All in Painting

Artist Spotlight - Britta Ortiz

I was born in 1959 in Denmark. While I was in high school, I took a preparatory course for the art academy, because art was already a big part of my life at that time. However, I never applied to the art academy because my parents were strongly against it. Instead, I applied to university and studied medicine. Since then, I have also studied psychology and completed a master's degree in health anthropology because I love learning new things.

Artist Spotlight - Thia Path

Thia Path, born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and active in Piacenza (Italy), is an artist who has transformed color into an identity-driven language and a distinctive expressive force. After a solid background as an architect and educator, and years of research exploring art, matter, and space, her encounter with the work of Mark Rothko marked a decisive turning point: from that moment on, painting became her absolute territory.

Interview with Sara McKenzie

My painting is less an act of depiction than one of discovery — an inquiry shaped by a life lived between scientific research and visual art. After four decades in biotechnology, where hypothesis, experimentation, and revision were daily practice, I came to understand that rigor and imagination are not opposites but partners. That understanding underpins my work.

Artist Spotlight - Aristi Hadjisavva

I was born in the lovely city of Paphos in Cyprus and I am a self-taught artist. I studied Business Administration and Hotel Management but I ended working in our family textiles business. At the age of 28 I started creating art as an internal necessity and a way to communicate my worries for the world and express my psychosynthesis at the time of creation. I am continually experimenting with combining strong colours, trying to express strong emotions through colour on my canvases. My work is an exploration of the human essence in its most stripped-back, spiritual form.

Interview with Jaehee Yoo

For me, drawing a line is akin to breath meditation. The process of reaching inner stillness closely parallels my creative practice. The tension and shifting emotions generated by short and long breaths condense into images—unspoken states of sorrow, solitude, or even joy. Rather than constructing form through line, I seek to record the places where thought and emotion briefly came to rest.

Artist Spotlight - Nándor Bozsóki

I am a Hungarian painter dedicated to creating unique, personalized artworks that transform spaces and evoke deep emotions. My artistic journey began with decorative wall painting, which gradually led me to the canvas, where I found my true passion. Each painting I create is not just a visual piece but a deeply personal expression—an artwork that tells a story, recalls memories, and becomes a meaningful part of its owner’s life.

Interview with Harry T. Burleigh

When I allow initial paint strokes to show themselves until an idea emerges, it's not an oscillation between intention and recognition.  It's just a starting framework for a painting.  Several options may present themselves before I choose one, due to what I believe possesses personal integrity, and what I truly think might look totally ridiculous. Just because I wait for something to strike me visually doesn't mean that it doesn't have to have my approval of what I will accept to work with.  Ultimately, what goes down on the painting comes from my hands, my decisions, and my final approval. Finding an inspirational area within the initial strokes of pigment to start painting is simply that... a starting point. Metaphysics can only travel so far in my studio.

Artist Spotlight - Terry Hulsing

My current body of work explores the themes of capturing motion and the delicate balance between control and chaos within abstract expressionism. I primarily work in fluid acrylics, employing vibrant color saturation and the inherent unpredictability of the medium to translate fleeting moments of movement into a tangible visual experience.

Majo Portilla

Majo Portilla’s place in contemporary art history will likely be defined not solely by her stylistic synthesis, nor by her international acclaim, but by her unwavering commitment to connection. In her hands, the canvas is not a boundary. It is a bridge. Through layered pigment and faceless forms, she charts the emotional topography of a world in search of belonging.

Interview with Monica Norum

Monica Norum is a contemporary painter whose work explores painting as a site of presence, connection, and emotional resonance. Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, her paintings emerge through layered processes of intuition, revision, and material dialogue. Rather than illustrating fixed narratives, Norum creates open visual spaces where memory, vulnerability, and shared human experience can unfold. Her practice positions painting as both a perceptual and ethical act—one that invites slow looking, embodied attention, and relational engagement across cultural contexts.

Artist Spotlight - Sherry Karver

I am not a 'traditional' photographer or painter. My series Identity and Perception pushes the boundaries of photography by combining it with oil paint for all the color, narrative text, and resin surface on wood panels. This creates a unique hybrid that confronts today's individual and societal issues: alienation, loneliness, loss of identity, self-image, and how we view others.

Artist Spotlight - Margaretha Gubernale

Margaretha Gubernale was looking for a way of representation with which she could harmoniously bring together physical and spiritual ideas in a figurative and symbolic form. With this style she allows the message of her metaphysical parables to be expanded beyond all limits. To do this, she simultaneously uses surrealistic and abstract as well as figurative elements to connect everything on earth with heaven.

Artist Spotlight - Bernard Pineau

This artist’s painting is rooted in an inner quest, at the crossroads of art and the sacred. He explores an intimate form of the sacred, accessible to all, far from dogma and close to consciousness. Inspired by traditions such as Taoism, Buddhism, Alchemy, and Kabbalah, he paints with or without sketches, after a moment of meditation, allowing his consciousness to express itself through universal forms and symbols.

Artist Spotlight - Dan Terry

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.