Yasmina Barbet, is a French photographer trained at the IED in Rome, developed in Paris a visual approach enriched by drawing, art history, and image processing. Upon returning to Rome, she created a personal online photographic archive in 2008.
Interview with Karel Vereycken
Born in 1957 in Antwerp, Belgium, Karel Vereycken graduated from the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and trained in engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where he obtained a certificate of passage « with distinction. ». Today, in France, he concentrates on writing about art history, producing audio guides and of course watercolors and engravings. In France, as a member of the Fédération nationale de l’estampe, he confirmed his technical mastery at Atelier63 and continued to perfect his skills in the Montreuil workshop of Danish engraver Bo Halbirk.
Interview with Fari Ali
Painting to me has been a spiritual journey for over 50 years. I have to my credit more than 300 paintings of oils on canvas. My genre of art is photo-realism, expressionism and hyper-realism. I am particularly passionate about preserving Nature and my intention and purpose is to bring awareness to the beauty of the environment we live in so that we as human beings take action to preserve and appreciate all aspects of it: Through portraits of people, birds and animals - I bring out the true essence of their personalities and immortalize their moments.
Interview with Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo
Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo, born in Jerez de la Frontera, is a grotesque, tragicomic, and unapologetically absurd alter ego of his creator—a surreal mix of Andalusian roots, cosmopolitan wanderlust, and obsessive curiosity. His art is naïve, conceptual, and intentionally imperfect: flat perspectives, rudimentary techniques, and unpredictable outcomes give each piece kitsch, personality, and grotesque charm. Inspired by eccentric people, peculiar anecdotes, and the absurdities of life—from Holy Week processions with freshmen balanced on doors, to goat-bleating classmates, to the chaos of global cities.
Interview with Ursa Schoepper
The beauty of experimental art lies in the fact that the value of an idea cannot be mathematically calculated. Digital resources operate according to the code of "either/or." However, playing with an artistic idea is not computable. Creativity and innovation follow a both/and principle. The photographic artist as constructor is a creator, not a draftsman, not a graphic artist, not a copyist. As a phantom of light, photography becomes the bearers for an artistic vision. Image skin, artificial skin, forms the blueprint for another possibility.
Interview with David Poyant
David Poyant is a contemporary embroidery artist whose work transforms the traditional craft of needlework into a powerful form of visual storytelling. Entirely hand-sewn, his pieces merge fine-art composition with the intimacy of textiles, creating richly textured worlds one stitch at a time. Beginning his artistic life later in adulthood, Poyant brings to his practice a deep sense of reinvention, memory, and lived experience. His decades as a cobbler and craftsman inform the patience, precision, and tactile sensitivity that define his work today.
Interview with Lon Levin
My work pokes at that uneasy space between structure and entropy — what I like to call “controlled chaos,” because frankly, that’s what life looks like when you take the training wheels off. Every piece is its own little ecosystem, humming along with its own rules, moods, and mischief. I’m fascinated by how order crawls out of disorder, how meaning sneaks in through the cracks when forms, colors, and movements collide like they’ve had too much coffee.
Artist Spotlight - Frank Gonzales
My work is about taking reference from various sources including books, the net and photos to comprise and create my own imagery. By creating my paintings through reference or made up elements, there becomes a play between artificiality and realism.
Interview with Margaretha Gubernale
The figures allude to the practice of spirituality, to love of nature and humanity. Dialogue with God expands thought and the senses. The strands of light in my paintings symbolize forces, for example, the sun with its warmth and growth power, and the moon with its effect on water, especially on the sea with its ebb and flow, and on births, since humans are largely composed of water.
Artist Spotlight - Jocelyn Hobbie
Jocelyn Hobbie is a visual artist based in New York City known for her brilliantly painted canvases of attractive young women in introspective states. She creates a situation of inadvertent voyeurism with the viewer drawn into circumstances where personal judgment becomes subsumed by an overall mood.
Artist Spotlight - Katinka Lampe
Katinka Lampe paints portraits. Or at least, you can clearly recognise the representation of a person. Yet, this is not the main motive of the painting. The portrait merely serves as reason to make the painting. The portrait is the imagery concept. Her paintings greatly appeal to the beholders.
Artist Spotlight - Naomi Okubo
In her painterly practice, Naomi Okubo develops beautiful and seductive images that mask darker themes relating to her adolescence and that are connected to greater problems and inconsistencies in society.
Paco Pomet
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
Peter Doig
A leader of his generation, Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who was able to propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. In a time when new techniques were dominating and when painters and painting, in general, were considered quaintly anachronistic, he forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting landscape vistas.
Artist Spotlight - Toyin Ojin Odutola
Toyin Ojin Odutola was born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985, and later moved with her family to Alabama. In 2007 she was selected to attend the Norfolk Summer Residency for Music and Art at Yale University and continued her studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She then earned her master’s degree in Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2012. She currently lives and works in New York.
Guy Yanai
Israeli oil painter Guy Yanai captures peaceful moments featuring architecture and plants. Often merging indoor and outdoor perspectives, Yanai presents placid scenes devoid of human figures. Instead, scraggly houseplants and open doors and windows act as visual focal points, suggesting the presence of human life that may have potted the plant or propped open the door.
Interview with Tina Mader
Tina Corrales-Mader is an American artist born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
She began her love of visual arts at a very young age mesmerized by Mexican folk art all around her. Growing up, Tina quickly recognized that colors, shapes, forms, music, and creativity is such a basic necessity and she needed to embrace it in any form.
COLLECTORS ART PRIZE – SECOND EDITION
THE COLLECTORS ART PRIZE recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
Artist Spotlight - Eva Berler
My engagement with photography has rekindled my relationship with both nature and my inner world. My work revolves around nature, urban settings, macro subjects, abstract forms, and fine art photography. Rather than seeking out the extraordinary, I am drawn to the hidden, quiet, and often overlooked aspects of daily life. I seek to uncover beauty, wonder, and poetry within the ordinary, shaping what I call "my little mundane world."
Artist Spotlight - Ash Arash Bigdeli
Ash Arash Bigdeli (pronounced: âraš, IPA: [ʔɒːˈɾæʃ]) has been working as a jeweler, sculptor, and later as a prop and set builder in the film industry across various countries since the 1990s. With over three decades of experience in wood carving, jewelry-making, pottery, and sculpture, his artistic journey has resulted in the creation of many large and small 3D forms and sculptures, some of which are held in private collections or featured in public art projects worldwide. Since 1992, he has participated in four solo exhibitions and eleven group pottery and sculpture exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.