Artists Members

Heather Allison is a fine arts photographer based in the Northern California, USA. Her work is influenced by the gloomy skies and dismal beaches near the storm-prone shores of the northern coast, where she lives. Best known for her pensively lit still life photographs of exotic and domestic ephemera, Heather arranges taxidermy, flowers, bones and books into dramatic compositions reminiscent of vanitas style Dutch master botanical paintings. Her photos dance the line between the macabre and the sublime: a nod to her love of Victorian memento mori, she venerates both equally. Her love of- and background in art history can be seen in her works, connecting the modern age to her predecessors in visual art. Though she began her career in photojournalism and event coverage, it was the sudden passing of a family member that inspired Heather to explore the transience of life through still life imagery; it is here that her passion for the medium was revitalized and continues. Heather has an AA in Photojournalism from Brooks Institute of Photography, a BFA in Art History from the Academy of Art University, and is currently working on an MFA Fine Art Photography at AAU. Showing across the United States and internationally, Heather Allison’s imagery has been featured in such art publications as The Shoutflower, she maintains close working relationships with luxury interior design firms such as Raven Vanguard, and her works can be found in private collections both domestically and overseas.

Karin Lanini Arthofer, aka KLA, was born and raised in Switzerland. Having moved to London 10 years ago in search of greater space for her imagination, she now calls it home. Karin has experience in both interior and fashion design, so she lives her life surrounded by art and style. Karin’s work is a natural manifestation of contemporary and abstract art that fits in perfectly with modern settings and functions as a crucial component of the puzzle.

Karin experiments by employing various mediums, such as clay for sculptures, filler, and plaster, in a growth of absorption and thoughts, and with a flowing creative energy. She also enjoys using organic materials that she regards as relevant, such as sawdust, hemp bags, or occasionally sands that have been brought back from particular locations throughout the world. Her works are characterized by a passion that manifests itself in the act of her creative process, a process that mirrors life itself and that, like a circle, ends where it began in the basic complexity of existence. A location where the anticipated irrationality and randomness, as well as the odd and occasionally incompatible materials utilized by Karin, are not perceived as constraints but rather as tools to produce a well-balanced artwork. 

Artist about her work:

I enjoy acrylic as well as organic elements like lime, sand, sawdust, and paper and associate them with chalk and colours. The spontaneity and interactions between the materials inspire experimentation and the growth of imagination, which in turn helps me produce my paintings using various stratifications. In my process, I begin with a plain white canvas and add a first layer of modelling paste to give it weight and structure so that later drawings can be done to make sculptures with reliefs that resemble paintings.

My works feature peaks, valleys, cracks, rough and smooth surfaces, and dazzling and opaque parts, and they are reminiscent of aged, eroded walls. An ongoing process leading to a gradual stratification, culminating in the creation of unique works that discover a link between matter and existence, bringing life to this unique universe. They serve as an example of a personal and grounded mapping technique that considers the physical characteristics of the immediate surroundings in order to create an elusive equilibrium.

 Victoria Ascanio lives & works in London, UK.

She was born and brought up in Spain. She studied Fine Arts at Madrid University before moving to England. There she studied Printmaking at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and was a Founder Member of the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative Association. She has taken part in fairs and exhibitions internationally and her work is in many private and public collections.

​Ascanio has been represented by Galeria Gaudí in Madrid for over 15 years and is represented by For Arts Sake Gallery in London, Artifact Gallery and Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York and Paks Gallery in Austria and Munich. She is a member of the Printmakers Council.

Tamera Bedford is a Hong Kong - based mixed media artist who is noted for her extraordinary dedication both to her artistic practice and to the nature of her diverse subject matter. Her work turns to visual representation to capture her deep respect for environmental phenomena, and beyond, to biological life and mental flows of the human brain. Her effect is at once to telescope to the micro-elements of these exquisite realms, networks and systems as it is to pull our perspective back to appreciate their superstructures built of exquisite flows, lines and patterns.  

Akshita Gandhi (India, 1988) is a Mumbai-based photographer and multimedia artist.

Gandhi manipulates her images by painting over them, working digitally with repetition

and distortion, and collaging to study obscurity/perceptibility and construction/

deconstruction, broadening the boundaries of the photographic medium.

