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 | Saniya Assembek

INTERVIEW | Saniya Assembek

Saniya Assembek is a motion designer and director from Kazakhstan, now based in New York. With a background in engineering, she brings a structured, thoughtful approach to storytelling, blending visual rhythm, sound, and emotion in her work. In her breakout short film Soundtrack Your Life, she explored how a shift in sound could alter an entire emotional landscape.

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.