How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
My artwork is very colourful energetic and powerful it has a lot of feeling and emotion in it shamrocks are abstract mini or figurative and they all are somewhat bold and strong.
Interview with Chan Suk On
How do you go about beginning a new piece? Do you have an idea already in mind, or do you start working with materials or sketches to find the departure point?
Improvisation is a mode of creation, without any sketches, making artworks based on feelings. Choosing background paper and test the lighting to take a shot. After finishing the work, I will look for different people, such as relatives, classmates and friends to see their reactions and opinions. The process of sharing works is very interesting, they have different backgrounds and professions. Sometimes I will accept the opinions of others and modify the work. Originality is very important.
Interview with Nandan He
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I would describe myself as a combination of conflict, but I enjoy the vibe of it, it makes me think about the relationship between me and the world all the time. I guess I will describe my artwork as a vague flowing cognition of illusion. Art to me is a life time project, I’m not in a rush, and yet to have a conclusion.
Interview with Anson Liaw
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I consider myself to be a physically and spiritually active and curious person. Everything in the world around us is interesting to me; from myself studying, questioning and discovering interesting things about how people behave in society in general to my daily enjoyment, exploration, and discovery about how observing and investigating nature and all natural and man-made objects and how they can be combined to work for me to create communication art that stimulates the understanding of something familiar into something that becomes new in the process of manufacturing new meaning. I am constantly fascinated about how I can naturally spark my mind to have creative ideas at any given moment to help fuel my conceptual illustration art-making just by observing making art from anything that crosses my path as I journey through life in the world around us.
Interview with Pato Reichler
Did you have an idea of what you wanted to create right from the beginning?
I always knew what I wanted to create. I was always passionate about classic stories, but I wanted to give them a twist. I try to show the psychological part that all these stories have and demonstrate that, no matter how old the stories are they are still very current. In my opinion, that is why people are attracted to my work because one way or another they identified themselves with it.
Interview with Petra Stefankova
Petra Štefanková studied graphic design and film and TV graphics in Bratislava and Prague, and she took a short course at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London. She has worked on advertising, editorial, animation and publishing projects for the University of Udine in Italy, Lynda.com, Microsoft Games Studios, Orange, The Guardian, The Economist, Popular Mechanics, Dialogue Review and Future Music. She collaborated with VooDooDog Animation in London on the animated title sequence for the Hollywood film Nanny McPhee 2. She is an author, designer and illustrator of books Moje malé more, Don't take my dreams from me, Čmáranica a Machuľa. Petra Štefanková is a winner of many awards, such as Channel4's 4Talent Award 2007, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic Award 2019, the Artist of the Future Award 2020, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Her works have been published in many publications and exhibited all around the world.
Interview with Aaron Cristofaro
What is the meaning or creative inspiration for your work? We’re curious what the narrative or story is to what you are producing?
The meaning of my portraits is to carry on the traditions of the old masters and to try to display emotion and different feelings in my artworks. I guess the narrative of my artworks like the portraits is to achieve a likeness that is inspired by the old masters although original.
Interview with Roxana Werner
Roxana Werner paints on different surfaces using oil and mixed techniques. Her work is developed by investigating the history and culture of different places that inspired her. She said: “When I stand before the canvas, I feel like a writer whit a blank page. My painting is committed narration; it hides neither the dark nor light side of reality.
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Interview with Aomi Kikuchi
Aomi Kikuchi is a textile artist based in Kyoto, Japan. She holds a BFA from Kyoto University of Art & Design (Japan) and an MFA from Pratt Institute (USA). Aomi has exhibited her work throughout the world including at Woman’s Essence Show 2020 (Rome), The Body Language 2021(Italy), and will exhibit at Art Laguna 2021(Italy).
Interview with Beryl Jazvic
My artworks are a series of paintings of people. I often focus on the eyes to help emphasize the emotions and to enhance communications between the viewer and the piece. Each painting has its own story to tell, and the faces, the texture, the emotions, and the artist helps to tell that story. I enjoy painting in the expressionist style but with the ultimate control of the brush strokes and surface texture.
Interview with Patylene Arts
There are lots of ways to express art, with music, painting, sculpture, dancing, theater, and etc. Nature itself is the most perfect art that exists. The sound of the birds singing, the sound of the sea, the wind blowing, we reproduce with the music; a variety of incredible colors, thousands of shades, light, shadows, we reproduce in the painting; the movement of the seawater, of the leaves of the trees, we reproduce with the dancing.
Interview with Michel Audebert
In my work on the image of Nature, well beyond the visual aspect, it is in fact our intimate relationship with it that I try to express, and in particular at the sensory and emotional level... My research on the transmission and the expression of emotions is a visual writing a little subliminal, which creates the perception amplified by the very great "presence" of the subject exposed to the glance... One can find a certain "spirituality" in the general direction with my artistic research, in the direction where I try to capture precisely that which "does not see"...
Interview with Bryce Watanasoponwong
Bryce Watanasoponwong is a Thai-Australian photographer who makes evocative photography of encounters within our global cities. He has a highly experimental process involving both digital and analogue techniques, which pushes elements of his work into intriguing visual abstraction.
Interview with Elena Dobrovolskaya
Elena Dobrovolskaya is a New York-based Russian-trained artist working in Contemporary Realism style primarily in oil and pastel. She exhibited broadly in the US and Europe, including New York, London, Paris, Lisbon, Venice, Rome, and Milan. Elena was awarded International Prize “Artist of the Year 2019” during Mantova ArtExpo in Italy, Velasquez Prize in Barcelona, and Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Florence in 2020.
Her art was published in French, Italian and British magazines (House&Garden, GQ, Aesthetica) as well as in “We Contemporary 2019” art volume in Italy, “50 artists to invest in” art catalog in 2020 and “Trends in Art: Insights for Collectors” in Great Britain in 2021.
Interview with Ramón Rivas
Born in Ciudad Real / Spain. My work has a marked personal seal of identity that I apply in a free way and without limitations. I use my creativity to be different and look for new artistic proposals that surprise and excite.
Interview with Ping He
The world is very huge and the universe is vast without boundaries, while people know little about it. When perceiving the power of celestial bodies and deities, I find the invisible shape, color and light. Tremendous energy is all around. When I’m grateful for my most pious heart and having a dialogue with it, a feeling of awe arises. It builds up endless celestial beauty and presents its power for the inanimate architectural movement which I’m exploring and am very joyful for.
Interview with Jessica Patterson
My name is Jessica Patterson also represented as The Frequent Artist. I’m currently residing in Louisiana until I find a suitable place to work from. My artistic beginnings started at a young age with drawing but at the age of sixteen I managed to learn how to paint.
Interview with Laura Pretto Vargas
Art for me is a way to communicate thorough the materials, techniques and forms I use, my ideas and what I feel to my viewer, as well as challenge, provoke and instigate in the viewer ideas and feelings of their own.