Gandhi has an MFA and has had her work shown in twenty-seven galleries and art fairs around Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the United States. She's also worked with the United Nations Chamber of Music Society, Katerblau, a German music festival, New York designer Frank DeBourge, India's Kurtees, a fashion label, and Celesté, a premium tea brand.

Internationally renowned German artist Bea Garding Schubert is based in Nienburg/Germany and Mallorca/Spain. She pursued a fine arts degree at the German Braunschweig University of Art (Painting/Prof. Hermann Albert). She spent eight years travelling the globe after receiving her degree before relocating first to La Palma in the Canary Islands, years late to Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. In 2007, she began her career internationally and he has shown her work in art fairs and galleries in several countries from Beijing to New York, including The Affordable Artfair in London to Artexpo New York, and her pieces grace the collections of prestigious institutions such as the Deutsche Botschaft in Athens, the Copelouzos Museum in Athens, and the Chagall Museum in Vitebsk, Belarus.

Bea's eight-year voyage around the globe, which included camping and hiking through the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Madre, gave her a singular perspective on life and art. She developed a strong belief in the power of dreams and the value of never giving up on them as a result of this event. Her widely recognised pieces, which celebrate the beauty of life and pay homage to the music that inspires her, are filled with joy and hope. Her bold hues and strong compositions are a breathtakingly gorgeous homage to love, hope, and the human spirit. 

Artist about her work:

My deep desire to give people hope for the future inspires my art. I combine elements of street art and abstract art, using brilliant colours and dramatic compositions to produce works that are visually appealing. My work conveys strong emotions and sentiments and is inspired by song lyrics.

From the "The Show Must Go On" series, which was inspired by Freddie Mercury, to the "Heroes" series, which was inspired by David Bowie's song, my art supports embracing life's journey and recognises the possibility of heroism. I aspire to evoke hope, spark people's imaginations, and help them feel a connection to the beauty and resiliency of the world through my works of art.

Nic Gotch is a London-based fine art photographer, well-known for her unique series of works focusing on nature. Artist about her work: "I rediscovered my love of the still image after a 15-year career in Broadcast TV Production working with the moving image. I intuitively moved towards the Still-Life photographic art that I now create. My collections of circular artworks note the subtle aspects of the seasonal changes, the shift in romantic emotions over time and the underlying nuances of Victorian fairy tales. I use a Fuji x100 camera and do not use any filters or special effects. The images are created using mirrors and reflections. My visual influences include Robert Maplethorpe and Georgia O'Keefe, and I tend towards using a Preraphaelite and Dutch Master colour pallette. My work has a very painterly look that is aided by printing onto specialist fine art papers. These artworks are created using natural materials collected with care and arranged to perfectly reflect the essence of an emotion or to suggest stories interwoven into the hidden depths of the image. I developed the technique using mirrors alone and did not use artificial software or post-production to create the 3-D illusion. I print onto archival fine art paper to enhance the painterly look of my images."

Carine Hayoz is an architect and painter from Bern, Switzerland, who enjoys painting acrylics on canvas. She employs the formal vocabulary of landscape and architecture. She assembles compositions of surface, colour, and light that she artistically abstracts into a singular piece. The range of hues and shapes allows us both our personal interpretations and the unadorned and flawed. 

In order to investigate the landscape and architectural components, Carine Hayoz uses atmospheric hues, abstract shapes and lines, accents, and subtle contrasts in her acrylic paintings.

On the square canvases, human forms start to appear more and more, capturing the buildings and landscapes. 

She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibits over the past ten years in art galleries in Zürich, Basel, London, New York, Milan, Perugia, and Venice.

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“In every image, I give an unfinished story that the audience is free to add to, imagine, or even remake. Every motion, every position, and every interaction with the environment that the human being in my paintings makes conveys a fresh, insightful tale.  "

Nicole Sylvia Javorsky lives and works in her native New York City. Her art is primarily abstract and is a reflection of her own experiences, including her grief, healing process, and observations of nature, research, and daily life.  Her mixed media, paintings, and drawings all revolve around the idea of duality. She blends varied textures, colours, and lines with abstraction, organic shapes, portraiture, and text to express various facets of the human experience.

Her work expresses the complexity of life, reflecting the co-existing beauty, agony, and knowledge discovered through survival, healing, mourning, and continually choosing to live. Nicole has endured great darkness; a survivor of sexual abuse, she battled for survival throughout her teens and early adulthood. Each piece of art can stand alone to represent a particular layer or facet of the human experience, but she also constantly organises and ties them together like shifting jigsaw pieces to create a picture of reality that is always evolving.

