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 | Sofiya Bokareva

INTERVIEW | Sofiya Bokareva

Sofiya Bokareva is a young talented multidisciplinary artist who positions herself as an artist integrated into several different directions - sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, and design. Sofiya combines her creative work with curatorial activities in the field of art, holding the position of Associate Director and official representative at Art-Prime Gallery.

INTERVIEW | Smishdesigns

INTERVIEW | Smishdesigns

Smishdesigns is a contemporary artist, designer, and illustrator. Charged with meaning and drenched in color, her work reveals and questions the social constructs of gender, prejudice, and power. Publishing under an alias, she has emerged as a strong voice in Indian protest culture. She regularly inspires conversation and concern for human rights and social justice on her online platforms.

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 | Masoomeh Aftabi

INTERVIEW | Masoomeh Aftabi

Masoomeh Aftabi, born in 1991 in Rasht, is an Iranian artist and designer. Masoomeh’s first solo exhibition, “Dream of Trees,” was a tribute to the beauty and majesty of trees, with each piece embodying the artist’s unique perspective on traditional design. Within the first three days of the exhibition, all of the artworks were sold, garnering praise from notable designers.

INTERVIEW | Luciano Caggianello

INTERVIEW | Luciano Caggianello

Luciano Caggianello, born in Siena in 1959, is an Italian artist and designer, currently based in Turin. His work identifies the artistic objective of a basic conceptual thematic project and of experimentation inserted between concrete "poverty" and digital work, revealing much more relevant to parameters and concepts of presentation than of representation.

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 | Dilara Koselioren

INTERVIEW | Dilara Koselioren

Dilara Koselioren is a Turkish artist, currently living in London. She is reflecting on human emotion and focusing on how daily interactions and different socio-economic and cultural differences, and the areas that we live in affect our daily lives. She is asking questions and making viewers of her work think. She reflects on how any part of society can relate to emotions and find something.

INTERVIEW | Marta Dominguez

INTERVIEW | Marta Dominguez

Marta Domínguez is a software engineer and artist based in Spain. Although she paints and draws from an early age, it is with sculpture that she explores the themes that interest her most. Giacometti and El Greco have influenced her use of figurative forms. Only recently, she has looked for recognition as a full artist. She is inspired by nature in her mountain studio, where she finds her models.

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 | Hanyu Mu

INTERVIEW | Hanyu Mu

Hanyu Mu is a talented artist and animator hailing from Beijing, China, and currently residing in Atlanta. With a diverse range of skills, Hanyu excels in various artistic mediums, including illustration, traditional painting, 2D animation, and storyboarding. Through her artistry, she masterfully constructs immersive narratives, channeling her emotions and unrestrained imagination.

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.