Drawing

INTERVIEW | Faith Sycaoyao

INTERVIEW | Faith Sycaoyao

Faith Sycaoyao is an artist who gleams as a prodigy and resonates with her 19 years of vivid existence in the realm of fine art. Born in the Philippines in 2004 to a Filipino-Chinese heritage, her self-taught expertise encompasses 40+ art forms/techniques, making her an unprecedented young figure in the contemporary art landscape.

INTERVIEW | Daniel Stott

INTERVIEW | Daniel Stott

As a student architect, Daniel's drawing abilities are essential for both the course he studies and his future career. In Daniel's spare time, he chooses to draw his secondary passion: animals, specifically birds. While he does draw animals on commission or just for fun, birds have always been Daniel's muse. To him, it's the shape, the feathers, and their many distinguishing characteristics, such as their wings and beaks.

INTERVIEW | Masoomeh Aftabi

INTERVIEW | Masoomeh Aftabi

Masoomeh Aftabi, born in 1991 in Rasht, is an Iranian artist and designer. Masoomeh’s first solo exhibition, “Dream of Trees,” was a tribute to the beauty and majesty of trees, with each piece embodying the artist’s unique perspective on traditional design. Within the first three days of the exhibition, all of the artworks were sold, garnering praise from notable designers.

INTERVIEW | Lee Ellis

INTERVIEW | Lee Ellis

Lee Ellis is an American contemporary artist currently based in the south of France. Since 2020, he found himself drawn to smaller works and started creating a series of works where he put hundreds of post-it notes with individual drawings onto a canvas. With his work, Lee Ellis attempts to reinforce this ethos by giving the audience a glimpse at the overwhelming power we have together.

INTERVIEW | Zemfira Alaskarzade

INTERVIEW | Zemfira Alaskarzade

Zemfira Alaskarzade is an artist and jewelry designer from Azerbaijan. Zemfira paints in her own style, which was born thanks to impressionism and expressionism. She is inspired by the ideas of impressionism in the transmission of the first emotions, impressions, and expressionism - a vivid demonstration of feelings. However, the main genre of her work is portraiture.

INTERVIEW | Negar Pooya

INTERVIEW | Negar Pooya

Negar Pooya is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Iran in 1971, living and working in Toronto. Her latest project, Mind and Soul, is an ongoing project that started in 2020 when she immigrated to Canada. Women's issues are explored in this body of work. In these self-portraits, she explores the concept of self-reflection and character building as a way to reflect on my life and environment at this time.

INTERVIEW | Peter Politis

INTERVIEW | Peter Politis

Peter Politis (b. 1989) is an artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. In his work, the contrast between black and white tends to emphasize shape, while the fluidity of ink emphasizes motion. Evocative inkwork can be seen as the distillation of what we call “thought” into something almost purely kinetic - though not necessarily focused, or premeditated. Of course, this is only one definition.

INTERVIEW | Mai Aboassi

INTERVIEW | Mai Aboassi

Mai Aboassi is an Egyptian-based contemporary artist. Born in Oman in 1997, she grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Mai Aboassi illustrates her feelings against a white wall that allows her voice to speak out for her silence. Her art subjects are based on her memories, emotions, and nightmares. She gets inspired by the past and the present, the psychological state of her mind, and all surroundings as she is interested in human behaviour and mental estate.

INTERVIEW | Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius

INTERVIEW | Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius

Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius is a high-end, South African artist who has been living in the Sultanate of Oman for the past ten years. She is a process artist. Sharmaine reates blueprint, mixed media drawings of her dreams. Then her work gets photographed, and she uses kaleidoscopic computer software to produce digital art copies of the original work.

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

Mariaceleste Arena is a Sicilian drawer and painter who works with both traditional and digital techniques. She created several urban regeneration works, collaborations with non-profit associations, published in various magazines and catalogs, exhibited in various art venues. For her, art must always be innovative: it is, in fact, a mental process, and therefore it is always in constant transformation.