Members Interview

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…

Biaani Lopez creates luminous oil paintings where women, animals, and surreal landscapes merge into emotional inner worlds shaped by memory, spirituality, and intuition. Rooted in her life in San Luis Potosí, her work unfolds slowly through layered oil painting, meditation, and reflection, allowing each image to emerge as both personal and symbolic. Influenced by conversations with women and her own emotional experiences, she transforms feelings into color, gesture, and dreamlike environments that feel intimate yet universal. Animals, eggs, and fantastical settings become metaphors for creation, connection, uncertainty, and feminine identity. Rather…

Sarah Anderson documents abandoned machinery and fading rural landscapes across the Midwest, transforming overlooked spaces into powerful reflections on history, labor, and time. Drawn to rusted tractors, collapsing barns, and forgotten structures, she photographs the remnants of agricultural change with a sensitivity that turns decay into narrative. Her background as a physician informs the way she observes the world, balancing precision with empathy, while her growing photographic practice has deepened through formal study at RISD and acceptance into SCAD’s MFA Photography program. Rather than simply recording abandoned places, she approaches them…

Irina Forrester’s abstract works move beyond representation, using shape, colour, and composition to explore identity in a way that feels both personal and open-ended. While rooted in classical training, her practice has evolved toward interpretation rather than accuracy, allowing emotion and atmosphere to take the lead. Her paintings often emerge from everyday observations, but they are distilled into forms that carry memory, presence, and feeling rather than literal meaning. A viewer once recognised a strong sense of female identity within her non-figurative work, revealing how her compositions can hold narratives even…

Abigail Hammond creates unapologetically raw work that confronts the realities of menopause through sculpture, video, sound, and installation. After a 35-year career in costume design for dance and theatre, her practice shifted into something deeply personal, using her own body as both subject and material. Through detailed Jesmonite casts, performative video, and immersive installations, she captures the physical and emotional intensity of menopause without softening or aestheticizing it. Her work challenges silence and stigma, prioritizing truth over comfort, and often sparks powerful conversations in both gallery and public spaces. Rooted in…