Category: Artist Interviews
Joanna Pilarczyk creates colourful figurative paintings that combine expressive portraits, bold geometric patterns, and lush greenery. Influenced by nature, street art, animation, and graphic design, she builds vibrant compositions that explore identity, intimacy, relationships, and acceptance.
Sarah Rutherford is a British painter who returned to her artistic practice after stepping away from painting to pursue a career in marketing. Working primarily in oils, she creates portraits and still lifes that look beyond surface appearances to explore character, emotion, and the stories objects carry.
Cristina Chirilă creates layered portraits that explore the complex emotions, memories, and contradictions beneath the surface of a recognisable face. Working across painting, photography, and installation, she uses fragmentation, blurring, and overpainting to challenge how we see and understand identity.
Paulina Wróblewska creates lifelike acrylic paintings of big cats, capturing their strength, vulnerability, and quiet dignity through detailed fur textures, carefully observed anatomy, and expressive eyes. Entirely self-taught, she developed her practice through digital drawing before moving to canvas, where she found greater freedom to express emotion.
Discover how Ukrainian artist Anna Shkinder brings ancient vessels to life through expressive acrylic paintings, nature-inspired textures, and stories of memory, emotion, and human connection.
Linda Edwards creates paintings rooted in the landscapes, traditions, and everyday life of Saddleworth, where she has lived for more than thirty years. Working mainly in oils, she captures quiet streets, changing light, local characters, natural landscapes, and community traditions, treating her paintings as a kind of visual diary of the place she calls home
Kavya Sharma creates textile-based artworks that bring together embroidery, drawing, and installation to explore memory, care, the body, and women’s lived experiences. Rather than choosing a medium first, she begins with an idea and allows the work to determine how it should take shape.
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.