Category: Artist Interviews
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.
Niyati Mehta’s creative journey is shaped by experimentation, curiosity, and a desire to understand herself through art. Working across watercolour, graphite, acrylic, and oil, she gives herself the freedom to explore different techniques and visual possibilities rather than staying within the boundaries of one medium. Each material offers a new way to approach an idea, while the process itself becomes a form of personal discovery. Her practice reflects the belief that an artist’s visual language develops gradually through making, experimenting, and paying attention to what continues to feel meaningful. Personal experiences…
Mairéad Robb's vibrant paintings grow from a deeply personal relationship with nature. Inspired by childhood memories of Ireland's landscapes, flowers, forests, and wild spaces, she transforms everyday details into expressive works filled with colour and feeling. For Mairéad, nature is more than a subject—it is a place of memory, comfort, healing, and belonging. Her paintings encourage us to slow down and notice the beauty we often pass without seeing, from changing moss and delicate leaves to sunlight moving through trees. Through bold colour and close observation, she creates work that celebrates…
Jane Bauman's creative practice brings together painting, photography, mixed media, found materials, and personal history. From her early experiences with art and the East Village art scene of the 1980s to her current studio practice, Jane has built a body of work shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and transformation. She often revisits old works, discarded materials, childhood images, and studio remnants, allowing fragments of the past to become part of something new. Her fascination with apophenia the human tendency to find patterns and meaning in unrelated things also plays an important role…
Discover the contemporary paintings of Slovenian artist Tea Rudolf, whose cinematic figurative works celebrate modern womanhood through quiet, everyday moments. From intimate interiors to joyful gatherings, her original paintings transform ordinary experiences into timeless visual stories that invite viewers to slow down and savor life's simple beauty.
Zarina Hagen is a Norwegian painter, photographer, and printmaker whose vibrant landscape paintings celebrate the emotional power of colour and the restorative beauty of nature. Working across acrylic, oil, watercolour, and printmaking, she transforms fjords, forests, gardens, and changing seasons into luminous compositions inspired by memory, intuition, and feeling. Drawing on her background in health and colour consultancy, Zarina believes colour can uplift, energise, and reconnect us with the natural world. Rather than painting landscapes exactly as they appear, she creates expressive scenes filled with radiant blues, glowing pinks, vivid greens,…