WOMEN IN ART
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Alia AlBazei
Alia AlBazei’s work exists at the intersection of heritage and contemporary expression. By merging oil painting with cultural artifacts—such as vintage books and traditional garments—she creates pieces that explore the evolution of Saudi identity while honoring its roots. Materials like pages from her father’s library and garments from traditional dance serve not just as textures but as vessels of memory. Her layered compositions of paint and textile reflect a deep engagement with inherited objects and their ability to speak across generations. Alia’s current work explores the tension between preservation and progression, inviting viewers to reflect on how identity, memory, and tradition can be both protected and reimagined through a contemporary visual language.
Anakha Nair
Subhadra is not fortunate by inheritance, but by the empire she carved through her own will. She is both origin and force — embodying the masculine strength of command and the feminine grace of creation. A lioness in spirit, a blooming peacock in presence.
Within her dwells the union of Shiva and Shakti — stillness and dynamism. She is sovereign, self-fashioned, and whole.
This is a tribute to every woman who rises — not by forsaking either force, but by embodying both. Wild, wise, and wondrous — she rules.
Bisera Vinagre Bote
Bisera is a German artist living in Berlin originally from Serbia. She studied painting at the University of the Arts in Belgrade and is also teacher of economics (Humboldt University Berlin). Her artistic focus is on figurative painting, but her work also includes video and sculpture art. Her art is deeply autobiographical and explores female identity, inner processes and the power of self-reflection. She sees herself as a guardian of female art and is committed to increasing the visibility of female artists - among other things through her participation in Women Art. As an investigative artist, she uses narrative and visual language to make emotional wounds visible and enable transformation. For her, art is more than expression - it is healing, insight and a bridge between inner truth and external perception.
Bridget Farrands
Bridget Farrands paints landscapes and still life in acrylic and oils. In her paintings, she seeks to interpret the mood, structure, and feel of the landscape. Her subjects are places she has visited and been moved by while walking through them, or scenes from photographs of places she has never been to but that have made a strong visual impact. She represents the landscapes through the patterning of their contours and the rhythms of colour and light, offering the viewer a new experience of what the landscape can be. The works are abstracted from the real world without being fully abstract. Her still life paintings also aim to extract and convey the mood and feeling that the objects evoke in her.
Camelia Ilie
Camelia Ilie was born on May 24, 1965, in Constanța, Romania. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1988 in Bucharest. Driven by a passion for the arts, she later pursued a second Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, which she completed at the University of Arts Bucharest in 2023.
Since completing her formal art education, Camelia Ilie has actively participated in seven exhibitions both in Romania and abroad. With a strong focus on presenting her work internationally, she is eager to take part in global visual arts exhibitions and further expand her artistic presence.
CARMEN MONTILLA
Carmen Montilla, born in Ibi (Alicante), Spain in 1967, is an accomplished visual artist whose work reflects a rich academic foundation and a deep engagement with place and memory. She began her artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Granada and continued her studies in Seville, where she earned a degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from the University of Seville in 1991. Her academic journey later led her to Madrid, where she obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Modern Art History from the Complutense University in 2001.
Montilla Castillo’s work is held in private collections across Germany, France, and Spain, as well as in public collections in Italy. Her artistic practice has evolved through her time in Madrid, Strasbourg, and Menorca—each location subtly informing her visual language. Since 2021, she has made her home on the Balearic Island of Menorca, where the luminous blues of the Mediterranean have become a central and enduring source of inspiration in her work.
Giovanah Faraco
Giovanah Faraco is a Brazilian visual artist currently based in Portugal. Her academic and creative journey spans Brazil, Australia, Italy, and now Portugal, where she has refined her artistic voice through a blend of diverse cultural and aesthetic influences.
Specializing in acrylic painting, she also explores sculpture and ceramics, embracing a multidisciplinary approach. Her work centers on the female figure, expressed through vibrant colors, organic forms, and the use of gold—a symbol of inner strength and transformation. Her art delves into themes of identity, heritage, and emotional resilience.
Giovanah has exhibited extensively around the world, including in the United States, Spain, France, and several other countries. She continues to participate in projects that elevate female narratives in contemporary art. Her practice is grounded in the belief that art is a language of connection and empowerment.
Jacquiline Louise Holm
Evoking the unseen and the unspoken.
In 2002, a traffic accident abruptly changed the course of Jacquiline’s life. What initially felt like a profound loss would, over time, become the key to a new path. Living with invisible pain taught her the raw art of transformation—a journey that led her to discover her voice through the fusion of words and images. It was through this process that she emerged as a Graphical Poet.
Her work explores themes of presence and absence, desire and denial, boundaries and longing. Each piece invites the viewer to pause, reflect, and connect with their own inner truths. Art is her language; transformation is her purpose. Refusing to be confined by expectations, she does not create to please, but to stir something deeper.
Jady
Shanghai-born, Hong Kong-based artist Jady Xu (she/her) turns our obsession with photographing food into something far more lasting—vivid acrylic paintings that blend realism with imagination. By day, she navigates the fast-paced world of IT; by night, she brings dishes to life with brushstrokes that glisten, crunch, and glow. Specializing in acrylic food art, Jady captures more than just meals—she paints memories, moods, and cultural layers. With bold colors, unexpected textures, and storytelling rooted in her dual heritage, her work invites us to pause, look closer, and taste with our eyes. For Jady, art isn’t just imitation—it’s emotion, curiosity, and a celebration of what feeds both body and soul.
Karen Ghostlaw
Karen Ghostlaw received her BA from Pratt Institute in 1984. Mentored by a renowned faculty, students were encouraged to use photography as a tool for creative and critical expression, pushing beyond the technical aspects of the camera to define their concepts of visual narratives. Karen embraced this philosophy, which became the foundation for her work.
