Painting

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 | 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 | 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.

INTERVIEW | Maryna Gradnova

INTERVIEW | Maryna Gradnova

Maryna Gradnova is a London-based independent artist and acclaimed costume designer whose work traverses the worlds of fine art, theatre, film, and opera. She is the originator of “Fieriness”, a distinctive ink-based style that channels raw intensity through gestural lines, dynamic movement, and emotionally charged compositions. Her works explore transformation and impermanence.

INTERVIEW | Carley Adberstein

INTERVIEW | Carley Adberstein

Carley Adberstein is a 24-year-old Austin-based artist whose work merges the technical with the inspirational. Her work is not about strict realism or replication but rather about presence, capturing the essence of a subject rather than its form. hrough her art, Carley seeks to create those fleeting moments of peace, offering viewers a space of stillness and connection.

INTERVIEW | Carmen Rieger

INTERVIEW | Carmen Rieger

Carmen Rieger is a Romania-born and Austria based artist. For IRIS, her style, Fluidism, is a tribute to the most fascinating, important and complex fluid on Earth, without which life cannot exist, WATER. Her artworks are composed of intricately organized, organic forms inspired by the movement of fluids, and the 7 colours of the rainbow and the shades obtained by combining them.

INTERVIEW | Anne-Marie Chikhany

INTERVIEW | Anne-Marie Chikhany

Anne-Marie Chikhany (2000) is a Lebanese artist and iconographer whose work spans a wide range of artistic styles. Together with sacred art, she explores contemporary and Abstract painting, using colour as a central element to evoke emotions and invite introspection. Her artistic philosophy is rooted in the belief that art is a bridge between emotions and the viewer.

INTERVIEW | Matt Gabler

INTERVIEW | Matt Gabler

Matt Gabler is an American self-taught abstract painter whose work radiates emotion and vitality. His paintings are a bold exploration of life’s challenges and triumphs, using vibrant colours and expressive strokes to transform hardship into beauty and resilience. Deeply committed to inspiring and uplifting others, Gabler uses his art to support meaningful causes.

INTERVIEW | Courtney Gatewood

INTERVIEW | Courtney Gatewood

Courtney Gatewood is a passionate artist from Tennessee, USA. Courtney Gatewood identifies as a painter and drawer specializing in figurative art. Reflecting on her artistic journey, she feels a strong motivation to develop a collection that instils hope, especially for young women. She aims to honor women and the incredible strength they demonstrate by being true to themselves.

INTERVIEW | Kryštof Novotný

INTERVIEW | Kryštof Novotný

Kryštof Novotný is an artist from Czech Republic, whose work covers a wide spectrum - from painting to tattooing. His path to art began in childhood and since then has been constantly evolving, intertwined with personal experiences and studies that have shaped his artistic view of the world. He currently lives and creates in the Czech Republic, where he devotes himself to his craft.

INTERVIEW | Madison Hines - XWIZDUMBX

INTERVIEW | Madison Hines - XWIZDUMBX

Madison Hines is an emerging abstract artist and designer from Houston, Texas. As a self-taught artist, she experiments with acrylics and fabrics, drawing inspiration from her inner child and deep ancestral connections. She incorporates bold colors, textures, and shapes, to initiate storytelling. Her artist name, XWIZDUMBX (wiz•dumb), is defined by the knowledge of self.