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 | Alice Shapiro

INTERVIEW | Alice Shapiro

Mid-Emerging Artist Alice Shapiro (b.1946-) began her art career as a portraitist in pastels, oils, and acrylics and found digital creation to be a life-changing creative direction in her art career. Shapiro's influences are Bauhaus, Surrealism, the Collagists, Pop Art, and Installation. Spiritually and creatively, Shapiro sees herself as an interpreter-connector, with collage being the most significant medium to express the relevance of her work.

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 | Gaspar Marquez

INTERVIEW | Gaspar Marquez

Gaspar Marquez is a self-taught freelance photographer and videographer doing Fine Art /Fashion & Lifestyle. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He experiments with the Figure form. His work is a celebration of film photography, movement, Cubism, and scale. He attempts to blur these lines, mixing them up and creating an ambiguous vibration or optical illusion between a 2D image and the audience.

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 | Amelie Dickerson

INTERVIEW | Amelie Dickerson

Amélie Dickerson was born in Congo and raised in the South of France. She came of age as an artist in Paris while pursuing a degree in Fashion Design. Life brought her to the United States. She paints to bring light to people. Bold lines and vibrant colors collide in her work to convey emotion - whether she is capturing the hidden spirit in a portrait or pure, raw feeling in an abstract.

INTERVIEW | Fadilah Mahmud

INTERVIEW | Fadilah Mahmud

Fadilah Mahmud is a Digital Artist based in Sydney, Australia, and has been practicing her craft for over ten years. Her work is a window into her experience as a female, first-generation Muslim migrant living in suburban Australia. First and foremost, she is inspired by the community. Much of her work is influenced by the humble and hard-working people that make up the thriving suburbs of south-west Sydney.

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 | Dave O'Flynn

INTERVIEW | Dave O'Flynn

David O’Flynn is a collage artist from Cork, Ireland, now living in Hamburg, Germany. His style is his own, and it consists of a variety of surreal themes with a vintage flare. He describes creating collage art as exploring the world of imagination, taking the audience out of reality. It allows people from all over the world to connect through art and communicate their experiences, message, and hopes for the future.

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 | Peter Politis

INTERVIEW | Peter Politis

Peter Politis (b. 1989) is an artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. In his work, the contrast between black and white tends to emphasize shape, while the fluidity of ink emphasizes motion. Evocative inkwork can be seen as the distillation of what we call “thought” into something almost purely kinetic - though not necessarily focused, or premeditated. Of course, this is only one definition.

INTERVIEW | Maximilian Girardi

INTERVIEW | Maximilian Girardi

Maximilian Girardi is a young Italian artist. He loves colorful drawings and solid colors because he thinks they give positive feelings and help him to be happy. He is also a lover of patterns, which he draws by hand to convey memories and give character to the works. The artist thinks that "ha.nds," in addition to aesthetics, can communicate messages, emotions, and memories.

INTERVIEW | RecluserDark

INTERVIEW | RecluserDark

RecluserDark is the pseudonym that hides Alba Gasset, photographer, visual and digital artist born in Barcelona. The visions that Alba projects in her pictures are a passion for industrial landscapes, ancestral and monumental architecture, sacred fields, forests, and abandoned and enigmatic places. All these "dark places" evoke with nostalgia and melancholy the life that one day had and now has due to the passage of time.

INTERVIEW | Sirui Yang

INTERVIEW | Sirui Yang

Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.

INTERVIEW | Göksel Doğan

INTERVIEW | Göksel Doğan

Göksel Doğan is a professional sculptor and underground artist. As a professional underground artist, he produces cartoons, posters, graphics, fanzines, and webzines. He is decoding “meaning” throughout the found objects and collages, and he calls this self-process of decapitalization of things (an attempt to reproduce human meaning against capitalist means of production by using sculptural elements).

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 | Gerhard Petzl

INTERVIEW | Gerhard Petzl

Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.