Nicole has exhibited her artwork at The Other Art Fair, Van Der Plas Gallery, Pelham Art Center, Gallery Clarendon, and others. Her art will also be shown at Clio Art Fair this May and will be featured in an upcoming volume of Studio Visit, a series of juried artist books produced by the publishers of New American Paintings. Her work has sold to collectors throughout the United States, including New York, Texas, and California. 

Artist about her work:

"Our lives are interwoven together by the contrasts of darkness and light, change and consistency, stillness and movement. My work emphasises the idea of duality and exemplifies the complexity of life. To depict multiple fragments of human perception, I combine a variety of textures, colours, and lines with abstraction, organic shapes, portraiture, and text. As they embody the healing process, the changes and transformations that are part of existence, duality, and the ability to embrace pain, my works serve as reminders of the magic and beauty of being alive.

As a survivor of sexual abuse, I struggled to keep myself alive during my teenage years and early adulthood. My artwork reflects my own story, healing process, and grief as well as my observations from nature, research, and everyday life. Each artwork can stand alone to depict a particular layer or aspect of the human experience, but I also constantly group and connect them together like fluctuating puzzle pieces to create an ever-expanding picture of existence."

Mariko Kumon is a Japanese artist who lives in Barcelona, ​​Spain. She graduated in applied mathematics from  Fukuoka university in Japan. Almost twenty years ago she changed her life and began to study art. She studied casting and sculpture at the La Llotja Superior School of Design and Art in Barcelona and became particularly interested in creating installations.  She sells a small line of jewelery at the Joan Miró Museum.

For her, sculpture is the most common form of expression as it allows her to describe life with deep emotions. Depending on the moment and state of the creative process, she intuitively plays with spontaneity and expression. Also for her, the line transmuted into wire is the personal representation of her ideas and thoughts. A line that, curving, twisting and undulating, seeks to find its own space from the inside. These suggestive power lines convey moods, thus building a personal language.

Steven Light AKA SLART is a figurative expressionist artist working and living in Swindon, UK. His work mainly revolves around portraiture and figurative art. He has always loved drawing since early childhood and is drawn to creating people-centric art because he loves the diversity of people, their stories, problems, issues, baggage, quirks, and personalities.   

He dropped out of his A-level Art class because of an unsupportive tutor who said, “You can’t draw on a large scale”. Since then, he rekindled his love for art and has painted multiple large-scale murals in his town, produced many works from his studio, and has been part of group exhibitions in the UK and Germany as well as 2 well-received UK solo exhibits. One of the solo exhibitions, Fistula, documented his journey in living with chronic kidney failure.  

Artist about his work: "I am a figurative expressionist at heart, who reveals and disarms human issues through my art. Some of my expressions include body image, anxiety, adoption trauma, kidney failure and crippling shyness. I enjoy using large canvases and outdoor spaces to make a big impact. I have been told my style is unique and has something special about it. I certainly agree that it is my own unique style and I let my passion for drawing and painting come through naturally, rather than trying to apply a particular technique. Being self-taught affords me this freedom."

Francesco Lietti was born in Lecco on the southern shore of Lake Como in Italy. He studied architecture in Milan and furthered his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, La Seine, and also at the Clerkenwell College of Printing in London. His works are featured in private collections worldwide. When not painting in his studio,

Francesco is probably riding his motorbike on the Hong Kong hills trying to catch a new view or travelling across Asia in search of inspiration.

He has been living in Hong Kong since early 2006 and his love of this vibrant, eclectic city is immediately apparent in his works, which derives from the mnemonic imagery of the artist, who lives in symbiosis with the themes of travel and discovery.

Lietti also captures the colours and delights of other Asian destinations. The lush greens of Vietnam and Bali, the golden sunsets of Rajasthan, the deep blue seascapes of the Philippines, these are just some of the many places he has visited and experienced. The artist gives us rare glimpses, merging reality with a magical world.

