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
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
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 | Rodrigo Alpizar Sánchez
Rodri is a Mexican, Muslim emerging artist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist living in Dubai. He aims to help people in Mexico's courts while pursuing a career as a famous artist. To achieve this, he moved to the U.A.E., brought his guitar, and began developing his skills. He has visions and brings them into reality; it's about raising others' hearts through Rock.
INTERVIEW | Julia Posta
Julia Posta is a Hungarian photographer based in the UK. She focuses on abstraction and experimentation. Inspired by the fluidity of watercolour, she brings its organic spontaneity into her photographic process. She works to create images that blur the line between accident and intention. Her work invites the viewer to pause and engage with the beauty of impermanence.
INTERVIEW | Qintong Yu
Qintong Yu is a London-based visual artist and illustrator whose practice bridges digital craft and poetic storytelling. Living and working between cultures, Yu explores the psychological textures of diaspora and digital selfhood while contributing to dialogues on identity within the UK creative scene.
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 | Julio Merino
Julio Merino is a visual creative specialised in photography and graphic design, based between Seville and Cadiz. With a technical background in Image Capture, Lighting, and Graphic Design, his work stands at the intersection of visual storytelling, branding, and art direction. His photographic approach is defined by a strong sense of composition, intentional use of light and colour.
INTERVIEW | Sapphire (Shiyu) Zhang
Sapphire Zhang (Shiyu Zhang) is a Chinese female artist based in the UK. Her interdisciplinary practice merges psychology and art, drawing on an early background in spatial design to explore the relationship between space and human emotion. Working across collage, abstract painting, and installation, her work centres on examining and reconfiguring the structure of emotional experience.
INTERVIEW | Luna Xue
Luna Xue is a versatile visual artist whose practice spans painting, installation, 3D art, and bookmaking. With a background in illustration and extensive experience in the arts, her work explores themes of female identity, intergenerational trauma in Asian families, and sexual violence, blending traditional techniques with contemporary perspectives.
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 | Shan Lyu
Shan Lyu is a London-based Chinese artist, writer, and music producer whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of sound, space, and information systems. She combines creative writing, sonic composition, and interactive installation to investigate how spatial structures shape perception and how information circulates within social and cultural contexts.
INTERVIEW | Xiuzhuo Zhou
Xiuzhuo Zhou is a photographer and narrator of the inner world, whose work explores the subtle interplay between emotion, memory, and philosophical reflection. In Silent Infrastructures, Zhou explores how architecture and infrastructure quietly shape perception and control. The series omits human presence, focusing instead on built forms and synthetic materials that structure modern life.
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 | Nabila Nabi
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.
INTERVIEW | CHAMIN
CHAMIN’s work explores the fact that reality is ultimately beyond our control. By recombining impersonal fragments, unfiltered stream of stock video clips and random snapshots she finds online, CHAMIN builds her own set of visual “rules” and patterns, turning chaos into something personally meaningful. Her creative process is both an experiment in form and a way to find reassurance.
INTERVIEW | Xingyu Dai
As a photographer, Xingyu Dai is deeply interested in the overlooked, the unspoken, and the subtle moments that often go unnoticed in everyday life. For her, art serves as a powerful means to make the invisible visible, the unheard audible, and the ignored acknowledged. In the series Blade, the artist explores the pressure and judgment that modern women face regarding their bodies.
INTERVIEW | Taviana Unx
Taviana Unx is a Queer and Hispanic artist currently based in Milwaukee, WI. Their Taviana Unx’s main focus within their art is creating discussion about serious and taboo topics such as mental health and trauma. With their use of light colours and ethereal imagery, they enjoy being able to bring a focus to these heavy topics, yet create the illusion of otherwise.
INTERVIEW | Emma Shleiger
Emma Shleiger is a painter and researcher living on the shores of Lake Baikal. A representative of the classical Russian academic tradition, Emma preserves and evolves a school rooted in philosophical depth and technical mastery. Her work centres on the human figure, where form becomes a way of thinking, and painting, a reflection of meaning through presence and precision.


















