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Zarina Hagen is a Norwegian painter, photographer, and printmaker whose vibrant landscape paintings celebrate the emotional power of colour and the restorative beauty of nature. Working across acrylic, oil, watercolour, and printmaking, she transforms fjords, forests, gardens, and changing seasons into luminous compositions inspired by memory, intuition, and feeling. Drawing on her background in health and colour consultancy, Zarina believes colour can uplift, energise, and reconnect us with the natural world. Rather than painting landscapes exactly as they appear, she creates expressive scenes filled with radiant blues, glowing pinks, vivid greens,…
The final months of the year don't have to become a race against the calendar. This guide explores how artists can reflect on their creative journey, set meaningful priorities, protect their energy, and finish 2026 with purpose instead of pressure.
Discover five free AI tools that help artists stay organized, streamline research, create professional presentations, and manage creative projects, giving you more time to focus on making meaningful art.
Kristi Radford creates layered photographic art that transforms flowers, leaves, light, and everyday moments into whimsical, dreamlike compositions. Photography has been part of her life since childhood, but through her creative practice at MisBeeHaven Designs she has developed a distinctive process of combining multiple photographs into richly textured digital collages that blur the line between reality and imagination. Working entirely on her phone, Kristi embraces experimentation, curiosity, and play, allowing ordinary natural details to evolve into imaginative visual worlds. Inspired by changing seasons, shifting light, reflections, and the quiet beauty of…
Discover the Portraits Virtual Exhibition by Women in Arts Network, featuring an inspiring collection of women artists from around the world. Through painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, and mixed media, these selected works explore identity, memory, emotion, culture, and human connection, revealing how portraiture continues to evolve as one of art's most powerful forms of storytelling.
Explore how four iconic women artists transformed their creative vision over time, from their earliest known surviving paintings to their final major works. Discover the stories behind Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Hilma af Klint, and see how decades of experience, personal challenges, and artistic exploration shaped the masterpieces they left behind.
Stay up to date with this week's biggest art stories, from Gwen John's landmark retrospective and Women in Arts Network's upcoming exhibition deadline to London's women-led exhibitions, public art news, and inspiring cultural highlights from around the world.
Marie Laforge creates imaginative mixed-media collages using vintage books, discarded magazines, and found paper to build playful visual worlds where people, flowers, animals, and everyday objects meet in unexpected ways. Growing up in the French Alps before studying Graphic Arts and Advertising in Paris, she discovered that collage offered a unique freedom to reinvent existing images and allow curiosity, chance, and imagination to shape each composition. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative, Marie lets every collage evolve naturally as unrelated fragments find new relationships and meanings. Her work celebrates transformation,…
Planning an art-filled August? Discover six must-visit global art events, from major museum exhibitions and photography retrospectives to women-led festivals and contemporary art celebrations across North America and Europe.
Julia Kulish creates large-scale floral oil paintings inspired by childhood gardens, flowing botanicals, and a lifelong belief in the importance of beauty. Raised by artist parents, her creative journey began painting murals on her children's bedroom walls before evolving into immersive contemporary floral paintings filled with movement, colour, and hope. Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and William Morris, Julia fills her canvases with twisting vines, bold blossoms, and expressive compositions that invite viewers into the joyful abundance of nature. Rather than painting flowers as decoration, she uses them to explore memory,…