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 | Coraline Mengdie Zhou

INTERVIEW | Coraline Mengdie Zhou

Coraline Zhou's work uses drawing and writing as tools for excavation. Through asemic writing, abstraction, and drawings that map emotion and consciousness, she traces the pre-verbal: marks that behave like thoughts before they acquire words. These forms become archaeological evidence of the nervous system's search for coherence, suspended between comprehension and dissolution.

INTERVIEW | Saman Zahawi

INTERVIEW | Saman Zahawi

Saman Zahawi is an Iraqi-Canadian artist and architect born in Baghdad in 1967. His practice is rooted in Arab culture, philosophy, and identity - expressed through ‘Silent Art’, his signature form of contemporary Arabic calligraphy that transforms words into a visual and spiritual experience. Zahawi's minimalist work is shaped by the contrasts of the human experience.

INTERVIEW | Olga Niekrasova

INTERVIEW | Olga Niekrasova

Olga Niekrasova is an internationally recognized Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. Her interdisciplinary practice navigates the fragile terrain of memory, trauma, displacement, and the invisible threads that bind us to one another. Blurring the boundaries between cinema, visual art, and poetic inquiry, her work unfolds through immersive, emotionally resonant forms.

INTERVIEW | Yiming Zhai

INTERVIEW | Yiming Zhai

Yiming Zhai is an illustrator, mural artist, and children’s picture book creator based in Dallas, Texas. His creative practice focuses on narrative, space, and the relationship between people and their environments. Influenced by children’s picture books, travel experiences, and observations of everyday life, Zhai constructs open and approachable narrative spaces.

INTERVIEW | Irene Cabasa

INTERVIEW | Irene Cabasa

Irene is an emerging abstract artist based in Sydney, Australia. Working primarily in textured abstract painting, her work explores themes of emotion, resilience, identity, and transformation through layered surfaces and expressive mark-making. Through a process that embraces spontaneity and experimentation, Irene creates works that reflect the complexity of human experience.

INTERVIEW | Karen K. Wallen

INTERVIEW | Karen K. Wallen

Karen K. Wallen is an Abstract Expressionist painter who works with acrylics and mixed media out of her home studio in Los Angeles. She works with acrylics and mixed media, layering emotion and memory onto canvas and paper. Donning blue non-latex gloves, she spreads out floor coverings and pours out a multitude of hues, letting abstraction speak where words cannot.

INTERVIEW | TOVA

INTERVIEW | TOVA

TOVA is a multidisciplinary artist based between Dubai and London, working across abstract painting, music, and poetry. Her practice explores how structure and emotion coexist, using geometric frameworks and expressive colour to hold shifting inner states. TOVA’s practice unfolds through two key authorial concepts: TOVA NUTS, which take the form of sculptural artworks, and TOVA WORLDS.

INTERVIEW | Netta Ganor

INTERVIEW | Netta Ganor

Netta Ganor is a figurative painter, member of the International Association of the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA). She sees her art as a medium that allows her tremendous freedom in being creative and conveying a message to the world, that, regardless of her physical disability, she is "high on life", full of hope and optimism and always trying to see the glass half full.

INTERVIEW | Arseniy Valter

INTERVIEW | Arseniy Valter

Arseniy Valter is an architect, audiovisual artist, and creative director based in Barcelona, Spain. Originally from Russia, he positions his practice in opposition to the war in Ukraine and works across moving image, 3D motion, digital art, sound, scenography, and spatial design. Valter has developed a multidisciplinary practice between cinema, fashion, advertising, and ephemeral architecture.

INTERVIEW | Marvi Khan

INTERVIEW | Marvi Khan

Marvi Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian artist residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Marvi’s art reflects her interest in humanity’s intangible thoughts and feelings. In her practice, she explores elements of abstraction through painting, drawing, and mixed media collage. She wants to challenge the misconception that abstraction is pointless and encourage people to give it a second chance.

INTERVIEW | Roudha Al Neama

INTERVIEW | Roudha Al Neama

Roudah Al Neama is a multidisciplinary artist based in Qatar whose practice spans digital painting, embroidery, oil, and architectural materials such as grout and tile. Her work transforms the surface of painting into a physical, tactile field. Drawing from intimate moments and her immediate environment, she examines the social and cultural fabric of her country.

INTERVIEW | Mimi Revencu

INTERVIEW | Mimi Revencu

Mimi Revencu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice explores the relationship between image, perception, and the subtle structures of meaning. Her works unfold in the liminal space between the visible and the invisible, exploring the tension between clarity and ambiguity, light and density. Her practice is distinguished by symbolic stratification and compositional balance.

INTERVIEW | Sia Bourke

INTERVIEW | Sia Bourke

Sia Bourke is a Ukrainian artist and architect whose work explores absence, displacement, and the physical imprint of memory. Born in Ukraine and currently based in Dublin, Ireland, her practice is shaped by the lived experience of migration and a sustained reflection on belonging and loss. Through sculptural textile relief, Bourke creates surfaces that suggest presence through what remains.