Tag: contemporary art
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.…
Daiana Bruj creates layered abstract paintings using fabric, collage, and upcycled materials that carry traces of lived experience. Often incorporating personal elements like worn textiles, her work builds surfaces that feel both intimate and deeply human. Colour leads her process, forming an emotional field before shapes and structure emerge, while each material adds its own history to the composition. Rather than depicting faces directly, her paintings explore presence through absence, capturing the warmth, memory, and quiet imprint people leave behind. Over time, her practice has shifted toward restraint, using fewer elements…
Faye Johansen’s practice begins with attention to nature, to material, and to the quiet traces things leave behind. Working across watercolour, collage, and handmade journals, she builds surfaces that carry both process and place. At the centre of her work is a powerful series of one hundred charcoal portraits of Indigenous children, drawn onto discarded books layered with torn maps, music notation, and fragments of text. Each material holds meaning, speaking to displacement, memory, and loss, while charcoal allows the faces to remain both present and fragile. Alongside this, her journals…
Heidi Weiss creates paintings that sit between memory and interruption, drawing from paused television stills and transforming them into fragmented, emotionally charged compositions. Cropping, distortion, and layered oil surfaces allow her to withhold information, leaving viewers inside unresolved moments that feel both familiar and distant. Influenced by her background in painting and fiber art, her process embraces repetition, slowness, and accumulation, building surfaces that echo the instability of memory itself. Rather than telling complete stories, her work focuses on what lingers, the quiet tension, the partial view, the feeling that something…
Jennifer Morgan transforms soft materials into strikingly lifelike portraits, using wool, beads, and hand-blended fibers to build depth and emotion without paint. Her process is slow and intentional, allowing texture to carry the story through layered surfaces that feel both delicate and powerful. Each piece captures subtle expressions and quiet emotional weight, inviting viewers to look closer and connect more deeply. By blurring the line between textile and fine art, her work challenges how portraiture is traditionally understood, proving that even the softest mediums can hold presence, intensity, and lasting impact.
Selected for our Birds exhibition, Gitta Pardoel brings decades of architecture and garden design into her art, creating spaces that feel alive with memory, movement, and the quiet presence of nature. Her work reflects a deep understanding of how living forms shape atmosphere, where birds become part of a larger story of space, freedom, and connection.
For decades, Nerea Azanza couldn’t create. Not because she stopped loving art, but because a medical mistake silenced the part of her that made it possible. When her creativity finally returned, she didn’t paint loudly. She painted tiny human faces fragile, almost dissolving into vast spaces of line and structure. Because to her, we are dust in a universe we barely respect. And humility, after everything, felt necessary.
Some paintings ask you to admire them. Sally Edmonds’ work asks you to look back. By removing every distraction, she brings you face to face with a bird as an individual present, aware, impossible to ignore. What seems simple at first becomes something else entirely: a moment of recognition, where a subject you’ve overlooked your whole life suddenly feels personal.
Patricia Frederick makes a mark on canvas and then waits to see what it wants to become. In this interview, the retired art educator talks about her process-based approach to painting, the difficulty of trusting gut feeling over years of design training, and how her work has turned into a way of investigating consciousness. She discusses what happens when paintings show her thoughts before she recognizes them, why she stays away from anything resembling a horizon line, and what she means when she says her work is supposed to act as…
In this interview, Lebanese visual artist Rania El Osta speaks about moving from Medical Sciences to painting, the influence of family memory, and why birds and old houses continue to appear in her work. She shares how observation, color, and lived experience shape her process, and what it means to carry images of Lebanon beyond its borders.