Painting

INTERVIEW | Ran Fuchs

INTERVIEW | Ran Fuchs

Ran Fuchs, an Australian artist and global nomad, is driven by two intertwined passions: an undying obsession for wildlife and nature and an exploration of the fine line separating reality from consciousness. Ran's fascination with the natural world converges beautifully with his enduring interest in traditional Japanese arts, specifically kachoga and sumi-e (ink painting).

INTERVIEW | Napoleon Haboc

INTERVIEW | Napoleon Haboc

Napoleon M. Haboc is a quinquagenarian industrial product design freelancer and an emerging contemporary artist based in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. He has two main mediums in his art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in his artistic approach to his colored art medium.

INTERVIEW | Eva Reiska

INTERVIEW | Eva Reiska

Eva Reiska is a visual artist from Estonia, working primarily with installation art and painting. Facing depression in her 20s, real birds that she had been keenly observing reminded her of the preciousness of the present moment and freedom. She began creating these reminders for herself through art and, like birds, after graduating, she migrated, traveling to different countries and recording her experience into drawings every day for five years.

INTERVIEW | Nugzari Novikoff

INTERVIEW | Nugzari Novikoff

Nugzari Novikoff is a self-taught artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. He is an artistic experimenter, and paints a variety of subjects, transfers sudden ideas to the canvas, and tries to capture the emotions, movements, and moments to share with the viewer. His painting style tends mainly to a realistic representation of painted objects. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism, Eyecandy Frankfurt, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society.

INTERVIEW | Marika Mihalache

INTERVIEW | Marika Mihalache

Marika is a visual artist based in Barcelona with a diverse background in design, illustration, and painting, giving her a holistic vision of the creative practice. In her work, she is interested in the never-ending journey of unlearning, erasing, and rewriting what one would define as identity. Her pictures invite viewers to dive into their innate curiosity and sense of wonder while encouraging exploration and (self) reflection.

INTERVIEW | Maria Fernandez

INTERVIEW | Maria Fernandez

Maria Fernandez is an Argentinian artist, currently based between Melbourne and Barcelona. Fernandez works predominantly with the painting medium and also sometimes with photography. She is inspired by the diversity of textures and colours drawn from nature and by objects and materials that have been used, has aged, and have then been discarded. She is interested in the history embedded in these objects, in their texture of decay.

INTERVIEW | Ronny Reinecke

INTERVIEW | Ronny Reinecke

Ronny Reinecke is a German painter and visual artist. In his painting, there are different ways of approaching because feelings and emotions never stand still; otherwise, it would mean a standstill. Art sorts out his feelings and thoughts about moving subjects with the digital world at my side. In painting itself, spontaneity gives chance a little room to grow. With the pursuit of art, he has come to realize what art is.

INTERVIEW | Qixin Chen

INTERVIEW | Qixin Chen

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.

INTERVIEW | Alex Bonsanthy

INTERVIEW | Alex Bonsanthy

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.

INTERVIEW | Laura Bull

INTERVIEW | Laura Bull

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.

INTERVIEW | Josune Garcia

INTERVIEW | Josune Garcia

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.

INTERVIEW | Cesar Mammadov

INTERVIEW | Cesar Mammadov

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.

INTERVIEW | Mariia Raskin

INTERVIEW | Mariia Raskin

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».

INTERVIEW | Hani Amra

INTERVIEW | Hani Amra

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.

INTERVIEW | Aleksandra Paranchenko

INTERVIEW | Aleksandra Paranchenko

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.

INTERVIEW | Marius Morkūnas

INTERVIEW | Marius Morkūnas

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.

INTERVIEW | Sun Kun

INTERVIEW | Sun Kun

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.

INTERVIEW | Enrico Muratore Aprosio

INTERVIEW | Enrico Muratore Aprosio

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.