All in Contemporary Art
There is magic and discovery in stepping back and seeing what has been created as it happens. There is a zen like meditation going on as the work progresses building up toward a vague vision stroke by stroke. Stepping back and observing at a distance reveals a vision that echos and is often more interesting on several levels than the image once only seen in the mind.
The recent work of Anthony Emerton affirms the enduring relevance of abstraction as a site of thought, ethics, and lived experience. The paintings produced since 2021 do not function as a late stylistic turn or a retreat into formalism, but as the consolidation of a language patiently earned. They stand as the outcome of a long engagement with form across media, across decades, and across interruption. What gives these works their quiet authority is not innovation in the sense of rupture, but coherence sustained over time.
Mitterhuber is a self taught painter and a professional make up artist. She has studied, worked and lived not just in Europe but also in North America and Australia for some years. She has studied during countless museum and gallery visits around the world. Her favourite painters are the old masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffael, Picasso or Monet among others. Some of her favorite museums are "The Met - The Metropolitan Museum of Art" in New York City and "Musée d'Orsay" in Paris.
CARMEN RIEGER (IRIS) was born in Romania and has been living in Austria for many years. A graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Design she has worked for many years as a furniture designer. Since 2018 she has experienced a whole new style inspired by the organic forms that fluids create in their movement. She called this new style "IRIS-Fluidism".
Annette Tan’s work stands as a quiet but enduring affirmation of painting’s relevance in the present moment. Her art does not seek to compete with spectacle or conceptual complexity, nor does it rely on rhetorical gestures to assert its significance. Instead, it returns to the essential conditions of vision: the encounter between light, color, atmosphere, and the living world. Through landscapes, still lifes, and floral compositions, she constructs a visual language grounded in patience, devotion, and attentive observation. Each canvas becomes a space of reflection, where the ordinary is gently elevated into the realm of the poetic.
The paintings of Ursula Schmidt Krause unfold as meditations on sensation rather than depictions of objects. They belong to a lineage of abstract practices that understand painting not as representation, but as a register of perceptual and emotional states. Her works appear at first as fragile constellations of marks, soft accumulations of color, and wandering lines that drift across the surface as if guided by breath or memory. Yet this apparent lightness conceals a disciplined investigation into what might be called the phenomenology of color itself.
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
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.
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.
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.
I experience the digital process less as drawing on a surface and more as inhabiting a space. It functions like a mental mirror, a place where perception can be built, entered. Working in 3D allows me to construct forms rather than in 2D where artists depict them, which aligns more closely with how my inner world operates. Even though the medium allows for correction and reversibility, the meaning of the work lives in the slow acts of building, shaping, and orienting myself within that space.
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.
My work is experimental, abstract and embossed. Collagraph, etching, watercolour, collage and encaustic works. My main love is abstracting the essence of the landscape in richly coloured textured works, often enhanced with silver and gold leaf. Recent works include a series of watercolour paintings with collagraph embossings. My early experience as a theatrical designer has led to a sculptural approach to printmaking, and I have developed a method of inking using the different levels of the plate, mixing primary colours on the matrix, thus producing a shimmer of colour, much as lighting a stage set. My work develops though the materials I use. My current on-going fascination is with erosion, weather patterns, natural textures, growth formations and universal organic forms.
Neo Rauch's paintings are characterized by a unique combination of realism and surrealist abstraction. In many of his compositions, human figures engaged in manual labor or indeterminable tasks work against backdrops of mundane architecture, industrial settings, or bizarre and often barren landscapes.
Edita is a Sweden-based abstract artist whose practice is rooted in emotional truth, inner freedom, and spiritual presence. Working intuitively with fluid techniques, she creates without premeditation, allowing paint, movement, and feeling to unfold organically. Her process is guided not by rules or plans, but by lived experience, sensitivity, and trust in what emerges from within.
I explore the reality that surrounds me, its materialization, its duality, the ambivalent and yes, the beautiful. Escaping from the Universe of the obvious is not easy, but I intensely try. The complex, the dark, the brilliant, the hidden, the unknown, the plastic, the feminine, the abstract, captivate me, and keep me, to some extent, prisoner.
Joanna Levesley is a self-taught, award-winning contemporary artist based in the United Kingdom, celebrated for her intricate pen and ink works that explore the quiet power and transformation found in nature. Growing up in rural Derbyshire, Joanna developed a deep appreciation for the subtle complexities of the natural world—a perspective that continues to inform her practice today.
Janne Hokkanen is Finnish visual artist with a multidisciplinary approach to visual art. He integrates diverse media into his art, such as painting, sculpture, public art, and immersive installations, and blends artistic practice with fields like science and natural history to create rich, complex works with depth. Foremost, Janne consider himself a visual storyteller.
Born in Tunis, Tunisia, and raised in Montreal, I am a dynamic artist whose journey spans continents and cultures. My early life was shaped by an intellectually inquisitive father and a creatively skilled mother, nurturing a sense of wonder and curiosity that continues to inform my work. At twelve, I began drawing portraits, marking the start of my artistic path.
COLLECTORS ART PRIZE | ART LEGENDS OF OUR TIME is a curated art book featuring the winners of the Collectors Art Prize. It celebrates extraordinary contemporary artists whose work embodies timeless genius, lasting legacy, and the power to shape art and culture for generations to come.