"Unpredictability of the body and its texture feeds the fascination for the unknown. Everything is interdependent and mutually influenced. In order to reflect and express these ideas, I spend most of my time exploring the relationships with body parts, paper, and balloons. I am guided to a spiritual and physical awareness of existence when I simultaneously engage with multisensory experiences in both spiritual and physical senses. As  with the spontaneity of book space, my practical work attempts to hunt  interrelationships between the inner self and the languages of the  physical and symbolic body through clues…"

British-Canadian artist Elise Mendelle resides in London, United Kingdom. Her figurative art explores the relationship between experience and emotion, revealing what it means to be present in our surroundings, and examines how we perceive ourselves in the modern world.

Her work is both nameless and recognisable, enabling viewers to enter the narrative and instantly identify with the given scene. She reinterprets the feminine gaze through her focus on female characters, guiding us in the direction of purpose, strength, and ultimately empowerment. 

Elise's most recent accomplishments include having Gabriel Fine Arts exhibit her work at Koppel X in London, Piccadilly Circus and at the Affordable  Art Fair in London, Battersea as well as winning two Highly Commended awards at recent exhibitions. 

Artist about her work: "As a figurative artist focused on the female form, my work is centered on the exploration and celebration of women through a   contemporary lens. I am particularly drawn to confident figures that convey emotion in subtle ways, and my art is an attempt to capture and express this through a pared-back style and a minimalist technique.
 

I  strive to create pieces that are both aesthetically pleasing and emotionally evocative through the elements of line, shape, and colour. I  often keep some details back so that the viewer needs to add them in for themselves, thus inserting themselves into the narrative to discover the meaning according to their own memories and experience.
 

My work often challenges traditional beauty standards and encourages viewers to consider the complexity and individuality of today's women,  attempting to reimagine the female gaze in new and exciting ways.  Through my art, I hope to not only create striking pieces, but also to  inspire others to embrace their own unique beauty and strength through  the simplicity and purity of the female form." 

  Marek Neumann is an award-winning London based photographer and a retoucher. He specializes in interior and architectural photography.

He is very passionate about the geometry of the design, the character of form and the symmetry of the structure.

His photographs were published in various national and international magazines, newspapers and books such as The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Laif, Advanced Photographer, London Informer, Square Mile, Ealing Gazette, ELGazette, AP magazine, Talusalema along with fashion magazines Oyster, Dilemmas, Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion as well as in Grazia Magazine France and The Rough Guide and Vintage London. He cooperated and worked with well-established corporations such as Thompson Yates, Borchard Lines, Serrano Evans Architects, RLG designed by Zaha Hadid, Google and the organisers of London Fashion Week, just to name a few.

Neumann is a graduate of Wroclaw University, a Faculty of Law and Administration. Whilst studying, he became a proud owner of 35mm Practica and that’s how his exciting photographic journey began. 

Self-taught figurative painter Modupe Odusote is originally from Nigeria. She was raised in Lagos and is a Southern Nigerian Yoruba ethnic tribe native to Nigeria.

She has been a resident of the United States since 2008, and in that time, as a professional in human capital and organisation development, she has had the chance to live and work in other countries such as South Africa and Ghana. She is also actively involved in non-profit work that promotes the empowerment of women throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on those living with HIV and encouraging good mental health habits. She frequently engages with issues regarding representation, human aspirations, self-identity and actualization, internal growth struggles and equity.  

Ann Palmer lives in Rochester, Kent. After a long and successful career as a Public Health Doctor, Ann took up drawing and painting in 2007. 

Ann spends her holidays in the Loire Valley in France, or in Cornwall where she enjoys the landscape of West Penwith, the rugged coastline and the sandy beaches.   

Ann looks to the coasts and landscape of Kent and Cornwall for inspiration, often painting standing on the pebbly beach of Whitstable, watching the tide ebb and flow, the morning mist across the water, the light on the horizon, the clouds coming in from the west over London, and the light out to sea to the north and east. The low tide exposes sandbanks, pebbles, and seafood for the gulls to seek. Her work is inspired by her experience standing in the landscape, on the seashore and Plein air painting, immersing herself in the environment, getting to know the landscape, the colours and the essential mood. When she is in the studio her memories play an important part in working up a painting; the palette knife takes over, carefully placing the colours juxtaposed with each other resulting in a more abstract form of the seascape and not representative of any particular shoreline.

Ann works in OILS, using both brush and palette knife often producing highly textural, layered work. Her subject is principally land, sky and seascapes, often working directly out of doors in front of the scene. Her larger paintings are developed n in the studio from her experiences en Plein air, sketches and photographs.  Her work is influenced by such artists as Kurt Jackson and Joan Eardley. Ann is currently working on a series of landscape paintings inspired by the contours of the North Kent Downs and the colours of the harvest.

