All in Painting

Interview with Pedro Ramos

Pedro was born in 1988 in Porto, Portugal. He obtained the degree of Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow (2006-2011). Work: Academia RTP, Reação Espontânea science television series, producer/author 2012; BBC Horizon television series, London, junior scientific researcher (internship), 2012; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Angola Health Project: CISA, 2013.

D’Stassi Art, The London Based Contemporary Art Gallery changing the way we collect art

D'Stassi Art was founded in 2017 by lifelong friends Michael Howes & Edward Sanders. Since D'Stassi Art's inception, the two have cultivated & grown an exceptionally exciting brand that continues to break the boundaries of accessibility and creation. Since the company's inception, D'Stassi Art has established a unique platform for the world's most inspiring emerging talent. In the traditionally exclusive art world, D'Stassi Art looks to discover, encourage and help introduce clients to works of art based purely on how passionate we are about them.

Interview with Misa Aihara

I was born in 1942 in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan and graduated from Joshibi Univ. of Art & Design, Tokyo. I have exhibited my works in numerous solo or group exhibitions since the early 1970's in Japan, all over Europe and in USA. I also participated in Art Biennial exhibitions in Florence, and London. I received Art awards from Chianciano Art Museum in Italy, The Global Art Awards and so on.

Interview with Elsa Akesson

As an emerging artist from Sweden and Madagascar, Elsa ÅKESSON finds herself painting works inspired by both cultures. Recognized for her realistic figurative art works and her splash of vivid colors, she uses her photography as one of her main creative sources and evokes distinct emotions experienced in daily life, through the expression of color and the incorporation of human movement through her art.

Interview with Briar Tucker

Born and raised in the countryside of New Zealand, Briar developed a passionate imagination and explored her creativity through art. After college she attended Elam, School of Fine Art, graduating in 2007. She spent a few years in Auckland working and creating, before packing it all up to travel and explore the world for almost a decade.

Joi Murugavell

Humour and play are integral in the life and art of Joi Murugavell-- a lesson she learned from her father as an elixir to life’s absurdities. Behind the laughs lies a desperate desire to understand her world - away from the influences of family, friends and culture. Like a string in a maze, her art is the process by which she navigates the layers she’s acquired along the way.

Interview with Per-Inge Isheden

Per-Inge Isheden was born in a small countryside town in the middle of Sweden. He started painting while still a child, inspired by his mother who was an amateur artist.He studied at the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm 1957-61.After working 13 years as an art teacher, 1961-74, he started his career as a professional artist by creating a science fiction cartoon for adults. As a professional artist he has regularly showed his works at galleries and art fairs in Stockholm and other places in Sweden, in Berlin, Copenhagen and London. 2018 he will exhibit in Vienna.

Interview with Daria Domnikova

Daria Domnikova is a designer, artist, illustrator and a maker of all things beautiful and useful. She was born in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and immigrated to Canada to pursue education in design and art when she was 18. She’s been working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since graduating from Ontario College of Art and Design University with a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration and is currently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

Bo Song

When I was younger, I never attended any art academies to learn how to paint or draw, mainly because I never really had an interest in the arts. It was not until I got married and had children that I suddenly decided to take up painting. In 2008, I enrolled in an arts academy program at the Hyundai Department Store Culture Center. At what I then considered to be the relatively late age of 40, this was my first ever experience in learning how to paint.

Interview with Jan Zhou

I grew up in Shanghai in the 70s and 80s. We didn’t have many choices at the time. My studying was limited to classrooms and text books. The first time I was exposed to art was attending an art history lecture while I was studying the mechanical design in college. It marked a turning point in my life. Immediately, I was drawn to art as a means of self-expression and I started to learn drawing and painting. It was then that my artistic talent was recognized; I made up my mind to be a fashion designer because I thought that would be the more pragmatic choice.

Interview Hasti Sardashti

Iranian born artist living in London. She is always on the move. Moving through time & spaces through body & mind. Making art is for Hasti an attempt to stay in here & now -a vital practice to maintain stability, calm and fluidity in daily life. Making art is for Hasti like belonging to a place, having a home , like having a space where she can connect to the most genuine of herself and her immediate existence.

Interview with Ira Stein

Ira Stein is a trained artist, a Vietnam veteran, former commercial airline pilot, and a renown jeweler. With such an interesting and varied personal background, his works convey a well-rounded, multi-dimensional and inventive interpretation of the world surrounding us. His sculptures, mixed-media collages, and figurative paintings all provide a glimpse into the psyche of an artist grasping with the notion of genetic essentialism viewed from the perspective of the troubled, the vulnerable, and the erotic nature of the human condition.

Lise Couture

Born in Canada and moved to Northern Ireland in 2002, Lise had never aspired to be an artist; she wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of painting for a living, but Art found her in the most unexpected place. Inspired by a Canadian artwork that had long- fascinated her, and which proved to be a turning point in her life, she started learning to paint, attending various Irish artists’ workshops, during which she discovered she enjoyed painting so much that she embarked upon studies in an intensive art programme.

Interview with Itziar Ramírez Elizondo

For her, painting means connecting with emotions and harmonizing them in a kind of deeply spiritual dance that turns a daily moment into something that transcends temporality and leaves its mark on the canvas. She is convinced that the complexity of the emotions and their recognition are topics that her continue to explore, because they largely determine the mystery of happiness and fully life.