As the Co- Founder and Editorial Director for The Pictorial List Nonprofit Organization, Karen finds inspiration through collaboration with photographers worldwide. This exchange not only expands her artistic community but also deepens her understanding of contemporary photography. Karen thrives on collaboration, enjoying the diversity of global perspectives and working on projects that push the boundaries of photographic dialogue. Recently Karen was featured in The NYC Journal for top 30 entrepreneurs to watch for in 2025.
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller layers botanical and watercolour inks, earth pigments, and gold leaf, building depth and texture, exploring the duality of time and experience, presence and absence – how to represent silence and the passage of time to stimulate both the conscious and subconscious. Thirty years as a typographer/designer guide her hand while significant and profound life experiences provide a deep inner compass. A much-awarded creative director, Miller is known for instinctive contextual thinking with imaginative discovery at the heart of her practice. The botanical materials used carry their own histories, grounding her practice in landscapes that shift and erode, like memory. Drawn to what’s felt but not always seen, her work lives in the liminal – those spaces where past and present meet – landscapes where you can ‘receive’ time.
Lisa Smith
A self-taught, award-winning artist currently based in Hokkaido, Japan, the artist was born and raised in South Africa to Scottish parents. Her practice spans a wide range of styles and disciplines, reflecting a deep passion for artistic exploration and versatility.
While she enjoys working across various forms of art, she is particularly drawn to abstract and intuitive abstract painting, as it allows her the freedom to express herself fully through form and color. She loves to experiment with vibrant color palettes and metallic accents, creating dynamic works that come alive and shift with changing light.
Livia Prof.Dr. Kueffner
The artist depicts situations and subjects that spark personal interest—often the extraordinary, but also the everyday, the local, and the original. Through her work, she explores questions of what unites us as people and what sets us apart. A strong commitment to aesthetics is central to her artistic practice, guiding both the form and expression of each piece.
L. G. VILAS BOAS
Born in Brazil, she moved to Italy at the age of 23, where she continued her studies in law. Her artistic journey began in 2012, following a breast cancer diagnosis. A self-taught artist, she developed a unique and original technique, creating works using recycled cork from wine bottles.
Marit Refsnes
Marit Refsnes, a Norwegian artist, creates textured works using pastel, charcoal, and oil. Her style is rooted in an instinctive dialogue between the artist and the subject, resulting in vivid portraits that radiate energy. Human emotion is central to her practice, with a particular focus on resilience, often symbolized through strong female figures. Each piece conveys a complex spectrum of feelings, transforming sadness into beauty and joy.
Mel Di Salvo
Melina is an artist on a journey of self-discovery. She initially studied fashion design in Argentina but found her true passion in art after moving to London over 20 years ago. The vibrant energy of the city has profoundly influenced her artistic vision.
As an expressionist, Melina explores the power of emotions and the intricacies of the human experience. She works across diverse mediums—including painting, sculpture, and mixed media—allowing her to weave narratives that evoke deep emotional connections. Through each creation, she delves into the beauty and complexity of life, telling stories that spark the imagination and inspire others to embrace their own artistic paths.
Her art is both a celebration of creativity and a reflection of the human spirit.
Michela Pizzinat Da Villa
Michela Pizzinat was born in Vittorio Veneto and studied at the Liceo Artistico Statale in Treviso. She continued her education at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, specializing in sculpture, and later completed her training at the International School of Graphics in Venice.
Since then, she has balanced a professional career in graphic design and communication with a personal journey of artistic exploration. Her creative research has led her to explore various stylistic approaches, both in painting and sculpture. Over the years, she has participated in several exhibitions in cities such as Venice, Paris, and London.
Her preferred techniques include acrylic on canvas for painting and terracotta for sculpture.
Monika Wanyura-Kurosad
She is the author of artistic installations and drawings, a graphic artist, and a scenographer. She also serves as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Her artistic interests center around the themes of the passage of time and the space of memory. Abstraction is her preferred language of expression, often inspired by nature, micro-worlds, and elements of the universe.
She creates collages using old photographs, paintings, and digital graphics. Over the course of her career, she has prepared more than a dozen solo exhibitions and participated in over 140 group exhibitions. Her works are held in collections in Canada, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and Poland.
She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Lorenzo il Magnifico – IV Award at the XIV Florence Biennale (Italy, 2023), the Golden Osten Award at the Osten Biennial of Drawing in Skopje (North Macedonia, 2022), the Special Award at the same biennial in 2020, and the Grand Prix Graphic of the Year in Krakow, Poland (2021).
Negin Daneshvar-Malevergne
Negin Daneshvar-Malevergne is a French visual artist specializing in photography. She was born in Iran into a family of writers, doctors, and painters. Alongside her extensive academic studies in comparative literature, which culminated in a doctorate in Humanities from the Sorbonne Paris IV, she developed a deep interest in photography. She pursued formal training at the American School and later at the Jean Verdier Center.
Her photographic work reflects a profound exploration of humanity’s place in a world marked by crisis and disorder, capturing the complexities of contemporary existence through a thoughtful and introspective lens.
NimsK
NimsK (UK) has dedicated over 15 years to mastering painting techniques, refining her innate abilities in colour and design. She has successfully exhibited and sold her work at prestigious venues, including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
Her intuitive approach to painting is rooted in a deep connection with her materials and a strong sense of overall design. As a self-taught artist, she has cultivated a distinctive style through an instinctive attunement to her inner voice. She continues to develop her skills through ongoing studies at the Art2Life Academy.
With dance and music woven into her life, these art forms serve as powerful sources of inspiration, infusing her work with emotion and passion. NimsK’s artistic evolution has led her to explore unconventional materials, creating works that provoke thought and evoke a strong emotional response from her audience.
Roma Finlinson
Roma is a Trinidadian-born artist currently residing in London. Her work consists of abstract, contemporary paintings created using mixed media and resin.
Fascinated by the chemical reactions of organic compounds found in nature, she has spent the past two years experimenting with various pigments, mediums, and catalysts to replicate these molecular processes in her artwork.
Her creative inspiration is drawn from the evolving mindset of contemporary society, exploring themes such as politics, religion, diversity, mental health, and our collective responsibility to the natural world.