Irina Pashina is an upcycling artist who creates expressive, three-dimensional works of art out of recycled materials such as textile, cardboard, cellophane, and plastic bags. She is an advocate for waste recycling, consumption restraint, and environmental protection. She was born in 1976 In Russia's Voronezh. In 2022, she moved to Turkey, where she currently resides.

Irina just had the chance to basically start over in her life after migrating to Turkey and defying all prejudices. She understood that she could start painting and realize her long-cherished ambition. Her early paintings were surrealistically inspired abstractions, which made it possible to decipher the concealed feelings and messages. The artist became convinced that she could and should do more for herself, for every person, and for the earth as a whole as she was discovering who she was.

"Are aliens already here?" she wondered after reading a scholarly article about an enormous patch of trash drifting in the ocean where "aliens" — living microorganisms that shouldn't be there — have already manifested. Several areas of our globe, including the oceans and outer space, are already inundated with tonnes of trash. This is how the "Ocean" series, the first collection of recycled art pieces, came to be. In her work, the artist has incorporated objects like cartons, cellophane, fabric, and other extraneous materials. Despite include "trash" in the composition, she intends to use abstraction and texture in this series of paintings to capture the beauty of the ocean. The artist creates his three-dimensional, one-of-a-kind paintings using a hybrid combinatorial process.

In 2023, Irina won “ALL Abstraction” competition in the MIXED MEDIA AND THREE DIMENSIONAL category organized by Contemporary Art Gallery Online. She has had several exhibitions in Turkey and USA and her works are in private collections worldwide. 

Artist about her work: “I want people to reflect about the future of our shared home and be inspired to consume much less by combining the entrancing vivid beauty of water with incompatible "rubbish" in my paintings of this series. Every admirer of beauty who purchases one of my creations is already doing their part to keep the earth as pristine as possible for as long as feasible.”

Maria Petroff is a self-taught figurative artist living between two countries: Russia and Canada. Originally from Moscow, Maria moved to Canada in 2009 to study Business Administration at the University of Quebec in Montreal. The artistic flair of the «North American Montmartre» inspired the future artist to get back to her childhood passion - painting. Shortly after finishing her studies, Maria decided to pursue a career in art.

Maria defines her artistic style as critical realism. She likes to paint people who marked our history whether they are politicians, scientists, artists, philosophers or fictional characters. The artist gets inspired by today’s world events, trying to thoroughly study the other non-official side of the story. Digging deep into history makes her come up with the subjects for paintings that depict long forgotten historical events and draw parallel with the present. Spiced up with light humor her works are addressing contemporary social and political issues. 

Maria takes an active part in international art contests and exhibitions. The artist created book covers for a renowned author and economist, V. Katasonov. Recently one of her paintings was featured in the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche.

Chris Riggs for Mayor is contemporary NewYork City artist, whose art  works are based on a unique combination of cubism, abstract, surrealism,  minimalism, pop and street art has made him a leading artist of his  generation. His paintings and sculptures are in museums, galleries, and  private collections in over 50 countries.

Beata Maria is a visual artist and art curator residing in London. She completed an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths, University of London, under the mentorship of Nigel Perkins. Her research connects the arts, science and philosophy through a series of projects. She enjoys exploring light and colour theories, visual perception, art symbolism and cultural studies as part of her independent research.

Artist  about her work: “Art, and especially visual art, is always depended  upon the act of seeing. Artists throughout the ages have always been  passionately interested in visual perception in all its forms and  optics. My experimentation with painting within still and moving image  is constantly inspired by the nature of light, time and motion. I  perceive light as a living substance, eternal and ever-changing. My work  can be very experimental, however, I constantly research the history of  arts and photography through the ages. “

Born in 1965, Konstantin S is a visual artist, writer and director. He has a degree in Fine Arts and he has been participating in art exhibitions since 1995. His latest series of paintings are focused on robotization and artificial intelligence. 

