Painting

INTERVIEW | Albert Deak

INTERVIEW | Albert Deak

Albert Deak is a UK-based visual artist. He bridges traditional ceramic techniques with digital abstraction and acrylic painting on canvas. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, salons, and international art festivals. His current focus lies in authentic digital art and acrylic painting on canvas, while continuing to expand his symbolic archive and historical projects.

INTERVIEW | Zahira Barneto

INTERVIEW | Zahira Barneto

Zahira Barneto is a Spanish-American visual artist whose work explores spirituality, consciousness, and the unseen dimensions of existence. Her ongoing series, Frequencies, translates transmissions into matter, creating portals that bridge spirit and form. Each oil-on-canvas piece emerges through a slow, intuitive process uniting ancient techniques with visionary depth.

INTERVIEW | Indra Persad Milowe

INTERVIEW | Indra Persad Milowe

Indra Persad Milowe, an internationally acclaimed artist accredited by the UNOFEX (Union of Excellence), has journeyed through life with a passion for art that has defined her path and captivated audiences globally. Born with an innate talent and a deep appreciation for the natural world, Indra's work reflects her rich cultural heritage and the vibrant stories of her homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

INTERVIEW | Ivan Pili

INTERVIEW | Ivan Pili

Ivan Pili is a hyperrealist painter whose work focuses on the human figure and the intimate atmospheres that arise in unspoken moments. Working from his studio in Sardinia, Pili continues to pursue a painterly research dedicated to minimal gestures, controlled chiaroscuro, and the slow construction of emotional tension, elements that belong as much to the portrayed figure.

INTERVIEW | Hansa Sethi

INTERVIEW | Hansa Sethi

Hansa Sethi is a contemporary Indian artist whose practice centres on the inner landscapes of memory, emotion, and silence. Working primarily with abstraction, she builds her compositions through layered textures, shifting tones, and symbolic forms that echo the complexities of lived experience. Sethi’s paintings navigate the subtle space between pain and clarity, vulnerability and resilience.

INTERVIEW | Tina Lin

INTERVIEW | Tina Lin

Tina Lin is an artist, creator, director, photographer, and booking agent. In 2004, she founded a booking agency. Currently, her agency represents over 30 artists. In 2021, she released her personal collection of paintings, videos, directorial work, and visual artworks on her website and Instagram. In 2024, she joined forces with two other artists to establish The Weirds Plus.

INTERVIEW | Anastasiia Kolhan

INTERVIEW | Anastasiia Kolhan

Anastasia Kolgan (b. 1992, Luhansk, Ukraine) is a contemporary visual artist working primarily in watercolour, oil, and mixed media, currently based in Wrocław, Poland. Her practice merges contemporary art with rich layers of symbolism and a touch of surrealism, turning personal experiences into universal narratives of strength, vulnerability, and resilience.

INTERVIEW | Darren Rea

INTERVIEW | Darren Rea

Darren Rea is a Cree-Metis painter and poet based in Calgary, Canada, working and playing on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy. His practice is rooted in a deep spiritual connection to nature, shaped by his upbringing near the Rocky Mountains and years of personal exploration through ceremony, meditation, and indigenous teachings. 

INTERVIEW | Maurizio D'Andrea

INTERVIEW | Maurizio D'Andrea

Maurizio D'Andrea is an Italian painter. His painting is rooted in informal abstraction, yet over time, he felt the need to move beyond it. Today he lives in Alba, in Piedmont, where he has his studio, which he has named Orizzonti Impossibili, a space that is both refuge and forge, where he continues to question the unknown, to cross the thresholds of the visible.

INTERVIEW | Dalia Raduca

INTERVIEW | Dalia Raduca

Dalia Raduca, born in 2000 in Romania, is a contemporary abstract artist based in Barcelona. She has always been drawn to the artistic side of the world; the details, the textures, the beauty in things. She channels that energy into her art, aiming to transmit feeling rather than perfection or explanation. She wants people to connect with the raw, instinctive energy behind each piece.

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

Elena Sergeevna Popova (b. 1982, Moscow) is a visual artist living and working in Cyprus. For her, painting is her way of slowing down time and holding on to what would otherwise be lost. She finds inspiration in the sea, in music and dance, and in the fragile emotions that pass quickly in human life. Her works carry a sense of stillness, a quiet space where the viewer can stop and simply feel.

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

Krystyna Vinogorodska is a European artist and a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Her work bridges classical training with experimental forms of contemporary art. She creates spaces where time dissolves, placing the viewer in a threshold between past and future, between what has been forgotten and what is yet to come.

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

Nike Kama (b. 1979, Aktau, Kazakhstan) is a Berlin-based artist whose work embodies the spirit of naïve painting, driven by an unwavering belief in the transformative power of love, colour, and symbolism. Though not academically trained, Kama has forged her own artistic path, expressing emotions and life experiences through images that radiate joy and positivity.

INTERVIEW | Kamila Hyo Hlobil

INTERVIEW | Kamila Hyo Hlobil

Kamila Hyo’s artistic practice is rooted in oil painting and explores the interplay of space, light, and colour. Her creative process is not a linear act of execution, but a slow unfolding, a shaping and transformation of the subject over time. Each motif undergoes a silent metamorphosis while remaining anchored in its essential nature, as if suspended in a timeless moment.

INTERVIEW | Marika Junikajtes

INTERVIEW | Marika Junikajtes

Marika Junikajtes is a mixed media artist based near Frankfurt, Germany. Her work spans expressive portraiture, abstract compositions, and fantastical worlds, each rooted in personal experience and emotional symbolism. She paints on canvas using acrylics, oils, and pouring mediums. Her portraits explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and strength through a lens of abstract realism.

INTERVIEW | Johanna Arganbright

INTERVIEW | Johanna Arganbright

Johanna Arganbright is a figure painter in Missoula, Montana. Much of her work is centred around intimate and lonesome activities and feelings; she is inspired by the small moments that are often overlooked and shines a spotlight on them. There is beauty in the simple, lonely moments; she wishes to emphasise that with her work and make unspoken connections between people.

INTERVIEW | Jin Kyeong An

INTERVIEW | Jin Kyeong An

Jin Kyeong An is a Korean artist, primarily working with painting. When it comes to work, it has the charm of capturing the eyes of visitors with its primitive colours and simple form that evokes the spirit of Henry Rousseau. Familiar and light colours and forms cross conventional boundaries, harmonising traditional and modern senses. She is now a full-time painter.