Svitlana Kyrlyk
Svitlana Kyrlyk was born in 1974 in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. From 1988 to 1993, she studied at the Uzhhorod Adalbert Erdeli College of Arts, specializing in Ceramic Art. Between 2007 and 2013, she continued her education at the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts, focusing on painting and pedagogy.
In 2008, following the birth of her fifth child, she made a decisive turn toward her artistic career, realizing it was a matter of "now or never." Since then, she has been an active participant in regional, national, and international triennials, exhibitions, symposiums, and plein air events dedicated to painting.
Her works are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine and in private collections across the USA, Europe, Mexico, and Ukraine. Since 2017, she has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. She currently resides between Canada and Ukraine.
Yana Rusnak
Yana Rusnak is a contemporary Ukrainian artist known for merging philosophy, symbolism, and her distinctive technique. She creates expressive images of animals and people using geometric forms—primarily triangles—each work serving as a metaphor that reveals the emotional depth of human nature.
Trained in art schools from an early age, Yana holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Decorative and Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Italy, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, Monaco, and other countries.
In recent years, she has incorporated antique star maps and textured elements into her practice. A portion of the proceeds from her art sales is dedicated to supporting children affected by the war in Ukraine.
Yasmine Nemmaoui
– Exploring Art from the Heart –
An engineer by profession, Yasmine Nemmaoui is fueled by planning and problem-solving in her daily life, yet she has always longed for a deeper creative outlet. Painting opened a new world of exploration and experimentation, allowing her to express emotions and ideas beyond the confines of logic and structure.
About a year ago, she discovered her core artistic theme: “The Little Connections.” Through close-up depictions of hands, her work focuses on expressing human connection and representing the unseen bonds we share.
Alix Born
Alix Born discovered photography in her teenage years, and what began as a self-taught passion evolved into a lifelong pursuit. Born and raised in Argentina, she has also lived in Uruguay and Brazil, and completed her studies in the United States. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and three of her series were selected by the “Festival of Light” in Argentina.
Her fine art photography explores a hidden dimension of the material world. Constructing images as thresholds—partial views that suggest a greater whole—her practice emerges from silence, contemplation, and deep observation. For her, photography is not about capturing reality, but about revealing the unseen and evoking a sense of mystery and presence.
Carmen Espejo
A self-taught artist and professional hairdresser, Carmen Espejo has forged her own path in the art world by exploring her creativity with a unique and passionate vision.
Foxodesign
An Irish-Hungarian digital abstract painter currently based in Budapest, she creates art under the name Foxodesign. Although she has always been drawn to culture and the world of art, she began creating artwork in 2021 without any formal professional education in the field.
Her work ranges from highly abstract pieces to more fluid, expressive images, as well as playful, experimental drawings. Her main sources of inspiration include nature—particularly bodies of water—the discovery of new places while traveling, hidden streets, colors, and moods. She is especially influenced by the works of Andy Warhol and Guillermo Lorca.
JÚLIA D'PAULA
A talented 17-year-old Brazilian artist, Julia has already made her mark in exhibitions far beyond her homeland of Tocantins, with her work reaching major cultural hubs such as the Rio–São Paulo axis, Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), Varkaus (Finland), Osaka (Japan), Brussels (Belgium), Miami (USA), and London (UK).
A native of the Brazilian Cerrado and a young architecture student, she is a self-taught artist with a 13-year career and over 200 completed works. Fully aware of her vocation, she is deeply committed to her artistic growth and evolution.
As a contemporary artist, her predominant style is realism, marked by a strong connection to nature. She is captivated by the interplay of light and shadow, the richness of textures, and the expressive power of oil paint and vibrant colors. Through her work, her soul pulses, colors dance, and emotions and stories come vividly to life.
From the sun-drenched landscapes of Tocantins to the international art scene—her journey has only just begun.
Aurore Monteil
Aurore Monteil is a French architect and multidisciplinary artist based between Paris and Lisbon. Trained in architecture and contemporary dance in Paris, she later specialized in the ancestral art of hand-painted azulejos in Lisbon. In 2024, she founded 4A Studio, a space for experimental research that bridges architecture, visual arts, and craft through a vibrational, sensory-based approach.
Her practice—spanning azulejos and multi-technique art—explores how materials, forms, and frequencies influence the body and perception of space. Drawing on sacred geometry, intuitive movement, and chromatic fields, Monteil creates installations as energetic ecosystems, opening portals to unseen dimensions.
Her public commission for a social housing building near Paris was awarded the 2025 Regional Prize from Ateliers d’Art de France (Heritage category). Through her work, Monteil invites viewers to shift their perspective and discover the subtle dimensions that shape human experience.
Monika Maroziene
Monika Maroziene is a Lithuanian born visual artist whose work explores the intersection of chemistry and photography. With a master’s degree in chemistry, she brings a unique experimental approach to her art by using natural pine tree resin on black and white prints. This technique not only adds warmth and texture but also preserves the photographs, echoing the natural beauty of her homeland near the Amber Coast. Her series reflects her deep connection to the Curonian Spit and the Baltic landscape, portraying women as complex, poetic, and powerful figures. Monika’s imagery is known for its emotional depth, poetic irony, and minimalist aesthetic, often exploring themes of solitude, memory, and personal freedom. Her work has received numerous international awards, including 1st Place at the Monochrome Photography Awards and Tokyo International Awards.
Alba
Alba is not a narrative but a return—the re-emergence of a self once obscured. She arose during a rupture, after the artist, formerly a physician, reported sexual harassment and left her profession. The fallout extended beyond the loss of vocation, eroding trust in systems, in justice, and, for a time, in human connection.
From that disintegration, a steadier presence took form. Alba names this endurance: a facet of self that carries grief and anger alongside a tempered, persistent light born of confrontation. Functioning as both witness and mirror, Alba looks without evasion and reflects what survives.
This work marks not a return to what was, but to a self that refuses erasure.