Artist about his work: "The main subject that interests me as an artist is the relationship between man and society with the technologies of the future. On one hand, as a painter, I am attracted by the aesthetics of the world of machines and robots. On the other hand, as a writer and director, I  am interested in the process of the relationship between robots and humanity. For me, the most important thing is to formulate questions, open new topics for discussion, encourage the viewer to think. I spend a lot of time working on a sketch of each painting. In  The 3D program, I find the right angle, I can change the lighting and achieve the perfect composition. Only when the sketch is completely ready do I  move on to painting. The main technique of my works is a classical oil painting on canvas. The traditional format of genre painting seems to be the most suitable for storytelling in the form of pictures.  The main task is to create such a work where there would be no artist's dictatorship in colour, rhythm, and plot. It is much more interesting for me to create an environment for the viewer, a situation, a reason for thought with the help of a picture. The subjects of my paintings were invented by me or borrowed from famous artists of the past. This is  how I build one big project that includes many different aspects of our  life."

Sangie is a French artist based in Aix-en-Provence, South France. She works in acrylic, charcoal and Indian ink on canvas. The ideas of internal and external change lie at the heart of her work. She believes that in order to inspire a better society, we should concentrate our attention and energy on our own values and richness rather than trying to influence factors that are out of our control. She uses layers of colour to enhance emotions and carry us to various levels of reality, deriving inspiration from the feelings she has when performing modern dance. Years have passed while she has worked tirelessly to understand how abstraction and the forces it contains enable one to innately transcend the confines of the physical world.

Sangie grew up with a painter grandfather who gave her an appreciation for still life and oil landscapes. She later discovered how easy it was to dry acrylics when living in Australia, which gave her work a new direction towards abstract expressionism as she participated in the arts and helped to promote other creatives. One of her most notable accomplishments at the time was serving as the first president of a local art association for four years, where she strove to advance the use of art in business. In addition, she collaborated with artists in the creative collective Arty4Aix, along with the sculptor Adeline Weber-Guibal. 

In 2015, after working for a while in corporate settings, she made some significant decisions and decided to focus on her two passions: art and personal growth. Since then she participated in exhibitions in Lisbon and London before travelling to exhibit in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York. She also began her professional career as a CEO coach to help CEOs find balance in their lives and enhance their creativity. 

Sangie has held numerous exhibitions in France and internationally and she is currently represented in the UK and in France. Her works are in private collections worldwide.

Artist about her work:

" According to Leonardo da Vinci: "Movement is the principle of all life.”.

I have focused my artistic research to suggest plastically, dynamism,  speed, energy, and gravity... I try to capture this moment in action in space, in a perfect balance of shapes and colours.

My canvases are prepared with vibrations of acrylic materials and colours that reflect the emotions felt during the choreography, the lightness of the gestural trace in ink and paint is superimposed like a suspended moment captured in space.

Passionate about dance and in search of ephemeral permanence, I explore through gesture and painting the movement of the body in space. Means of expression revolve around painting, ink on large format paper, collage and calligraphy.

The body writes a message, and the result in my work is a danced calligraphy that represents what speech cannot express. There is no more gravity;  the sky and the earth share the canvas like Yin & Yang, for balance and a lightness of being.".  

Brigitte Schweitzer is a French, London based contemporary artist whose work incorporates abstract expressionism and figuration. She graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 2001 with a BA in Fine Art in Painting.  Her paintings are about energy, vibration, visual meditation and harmony. In a world of military conflicts, health challenges and climate change her work speaks to our human inner strength. She believes that the beauty of colour and nature can helps through these unprecedented challenging times. Her style combines acrylic, oil, and inks with a really distinctive expressive approach. She held exhibitions in 2003 and 2004 in Sungard's offices in London, in her Acava Studio in London in 2002, and in the homes of French private collectors. The Andersen modern collection purchased her artwork in 2001. She maintained her secrecy for a while, continuing her solitary labour while being inspired by the stunning colours of the Mediterranean Sea. To advance her painting, she returned to London in 2020 with a vengeance, and she has many shows planned for both London and France.  

She was influenced in her childhood by the great masters, such as Vermeer and Turner, as well as the Provence Impressionists of the 20th century. She was particularly drawn to the abstract expressionism of Rothko and Jackson Pollock, as well as Gerhard Richter's innovative use of photography in his paintings. She creates her own art based on her ongoing spiritual and meditational explorations, as well as her BA thesis topic of childhood memory. One of her visual references is Zao wou-Ki. Nature, the sea, and music are her main sources of inspiration. She paints while listening to music and adores original pieces of music, regardless of genre, like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jean Michel Jarre, and Vangelis. She also enjoys Rimsky- Korsakoff. She constantly alternates in her method between abstract painting and figurative allusions to nature, control and unplanned pouring painting.

