My goal is to make artwork that is so beautiful it cuts to the heart of what is true, to create art that is of this moment, but exists as something timeless. It resonates with the person viewing the work as real although it is not quite realistic. It has meaning, although that is not specifically stated because of its use of color or symbolism, or imagery.
After almost three decades of creating art instinctually, I realised my method has a long tradition called Surrealist Automatism. I had finally found a home in Art History. The simple act of putting myself aside and see what wants to be created, has led me on a long creative journey.
Katerina Stavrou is a contemporary visual artist based in Larnaca, Cyprus. She began her academic journey in 2007, studying Visual Arts at the University of Salford, and later graduated with distinction in Fine Art (BA Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011.
My artistic practice spans prints, oil paintings, and sculptures—ranging from portraiture and life studies to relief and abstract works. It is driven by a continual investigation into how life’s experiences shape emotions and thoughts over time. In my prints, this is explored through abstract lines; in my paintings, through colour and texture.
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.
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.
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 combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
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.
Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare, Romania) graduated in 2001 from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania.
Anne is a Brazilian visual artist who studied Fine Arts at the University of Belas Artes de São Paulo. Her work is distinguished by a unique ability to capture emotions, blending restlessness and tenderness to create vibrant and expressive paintings. Since childhood, art has been a defining presence in her life, profoundly shaping her creative journey.
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.
Rebeccah Klodt stands as a beacon in today’s artistic landscape. Her work is not just relevant; it is necessary. It reminds us that art, at its best, does not tell us what to think or feel. It gives us the space to remember that we already know. In every brushstroke, every textured fold of canvas, and every mirrored glint, Klodt leaves us not with conclusions, but with the courage to keep asking beautiful questions.
In the fluid, ever-redefining world of contemporary visual art, few voices carry both the weight of philosophy and the poetry of form quite like Jeong-Ah Zhang. Born, raised, and based in Seoul, South Korea, she emerges not just as a painter, but as a profound existentialist who uses canvas, color, and symbol as portals to metaphysical dialogue. Her work defies the binary of image and meaning, instead functioning as a continual meditation on what it means to see, to feel, to exist.
To view Sandy Iseli’s paintings is to be momentarily transported. One hears the wind in the grass, feels the warmth of sun on the skin, and remembers that beneath our concrete world lies an older, softer, more vibrant earth. Her mastery of color, emotional intelligence, and unwavering vision mark her as one of the most soulful painters working today. In a world desperate for peace, Iseli does not just offer an escape. She offers a return.
I think of myself as a painter or 2D artist first with no constraints. However, I also find working in 3D to be just as satisfying as painting or drawing or printing when I can physically handle the materials.
After years of creating work, I still find the beginning of a piece to be as exciting as I remember my first efforts.
Susanne Kühn represents the next generation of artists from Germany with reemerging interests in figurative narrative abstraction. Kühn challenges the group known as the New Leipzig School that includes Neo Rauch, Matthias Weischer, Martin Kobe, David Schnell, and Christoph Ruckhäberle, by bringing her experience living and studying in America to the fore. Kühn’s work offers painterly and formal connections between figures, landscape, and architecture through a vocabulary that is emblazed with gorgeous light and informed by German art and history.
My way in art is to share my love, my joy of life, and the authenticity of being "human". My artwork evolves to dig into the emotions and the feelings to vibrate the essence of what we are in full truth. I want to show, that it's never too late to realize your dreams and to be yourself. You have all the resources inside you to make it happen.
Carina Francioso is a Canadian Italian fine artist with works held in private and corporate collections around the globe. Her meticulous attention to detail is demonstrated through her contemporary realist oil paintings. The theme of water in Carina’s work is inspired by many years boating with family on Georgian Bay and summers living on the coast of Salento, Italy.
