Painting

INTERVIEW | Nataraj von Allmen

INTERVIEW | Nataraj von Allmen

Nataraj von Allmen is a painter based in Switzerland. Often taking photographic material as a starting point, he weaves together landscapes, mythological archetypes, Christian symbolism, and contemporary socio-political themes into complex paintings. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work investigates transformation, collective memory, and the human condition.

INTERVIEW | Veronika Fox

INTERVIEW | Veronika Fox

Veronika Fox is a contemporary Ukrainian artist based in New York City. work explores the space where emotion, imagination, and symbolism intersect. She paints intuitively and moving between abstraction, figuration, surrealism, and escapism, she creates expressive figures, dreamlike forms, and recurring robots that have become her visual signature.

INTERVIEW | Natalia Yuresko-Bilous

INTERVIEW | Natalia Yuresko-Bilous

Natalia Yuresko-Bilous is a Ukrainian artist living in Bulgaria. In her work, she places a strong emphasis on light as the central expressive element. Through it, she reveals the beauty of the surrounding world and invites the viewer to pause, truly observe what often goes unnoticed, sit in quiet reflection, and become aware of the fleeting nature of time.

INTERVIEW | Lubna Alayeli

INTERVIEW | Lubna Alayeli

Lubna Alayeli is a multidisciplinary artist and interior designer whose practice explores transformation, memory, and the relationship between natural forms and abstraction. Working primarily through painting, she investigates states of emergence and transition, allowing images to evolve through layered processes of observation, intuition, and material experimentation.

INTERVIEW | Raya Mansoor

INTERVIEW | Raya Mansoor

Raya Mansoor is a contemporary artist from the Maldives whose practice moves between abstraction and expressionism, shaped by island life, personal memory, and observation. Working primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas, she builds layered compositions through colour, gesture, and forms drawn from the natural and everyday world around her.

INTERVIEW | Aunia Kahn

INTERVIEW | Aunia Kahn

Aunia Kahn is a contemporary artist and curator working across gouache, acrylic, colored pencil, and dimensional mixed media, creating layered compositions that weave personal narrative with rich cultural symbolism. The originator of Contemporary Symbolist Folk, a lineage rooted in symbolic depth and personal mythos, Kahn draws from French Canadian, German, Polish and Scandinavian folklore.

INTERVIEW | Allan Gorman

INTERVIEW | Allan Gorman

Brooklyn-Born Allan Gorman is a contemporary fine artist based in Jersey City, NJ, with a unique artistic vision cultivated by a distinguished commercial career that helped refine a sense of aesthetics and unwavering commitment to excellence that continues to define his artistic process to this day. His latest series of paintings is titled Imaginary Spaces.

INTERVIEW | Xinyue Zhang

INTERVIEW | Xinyue Zhang

Xinyue Zhang is a multi-media artist. Born in northern China, her practice explores the boundary between figuration and abstraction, capturing the tremors overlooked in daily life, the path of light through dust, the traces of time on surfaces. Her artworks achieve balance through contrast, much like life, affirming its existence through decay, seeking that fleeting “in-between.”

INTERVIEW | Siqi Fan

INTERVIEW | Siqi Fan

Siqi Fan is a Los Angeles–based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video installation, performance, and photography. Drawing inspiration from food culture, hospitality, and everyday encounters, her work reflects on migration, labor, memory, and the ways people create a sense of belonging, focusing on overlooked stories and forms of care embedded within ordinary spaces.

INTERVIEW | Karolina Bergin

INTERVIEW | Karolina Bergin

Karolina Bergin is a Polish artist whose work focuses on emotional, fashion-inspired portraiture. Using mixed media, she has developed a tactile, layered style where detailed, expressive faces collide with raw textures, intuitive marks, and unfinished forms. She primarily works with traditional media, valuing the unique qualities of paper, texture, and physical mark-making.

INTERVIEW | Samuel Perry

INTERVIEW | Samuel Perry

Samuel Perry is a self-taught abstract artist based in San Diego, California. Known for his large-scale works on unprimed canvas, his practice explores the tensions between structure and spontaneity, control and disorder. His work is held in luxury hotels and private collections throughout the United States and represented by galleries across California.

INTERVIEW | Wallace Woo

INTERVIEW | Wallace Woo

Wallace Woo is a Paris-based contemporary artist and the founder of Stalactite Aesthetics. His work established the movement of Geological Abstractionism, a philosophical inquiry into the dimension of time and material sedimentation. His work explores the intersection of gravity, time, and the silent breath of the earth. The act of painting is not decorative for him, it is an act of deposition.

INTERVIEW | Sona Lee

INTERVIEW | Sona Lee

Sona Lee is a Korean artist currently living and working in New York City. She primarily works in painting and drawing, reconstructing surreal spaces where fragments of memories, dreams and reality intertwine to create multi-layered visual narratives. Her layered imagery reflects a deep interest in psychological space, often blurring the boundary between the real and unreal.

INTERVIEW | Leah Larisa Bunshaft

INTERVIEW | Leah Larisa Bunshaft

Leah Larisa Bunshaft is a multidisciplinary artist who works in mixed media. Trauma received in childhood, changes of countries influenced the choice of themes of the artist. A key theme in Leah's artworks is the vulnerability of the fragile human being in this insecure world, issues of femininity, women's lives, feminism and self-identity.

INTERVIEW | Ziwen Li

INTERVIEW | Ziwen Li

Ziwen Li is an artist based between London and China, working across painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. She is deeply interested in fluid energies that circulate between the subconscious and nature. Her work reflects on memory, authenticity, transience, psychological vulnerability, kindness, and the human search for meaning.

INTERVIEW | Chloe Saron

INTERVIEW | Chloe Saron

Chloe Saron was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Through blurred forms and softness, the artist explores memory, interconnectedness, and stillness, inviting viewers into a quiet space of reflection and recognition. What is so exciting about Saron’s process is that it is an act of personal rebellion, going against everything she was trained to do.

INTERVIEW | Lohrasb Bayat

INTERVIEW | Lohrasb Bayat

Lohrasb Bayat (b. 1990, Tehran, Iran) is a self-taught artist based in Tehran. His practice delves into the dynamics of power, uncertainty, and resilience within socio-political and psychological landscapes. Working primarily with painting, Bayat explores the tension between vulnerability and defiance, often through figures caught in ambiguous or constrained situations.

INTERVIEW | In June Park

INTERVIEW | In June Park

In June Park is a Korean painter currently based in New York. His paintings capture archived moments in our lives and are rendered on canvas in slow, acrylic layers. Ranging from religious icons to left-behind household items, his subjects are pulled out of their environment to engage with other works in the series, forming a collective narrative.

INTERVIEW | Julia Katolla

INTERVIEW | Julia Katolla

Julia Katolla is a mixed media artist, raised in Costa Rica and based in Bonn, Germany. She explores motherhood beyond idealisation, systemic aggression and the human urge to impose order on chaos. By mixing different media and intricate details, she analyzes emotions, violence, and ambivalence, creating small universes where randomness and precision intertwine.