A self-taught embroidery artist from Acushnet, Massachusetts, Poyant transforms the humble language of thread into complex visual narratives that bridge craft and contemporary art.
All in Mixed Media
George Tkabladze
What ultimately distinguishes George Tkabladze’s sculptural practice is not only its formal sophistication or its mastery of materials, but the quiet philosophical depth that underlies every object he creates.
Interview with Bea Last
My work, particularly the installation ‘’The Red Bags’’ showcases the transformation of discarded and recycled materials into powerful statements on fragility, resilience and hope.
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.
Vinci Weng
Entering Vinci Weng’s recent work feels less like arriving at an image than like stepping into a constructed situation that is already underway. The first sensation is not simply visual plenitude, though plenitude is everywhere, but a peculiar certainty that what one is seeing has been staged into existence with the deliberation of cinema and the density of painting. Weng’s pictures do not present themselves as windows, nor as documents, nor as the familiar persuasion of photographic immediacy. They behave instead as tableaux with rules, as fictional worlds whose internal physics are established through scale, depth, and chromatic climate.
Artist Spotlight - Matthew Elliott
I create art as a means to understand and interpret the world around me. From a young age, I found solace in the interplay of colors, textures, and shapes—elements that could convey stories beyond the capacity of words. My artistic process is deeply intuitive, involving a continuous cycle of layering, erasing, and rebuilding. This approach reflects the way each of us navigates our own evolving identities. Through my work, I hope to evoke moments of recognition and connection, fostering a sense of shared experience with others.
Artist Spotlight - MJ Kasiarz
MJ Kasiarz is a London-based multimedia and textile artist whose practice explores abstraction, spirituality, and sustainability. A graduate of The Glasgow School of Art, MJ works primarily with recycled and discarded textile materials, transforming waste into richly textured, tactile artworks.
Artist Spotlight - Andrej Babenko
Andrej Babenko is a contemporary Belgian visual artist of Ukrainian descent whose influence extends beyond traditional gallery spaces into the digital and public sphere. He operates as a contemporary art influencer by combining expressive visual art with an active presence on social media platforms, where he shares his work, ideas and performances with an international audience. Babenko’s artistic language is instantly recognisable. He blends classical oil painting techniques with elements of punk, graffiti, street art, and Ukrainian folklore, creating monumental, emotionally charged works often described as a “volcano of emotion.” His themes address societal hypocrisy, alienation, existential struggle, and hope, making his work deeply relatable in the context of contemporary global challenges.
Interview with Tinamaria Marongiu
When the creative moment arises, the process unfolds freely, instinctively, and without preconceived planning. The assembly happens spontaneously, guided by an inner rhythm made of gestures, pressures, and resonances. Structure is not imposed; it emerges naturally, like a score taking shape directly within the material—through the same approach with which I have always composed my musical pieces or written the lyrics of songs and poems.
Artist Spotlight - Samantha Louise Emery
Samantha Louise Emery is an interdisciplinary artist from England and Canada living in Türkiye. Emery’s exploration of humanity’s complex interconnection within the biodiversity of life has been aided by her residence in these countries. She visually maps these networks through conceptual abstract paintings and her practice of combining self portrait photography, hand and machine embroidery with hand sewn sequins and beads, and paintwork onto canvas.
Interview with EJ Lee
EJ Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who transforms language into physical form. Her work often begins with autobiographical poems that explore experiences with dyslexia, trauma, and healing, which then shape the materials, colors, and forms of each piece. From sewn works to wearable garments and installations, her practice turns the instability and imperfections of language into a method for creating meaning.
Interview with Izumi Tahara
I like to imagine that my pieces will go on to live their own lives once they leave my hands. I create each work with care and intention, but I don’t expect the meaning to stay fixed. Jewelry is something that becomes complete only when it is worn, and I love the idea that each wearer will add their own memories, emotions, and associations to it.
Artist Spotlight - Aomi Kikuchi
Aomi Kikuchi is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice develops from textiles to sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy: impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering, and the Japanese aesthetics: wabi-sabi (imperfection), mono-no-aware (sensitivity), along with environmental issues, she aims to show viewers the transience of the material world, while also promoting the importance of compassion.
Interview with Karima Al-shomely
I achieve a balance between documentation and abstraction by approaching visual ethnography as an interpretive process rather than a mere direct of reality. It helps me uncover what already exists as a foundation for the documentation phase, which forms the knowledge base of the work. In this phase, I am committed to prolonged observation, immersion in the cultural context, and the collection of images and visual materials as evidence of lived experience, while respecting the privacy of the place and the people and their symbolic meanings.
Interview with David Poyant
David Poyant is a contemporary embroidery artist whose work transforms the traditional craft of needlework into a powerful form of visual storytelling. Entirely hand-sewn, his pieces merge fine-art composition with the intimacy of textiles, creating richly textured worlds one stitch at a time. Beginning his artistic life later in adulthood, Poyant brings to his practice a deep sense of reinvention, memory, and lived experience. His decades as a cobbler and craftsman inform the patience, precision, and tactile sensitivity that define his work today.
Artist Spotlight - Ash Arash Bigdeli
Ash Arash Bigdeli (pronounced: âraš, IPA: [ʔɒːˈɾæʃ]) has been working as a jeweler, sculptor, and later as a prop and set builder in the film industry across various countries since the 1990s. With over three decades of experience in wood carving, jewelry-making, pottery, and sculpture, his artistic journey has resulted in the creation of many large and small 3D forms and sculptures, some of which are held in private collections or featured in public art projects worldwide. Since 1992, he has participated in four solo exhibitions and eleven group pottery and sculpture exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.
Artist Spotlight - Hans van Wingerden
I (un)borrow images and recompose them. This concerns representations of concepts that are regularly discussed in our contemporary visual world, but through manipulation, context-alienation, an associative reference yield a new visual meaning. Since then (1995) I have made conceptual work with various subjects to address a critical note with regard to human functioning. In addition to the technical integration, it also gave me the inspiration to shape my intellectual objective. In this, applications of electronics, LED and neon light are also included as a possibility to achieve visual expression.
Nira Chorev
Nira Chorev’s art stands as a testament to the possibility of coherence in a fragmented world. Her mixed media works are not assemblages of disparate parts but living systems of interrelation. Each line, color, and photograph contributes to a totality that is both formal and emotional. Through her lifelong dedication to balance and truth, she transforms personal memory into universal language. Her paintings do not shout; they sing, softly and insistently, of renewal, connection, and the beauty of attentive perception.
Hans van Wingerden
To encounter Hans van Wingerden’s art is to stand within a field of thought shaped by light. It is to realize that illumination is never neutral, that every act of seeing carries an ethical demand. Like Flavin’s glowing corridors, his works alter the architecture of perception. But where Flavin dissolved the object into pure sensation, van Wingerden reintroduces conscience into the equation. His light is not simply there to be seen; it is there to make us see ourselves.
Artist Spotlight - Michael Owino
Michael Owino is a celebrated Danish visual artist and author whose work bridges the boundaries between emotion, identity, and the universal search for beauty. His art captures moments of intimacy and humanity with a precision that feels both timeless and boldly contemporary.