Irina Owlik
Irina Owlik creates work at the intersection of everyday life and the inner world, drawing on personal experiences of overcoming limitations. Having grown up feeling that self-expression was unsafe, she learned to hide her emotions and suppress her desires to fit in. Art became her means of peeling away layers of fear and self-doubt, reclaiming her voice and freedom.
Owlik’s visual language emerges from sensations and spontaneous associations, translated into color and form. Working with mobile photography and alternative equipment, she transforms images through editing to reveal new meanings and move beyond literal representation, inviting viewers into a space of introspection and discovery.
Alexandra Gorev
Alexandra Gorev is a traditional oil painter working within the realm of neo-surrealism, drawing inspiration from the Japanese concept of ayashii—a blend of the uncanny and subtle beauty that informs her visual language. Combining classical techniques with contemporary emotional themes, her work addresses everyday injustices, shared personal traumas, and broader social tensions.
While sometimes unsettling, Gorev’s paintings invite quiet reflection and deeper engagement with the layers beneath the surface. In a world saturated with superficial imagery, she seeks to create work that resonates profoundly, fostering meaningful connections between the viewer and the unseen dimensions of experience.
FIORÉ
FIORÉ is a contemporary abstract painter. Born and raised in a culturally rich family in rural Hungary, she spent her early adult years in international fashion, appearing on the catwalks of Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and New York. Influenced by theatrical aesthetics and the harmony of color and form, she developed a distinctive visual language. Although drawn to art throughout her life, she began painting at the age of 49, discovering a profound creative force within. She is currently studying visual arts in Budapest to further refine her skills and artistic vision.
Artist Statement
I paint a world that doesn’t seek approval—it simply wants to exist. FIORÉ creates spaces built from emotion, where color, form, and texture coalesce into immersive abstract compositions that invite viewers to experience art as an unfiltered, expressive reality.
Erin Rockwood
Erin Rockwood is a self-taught artist specializing in oil painting, with a particular focus on the impasto technique. Using only palette knives and multiple layers of thick oil paint, she creates three-dimensional effects that emphasize depth and texture. Based in Florida, USA, Erin draws inspiration from the vibrant natural world around her, translating its beauty into vivid, dynamic compositions.
Her work features bright, expressive colors designed to evoke joy, energy, and wonder, while fostering a deeper connection to her subjects. An avid gardener, she finds inspiration in dragonflies, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as in the ocean and its myriad creatures. Erin is currently developing large-scale mermaid paintings and exploring multi-directional works that invite viewers to engage from multiple perspectives and interpretations.
Danielle Cowdrey
Danielle Cowdrey is a visual artist whose work merges the natural world with vibrant, fantastical imagery. Drawing inspiration from both the intricacies of nature and the boundless potential of imagination, her paintings explore themes of transformation, resilience, and connection through bold color palettes and dreamlike forms.
Her compositions often feature glowing landscapes, reimagined flora and fauna, and mythic creatures that inhabit the space between reality and fantasy. Employing both traditional and contemporary techniques—including neon tones and layered textures—Cowdrey creates immersive environments that invite viewers into alternate ecosystems teeming with energy and meaning.
Whether portraying the delicate bloom of a luminous peony or the commanding presence of a woolly mammoth in a surreal tundra, Cowdrey’s work offers a compelling reflection on the beauty, mystery, and strangeness of the natural world.
Lea Karvala
Lea Karvala often reflects on the question: “What else exists that is not immediately visible?”
Nature—particularly the sky—serves as an endless source of inspiration for her work. Her paintings are expressive, spontaneous, and increasingly abstract, with a strong emphasis on colour and layered surfaces. Primarily working with a palette knife, she creates rich textures that give each piece a distinctive physical presence.
Acrylic paints suit her fast, intuitive process, allowing her to begin guided by instinct before transitioning to more deliberate, experience-based decisions as the work evolves. For Lea Karvala, painting is never meant to be hidden—it is a handmade, unique creation intended to be seen, experienced, and remembered.
Natalya Radünz
Natalya Radünz (b. 1980, Ukraine) is a metamodern artist and iconographer based in Germany. Active since 2012, she studied Contemporary Art at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and holds degrees in engineering, an MBA, and a Harvard certification in strategy. Her practice merges traditional and contemporary techniques, engaging with themes of transformation, spirituality, and cultural transition.
Influenced by Orthodox symbolism and philosophical inquiry, Radünz works in oil, tempera, and mixed media. Her current series, Before the First Light and The Echoes of Infinity, explore resonance as a space of truth beyond opposites.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries across Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Serbia, Russia, and the United States, and is held in private collections throughout Europe. She has received more than a dozen awards for painting and iconography.
Veruszca
Veruszca is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, painter, and poet, born in Alta Gracia, Argentina. From the age of four, she has maintained a deep connection with music, drawing, and the written word.
Her creative path has included studies at classical music conservatories, workshops, and training in both popular and classical singing. These experiences have fueled her ongoing artistic explorations, leading her to study musical composition and social communication within academic settings.
A self-taught painter, Veruszca’s work is distinguished by her vibrant use of color and organic lines, expressed across diverse mediums including porcelain, ceramics, paper, and canvas.
She is currently developing her latest project, Respira, in collaboration with composer and musician Ana Robles. The work will be presented in late 2024 at Galería Juana de Arte in Martínez, Buenos Aires.
Claudia Delgado Dupré
Claudia Delgado Dupré is a Peruvian artist who has lived and worked in Paris for over 20 years. Her artistic journey began with live model sculpture, and as a self-taught artist she refined her skills in renowned ateliers and art schools before earning a Bachelor’s degree in Arts Plastiques from Sorbonne University in Paris.
Drawing inspiration from the rich artistic traditions of France and Europe, as well as her Peruvian heritage, her work seeks to capture the beauty of nature, explore the human condition, and reflect on the fragility of the world around us. Currently, she focuses on painting, working in oil, acrylic, inks, and mixed media across a variety of surfaces.
For Claudia Delgado Dupré, art is a guiding force—an enduring passion through which she aims to stir the senses and emotions of her audience.
