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.
INTERVIEW | Fernando Rial
Ferró (Fernando Rial Dominguez) is a Spanish artist. A multifaceted artist, he performs in the street, and he paints on all kinds of materials, whether mannequins, irons, canvases, or Vespas. Color is their most important means of expression. His creations reflect rebellion through the opposing forms, the mixture of all colors, and the drastic changes from straight lines to curves, without a perfect visual or logical language.
INTERVIEW | Radna Segal
Radna Segal was born in Kalmykia, a region in Southern Russia. Her textural, three-dimensional paintings feature dynamic composition and various experimental materials like plaster, foil, paint, glitter, and beads which create organic movement inspired by nature. Within her pieces, she uses an ancient, rare, and ornate Mongolian writing called “clear script,” that very few in the world know how to create.
INTERVIEW | Haewon Jang
Art Magazine Haewon Jang is a Korean artist currently based in New York. She pursues contemporary and indie art, and her artworks stem from her prior experiences, feelings, and philosophical thoughts around life and death. Her illustrations demonstrate the differential effects of emotions throughout an individual’s stages of life, including suffering and celebrations.
INTERVIEW | Sangeeta Singh
Sangeeta Singh is an experienced artist with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry for over three decades. Over the years, she has worked on developing her skills in both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her journey as a professional artist started with exploration and experimentation with different media and then with educating herself through formal and informal means.
INTERVIEW | Siham El Kandoussi
Siham El Kandoussi is a self-taught abstract painter and amateur photographer. Born and raised in Morocco in 1980, she is now living in Kuwait since 2008. Siham is inspired by the avant-garde abstract expressionist artists, the enriched and omnifarious culture of her homeland, and the different cultures and colors of the cities where she dwells her soul in.
INTERVIEW | Markus Böhm
Markus Böhm is a well-known German artist. He combines abstraction with symbolic and figurative elements. Besides physical art, he designs digital crypto art. He creates unique connections from the physical to the virtual world. His work focuses on painting and its transformation into digital arrangements such as NFT art. He lives, and work in Frankfurt am Main and also abroad.
INTERVIEW | Bilge Ugursu
Bilge Ugursu is a Berlin-based abstract artist. She describes her style as figurative abstract expressionist and uses mixed media in most of her artworks. Ugursu has developed a unique concept by combining her classical paintings with digital art to create a smooth synthesis without rules and conceptualizations. You can see both brush strokes and digital pixels in her artworks.
INTERVIEW | Joshua Wells
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.
INTERVIEW | Mariken Heijwegen
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.
INTERVIEW | July Cortes Cardenas
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.
INTERVIEW | Claudia Habringer
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.
INTERVIEW | Dandi Gu
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.
INTERVIEW | Ahmed Lebourgeois Njifenjou - Tribaart
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.
INTERVIEW | Badria Shamsi
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.
INTERVIEW | Stanislav Bojankov
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.
INTERVIEW | Ran-ae Ham
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.
INTERVIEW | Nuria González Alcaide
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.
INTERVIEW | Claudia Aguilera
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.
INTERVIEW | Samira Debbah
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.