Category: Artist Interviews
Michele Leung bridges the structured worlds of engineering and finance with the expressive depth of oil painting, transforming discipline into creativity. Her work balances precision and emotion, building compositions with patience, intentionality, and layered brushwork that captures the quiet strength of her subjects. Pieces like The Unyielding Gaze reveal resilience that is internal and reflective, not performative. In her Hong Kong studio, classical music guides her process, helping her surrender to the rhythm of creation and focus deeply on each layer. Michele’s practice has taught her that meaning unfolds slowly, that…
Walk into M. E. Klesse’s studio in Rockport, Texas, and you step into a space filled with warm wax in the air, stacked supplies, and pieces in mid-creation. Sculptures hang above, canvases rest side by side, and every surface seems ready for the next layer or idea. As we talk with her, she shares how she works in long, quiet stretches, why she often brings pieces into other rooms to see them differently, and how she listens to emotion and instinct as much as to tools and materials. It feels like…
Sharon James talks about returning to her practice after early motherhood, painting family life in rural Dorset and making space for stories often missing in British art. From IVF to raising a queer family in a mostly white area, she shares what it means to be seen without needing to explain or justify anything, and how she is helping other global majority artists find grounding and visibility too.
Step inside the studio of Canadian painter Renee Pupetz, where paint jars crowd the table, ideas appear without warning, and two cats watch it all unfold. Renee talks about coming back to painting after a tough chapter, how she lets instinct guide her work, and why she rarely throws a piece away. This conversation feels like sitting beside her as she fills her water jars, talks to her late father in the quiet moments, and gets lost in colour and chance.
In this interview, London-based artist Nazanin Moradi talks about how movement guides everything she makes. She shares her path from early painting classes in Iran to a practice that weaves together oil painting, digital work, and performance. Her process is about flow, patience, and finding meaning in change.
In this studio visit, Carola welcomes us into her bright upstairs space in Frankfurt am Main. She talks about how she creates her paintings, the role music plays in her process, and the comfort she finds in the rhythm of her work. Surrounded by light, color, and the quiet presence of her cat Max, Carola shares how her studio has become a place where movement and stillness meet.
In this conversation, painter Lee Mohr shares how her connection to nature guides her work — from her early years in Alaska to her current studio practice in the Pacific Northwest. She talks about the calm of painting, the balance between structure and intuition, and how place continues to shape the way she sees the world.
London based painter Niah McGiff speaks about how her work explores the space where the digital and the natural overlap. She shares how slowing down through painting helps her make sense of a fast moving world and how ideas of identity and connection continue to shape her thinking. The interview offers a thoughtful look into how she uses an ancient medium to ask questions about modern life.
Photographer and academic Kate E. O’Hara talks about how growing up in New York, studying social science, and her love for poetry and music shape the way she sees the world. In this interview, she discusses her move from film to digital, her fascination with people and place, and how photography helps her explore connection, story, and understanding in both urban and natural spaces.
Brazilian psychologist, psychoanalyst, and visual artist Bruna Gazzi Costa talks about weaving mental health and creation into daily life. In this interview, she shares how painting and therapy coexist in her practice, why community plays such a vital role in her process, and how she sees the future of care extending into galleries and studios.