Karina Dilan
Karina Savina (Dilan) is a contemporary artist working across painting, digital graphics, and experimental techniques. Her work explores the deep connection between human emotions, nature, and abstract forms, resulting in compositions filled with movement, light, and sensory engagement. For Karina, art is the most vital and natural form of expression—a universal language that unites people and inspires collective creation.
Each painting represents an entire world, a space, and a lived emotional experience, with subtle shades embodied through imagery. Her practice seeks to awaken the viewer’s creative essence and emphasize a sense of unity—among people, with nature, and within ourselves. Through international exhibitions, she creates environments for connection, inner exploration, and transformation.
Karina’s style blends natural forms, futuristic visions, and abstraction, offering a sensory approach to visual storytelling and an invitation to discover the beauty of the inner world.
KATARZYNA KORUS
Katarzyna graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Katowice, followed by Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. In 2000, she earned her diploma in painting under the guidance of Professor Jolanta Winiszewska and also studied graphic art in the studio of Professor Ryszard Osadczy. After gaining additional experience at Chelsea College of Art and Design, she successfully pursued a career in interior design.
Her paintings and conceptual works have been exhibited in over 100 solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Currently, the artist is engaged in painting, as well as performative and conceptual practices, interior and object design. Her paintings encompass a wide range of forms and techniques, incorporating vivid colours, gilding, symbolism, precious stones, original glass elements, reliefs, spatial forms, and new media. She skillfully integrates these elements in what she describes as a transmedia approach to art.
Keadra Kreates
Keadra Jeter is a visionary African American artist from Dallas, Texas, whose work explores themes of identity, mental health, and cultural heritage. A self-taught and emotionally driven creator, her practice spans painting, mixed media, and installations—merging personal history with social issues and the rhythms of urban life.
Keadra’s bold use of color, texture, and symbolism highlights the tension between vulnerability and resilience, challenging stigmas surrounding mental health in Black communities. Her work serves as both personal expression and a vehicle for collective healing, inviting dialogue, reflection, and empathy.
With exhibitions held worldwide, her deeply layered pieces have earned recognition for their emotional depth, authenticity, and innovation. Through her creative journey, Keadra transforms personal experiences into powerful visual narratives that uplift, inform, and inspire.
Leslie Stevens
Leslies art is a celebration of noticing everyday life, with a primary focus on women and their often-invisible experiences of rest, caretaking, and play. While this theme is central to her work, she also finds joy in painting fish, abstract compositions, and animals caught in unguarded, humorous moments.
Primarily self-taught, she has refined her craft through studies with several accomplished artists, including Lee Price and Mary Nolan. With nearly 15 years of painting experience, she works across all mediums. In each of her works, she is especially drawn to the portrayal of light, which she sees as a symbol of the deep, universal desire to glow and reveal one’s inner essence—a theme she believes all humans can relate to. Her paintings invite viewers to be brave enough to let their inner light shine.
MARTHA GREEN DORAN
An American artist living and working in London, she creates meditative paintings that weave sensation with intuition. Drawing from her background in energy healing, she works primarily in oils, gently gathering light from her inner world. The movement of paint across the canvas guides her expression, allowing the process to unfold organically. The resulting images may take on recognizable shapes or remain abstract—often unknown to her until they emerge. She embraces the mystery of creation, trusting in the truth and magic of the artistic process. Each painting finds its own way home, whispering the essence of what is.
She began drawing and painting in 2006 at the Hampstead School of Art and continued her studies at the Camden Arts Centre, City Lit, and Kingsgate Studios. Her teachers have included Wynn Jones, Eva Swiderska, Eithne Healey, Åke Årnerdal, Gill Crabbe, and Diane Green in New York City.
Artists throughout history who have supported and influenced her work—particularly for their freedom of personal expression—include Van Gogh, Turner, Paul Klee, Rembrandt, Nicolas de Staël, Chagall, Giacometti, Kirchner, Matisse, Redon, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Mei Shibata
Originally from Japan, with studios in New York City and Mougins, Mei Shibata brings a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective to her work as a painter. Known for her vivid acrylic compositions that explore the sensory power of color, she blends narrative clarity with conceptual depth, drawing on a diverse background in science, design, and visual communication. This unique combination makes her paintings both aesthetically striking and intellectually engaging.
Before dedicating herself fully to painting, Mei led award-winning creative teams at top advertising agencies in New York, a career that honed her instincts for visual storytelling and emotional resonance. She also holds degrees in Physics and Medical Engineering from Harvard, which inform her ongoing exploration of how the brain perceives light, color, and spatial depth.
Nada Kelemen
Nada Kelemen is a Czech painter whose work weaves together spiritual experience, energy work, and deep inner insight. She discovered painting at the age of 52, as a natural culmination of more than twenty years of practice in healthy living, quantum therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine. Ultimately, she found her true fulfillment in art.
Nada’s work embodies harmony, spiritual depth, and positive energy. She creates from a place of inner purity, often drawing inspiration from music and personal visions. Her paintings are not merely visual expressions but energetic imprints that speak to the viewer on a subconscious level.
She works primarily with acrylic and oil paints, incorporating structural techniques and Japanese calligraphy. Her art has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions and has received recognition for its contribution to spiritual and intuitive art.
Rita Szurgyi Design & Art
Rita Szurgyi’s transition from the legal profession to the fields of interior design and art reflects her steadfast commitment to creativity. Her journey led her to the captivating world of architecture and design, where she discovered her true passion for artistic expression.
Rita’s design and art studio embodies her creative philosophy, showcasing a harmonious fusion of modernity and timeless elegance. Her distinctive style is characterized by the subtle interplay of pastel hues and luxurious metallic accents, brought to life through rich textures and mixed media. By incorporating organic materials, she creates pieces that are both visually striking and emotionally resonant.
Each handcrafted wall art piece serves as a testament to her artistic evolution, offering a sophisticated addition to any space. Her work presents a playful yet refined aesthetic that captivates and inspires.
