Tag: artistic process
Amélie Yerly creates oil portraits that unfold slowly, built through delicate layers of glazing that reveal depth, emotion, and quiet presence over time. Rather than relying on bold colour or immediate impact, her work invites viewers to lean in, discovering the subtle tensions and dualities each face holds. Influenced by patience and intuition, her process allows each painting to evolve gradually, capturing not just appearance but the inner life beneath it. Her figures exist in a space between strength and fragility, visibility and privacy, where emotion is suggested rather than declared.…
Carola Helwing creates paintings that carry the memory of movement, shaped by her background in dance and deep understanding of the human body. Beginning with photographs of dancers, she transforms gesture into something more internal, capturing not just how movement looks, but how it feels from within. Her figures exist in a delicate balance between strength and fragility, where tension, control, and release unfold quietly across the canvas. Colour plays a central role, sometimes soft and atmospheric, other times bold and vivid, including pop tones that bring her work into a…
Lauryna Rakauskaitė creates luminous portraits that shift the idea of what a face can hold, not weight or tension, but warmth, stillness, and quiet presence. Her paintings glow from within, using soft color, open space, and gentle gestures to create an emotional atmosphere rather than a fixed narrative. After more than a decade away from art, she returned to painting with urgency, driven by something she could no longer ignore. This return brings a freshness to her work, where exploration and intuition guide each piece. Rather than directing emotion, she allows…
Ligia Fascioni creates layered portraits that merge photorealism with hand-drawn floral and figurative elements over real urban textures. Using photographs of the Berlin Wall and torn street posters, she builds faces on surfaces rich with history and meaning. Each piece reflects the idea that identity is formed through layers—cultural, emotional, and historical. With a background in engineering and design, her work is both structured and deeply expressive. Her compositions transform decay into beauty, turning overlooked materials into powerful foundations. The result is art that invites viewers to look closer and uncover…
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Limor Dekel creates striking sculptural faces using cardboard and repurposed paper, transforming discarded materials into expressive works full of life and movement. Trained in ceramic design at Bezalel Academy, her practice blends craftsmanship with experimentation. What began during the pandemic as a practical solution for teaching evolved into a defining artistic language rooted in freedom and sustainability. Her layered forms carry human energy, gesture, and emotion, often inspired by her background in dance and observation. By elevating humble materials, she challenges how we value both art…
Paloma Ripollés doesn’t paint what she sees she paints what moves through her. Years of training gave her precision, but it’s her instinct that gives the work life. Using a spatula instead of a brush, she builds color in layers that feel like they’re vibrating, shifting, breathing. She never uses black, choosing instead to create depth through living colour. The result is work that doesn’t just sit on the surface it exists in a state of movement, where emotion, memory, and perception merge. What you see isn’t just a place or…
Malu Urruspuru paints from instinct rather than concept. Her birds, animals, and faces emerge from feeling, not performance offering a deeply human reflection on creativity, limitation, and the strength found in beginning again.
Watercolour has a gentle way of slowing us down. It asks us to look a little closer and let small moments guide the brush. In this article, we meet five women who each have their own relationship with the medium—whether they’re sketching gardens, carrying paint on the road, teaching beginners, or building a lifelong practice. Their styles differ, but they’re all connected by the simple act of noticing the world and returning to the page with care.
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…