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.
Qixin Chen was born in 2001 and raised in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Through mixed media and installation, she focuses on the existential anxiety arising from transitional society and culture, which threaten the fundamental values and state of being of individuals in a pervasive and widespread manner. She believes that this painful emotional experience creates a collective emptiness, isolation, and fear.
Alex Bonsanthy is a self-made artist. But he considers himself to be a late disciple of Van Gogh and an unofficial bastard of Picasso. He likes the impression of colors and forms in either realistic or abstract paintings. His artworks should transmit magic and creative energy using expressive colors and forms. He is a fan of Free Art and uses Geometry as a method to abstract the forms and lines of reality.
Laura Bull is a 22-year-old Birmingham-based artist whose work is characterised by vibrant oil paintings and, more recently, sculptures resembling human form. Her practice explores the relationship between surface and touch, analysing the value of objects through vibrant oil paintings that primarily depict hands and gestures. Her work is influenced by a desire to critique the ways in which the female body is often objectified in contemporary culture.
Josune García is an abstract artist based in San Sebastian. Through her artistic practice, Josune opens up to a dimension of mental stillness, transcendence, and dissolution with the absolute. She seeks to release energy through creative chaos to find internal harmony. Josune’s work is characterized by the use of color, the fluidity of the spills, and the random strokes that converge in a visual dance with organic reminiscences.
Cesar Mammadov (b. 1988, Baku, Azerbaijan) is one of the most prominent young Azerbaijani brush masters. In Cesar Mammadov’s paintings, joy of existence is combined with a friendly interest in the smallest details of life, and the romantic glorification of the beauty of nature goes hand-in-hand with a display of creations of human hands in the foreground, figuratively and sometimes in the literal sense of the word.
Mariia Raskin is an award-winning abstract artist born in 1979 in Kazakhstan and is currently Turkey-based. In Mariia's artworks, there is always a mystery to be solved by the viewer. Her artistic process is to combine strong imagination with her impression from fantastic movies and scientific research about the universe that she has ever seen or read. Her latest series are «Fantastic Creatures» and «Fantastic Landscapes».
Hani Amra is a Palestinian artist, living in Jerusalem. Hani's intrinsic work is about digging into the surface of reality and searching for unexpected answers to open questions. His main subject of study revolved around the processes of transformation. In his new work, he introduces three Sufi concepts to decode his process of creation and applies them using everyday construction material on the surface of a stretched canvas.
Aleksandra Paranchenko is a Ukrainian artist, currently living in the Swedish Lapland. Aleksandra has been professionally engaged in creativity for over 16 years. During this time, she tried many directions, including teaching at an art school, illustrating children's books, and creating scenography for a puppet theater. Her focus, however, always remains on painting.
Marius Morkūnas, a creator of the young generation, was born in 1976 Lithuania. His works exude minimalism, single strokes, and stylized lines intertwined into a whole. In his work, the artist likes to paint the ships and seaside, where he himself comes from, to convey the fragility of the sea reeds and the breath of the wind. The majority of the artist's works have water motives, space, and undulations.
The artist Oriana Armand, also known as OriginArmand, is originally from Venezuela. Oriana is dedicated to abstract expressionist art, and her work is characterized by the exploration of dreamlike themes, blending the dream and the real, the abstract and the figurative, as her collection "Women behind dreams", "Musas," and "Dolls with soul".
Sun Kun is an artist and spatial designer. Each brushstroke in his paintings is the smallest particle of the work, each grain of sand that makes up the universe and each point of our memory. The countless particles may not have much meaning or value when they stand alone, like a microcosm; it is only when they are distanced and viewed in the macrocosm that the whole can be seen.
Enrico Muratore Aprosio is an Italian artist and a peace and human rights activist, based in Geneva since 2016. In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, EMA decided to use the extra time to go back to art. His 2020-2022 works address themes such as mental disease, exploitation, capitalism, authoritarianism, inequality, discrimination, gender, love, marriage, divorce, child miseducation, revolt, and revolution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