Sharon Sampson
Contemporary South African artist Sharon Sampson specializes in oil painting and printmaking. In 2015, she notably founded the first South African Fine Art Print Fair (FAP).
In her series Rewilding the Feminine, Sampson explores the innate connection between the feminine and the natural world. In meditative and thought-provoking works such as As Time Goes By and Catch and Release, she boldly employs the unpredictable monotype technique to build dynamic compositions. Each monotype is imbued with high-velocity energy and a profound sense of motion, allowing the work to transcend its two-dimensional form.
Sampson’s mixed media monotypes reflect the layered complexities of womanhood and the environment, translating them into powerful visual narratives. As the artist states, “In my conceptual work, I pay tribute and homage to nature and the feminine form and the intermingling of the two.”
Sophie Peschanel
Sophie Peschanel is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, tattoo artist, and writer with a background in fashion design. Her work moves fluidly between the personal and the iconic, drawing from lived experience, cultural memory, and the body as both archive and altar. Known for her instinctive eye and tactile process, she combines analog techniques with striking visual storytelling to create work that feels both intimate and larger than life.
Whether working on skin, fabric, image, or words, Sophie approaches each medium as a site of transformation—where softness holds power and beauty is never merely surface. Her work is born from deep care and crafted to leave a lasting impression.
Zerrin Atakan
Zerrin is a Turkish-born, London-based artist who transitioned from a career in psychiatry to full-time artmaking three years ago. Drawn to surrealism from the outset, she began with airbrush techniques before moving into oil and digital painting. Her works are more than visual compositions—they are narratives that confront the tension between humanity’s capacity for beauty and its propensity for destruction.
Deeply engaged with political, environmental, and women’s issues, Zerrin aims to create art that compels viewers to pause, reflect, and, at times, feel discomfort. Her style merges realism with a naïve sensibility, celebrating colour and light through a distinctive voice. Whether meticulously rendered or guided by instinct, each work reflects her lifelong conviction in the power of art to provoke thought, stir emotion, and inspire change.
Chiharu Mizukawa
Chiharu Mizukawa, born in 1981 in Osaka, has been actively engaged in art projects throughout Japan since 2006. Her practice centers on the innovative use of waste materials, household water, and seawater. Mizukawa has participated in numerous art projects, residencies, and exhibitions both domestically and internationally. Among her most notable works is the Aburidashi painting—a distinctive technique that employs leftover bath water, hot spring water, rainwater, and river or seawater to create invisible paintings that emerge when exposed to fire. Through this original approach, she transforms everyday elements and traditional aspects of Japanese culture into a singular and evocative artistic expression.
Barbara Christol
Barbara Christol is a French artist whose life has always been steeped in creativity. From an early age, she developed a deep love for drawing, a passion that led her to study at the Beaux-Arts and later graduate from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, where she explored the concept of the “transitional labyrinth.”
Influenced by Kandinsky, Klee, and Vasarely, Christol approaches creation as a playful yet deliberate journey shaped by chance, repetition, and movement. Her poetic geometric forms unfold into landscapes, architectural visions, and constellations—optimistic worlds brought to life through expressive gesture.
For Christol, drawing is an act of revelation, uncovering unseen structures and delicate sensibilities. She explores themes of displacement and scale across drawings, paintings, and ephemeral thread installations crafted from yarn—her signature material. Blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary experimentation, she continually weaves and unweaves her artistic path, each work a step in an ever-evolving journey.
Assaya
Assaya is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transitional states, perception, and the dissolution of form. Her practice merges philosophical inquiry with visual experimentation, examining the interactions between matter, consciousness, and energy. Using a signature point-based technique developed during her MFA at RUFA in Rome, she paints with handmade horsehair brushes to create vibrating, multilayered surfaces. Figures emerge and dissolve, resisting permanence and evoking a profound sense of impermanence.
Holding a PhD in Economics, Assaya approaches art with a balance of analytical structure and intuitive depth. Her work is less concerned with depiction than with participation—forms materialize through observation, much like quantum phenomena.
She has exhibited internationally in the UK, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, and Spain. Recent highlights include the London Art Biennale 2025, the Edinburgh Art Fair, and media coverage in FAD Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Creativity’s UK.
Latifa Al Shaikh
Latifa Al Shaikh is a Bahraini artist whose passion for abstract expression forms the core of her creative practice. Raised in an artistic family, she developed a deep connection to art from an early age. Her work merges structured precision with spontaneous freedom, resulting in dynamic and thought-provoking compositions.
Inspired by the interplay of color, form, and texture, Latifa transforms emotion into visual narratives. Her background in retail banking and portfolio management informs her meticulous approach, while her expressive process preserves a sense of movement and intuition.
Latifa invites viewers to engage with her work on a personal level, fostering reflection and emotional exploration. For her, art is a shared experience—bridging artist and audience. She has exhibited in Bahrain and internationally, continually pushing the boundaries of abstract art and presenting her evolving vision to the world.
Simona Berea
Simona Berea is a visual artist whose emotive, atmospheric portraits delve into inner worlds, female strength, and the intricate layers of human identity. Her work captures the tension between vulnerability and resilience, translating emotion into compelling visual form.
Since her debut, Berea has exhibited widely across Romania and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include Zori (Galeria Victoria, Iași, 2022) and Reverie (Gh. Ursachi Cultural Center, Iași, 2024). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Identități ieșene (online, 2021), where she was awarded the Prize for Painting and the Prize of Excellence, and Lascăr Vorel National Biennale (Piatra Neamț, 2023), where she was nominated for the Debut Prize in Painting.
Her international presence includes Art Shopping Paris at the Carrousel du Louvre (2024), where she received the Paris Art Prize by Artio Gallery; Land of Silence at the Musa Pavilion during the Biennale di Venezia (2024); Women in Art Biennale London at Chelsea Old Town Hall (2024); and Timebound Specter at Spazio Espositivo San Vidal during the Venice Carnival (2025).
