Category: Artist Interviews

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.

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