Members Interview

Christiane Tabord Deillon creates abstract paintings that feel less focused on physical landscapes and more connected to emotional energy, intuition, and inner presence. Using powdered pigments, layered textures, flowing forms, and soft atmospheric compositions, her work explores invisible states of feeling rather than fixed narratives or places. Deeply influenced by mindfulness and meditation, Christiane approaches painting as both a creative and spiritual process, allowing emotional alignment and stillness to shape the energy of each work. Her relationship with materials is equally intentional, with handmade pigments and tactile surfaces becoming part of…

Mona Lisa Safai creates abstract works filled with movement, texture, and emotional energy, blending digital art, photography, and traditional painting into a layered visual language that feels both physical and atmospheric. Rather than focusing on narrative or recognizable imagery, her work invites instinctive emotional responses through scraped textures, shifting colour fields, and bold palette knife marks that hold traces of process and spontaneity. Moving fluidly between canvas and digital mediums, she explores how texture, light, and colour can communicate tension, softness, disruption, and calm before a viewer fully understands the image…

Rebecca Walker creates emotionally intuitive photography shaped by the wide skies, quiet prairies, and shifting seasons of Saskatchewan. Rather than chasing perfection or heavily posed imagery, her work focuses on presence, feeling, and the subtle emotional moments that unfold naturally between people and landscapes. What began over fourteen years ago as a way of preserving memories gradually evolved into a deeply personal and soul-led creative practice connected to healing, intuition, and human connection. Through portraiture, self-portrait work, and expansive environmental imagery, she explores themes of love, authenticity, vulnerability, and emotional presence…

Annett Coumont creates atmospheric watercolour paintings that transform forests, mist, reflections, and fading light into emotional spaces filled with stillness and connection. Living in Germany’s Bergisches Land region, she draws inspiration from daily walks through woods, meadows, and quiet landscapes where shifting weather, birdsong, and changing light become part of her visual language. After a serious illness in 2023 forced her away from professional life, painting became both a refuge and a turning point, reconnecting her to creativity in a deeply personal way. Her approach to modern watercolour moves far beyond…

Isabel Aguado creates atmospheric landscape paintings that move between observation, memory, and abstraction, transforming hills, valleys, grasses, and distant terrain into emotional spaces filled with rhythm and movement. Growing up surrounded by countryside and mountains deeply shaped the way she experiences nature, teaching her to notice shifting light, changing colours, and the quiet structures hidden within the land itself. Working from her own photographs, she begins with real places before allowing gesture, loosened brushwork, and layered colour to gradually reshape the image into something more intuitive and emotionally charged. Earthy ochres,…

Anna Klatt creates atmospheric landscapes that feel less like physical places and more like emotional states suspended between memory, softness, and transformation. Moving away from strict realism and technical perfection, her work embraces scratches, layers, blurred forms, and unfinished surfaces that hold traces of vulnerability and lived experience. Influenced by intuition, photography, and personal reflection, she paints from emotional memory rather than direct observation, allowing mood and atmosphere to guide the image. Collections like Nature Dreaming, Fragments of Becoming, and Winter Calm reveal her interest in honesty over perfection, where landscapes…

Jo Morris creates luminous dreamlike landscapes that blur the line between memory, atmosphere, and abstraction. Inspired by a lifetime spent moving through deserts, coastlines, mountains, and wide Australian skies, her paintings no longer document specific places but instead capture the emotional feeling of being within them. Working intuitively with water-based inks, watercolours, sprays, and pigments, she builds soft horizons and glowing layers where blues dissolve into purples, pinks into oranges, and landscapes drift gently between reality and imagination. Rather than painting directly from photographs, Jo works from memory, allowing emotion, light,…

Valeria Ocean creates luminous oil paintings that transform waves, reflections, and shifting light into emotional landscapes suspended between realism and abstraction. Rooted in childhood memories of annual trips to the Black Sea, her connection to water became less about depicting a place and more about expressing inner emotional states through movement, atmosphere, and texture. Working with a deliberately limited palette, often just four or five tubes of paint, she builds meditative surfaces where subtle shifts in light and color carry a remarkable sense of depth and calm. Rather than painting wide…

Aysun Şentürk creates paintings that move between abstraction and storytelling, using symbols, mythology, and organic forms to explore deeply personal emotional landscapes. Working intuitively, she builds compositions filled with trees, birds, figures, and recurring symbolic elements that feel both dreamlike and psychologically charged. Her earlier abstract collages gradually evolved into narrative imagery, allowing instinct and symbolism to merge into a visual language uniquely her own. Influenced by mythology and inner reflection, her paintings often question themes of transformation, entanglement, freedom, and emotional connection without offering fixed answers. Deep greens, teals, and…

Reihaneh Shahali creates watercolor paintings filled with stillness, atmosphere, and emotional warmth, transforming everyday subjects into places that feel deeply familiar. Working between sketchbooks and larger compositions, she paints flowers, boats, quiet streets, and figures with a softness that allows the paper to breathe alongside the color. Although she works professionally as a software developer, painting has remained a constant part of her life, becoming more serious after university when she began focusing fully on watercolor. Influenced by mood more than perfection, her process centers on balance, leaving space within each…