Category: Artist Interviews

Mickel Celest creates richly layered abstract paintings that explore colour, texture, transformation, and the beauty found in change. Working intuitively, she begins with a palette or feeling rather than a fixed image, allowing each painting to develop through layers of paint, collage, texture, and metallic elements.

Andrea Eichelberg creates colourful abstract paintings shaped by emotions, memories, travel, and everyday experiences. Working mainly in acrylic and pastel, she approaches each canvas intuitively, beginning with a feeling or question rather than a finished image.

Soohyun Aria Jo creates multidisciplinary art that brings together visual art, classical voice, storytelling, film, writing, and audience participation. Her work is rooted in the belief that everyone already carries their own unique light, even when they lose sight of it.

Shona Elrick creates abstract landscapes using painted newsprint collage, oil, and acrylic, drawing deeply from the skies, coastlines, and farmland of Aberdeenshire. Her distinctive process began when she noticed landscape-like forms in the spontaneous marks left on newsprint while cleaning her brushes.

Perth-based artist Rachelle Dusting brings portraiture, still life and symbolism together in paintings that explore womanhood, heritage, identity and transformation. Through her luminous oil paintings, she invites us to look closely at the people, objects and stories that shape who we are.

Dominika Luszcz creates contemporary portraits of women surrounded by flower wreaths, embroidered textiles, and earthy colors inspired by Polish folklore. Her paintings explore heritage, identity, nature, renewal, and belonging while reinterpreting traditional imagery through her own contemporary style.

Mónica Nicolau creates textile artworks that transform as light moves across their richly stitched surfaces. Working with commercial cotton fabrics, oil paint, cotton batting, and free-motion machine quilting, she builds dimensional compositions that sit somewhere between painting and sculpture

Leigh Witherell uses the human figure to explore the emotions people often struggle to put into words. Working primarily through figurative painting, she creates intimate images shaped by grief, love, vulnerability, loss, and resilience. Her practice is deeply intuitive, beginning with emotion rather than anatomy or gesture, and her figures have evolved alongside her own experience of grief after the unexpected loss of her daughter in 2021. Witherell’s work also examines male vulnerability, unspoken feelings, and the stories carried quietly by those around us. Through projects such as The Invisibility Project,…

J Reeves creates flowing abstract paintings inspired by nature, memory, water, and the freedom of seeing something different in every shape. Working primarily in acrylic, she builds organic compositions without sketches or predetermined plans, allowing one form and colour to respond naturally to the next. Her paintings may suggest birds, fish, leaves, or sea life to different viewers, but she embraces that uncertainty as part of what makes abstraction personal. After spending years creating work based on what she thought others wanted, J eventually gave herself permission to paint more intuitively,…

Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.