INTERVIEW | Mikala Martinez

INTERVIEW | Mikala Martinez

Mikala Clarise Martinez is a painter who lives in Los Angeles, California. She makes figurative abstract paintings primarily on unstretched canvas. Martinez focuses on using the environment surrounding her space as compositions for her paintings. She lets her intuition guide the colours that are chosen, along with the movements that are made by brush or palette knife.

INTERVIEW | Saniya Assembek

INTERVIEW | Saniya Assembek

Saniya Assembek is a motion designer and director from Kazakhstan, now based in New York. With a background in engineering, she brings a structured, thoughtful approach to storytelling, blending visual rhythm, sound, and emotion in her work. In her breakout short film Soundtrack Your Life, she explored how a shift in sound could alter an entire emotional landscape.

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

Wataru Furuta is a photographer and graphic designer based in Tokyo, Japan. In the series Hazama, Furuta focuses on the relationship between our memory and vision. He uses visual effects to blend the holy places he has seen with other landscapes that are traditionally and philosophically associated with those places, attempting to evoke the images that people have had of those places.

INTERVIEW | Léa. M

INTERVIEW | Léa. M

Lebanese-Canadian artist Léa. M, currently based in the United Arab Emirates, brings a bold and uninhibited approach to contemporary painting. Entirely self-taught, she draws inspiration from post-impressionist and expressionist movements, channelling their emotive power and vibrant aesthetics into a style that is uniquely her own. Her work captures fleeting moments of joy.

INTERVIEW | Tinmin

INTERVIEW | Tinmin

Tinmin is a contemporary abstract artist known for pioneering an innovative technique that uses a lint roller to extract and manipulate fibres from vintage garments and fibrous materials. He transforms these elements into vibrant, textured compositions on paper, breathing new purpose and life into them. His work is characterised by striking abstract imagery, rich in colour and depth.

INTERVIEW | Green (Yong Woon Park)

INTERVIEW | Green (Yong Woon Park)

Green (Yong Woon Park) is a South Korean artist based in London. His work explores emotional struggle, social tension and the psychological impact of modern life through explosive colour, raw textures and allegorical imagery. Deeply engaged in the politics of dystopian culture and its effects on the individual, Green’s practice transforms personal unrest into visual form.