  John currently lives and works in the West Midlands, UK. He trained as a graphic designer at St Martin’s School of Art, London before going on to establish his own successful design and print business. In 2000, having achieved the goals he had set himself in business, he set off on a new career path, establishing himself as a fine artist and going on to successfully exhibit and sell his work nationally.

He is inspired by the challenges faced by the natural world and strives to produce creative work that has honesty and originality at its heart and in its execution. Skilled in a wide range of media, he endeavours to take a fresh approach to produce highly original works that incorporate such diverse materials as Polyfilla, powder paint, ash, oil on glass or recycled melamine in his paintings and recycled cardboard and papier-mache in his 3D sculptural work.

In this curated series of his work, he aims to provoke the observer into seeing beyond the initial colourful, surreal urban jungle imagery and to question our responses to the challenges facing our world. 

Dalia Slep was born in Lithuania and raised there. For a while, she experimented with pouring techniques and sketching realistic artworks. She's discovered that abstract art allows her to express herself and her emotions. She became immersed in abstract painting. 

  Dalia Slep is a current Morley College London student. Alicante, Fuerteventura, Genoa, Milan, Madrid, Monaco, Venice, and London have all hosted exhibitions of her work. Dark Yellow Dot, an artist-run site, has been chosen an artist of the month. In addition, one of her paintings has been selected for the London Art Biennale 2021. 

Kurt Stimmeder was born in Bad  Leonfelden, Austria, in 1972. He lives and works in Linz Autodidact. He completed his schooling and apprenticeship as an electrician and began playing the double bass at 16. As a musician and sommelier, he conducted more than one thousand wine tastings. He became a professional Artist in 2008. His obsession with painting helps him overcome every crisis of  meaning and existence. Such a crisis brought Stimmeder to paint in the first place: "I came to a point in my life where I asked myself: 'What  do I want to do with my life? I thought I was now at an age where I  should be true to myself. And I always wanted to paint representational  art in the style of old masters' paintings." So, he decided to leave music behind and occupied himself with studying the history of an old  master painting. He went to museums, studied paintings, learned by looking at them for hours and taught himself the techniques. In addition, he researched, devoured books and soon realized that there was  much in them that he had already come to; he had already discovered  himself through his studies. His role models are the old masters,  especially the painters of the 14th to 19th centuries. His works have  been featured in international exhibitions and are in private   collections worldwide. He previously exhibited during the London  Biennale and Red Dot Miami in 2021, and his upcoming shows include  prestigious events such as Biennale Chianciano 2022, the 7th edition of  the Italian Biennale. 

Oscar is a self-taught travel and landscape photographer living in  Devon. Over the past decade, he spent much of his time travelling,  working and living in Asia, during which time he became increasingly interested in capturing his experiences through photography. He has had pictures published in publications and contests, including the UK-based  Travel Photographer of the Year contest. He is also the author of an online photography guide to Shanghai and a contributor to a range of  stock agencies, including Getty Images and 4CornersImages.

 “I enjoy the  more meditative aspects of photography - the moments I’m able to slow down, be fully present and aware of my surroundings. The challenge of  capturing a good image is the best way I can think of to explore new  places, or even enjoy locations that are more familiar."

Kathlene Tracy's artwork is a culmination of an in-depth understanding of human behaviour and interest in art as a medium for expression that is able to transcend many of the barriers of other forms of communication. She began art classes at the same time as beginning school winning National Juried Competitions at very young ages and also pursued higher education for understanding human behavior holding faculty appointments at Yale University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other prestigious academic institutions while sustaining dual careers in psychology and the visual arts fields.   Within New York City she has participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions of her work and is now exhibiting in London. In addition, her work is included in both public and private collections. 

Sculptor Maritta Winter was born in South Germany, close to Freiburg. She is of dual nationality, German and Swiss. She lived in Germany and France for a while before relocating to Switzerland in 2011 and is now residing not far from Lake Zurich. She attended various art, sculpture, and design schools in France, Germany, and Switzerland. Maritta Winters' body of work consists of sculptures, photography, screen printing, mesh relief, and, beginning in 2022, colourful 3-dimensional coloured vibrating wall objects.

