Tag: abstract realism

Isabel Aguado creates atmospheric landscape paintings that move between observation, memory, and abstraction, transforming hills, valleys, grasses, and distant terrain into emotional spaces filled with rhythm and movement. Growing up surrounded by countryside and mountains deeply shaped the way she experiences nature, teaching her to notice shifting light, changing colours, and the quiet structures hidden within the land itself. Working from her own photographs, she begins with real places before allowing gesture, loosened brushwork, and layered colour to gradually reshape the image into something more intuitive and emotionally charged. Earthy ochres,…

Valeria Ocean creates luminous oil paintings that transform waves, reflections, and shifting light into emotional landscapes suspended between realism and abstraction. Rooted in childhood memories of annual trips to the Black Sea, her connection to water became less about depicting a place and more about expressing inner emotional states through movement, atmosphere, and texture. Working with a deliberately limited palette, often just four or five tubes of paint, she builds meditative surfaces where subtle shifts in light and color carry a remarkable sense of depth and calm. Rather than painting wide…

For Stephanie Swilley, art and care are inseparable. Her practice weaves beauty, ecological awareness, and mutual aid into a single gesture proving that tenderness can be radical, and art can help reshape how we live together.