Tag: Artist of the Month
Let your art mark a powerful ending to 2025 and an inspiring beginning to what comes next. Submissions for Artist of the Month December 2025 are open, share your voice and your vision.
Cecelia Wilken found her way back to art after a medical separation from military service and becoming a mother, using painting as a path to heal and reclaim her identity. Her work explores impermanence, transformation, and the beauty in decay, often confronting themes many shy away from, including death and grief. Through surreal imagery and emotional storytelling, she balances discomfort with tenderness, inviting viewers to reflect and feel deeply. Cecelia creates for herself first, embracing imperfection and trusting intuition over market trends. Bold choices, like painting dead birds, become symbolic explorations…
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…
We’re thrilled to present Lauryna Rakauskaitė as our Artist of the Month for September. After years in management, Lauryna courageously returned to her first love painting creating works that radiate joy, intuition, and light. Her story is a reminder that it’s never too late to return to what truly inspires us.
From painting on roller skates to transforming everyday materials into works of art, Elena Schertler brings play, movement, and intuition to everything she creates. Growing up in the small village of Hittisau, Elena first discovered art through spontaneous moments of creativity with her cousin sewing, painting, and experimenting freely. Today, her practice blends painting, drawing, and mixed media, often incorporating threads, wax, and found objects to turn her canvases into tactile experiences. Her unique process sometimes literally in motion captures vitality, freedom, and the beauty of following intuition. Elena’s journey has…
Mosaz grew up in a cultural landscape where tradition and freedom of expression walked side by side. Her art is born from that space weaving memory, heritage, and spirituality into symbols that speak beyond words. With trees, cycles, and gestures, she creates a language of continuity, reminding us that art is both personal ritual and universal dialogue.
In this interview, Florida-based illustrator Ava Farahani talks about what inspires her, how she balances the outer and inner worlds in her work, and why she turns to texture and soft forms to tell visual stories. She also shares how breaks can help her move past creative blocks and what it means to her when an idea finally clicks into place.
Nara Guichon knits with intention, using discarded fishing nets and fabric to bring new life to forgotten materials. In this conversation, she shares how her childhood shaped her connection to nature, why she sees trash as treasure, and how her hands follow instinct over plans. Her work challenges us to rethink waste and reminds us that creativity often starts where others stop looking.
“I found my artistic feet after tearing off the chastity belt of religion and diving headfirst into years of learning and experimentation,” shares Artist of the Month, Tina Bopiah. In this conversation, Tina reflects on her evolution—from working in egg tempera to creating large-scale thread and acrylic works—and how storytelling, especially the unspoken and everyday kind, fuels her creative process.
“I love to portray young women who can appear brave and strong even if you can guess they’re fragile,” says Simona Zecca, our Artist of the Month. In this warm and thoughtful interview, the Milan-based painter shares her journey, creative inspirations, and the emotional depth behind her textured, modern portraits of women.