Maritta Winter finds inspiration in her instinctive sense of movement, architecture, and form. The joining of two volumes and the expanding movement that appears to swing into the space are reoccurring themes in her collection of work. She says her intuition comes to her in shapes. This has to do with feeling—intuitively recognising volumes, edges, and shape transitions. Identifying the precise location where the shape's outline reaches perfection is likewise a visual process.

Her sculptures are known for their blend of movement and architectural forms, which has resulted in many of them being exhibited in public spaces and structures. While Rendez-vous (2006) soars out into the landscape like a bird in front of the Grand Ballon hotel in France's Vosges mountains, and Zen (2009) creates a meditative oasis in the stairwell of the Finnova AG building in Lenzburg, Switzerland, the soft curves of the work Skydream (2011) contrast with the austere, functional architecture of the lobby of the Prime Tower in Zurich. Every sculpture is obviously massive. They are expressive beings that occupy their own area and blend in with the natural environment and surrounding architecture.

For Maritta Winter, dynamics are just as inspiring as nature. She once said: “If I hadn’t become a sculptor, I would have been a dancer.” Even for someone who is uninformed of her dancing training and current practice, the relevance of motion and music in her sculptures is obvious. A piece of her art swings into the room with perfect balance, arms lifted, like a dancer whirling on the spot. In a strict sense, the significance of movement is derived from nature just as much as the shape of a plant seed or a person's body. Maritta Winter's works are carried by the fundamental human expression of dance, which she views as a hidden force that drives her creative process.

Bernadette Youngquist is a mixed-media abstract painter located lakeside in northern Colorado. Prior to pursuing surface pattern creation, she successfully finished core undergraduate courses in drawing and design. The most recent rigorous three-month painting workshop Bernadette took was with San Francisco artist Nicholas Wilton. After earning degrees in Psychology and Sociology she chose a self-guided arts education so that she could honour her individual creative process. 

She discovered surface pattern design to be educational but constrictive and discovered abstract painting provided the expressive freedom she was looking for. Her favourite aesthetic experience is in nature and she combines expressionist methods with rigid compositions because she believes they work well together and appear balanced. She believes that it is crucial to follow her intuition, take chances, and push the envelope because "That is what breathes life into a painting." Acrylic paint's immediate application allows for continual layering, sanding back of previous layers, and repetition of the process to create the work's rich textures and depth. Baltic birch panels offer a sturdy foundation for a painting's first construction. Additionally used to create marks, oil pastels are suspended and sealed in layers of acrylic media.

Her work is currently represented by several galleries and art consultants. She has exhibited in local, national and international juried shows and exhibits. Her most notable juried shows were "On Point," curated by Gwen Chanzit of the Denver Art Museum, and the "NonObjective Abstract" exhibition, organised by Lisa Hatchadoorian of the Fort Collins Museum of Art. Additionally, she recently participated in an exhibition with the National Association of Women Artists and the Colorado Women's Caucus for the Arts, where she also spoke on a panel. She will be exhibiting at Art Santa Fe in July 2023 with the Redwood Art Group. Her work is in private collections and has already received two honourable mentions. In addition to being now represented by the International Galerie Azur, she has recently formed connections with private galleries and commercial art consultants in Colorado. 

Artist about her work:

“My paintings are the language of collective expression. I believe all people are connected and when we quiet our minds we can tap into a place that unites all living things. As an artist, I

ask you to contemplate the subtleties of life and want to leave you with a message of hope. My work is guided by truth, beauty, love, and the belief that all people have the freedom to express themselves authentically. My hope is that through her art people will connect with themselves and others in a meaningful way.” 

Cheng Zhang is an artist from Beijing, China. Since 2018, he has lived, studied, and worked in London, UK. He attended University of the Arts London, where he graduated with a BA and an MA. 

Cheng's art practise focuses on the urban scene; the subjects of his works span from minutely rendered street corners to expansive metropolis skylines. Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Constructivism all had an impact on Cheng's artistic approach. He has expertise in both realistic and non-realistic methodologies. Acrylic, gouache, and watercolour paints are the primary mediums he uses to create his works of art.

One of his most notable exhibitions was 'I Have Never Been to Beijing', a solo show  in Beijing, China. As an artist, Cheng believes that expression is what he does from perception and how he is best at it.