I explore the reality that surrounds me, its materialization, its duality, the ambivalent and yes, the beautiful. Escaping from the Universe of the obvious is not easy, but I intensely try. The complex, the dark, the brilliant, the hidden, the unknown, the plastic, the feminine, the abstract, captivate me, and keep me, to some extent, prisoner.
Joanna Levesley is a self-taught, award-winning contemporary artist based in the United Kingdom, celebrated for her intricate pen and ink works that explore the quiet power and transformation found in nature. Growing up in rural Derbyshire, Joanna developed a deep appreciation for the subtle complexities of the natural world—a perspective that continues to inform her practice today.
Janne Hokkanen is Finnish visual artist with a multidisciplinary approach to visual art. He integrates diverse media into his art, such as painting, sculpture, public art, and immersive installations, and blends artistic practice with fields like science and natural history to create rich, complex works with depth. Foremost, Janne consider himself a visual storyteller.
Born in Tunis, Tunisia, and raised in Montreal, I am a dynamic artist whose journey spans continents and cultures. My early life was shaped by an intellectually inquisitive father and a creatively skilled mother, nurturing a sense of wonder and curiosity that continues to inform my work. At twelve, I began drawing portraits, marking the start of my artistic path.
Camilla Fransrud (b.1974,Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary painter based in Trondheim. Nearly self taught, she had art classes with the well known Icelandic Sculptor Erlingur Jonsson as an art Teacher at sixth form college (1990-1993). She works primarily in acrylic,creating abstract and figurative pieces inspired by the sea and surrounding landscapes.Her dreamlike works invite viewers to reflect on their own emotions and sense of connection with nature .
Trudes Wright is a contemporary abstract artist based in the UK, known for her fluid, intuitive acrylic works that explore the relationship between stillness, movement, and perception. Her practice blends spontaneity with contemplative depth, drawing inspiration from coastal light, wildlife, and the organic rhythms of nature.
I am inspired by some specific things affecting different types of human experience. By this I mean people's life, people's struggles, people's success, people's failures, people's trust, people's wishes, people's joy, people's happiness and people's downfall. In other words, people's up lifting experiences and how they think and observe things..
If I am interested in a personality and fascinated by the story, I try to clarify this in my artworks. I don't want to create a mere, simplistic depiction, but rather try to give space to the seemingly ambivalent aspects in my portrayals. What is typical of the myth surrounding this person, and which perhaps tragic aspects are revealed? In this respect, I hope that I succeed in giving the viewer the necessary space to develop their own understanding of this person.
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.
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
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.
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.
I view the pursuit of beauty as a profound ethical responsibility—a radical act of restoration. In a world often characterized by fragmentation, my work seeks to return to a state of wholeness. Beauty is not mere decoration; it is a manifestation of “善” (Goodness) that provides a sanctuary for the human soul to heal and reconnect with its essential nature.
For me, the journey itself is not just a physical or geographical one, but a deeply personal and introspective process. As a visual storyteller, I find that the places I travel to often become imbued with a sense of emotional resonance, which can either coalesce into a single, defining image or unfold into a more complex, narrative-driven series.
In art, as in many other processes, I see a certain cyclical movement. At one point, figurative painting was declared exhausted, and other forms — abstraction, dematerialization, conceptual strategies — took its place. Today, the pendulum is clearly swinging back, and it is already possible to ask the reverse question: what can abstract painting or the refusal of representation do now, that it has not already done?
My training in color theory plays a vital role in this dynamic process. The principles of color relationships, contrast, and harmony are ingrained in me, acting as an internal compass that guides my instincts when making quick decisions on the canvas. For example, when faced with the urge to apply vibrant, clashing colors in the heat of creation, I instinctively recall the impact of complementary colors and how they can heighten emotional responses. This knowledge allows me to make choices that feel both spontaneous and harmonious.
A contemporary Canadian artist, born in November 1964, began his journey in Syria, where he worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, interior designer, and set designer for theatre and film, following his time at the Damascus Art Academy. In 1998, he moved to Qatar as an illustrator to create digital paintings for a well-known television station. In 2014, he relocated to Toronto, Canada, and works as a full-time artist.
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.