Berea’s work continues to evolve as a space for reflection and dialogue, celebrating complexity, identity, and the human spirit.
Brittany Key
Brittany Key explores the universe through human connection, spirituality, energy, and witchcraft. With a Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education and a diploma in Visual Arts, she combines her artistic practice with a deep understanding of the human experience. Social and political themes, magic, and feminism are consistent sources of inspiration in her work.
Since her first solo exhibition, Divine Feminine (2023), Brittany Key has exhibited in New York and participated in an international tour with Artio Gallery, with upcoming shows in Barcelona, London, and Paris. She will also present her work in Milan with Gallery Cael.
Her practice engages with themes of women’s rights, inner journeys, and the mysteries of the universe, translating these ideas into a compelling visual language.
Maryam Zadeh
Maryam Zadeh is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator based in New York City. Her practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, illustration, performance art, murals, and videography, demonstrating a versatile fluency across media.
Holding an MA in Art Teaching from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, along with art education licensure in Illinois and Iran, Maryam integrates artistic expression with pedagogy, designing storytelling-driven lesson plans that weave together cultural narratives, performance, and visual arts across generations.
Her work engages classical figurative techniques while drawing on Persian heritage, employing pattern, color, and spiritual symbolism to translate memory, light, and tradition into layered, emotionally resonant compositions. Each piece reflects both craft and personal history, inviting contemplation and connection. Maryam continues to develop art as a platform for cultural storytelling, intergenerational dialogue, and cross-disciplinary exploration.
Susana De Anda
Susana De Anda is a self-taught artist from Mexico with a degree in Marketing from the University of Texas at El Paso.
After graduating, she moved to Holbox Island, Cancun, where she founded Holbox Galería, an art space dedicated to celebrating creativity and culture. Guided by her motto, “Giving the World Color and Joy,” Susana’s work reflects a vibrant fusion of personal expression and cultural heritage.
Her inspirations include Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the women of Mayan heritage, whose strength and artistry continue to shape her creative vision.
Botta Fine Art Print
Botta Fine Art Print was born in Italy and currently lives in Hungary. Working with both digital and analog photography, she often turns to black-and-white to highlight the delicate interplay of light and shadow. Her practice centers on themes of transience, capturing fleeting moments where simplicity and emotion converge.
Although she began pursuing fine art photography only a year ago, her work already reflects a distinct sensibility. Frequently photographing in sunlight on city streets, she explores the shifting patterns cast by shadows on walls—a subject she plans to develop into a photo album in the coming year.
Deeply inspired by nature, she is also passionate about hiking in the mountains, where she captures images that carry profound personal meaning. Through her lens, Botta reveals a world where fragility and beauty coexist, offering viewers a quiet meditation on impermanence and presence.
TEODORA NIKOLOVA
Teodora Nikolova (b. Blagoevgrad, raised in Gotse Delchev) studied economics in Sofia before founding a furnishings factory in Vratsa in 2019. Her passion for art flourished in 2024 when she won the European Artist Award in Florence for Roses.
Her work has been shown at Cartavetra Gallery, Florence (2025) and she was selected among the Top 40 at BBA Berlin. Upcoming exhibitions include Monaco and Torino (July 2025) and London (late summer 2025).
Working in mixed media, Nikolova creates textured pieces that radiate positivity, warmth, and harmony, inviting new discoveries with each encounter.
Fangyou Belleli
Paris-based painter of presence, gesture, and metamorphosis.
Fangyou Belleli paints time—not its passage, but its pulse. Known for her large-scale portraits and nude studies created live in just 5 to 20 minutes, she works in oil on translucent tracing paper, capturing presence as it flickers and fades. Each stroke becomes a transmission of breath, energy, and light.
Rooted in ancient notions of time, her practice merges mastery with surrender—a ritual of becoming rather than depiction. The figures she paints appear and dissolve as the viewer moves, vibrating between visibility and disappearance.
She does not paint what she sees. She paints what is about to vanish.
"To paint is to disappear into the breath of another—until time folds, and only presence remains." — Fangyou Belleli
Tanaya Vaidya
Tanaya Vaidya’s work explores a mystical dialogue between Indian mythology and the evolving concerns of the contemporary world, seen through her personal lens as an artist. Drawing from timeless symbols, deities, and philosophies, she reinterprets these mythological elements to reflect themes such as mindfulness, identity, transformation, and inner awakening.
Through this fusion of the ancient and the current, her art offers viewers a space where tradition meets introspection, and mythology becomes a mirror of today’s shifting consciousness. At once a tribute to cultural roots and a response to the questions shaping our world, Vaidya’s practice invites reflection on how ancient wisdom continues to illuminate contemporary life.
Susana De Anda
Susana De Anda is a self-taught Mexican artist. She earned a degree in Marketing from the University of Texas at El Paso before moving to Holbox Island, Cancun, where she founded Holbox Galería. Guided by her motto, “Giving the World Color and Joy,” she has built a practice dedicated to sharing vibrant, uplifting art with a wide audience.
Her creative vision is deeply inspired by iconic women such as Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the women of Mayan heritage, whose resilience, spirituality, and artistry continue to shape her work.
Sonia Parchet
Sonia Parchet was born in France, raised in Germany, and has lived in several countries before settling in Switzerland 17 years ago. In recent years, she has developed a practice dedicated to Mandala Art—a process that is deeply intuitive, centered, and spiritually connected.
Reflecting on surrounding energies, Sonia creates personalized commissioned Mandalas that resonate with each client. Through colour and pattern, her works embody balance, healing, and renewal, offering a visual meditation that transforms inner harmony into visible form.
Expanding her artistic vision, Sonia is also preparing the launch of her Beau Line shop, where her Mandala Art will be available on high-quality products including satin scarves, velvet cushions, coasters, and mugs.
