based in Vienna, Austria, Victoria V has incorporated influences from Eastern European aesthetics and a Western approach in her art practice. Interested in ancient symbols and mythology, she combines an intuitive yet expressive manner with contemporary influences, planting Kandinsky’s and Itten’s theories on form and color impact.
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.
Louise De Buck, based in Brussels, finds her inspiration in post-apocalyptic films from the 80s and 90s and in horror and mysterious movies soundtracks. This component is evident in De Buck’s works, which often depict female subjects mostly represented naked and with intriguing and mysterious looks.
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.
Shir Beck is a painter and dancer, based in Eilat. Before approaching paintintig, she studied flamenco. Her works have been exhibited in Eilat, London and the USA. Her oil and acrylic paintings reflect the city of Eilat, the sun, desert and sea landscapes in its immediate surroundings. Her use of brushstrokes is reminiscent of the flamenco moves.
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.
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.
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.
