Category: Artist Interviews
Juniper Sikora is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice begins with a simple but powerful act: paying attention. Working across photography, sound, installation, bioplastics, field research, and participatory experiences, she investigates water as both material and collaborator. She collects water from specific locations, records underwater sounds, photographs droplets, creates bioplastics that physically contain traces of place, and builds experiences that encourage viewers to touch, listen, and investigate. Her Water Response Atlas brings these encounters together as an evolving archive of photographs, recordings, samples, and observations. Across her work, Juniper is…
Ellie Goodliffe brings her background in microbiology into a vibrant fine art practice that explores illness, human biology, mental health, motherhood, and the complexities of being human. Working across acrylic, alcohol ink, abstraction, and experimental processes, she transforms scientific subjects and difficult experiences into colourful, emotionally charged artworks. From cancer cells and neurodegenerative disease to menstruation, addiction, and mental health, Ellie uses art to make complex and often uncomfortable subjects more accessible, thought-provoking, and visually compelling. Her practice embraces both scientific precision and emotional expression, allowing biology and art to exist…
Alyssa Graziosa takes inspiration from the small details, textures, colours, and changing ecosystems she encounters in nature. Through painting, bronze, iron, and casting, she transforms these observations into artworks that move between reality and imagination. Whether recreating a tiny organism as a permanent sculpture or placing familiar natural forms into surreal environments, her work asks viewers to slow down and notice what they might normally pass by.
Through animals, stitching, and tactile materials, Hailey Harvey creates artworks that explore memory, vulnerability, transformation, healing, and belonging. Her practice brings embroidery, thread, charcoal, and ceramics together, creating surfaces that feel both intimate and physical. Inspired by the cross-stitch, embroidery, and crochet practices she learned from her grandmother, Hailey gradually developed stitching into an essential part of her fine art practice. Hares and lambs appear throughout her work as archetypal figures, carrying ideas of intuition, vulnerability, devotion, transformation, and hope. Through stitched marks, scars, seams, and layered surfaces, she gives physical…
Belén Hernández Pérez, intuitive paintings transform flowers, trees, roots, and landscapes into symbolic worlds filled with emotion, poetry, spirituality, and hidden meaning. Her practice grew from a deeply personal return to art after her father's passing, leading her to develop a visual language shaped by dreams, meditation, intuition, and inner exploration. Working with acrylic, oil, oil pastel, texture, and mixed techniques, Belén paints not simply what she sees, but what she feels and encounters within her inner landscapes. Nature becomes a powerful vocabulary through which she explores grief, transformation, ancestry, healing,…
Peta Meredith Williams’ figurative paintings are shaped by dreams, spirituality, intuition, and a desire to create an emotional connection with the viewer. Her approach is largely instinctive, allowing images from dreams and inspiration from the Old Masters to guide the development of each work. Figures and faces appear throughout her practice, but rather than focusing on traditional portraiture or identity, Peta is interested in emotion and the feeling of entering another world. Her paintings leave space for individual interpretation, allowing viewers to bring their own experiences and responses to the work.…
Kea Elisa’s paintings turn travel, memory, and homecoming into layered contemporary works, combining acrylic, spray paint, oil pastel, embroidery, pearls, and natural pigments. From her Atlantic sailing journey to her Stitched Dreamscape series, discover how places and experiences become part of her artistic language.
Payal Jain’s journey across more than three decades of fashion has evolved into a deeply personal exploration of textile as an artistic medium. Growing up surrounded by art, music, architecture, literature, and nature, she came to see fashion as a way of bringing those influences together, while always considering herself an artist first. For Payal, textiles carry far more than visual beauty. They hold cultural memory, generations of knowledge, and the imprint of the human hand. Her long-standing collaborations with artisans across India have shaped her understanding of craftsmanship, patience, and…
Manuela Prince, who works under the name Alma Colours, creates delicate watercolours inspired by nature’s colours, beauty, and strength. Based in Abu Dhabi, her work brings butterflies and botanicals together as symbols of hope, transformation, renewal, and new beginnings. After years away from art, Manuela returned to drawing during a difficult period in her life, eventually discovering watercolour and finding in it a way back to beauty, nature, and creativity. Today, her luminous paintings use transparent layers of colour to create atmospheric works that invite viewers to slow down and reconnect…
Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.