Gina Kalo
Gina Kalo is a fine art photographer and poet, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and raised in Brussels, Belgium, where she continues to live and work. She trained in documentary film photography at the Brussels Fine Arts Academy (Beaux Arts) and later in digital photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Her ongoing project, Dream Places, features vividly color-saturated photographs of landmark destinations she holds dear, including Barcelona, Brussels, Mykonos, Marrakech, New York, and Paris. Through her lens, these iconic cities take on a dreamlike, magnetic quality—rendered fantastical and otherworldly.
Beyond photography, Gina is passionate about literature, travel, swimming, and the arts. She is also a committed advocate for human and animal rights, values that continue to shape both her artistic practice and personal life.
Silvia Pusceddu
Silvia Pusceddu’s practice begins with an inner vibration—an instinctive feeling that demands expression. Guided by this energy, she draws spontaneous, fluid lines that prioritize emotion over thought and movement over meaning. Color follows intuitively, rich and layered, infusing each composition with presence and intention.
She does not leave white space; for Silvia, it is not neutral but a silent void awaiting transformation. Each piece is completed with a black outline, a ritual gesture that provides grounding and closure.
For Silvia Pusceddu, art is not merely a choice but a necessity—a sanctuary in which she feels safe and whole. Simultaneously, her work serves as a powerful tool for self-reflection, healing, and personal growth, transforming emotion and experience into visual form.
Anamaria Chediak
Born in Quito, Anamaria is a photographer driven by an insatiable curiosity nurtured through her early explorations of the Andes, the Amazon, and the Galapagos Islands. Her work has taken her across seven continents, capturing the essence of the cultures and natural landscapes she encounters.
In response to the escalating environmental crisis, Anamaria’s celebration of the natural world has evolved into a call for awareness and action. She states: “Time is running out. We are living an environmental crisis with unprecedented changes. My photography serves as a reminder of the responsibility we all share to protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, restore threatened ecosystems, and preserve communities with their unique and diverse traditions as a cultural legacy.”
Anamaria has published five books: GALÁPAGOS Life & Evolution, AFRICA, BLOOM, ETHOS, and ESCONDRIJO DEL TORO, each reflecting her commitment to environmental and cultural storytelling through the lens of photography.
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen is a fine artist, writer, and illustrator. Born in South Africa, she has lived and studied in several countries before settling in Geneva. With a background in graphic design and art psychotherapy, her practice draws inspiration from her exposure to diverse cultures and her work with marginalized communities as an art psychotherapist.
Fransie’s art, often described as artivism, seeks to illuminate and provoke dialogue around issues overlooked or dismissed by society. Working primarily in acrylics and mixed media, her pieces combine strong visual narratives with social commentary.
Her work has received international recognition, earning awards and being widely exhibited. Most recently, her art was featured on the cover of The World Art Guide 2025. In addition to her fine art practice, Fransie has written and illustrated a series of children’s books.
Mona Moleo
Mona Melo’s practice emerges from an inner dialogue between energy and structure. Navigating the space between organic ramifications and geometric symbolism, she explores themes of perception, memory, and the invisible fields that connect humans and nature. Each work becomes a record of psychological states—at times raw and visceral, at other times trance-like in its precision.
Colors transform into resonant spaces, lines into nervous systems, and surfaces into landscapes. Working with diverse materials, Melo intuitively interweaves them into fluid and often inexplicable forms—creating a visual diary of inner worlds.
Tajana Vanovac Sesar
Tajana Vanovac Sesar (b. 1982) completed her primary and secondary education in Sarajevo at the School of Design and Modeling. She later pursued studies in psychology in Mostar. Through a partnership between Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kayseri, Turkey, she trained at the Kaymek Educational Institute. With the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey, she went on to establish the Institute’s branch in Mostar, where she worked as a project coordinator.
Since 2018, Vanovac Sesar has lived and worked on the island of Šolta, where she continues to develop her artistic practice. Rooted in the creativity that sustained her childhood during the war in Sarajevo, her work reflects a lifelong belief in imagination as a means of survival and transformation. For her, art is a pathway to an inner refuge—her personal “island of Avalon.”
Kell
Kell is a mixed-media abstract expressionist whose practice engages with the wild and sacred rhythms of nature. Her work traces the delicate threads that connect earth, spirit, faith, and emotion.
Shaped by global travels and a deeply personal journey, Kell incorporates raw elements into her art—charcoal from wildfire-scorched trees, sand from distant shores, shells softened by tides. These fragments of the earth carry their own memory, infusing each canvas with depth and presence.
Her art is more than image; it is invocation, meditation, and tactile poetry. Each work invites stillness, wonder, and a remembrance of our place within the natural world. Created with reverence and intention, her practice offers viewers a sense of belonging and soulful connection.
Banu Tulumen
Born in Istanbul, Türkiye, Banu Tulumen is an abstract painter and writer, currently based in Summerland, BC, Canada.
For Banu, painting is an emotional and heartfelt dialogue expressed through color, texture, and movement. Each brushstroke becomes an act of self-discovery, uncovering stories from the depths of her imagination and emotions. Her art, often spontaneous, invites viewers into enigmatic, dreamlike spaces where the mystical meets the unexpected.
Banu’s creative process thrives on experimentation, forging a profound personal connection with her audience. She frequently pairs her paintings with short stories, extending the narrative beyond the canvas to create a deeper, layered experience. Her work transcends the visual, weaving a shared narrative of connection and discovery. For her, every painting is a living story waiting to unfold.
Lanthar
Born in 1991, LANTHAR is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist living and working in Switzerland. Her work is internationally recognized for its striking use of colour, bold compositions, and positively charged presence.
Blending graffiti-inspired slogans and expressive collages, her practice bridges raw energy with a deeper, intuitive exploration of self and humanity. Influenced by street art, pop art, and abstract expressionism, her works unfold in layered frameworks that hold both complexity and immediacy.
LANTHAR’s artworks serve as vibrant reflections of modern life, infused with symbolism, emotion, and unapologetic truth. Each canvas becomes a dynamic constellation where personal insight meets collective consciousness, inviting viewers into a space of connection, confrontation, and contemplation.