Painting

INTERVIEW | Darina Komorowski

INTERVIEW | Darina Komorowski

Darina Komorowski (b. 1995, Kazakhstan; lives and works in Dubai, UAE) is a painter working primarily with acrylic on canvas. Drawn to a medium that is fast, flexible, and clean in the studio, for Komorowski, a painting unfolds like a conversation: clarity of gesture and precision of decision guide the work toward meaning that can be followed through to its end.

INTERVIEW | Chan Alvarez

INTERVIEW | Chan Alvarez

Chan Alvarez is a visual artist, art critic, and independent curator. Alvarez’s visual practice examines how identity, self-consciousness, and perception are shaped -and reshaped- across temporal and contextual conditions. Working across diverse media, his projects focus on the philosophical discourse between theoretical constructs and the phenomenological experience.

INTERVIEW | Carla D'Amato

INTERVIEW | Carla D'Amato

Carla D'Amato's work grew from a close observation of life’s contrasts and the human condition. With an architectural foundation and European training that expanded her technical range, she refined a disciplined craft while continuously pushing the boundaries of image, material, and meaning. Through an intense, ongoing exploration, Carla developed her own authored technique: Performance Painting.

INTERVIEW | Raquel Sanchez

INTERVIEW | Raquel Sanchez

Raquel Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist and poet based in Jerusalem. With a diverse upbringing, her artistic journey spans decades of study in painting, ceramics, sculpture, and design, both formally and informally. In her visual work, Sanchez explores light, reflection, nature, and biblical symbolism to evoke spiritual dimensions of human experience.

INTERVIEW | Mei-Tsen Chen

INTERVIEW | Mei-Tsen Chen

Chen Mei-Tsen, born in Taipei (Taiwan), is a visual artist based in Paris (France) for over 30 years. Her artistic practice spans painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and sculpture, through which she explores the intricacies of her personal quest for a sense of belonging, identity, and connection. Her journey reflects the essence of a nomadic existence, forever moving and seeking.

INTERVIEW | Luis Moro

INTERVIEW | Luis Moro

Luis Moro is a visual artist who works between Spain and Mexico. His latest project, El bramido de la Tierra (The Roar of the Earth), was exhibited in MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. The exhibition is, ultimately, a powerful visual call to action: a plea to protect what allows us to exist.

INTERVIEW | Miguel Garcia - Marques de Jadraque

INTERVIEW | Miguel Garcia - Marques de Jadraque

Miguel (Marquis of Jadraque) adapts them to his paintings according to the series he is working on. His inspiration comes from everyday life, his travels, people, what he reads, what he sees in other artists, conversations with friends, and film.

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

Sergey Piskunov (b. 1989, Ukraine) is a hyperrealist painter based in the Netherlands. His large-scale figurative works merge classical oil painting with symbolic and gold elements, reflecting precision, depth and a meditative dedication to the craft. Each work unfolds through hundreds of hours of detailed execution, inviting the viewer into a quiet, intimate encounter.

INTERVIEW | Priyanka Pulijal

INTERVIEW | Priyanka Pulijal

Priyanka Pulijal is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and New York whose work explores imagined afterlives, cosmic states, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Through large-scale paintings and immersive environments, she builds speculative worlds that merge surrealism, science fiction, and metaphysical inquiry creating sensory portals between the known and the unknown.

INTERVIEW | Mahshid Gorjian

INTERVIEW | Mahshid Gorjian

Mahshid Gorjian is an independent fine artist and digital visual practitioner based in the United States. Her practice spans fine arts, digital visual production, and experimental media, with a focus on public-interest cultural dissemination and the representation of diverse communities. She works across digital painting, mixed media, and technologically mediated visual forms.

INTERVIEW | TANI TELAS

INTERVIEW | TANI TELAS

Stéphanie Navarro, operating under the pseudonym TANI TELAS, is a major figure in contemporary progressive abstraction. Rooted in Corsica with French and Spanish heritage, Navarro draws profound inspiration from the Mediterranean, which remains the vibrant, thematic heart of her practice. Her work is defined by a rigorous and disciplined process that seeks constant emancipation from conventions.

INTERVIEW | Marta Ornelas Monteiro

INTERVIEW | Marta Ornelas Monteiro

Born in Lisboa and shaped by a global curiosity, Marta Ornelas Monteiro is an architect turned multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey is grounded in a profound dialogue with nature. Each piece becomes a living testimony to nature's resilience, memory, and transformation. Her latest work, Layers of Life, Layers of Body, Layers of Nature’s Reality, explores the unseen strata of existence.

INTERVIEW | Anna Moskalets

INTERVIEW | Anna Moskalets

Anna Moskalets is a contemporary Ukrainian artist, independent curator, and social activist. Born in Romny (Sumy region, Ukraine), she is now located in London, UK. Her work confronts urgent themes: displacement, resilience, and the search for identity. Her practice explores the paradox of belonging, more urgent than ever, despite dislocation.

INTERVIEW | Sasan Nasernia

INTERVIEW | Sasan Nasernia

Sasan Nasernia explores different avenues in Persian and Arabic classical and modern calligraphy, working with painting, print, digital work and installation. Playing with the tension between two opposing primordial elements—order and chaos —Nasernia borrows from traditional Persian paintings and iconography, immersing these elements in abstraction and ambiguity through his letterforms.

INTERVIEW | Aurore Monteil

INTERVIEW | Aurore Monteil

Graduated in Architecture and trained in azulejo painting and ceramics in Lisbon, Aurore Monteil develops a multidisciplinary artistic practice rooted in architecture, conceived not only as a discipline of construction but as a sensitive, vibrational, and universal language. Her work explores the impact of materials, forms, and spaces on both body and mind.

INTERVIEW | Yuying Li

INTERVIEW | Yuying Li

Based in London, Chinese artist Yuying Li translates ancient Eastern philosophies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work, which often features monoprint, ink wash, and mixed media, explores the "concretisation" of a spiritual home. She converges elements of the human body, nature, and deep space to blur the lines between them, echoing the Taoist ideal of "human and nature in one."

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Yu Chou

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Yu Chou

Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.