Category: Artist Interviews
Erna van Lith is a Dutch painter dedicated to the art of portraiture, creating expressive oil paintings that capture the personality and presence of her sitters. Inspired by classical masters such as Rembrandt, she combines traditional painting skills with visible, energetic brushwork that gives each portrait a sense of life.
Louise Renée creates heartfelt soft pastel paintings inspired by family, memories, and the people and animals she holds dear. From commemorating her beloved dog Buddy to revisiting her father's experiences as an RAF pilot during the Second World War, her portraits preserve personal stories through colour, expression, and emotion.
Hiske Tas Bain creates dreamlike paintings inspired by memories, dreams, travel, nature, and different cultural traditions. Drawing on surrealism, Dadaism, and magic realism, she combines imagined figures, animals, landscapes, and spiritual symbols to create colourful worlds filled with meaning.
Margret Pinger creates textured portraits that explore the emotions, experiences, and individual stories behind the human face. Working with oil and acrylic, she paints entirely with her fingers, building layered backgrounds that merge with expressive portraits of women.
Susan Grabel is an American sculptor whose figurative work challenges conventional ideas about women, beauty, and visibility. Working with clay, handmade paper, and cardboard, she explores the aging female body, feminism, social inequality, memory, and grief.
Babette Hinterleitner blends influences from manga, comics, illustration, and fine art to create expressive works that give visual form to complex emotions.
Maureen Daniel creates large-scale portraits that challenge conventional ideas of female beauty and representation. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, she paints women as they are, free from expectations of perfection, flattery, or stereotypical elegance.
Discover how Swedish artist Linnéa Hällfors brings human figures and botanical details together in thoughtful paintings exploring nature, identity, rest, and belonging.
Puja Khanna Duggal combines painting, embroidery, murals, and multimedia installation to explore cultural heritage, identity, memory, and women’s labour. Inspired by the stories her grandmother told and the traditions of Indian craft, she creates hybrid, armoured figures that draw on South Asian and East Asian influences.
Jie P. Colter combines traditional Chinese brushwork with acrylic, collage, and printed imagery to create layered artworks that connect cultural heritage with contemporary life. Drawing on her education in Chinese painting and her experience of living between cultures, she uses line, colour, texture, and empty space to explore memory, identity, kindness, and hope.