Painting

INTERVIEW | Sven Frøkjær-Jensen

INTERVIEW | Sven Frøkjær-Jensen

As an artist working primarily with drawing and painting, Sven Froekjaer-Jensen strives to reach the utmost perfection of expression. In all his works, he strives to describe and understand human nature, its structures, and relations in the world of today, often using unconventional materials or sometimes installations to unmask or describe the deeper structures of the human mind.

INTERVIEW | River Jayden

INTERVIEW | River Jayden

River is a visual artist and graphic designer specializing in digital design and large abstract canvas work. While her work is visually striking with intense color, her work is also known for her deep narratives on Māori culture, in particular, her recent canvas works look into museum repatriation. She wants people to understand colonisation and the devastating impact it had not only in Māori but all indigenous cultures.

INTERVIEW | Margarita Howis

INTERVIEW | Margarita Howis

Margarita Howis is a creative rebel and an artist by heart with a background in architecture. Her work is influenced by observing cultural differences and perspectives on authenticity, women's rights, and societal expectations. Through her experiences, she has come to understand the ways in which culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

INTERVIEW | Aylal Heydarova

INTERVIEW | Aylal Heydarova

Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span various artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. With her distinct individualistic approach, Aylal's paintings are highly appreciated by her viewers, who are usually overwhelmed by the brightness and combination of colour, clear composition, and beautiful artificiality.

INTERVIEW | Ksenia Tsyganyuk

INTERVIEW | Ksenia Tsyganyuk

Ksenia Tsyganyuk is a Russian artist living in Ukraine. Ksenia reveals the ideas of the inner growth of the personality, and the struggle for freedom through work with images of nature. her latest artworks reflect the theme of memory and identity, as well as the hope of a return to a peaceful life. She seeks points of support to rise and move forward, to help others rebuild their lives.

INTERVIEW | Hana Šmidrkalová

INTERVIEW | Hana Šmidrkalová

Born in 1980, Hana Šmidrkalová is a Czech artist living and creating mostly in Prague. After her spiritual awakening, Hana began to paint full-time. She became an artist with strong expressionist tendencies and a passionate lover of painting. Hanaś work focuses mainly on exploring the sacredness of all that is and the transfer of this sacred essence onto the canvas.

INTERVIEW | Savya Jain

INTERVIEW | Savya Jain

Savya Jain is a New Delhi-based artist from India. Savya draws inspiration from her travels and the natural world, which enables her to capture her current emotions in relation to the scenic views and situations on a canvas using a symbolic colour scheme. By using mixed media, she has been able to present her ideas in a visually pleasing and beguiling manner.

INTERVIEW | Kristen Palana

INTERVIEW | Kristen Palana

Kristen Palana is an American/Portuguese multidisciplinary artist based in Malawi. After decades as a digital artist, she has reconnected with her fine art roots. She uses symbols, icons, and patterns with cross-cultural significance combined with color psychology to help soothe, heal, and reinvigorate weary idealists. Her animated films have screened in over 75 international film festivals earning numerous "Best Animated Short Film" awards.

INTERVIEW | Ayan Aziz Mammadova

INTERVIEW | Ayan Aziz Mammadova

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

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 | PJPIII - Patrick Peters

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.