Giancarlo De Luca, aka Lachi Lea, was born in Paola (Cs) in 1961. A painter and sculptor, he approached art at a Young age thanks to the presence of his father, also An artist. Endowed with An unprecedented sensitivity, Lachi Lea has developed a reflective language over time.
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’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.
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.
“All of my paintings are ‘Created to Create Myself’, to give myself insight knowledge, courage and power. They represent my inner world of struggles and turmoil to ravel out the influence of the outer world, which I believed was true, but only covered up my true self.
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.
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.
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.
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.
