Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Siham El Kandoussi is a self-taught abstract painter and amateur photographer. Born and raised in Morocco in 1980, she is now living in Kuwait since 2008. Siham is inspired by the avant-garde abstract expressionist artists, the enriched and omnifarious culture of her homeland, and the different cultures and colors of the cities where she dwells her soul in.
Nikki Gal is an American-born digital artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Gal expresses the importance of mental health awareness throughout her pieces, giving those a meaningful yet strong take-away. Her latest series, STATE OF A WOMAN, is a series of digital pieces that construct a firm image of different mental health disorders. Gal's mission is to not only make mental health a topic of conversation but a topic of conversation through creativity.
Desirée Jung is a Brazilian artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found on her website.
Markus Böhm is a well-known German artist. He combines abstraction with symbolic and figurative elements. Besides physical art, he designs digital crypto art. He creates unique connections from the physical to the virtual world. His work focuses on painting and its transformation into digital arrangements such as NFT art. He lives, and work in Frankfurt am Main and also abroad.
Bilge Ugursu is a Berlin-based abstract artist. She describes her style as figurative abstract expressionist and uses mixed media in most of her artworks. Ugursu has developed a unique concept by combining her classical paintings with digital art to create a smooth synthesis without rules and conceptualizations. You can see both brush strokes and digital pixels in her artworks.
Luisa Vicente Isola is an Argentinian artist and architect. In her work, she tries to create metaphorical images of emotional states that have allowed her to speak of realities both certain and intangible, images that invite to be examined through a deeply emotional contemplation. Her works invite the viewers to connect through them with their own self, allowing them to have another perception of it.
Joshua Wells is a British artist, born in Chatham, Kent, in 1998. He is an expressionist artist that bases his practice around the absence of control. His research-based practice has the born motive of filling the blurred line between reality and delusion, conforming with the ground-breaking research into communication patterns and their correlation to psychology.
Mariken Heijwegen is a visual artist, stylist and art teacher based in Rotterdam. She uses painting to make self-portraits and put her emotions on the canvas. Her paintings reflect feelings like panic attacks, fear, anxiety, insecurities, and all mixed emotions. She uses art as a form of therapy for mental illnesses and to shed a light on such a common theme.
Ivan Kanchev is a Bulgarian artist and ceramist. His latest series, Man, where are you?, concerns current problems of the present existence. Everything is fragmented in ecological, social, and political terms. The earth is "notched". The man is small and naked, confused and defenseless, represented with outstretched arms and legs apart - in a poetic and artistic crucifix. It is an object-subject, center and periphery, meaning and time.
July Cortes Cardenas is a self-taught Soap Artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, and originally from Bogota, Colombia. As a former Pastry Chef, she has transferred her skills into soap making and has developed her own techniques. She experiments with shapes, colours, materials, and lots of soap, constantly looking for the extraordinary side of ordinary things, using her unique perspective as a foundation.
Claudia Habringer is an Austrian artist based in Wien. Claudia never allowed herself to be classified. All that matters is the dedication to the freedom to create. Recently she found one of her drawings when she was three years old and realized it had been all there already. Through years of living and exploring, she just had to learn that art needs freedom to express itself. There is a new "baby" now. She redesigns her artworks for fabric prints.
Te-Sian Shih is a New York City-based graphic, packaging, branding designer, and artist. For her, design solves problems and conveys the companies' missions or personal vision. Designers should know what the concept needs to communicate to the consumers or viewers and then start thinking about the visual identity, branding, image, etc. A good designer should help consumers and businesses to develop their scale of enterprises and reputations.
Dandi Gu is an illustrator, Painter, and Curator based in Shanghai and New York. As a female artist, she also hopes to show women's strong spiritual power and social role. For years, she has been observing and experiencing that women are increasingly valued, respected, and playing an important role in society. Her work draws upon lines and shapes derived from dance, and especially Latin dance, and dancers bodies.
Pamela Chrabieh is a Lebanese-Canadian visual artist, researcher, activist, writer, and consultant with 20+ years of international experience. At the crossroads of Western Asian iconography, calligraphy, and digital arts, Chrabieh’s artworks express pieces of wounded memories by sublimating reality. Each icon is an experience of the sublime that lurks within and beyond the ambiguity of traumas in a quest for the healing of life.
Ahmed Lebourgeois Njifenjou is Cameroonian artist, born and raised Paris but currently based in Cardiff. He is the founder of Tribaart, an online gallery that showcases African art through its website and other platforms. Tribaart works on different aspects of promoting African art, from exhibitions, to festivals, music events, workshops and more. On the website and YouTube channels art lovers can discover more about African art.
Badria Shamsi is an expressionist artist from UAE. Her work is an interpretation of how she feels and understands the emotions around her, as well as how she reacts to them. Her intention is to portray the complexity of emotions from one person to another. In each painting, there are different eyes: happy, laughing, careless, curious, boring, and many more. Therefore, it is interesting to define your mood today in a gathering and which eye is yours.
Stanislav Bojankov is a Bulgarian artist, specialized in Painting, Drawing and Graphic Design. His work analyzes the Roots, classic traditions and philosophies. Through his work, he wishes to contribute to these local and global cultural traditions and simultaneously create new expectations within the modern individual’s universal perceptions, transforming them into widely understood signs, symbols, and codes.
Ran-ae Ham is a contemporary artist who combines abstraction and figuration. She can be said to be a non-figurative artist in the sense that she intuitively visualizes daily experiences without reproducing or explaining them with pictures. Some of the so-called non-representatives are lyrical and extremely turbulent, while others visualize and study mysterious experiences from the deep roots of human consciousness.
Nuria Gonzalez Alcaide (Barcelona, 1995) is a self-taught visual abstract artist. Her abstract painting draws inspiration from thoughts and life situations, emotions and feelings that she experiences and renders with brush strokes. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Vic, Madrid, and London. She is currently based in Indonesia.
