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 | Vivian Cavalieri
Vivian Cavalieri is a visual artist based in Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Her three-dimensional miniature scenes prompt conversations on a range of global issues, including immigration and social justice. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Athens.
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
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 | Alexandra Efimova
Alexandra Efimova is a young French artist of Russian origin. She relies on symbols, the main one of which is the human body, as the main carrier and exponent of symbolic value. The torsos applied to translucent backgrounds emphasize the dual nature of the physical shell, which is at the same time endowed with fierce strength and fragility.
INTERVIEW | Tâmisa Trommer
Tâmisa Trommer is an award-winning artist, known for her mixed media delicate botanical signature. Inspired by childhood memories that comforted her during moments of grief, she finds in autobiographical events the inspiration to create floral compositions and bucolic scenes with a dreamy atmosphere, transitioning between figuration and abstraction.
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
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
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 | M.J. Hinson
M.J. Hinson is a visual artist and professor. Her latest series, Impassioned Emotions, brings color and movement to our positive and negative feelings, allowing the viewer the freedom to have their own emotional response to each piece. Renowned for large-scale murals and acclaimed studio work, she has garnered prestigious honors.
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 | Haley King
Haley King, also known by their artist name GRVNGE LESTAT, is a Chicago-based LGBTQ+ mixed media artist who primarily uses illustrative methods to construct their body of work. They combine that with digitally manipulating their own photography to achieve an effort to create their artistic world, which houses themes of hauntingly provoking atmospheres.
INTERVIEW | Qi Shuyi
As an artist and designer at the dynamic intersection of art and sustainability, Shuyi Qi's work is deeply committed to unraveling the intricate relationship between human existence and ecological preservation. In her practice, she employs a fusion of visual art and design to construct narratives that provoke thought and foster a heightened awareness of sustainability.
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 | Michelle Ramand
INTERVIEW | Stephen Von Mason
Stephen Von Mason strives to make art that creates a response and evokes a desperately needed challenge. His stylized work revolves around showcasing excellence and promoting cultural healing. His imagery has intense color and a sense of emergency indicative of what is needed for rebuilding a cultural lobotomy.
INTERVIEW | Yuan Fang
Yuan Fang is a female artist born in China in 1985. Her works accommodate free interpretations and associations by viewers, either in a skilled combination of numerous conflicts or in adjustable light and shadow, rich in texture and natural interest. Moreover, she believes that an artist should continuously explore and create what is unknown, which is essentially similar to being an explorer.
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 | Brunot Theophile Nseke
Brunot T. Nseke was born in Douala-Cameroon in 1983 and started painting while studying philosophy in 2003. Intrications are the product of an investigation into the aesthetical and spiritual aspects of ancient symbols and scriptures. They are shapes that coalesce in a lively and harmonious structure, like sounds in a symphony.
INTERVIEW | MJ Pope
Born in Sacramento, CA, MJ Pope is an American multimedia artist currently based in Boise, ID, studying at Boise State University to get her BFA in time-based art. She enjoys creating visuals for musical compositions, or filming performances with the intention of creating a video work out of it. Through art, she wants to explore my identity as a queer woman.