Painting

INTERVIEW | Nelly Perez

INTERVIEW | Nelly Perez

Nelly grew up in the south of France in a family of artisans who recognized her love for art, particularly painting, at an early age. After studying graphic design, she began a career as an illustrator and designer in various countries: Spain, the USA, Canada, Bolivia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands. In 2023, she decided to reconnect with her first love, fine arts, through which she expresses her vibrant personality.

INTERVIEW | Chris Watts

INTERVIEW | Chris Watts

Chris Watts, a New York-based artist, delves into the language of the spiritual; exploring the power of and the relationship we have with the unseen. Driven by a desire to enhance our connection to the mystical, Chris's work invites viewers on a mystical journey, beyond the spoken word, into the realm of the unseen, using creation and intuition as a vehicle to experience total consciousness.

INTERVIEW | Khaila Batts

INTERVIEW | Khaila Batts

Khaila Batts is a multidisciplinary artist rooted in her Black American identity, navigating the intricate intersections of memory, identity, and societal narratives. With a dynamic approach to storytelling through color, emotion, and technology, Khaila Batts continues to provoke dialogues and challenge preconceptions in the contemporary art landscape.

INTERVIEW | Dominik Szymański

INTERVIEW | Dominik Szymański

Dominik Szymański’s work revolves around feelings. With his approach to making the viewer aware of his feelings and to show them something that they haven't been aware of, Dominik comes to create art that evokes emotions – Nostalgia being the most important. Dominik uses the imperfections and the lack of one specific technique to give the art a meaning, to make it feel more human.

INTERVIEW | Noura Alnasser

INTERVIEW | Noura Alnasser

Noura Alnasser is a Saudi artist, based in Riyadh. She mastered Arabic calligraphy, painting, sculpture and graphic design of all types, and she admire photography, and her passion led her in the past to learn and make cartoon films. Her journey of development in art has not, and will not, stop here. She is learning at her home in Riyadh every day, and she travels the world to inhale art from every culture.

INTERVIEW | Margaret Asatrian

INTERVIEW | Margaret Asatrian

Margaret Asatrian is an Armenian visual artist born in 1994. Margaret Asatrian's art is the reflection of her inner world and vision of life. Her pieces express her identity and help to communicate her feelings with the utmost freedom and sincerity. Throughout the creative process, the artist liberates herself from every spiritual restraint, putting on the canvas her innermost feelings and impressions received from the surrounding world.

INTERVIEW | Mano Liliya

INTERVIEW | Mano Liliya

Mano Liliya was born in 1989 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She has previously worked and lived in Kyiv, and now she is based in Switzerland. In her artistic expression, the artist delves into the intricacies of duality, probing the coexistence of beauty with peril and the innate dual nature within phenomena. For her, art is a quest for answers to timeless inquiries regarding the nature of beauty, power, and fragility.

INTERVIEW | Yi Zhu

INTERVIEW | Yi Zhu

Yi Zhu is inspired by the totem and pottery culture of ancient China, along with the papercutting techniques in the Han Dynasty of China. He utilizes deconstruction and reconstruction to create a new relationship among colors, with the perception of expansion and contraction of life. The creation of emotion from Yi Zhu is to awake the sense of life, empathy and love.

INTERVIEW | Zhengyuan Gao

INTERVIEW | Zhengyuan Gao

Zhengyuan Gao, known by his artistic alias Cooper, is an emerging artist with a rich and diverse background. In his paintings, Cooper embarks on a quest to uncover the hidden poetic essence of the episodes he confronted. Through brushstrokes, colours, and shapes, he weaves a tapestry of different kinds of logic, a poetic logic, delicately interlacing the threads of his imagination.

INTERVIEW | Iona Hassanscott

INTERVIEW | Iona Hassanscott

Iona Hassanscott is a 21-year-old artist. She is of mixed Scottish and Egyptian heritage but was born in South Wales, where she currently lives, studying mechanical engineering full-time at university. Iona’s favorite medium is oil paint. Her work is expressive and thought-provoking - inspired by the natural world and the intricacies of human and societal behavior.

INTERVIEW | Jemima Charrett-Dykes

INTERVIEW | Jemima Charrett-Dykes

Jemima Charrett-Dykes is an artist whose output is primarily autobiographical, drawing from experiences in childhood and the aftermaths of psychosis as a result of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Using art-making as a therapeutic outlet, Jemima's work often references her past and the traumas linked to her body both physically and mentally.

INTERVIEW | Roberto Valdez - Xango

INTERVIEW | Roberto Valdez - Xango

Roberto Valdez, aka Xango, has an incurable habit. It is to adorn any blank canvas as he sees fit. To beautify or mystify. He paints to express vision, to please and engage the senses. His affair with art began at an early age as a means to escape confined conditions that tethered others. The exploration with the power of the pencil sparked his endless imagination.

INTERVIEW | Svetlana Klaise

INTERVIEW | Svetlana Klaise

Svetlana Klaise (b. 1978) is a self-taught painter based in Latvia. She experiments with various styles, including abstraction, landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, to capture her emotional impressions of beauty in the world. Much of Klaise’s work draws from personal memories and contemplations about childhood, family, and nature. She employs thoughtful composition and color contrasts to express meaning rather than pursue photorealism.

INTERVIEW | Pato Reichler

INTERVIEW | Pato Reichler

Pato Reichler is an Argentinian artist. Over the past six years, she has dedicated herself to painting her own interpretation of the classic stories (Little Red Riding Hood, Butterfly Lovers, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio, and Alicia, among others). Her goal is to get through them to the most childish part that we all have inside, and at the same time, mobilize the viewer with the psychological side of her works.