INTERVIEW | Valya Papadopoulou

INTERVIEW | Valya Papadopoulou

Valya Papadopoulou is a fashion Illustrator and designer with a background in chemical engineering, raised in Canada and currently based in Athens, Greece. A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, her work is deeply influenced by the intersection of these two distinct cultural and academic experiences, blending precision with artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Min Kun Li

INTERVIEW | Min Kun Li

Min Kun Li (Sam Fisher) is a new media creator and art educator active at the forefront of digital art. His creations are based on digital media, completing the deconstruction of art and the contemporary translation of religious culture, and constructing a field with both spiritual and technological characteristics in virtual space.

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

INTERVIEW | Wataru Furuta

Wataru Furuta is a photographer and graphic designer based in Tokyo, Japan. In the series Hazama, Furuta focuses on the relationship between our memory and vision. He uses visual effects to blend the holy places he has seen with other landscapes that are traditionally and philosophically associated with those places, attempting to evoke the images that people have had of those places.

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 | Tinmin

INTERVIEW | Tinmin

Tinmin is a contemporary abstract artist known for pioneering an innovative technique that uses a lint roller to extract and manipulate fibres from vintage garments and fibrous materials. He transforms these elements into vibrant, textured compositions on paper, breathing new purpose and life into them. His work is characterised by striking abstract imagery, rich in colour and depth.

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 | Buer Guo

INTERVIEW | Buer Guo

Buer Guo is a contemporary Chinese artist whose practice explores universal values through a deeply personal lens shaped by mythology, philosophy, and cross-cultural experience. Her paintings question the limits of human perception and imagination, aiming to expand the viewer’s sensory awareness and relationship with the world.

INTERVIEW | Vierdamme - Marleen Vandamme & Dennis Vieren

INTERVIEW | Vierdamme - Marleen Vandamme & Dennis Vieren

Vierdamme is the artistic duo of Marleen Vandamme and Dennis Vieren, a portmanteau that embodies the fusion of their distinct creative voices, exploring the depths of identity, emotion, and connection. Their work is deeply personal, reflecting an ongoing artistic conversation between two distinct yet harmonized perspectives.

INTERVIEW | Yanlin Song

INTERVIEW | Yanlin Song

Yanlin Song is a multidisciplinary illustrator based in Shanghai. She believes that human beings are part of nature and should accept the inevitable withering and death as gracefully as plants do. After 24 years of recovering from anxiety, Lin began to use plants with female gender symbols in her paintings as a way of provoking reflection on the unseen feminine.

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yu

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yu

As a transgender male artist, Yu explores themes of identity, transformation, and the intersection of personal and societal narratives through his innovative art practice. Drawing deeply from his lived experiences, he creates works that reflect on transgender life, memory, and the journey of self-reflection. His art spans a variety of mediums, seamlessly incorporating symbolic images.

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 | Ilya Fomin - Laznes Binch

INTERVIEW | Ilya Fomin - Laznes Binch

Ilya Fomin is a digital artist exploring reinterpreted and reconstructed forms of perception in the age of digital transformation. His work investigates the fluidity of memory, the intersection of human cognition and digital aesthetics, and the continuous process of visual deconstruction and reassembly. Rooted in digital media, his practice integrates layering, collage, and glitch aesthetics.