Painting

INTERVIEW | Lavia (Yanzi) Lin

INTERVIEW | Lavia (Yanzi) Lin

Lavia (Yanzi) Lin (b.1995) is a Berlin-based abstract artist and live painting performer from Shanghai, China. Lavia’s art invites the viewers to enter an imaginary dream-like world with visual sounds and harmonious colours. She takes strong conceptual references from music and sounds to create expressive abstract soundscapes. Her works are often inspired by and moved by the imagined organic shapes and shifting sounds of jazz.

INTERVIEW | Carmen Aztibia

INTERVIEW | Carmen Aztibia

Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.

INTERVIEW | Antonia-Maria Platzer

INTERVIEW | Antonia-Maria Platzer

Antonia-Maria Platzer is a Italian multi-disciplinary artist and designer currently based in Berlin. The main interest within their practice involves creating a cosmos of their own in which they can manifest a colorful safe haven for their inner child or, as they like to call it, a ‘revolution for softies’, based on real-life experiences as well as research-based symbologies, theories, and storytelling from around the world.

INTERVIEW | Pamela Scherson

INTERVIEW | Pamela Scherson

Pamela Scherson (1994, Mexico City), AKA La Changa Pachanga, is a tattoo artist and street artist based in Mexico City. In her artistic practice, La Changa is consistently drawn to capturing aspects of pop culture through the lens of her inner child's ignorant perspective. She prioritizes spontaneity and embraces intentional mistakes, aiming to shed light on the unconventional beauty found within ignorance.

INTERVIEW | Olumide Egunlae

INTERVIEW | Olumide Egunlae

Olumide Egunlae is a painter and art educator based in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa, whose works celebrate and treasure his African traditions, backgrounds, values, and culture. He focuses his paintings on the local eccentric and ordinary rites of his people and portrays what his ancestors have built for average African communities. He finds the beauty in them and translates them into his colorful and beautiful paintings.

INTERVIEW | Nataliia Kutykhina

INTERVIEW | Nataliia Kutykhina

Nataliia Kutykhina is a painter, originally from Ukraine. In her work, the author explores the world around her, events, history, science, and philosophy; all facets of our universe are interesting. Every day she discovers something new in art. There are no boundaries in creativity, and each creation conveys not only the world of the artist but is also an integral part of our world, like a grain of sand is part of a vast desert.

INTERVIEW | Paulette Gutierrez

INTERVIEW | Paulette Gutierrez

Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.

INTERVIEW | Alberto Ballocca

INTERVIEW | Alberto Ballocca

Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.

INTERVIEW | Silke Wolff

INTERVIEW | Silke Wolff

The pop-art fine artist Silke Wolff opens a secret, supernatural universe with her metaphysical graphics.Through her widened consciousness, which she has been developing for 20 years of daily meditative practice, she is able to perceive this sphere of existence. Such unique situations she catches with oil pastel drawings in sketchbooks. From these ideas, her series arise, which she creates as digital collages and complete with texts.

INTERVIEW | Lucell Larawan

INTERVIEW | Lucell Larawan

Lucell Larawan is an acclaimed Filipino artist. The artist has evolved from a neo-pointillist approach to a hybrid style and recently incorporated mercerized cotton strings due to their nuanced meaning of connectivity and rootedness.Overall, Lucell’s art reflects his journey to find freedom and a sense of belonging while exploring themes that resonate with many individuals.

INTERVIEW | Ja

INTERVIEW | Ja

Ja is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles whose work portrays raw emotion and contemplation through the human form. Inspired by the connection between emotions and body movement, her work captures the complexity of the human experience. Through the use of abstract figurative compositions, Ja's use of the body as a communicative vessel enables viewers to gain insight into her inner world.

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.