Ayan Aziz Mammadova lives in her own inner world, from where solar prominences splash imagination onto canvases, and she is not bound by any conventional forms of artistry. In her works, she showcases a host of expressions, emotions, and mood swings that are captivated by a feminine nature and a rhythmic undertone. Ayan’s creativity lies in the mirror of one’s soul.
INTERVIEW | Ksenia Sokolovskaya
Born in 2002 in Moscow, Russia, Ksenia Sokolovskaya lives and works between Moscow and Tbilisi. Ksenia works in oils and acrylics on large formats. Her work is associated with love, tenderness, and revelation, but at the same time with pain, melancholy, and sadness. Ksenia's works immerse the viewer in the world of mythical creatures, sad characters, people, and animals wandering through nameless landscapes.
INTERVIEW | Maristella Rana
Maristella Rana is an Italian painter and artist, currently based in Forte dei Marmi. In a polyphony and symphony of colors, each work by the artist Maristella Rana is the epiphany of the artist's inner voice as the observer. Rana's works document a gradual process of purification that leads to the disappearance of every recognizable symbol and subject.
INTERVIEW | PJPIII - Patrick Peters
PJPIII - Patrick Peters is an American painter based in Southampton, NY. He is a self-taught artist and his started painting when recovering from Covid. He found that painting gave him serious relief from severe mental anguish. After months of painting, HE WOKE UP AN ARTIST. Today he is a full-time artist. He is represented by ArtLever, one of the most famous international art dealers in the world.
INTERVIEW | Nestan Mikeladze
Nestan Mikeladze (b. 1986) is a Georgian-born artist based in Tbilisi. She recently became a feminist, and in her work, you will see how a woman emerges from being blended and uncertain to bold and defined. She uses thin oil paints not only to convey transparency but also because it is an unpredictable medium. Her work has been featured in several art magazines and on Contemporary Art Collectors' platforms.
INTERVIEW | Julien Perreault
Julien Perreault is a Canadian artist and a former Naval Combat Information Operator with the Royal Canadian Navy. While Perreault’s work often explores the grandeur of nature, he is equally concerned with humanity’s increasing detrimental effect on the health of the planet. He is determined to use his work to call attention to the impending climate catastrophe and inspire meaningful change before it is too late.
INTERVIEW | Judit Nagy L.
Judit Nagy L. is a Slovak artist, currently living and working in Switzerland. She invented her method in 2015 and called it "IVVArt - In Vino Veritas Art Method ©". Judit is a mixed media painter who paints with real wine and soil samples from vineyards, to create portraits of selected wines. Judit likes to work with found objects and transform them into high-quality, recyclable artworks, which she calls ReMixArt.
INTERVIEW | Amanda Dolly
Amanda Dolly is a native of the East Coast and learned to paint and draw at the age of 14 from her high school art teacher, Ms. Fischer. She paints and draws to ground herself. It is said that these techniques, used over hundreds of years, have become embedded in our DNA. So through the process of painting on a canvas, she connects with her ancestors, using techniques that endure to this day.
INTERVIEW | Danquis Johnson
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
INTERVIEW | Nastassia Bas
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
INTERVIEW | Samruddhi Duratkar
Samruddhi Ramesh Duratkar is a Maharashtra, India-based student-artist who works mainly in body painting media. Environmental concerns are Samruddhi's primary motivation. She warns people against mistreating nature for financial gain and alludes to the ultimate futility of environmental destruction. Her response to what she sees as an injustice is specifically the artwork's foundation.
INTERVIEW | Uzomah Ugwu
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
INTERVIEW | Mai Aboassi
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.