Tag: contemporary painting
Mairéad Robb's vibrant paintings grow from a deeply personal relationship with nature. Inspired by childhood memories of Ireland's landscapes, flowers, forests, and wild spaces, she transforms everyday details into expressive works filled with colour and feeling. For Mairéad, nature is more than a subject—it is a place of memory, comfort, healing, and belonging. Her paintings encourage us to slow down and notice the beauty we often pass without seeing, from changing moss and delicate leaves to sunlight moving through trees. Through bold colour and close observation, she creates work that celebrates…
Jane Bauman's creative practice brings together painting, photography, mixed media, found materials, and personal history. From her early experiences with art and the East Village art scene of the 1980s to her current studio practice, Jane has built a body of work shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and transformation. She often revisits old works, discarded materials, childhood images, and studio remnants, allowing fragments of the past to become part of something new. Her fascination with apophenia the human tendency to find patterns and meaning in unrelated things also plays an important role…
Discover the contemporary paintings of Slovenian artist Tea Rudolf, whose cinematic figurative works celebrate modern womanhood through quiet, everyday moments. From intimate interiors to joyful gatherings, her original paintings transform ordinary experiences into timeless visual stories that invite viewers to slow down and savor life's simple beauty.
Zarina Hagen is a Norwegian painter, photographer, and printmaker whose vibrant landscape paintings celebrate the emotional power of colour and the restorative beauty of nature. Working across acrylic, oil, watercolour, and printmaking, she transforms fjords, forests, gardens, and changing seasons into luminous compositions inspired by memory, intuition, and feeling. Drawing on her background in health and colour consultancy, Zarina believes colour can uplift, energise, and reconnect us with the natural world. Rather than painting landscapes exactly as they appear, she creates expressive scenes filled with radiant blues, glowing pinks, vivid greens,…
Emma Eyre creates vivid botanical paintings inspired by the accidental compositions of plants she discovers on forest floors and along rural pathways in Sweden. Originally from Honolulu and now living in the Swedish countryside, she has built a creative life around teaching, raising a family, growing food, spending time in nature, and maintaining a consistent painting practice. Her recent On the Ground series begins with photographs of overlooked plants, nettles, reeds, thistles, and leaves before developing through translucent ink washes and layers of opaque oil paint. Rather than recreating nature photographically,…
Jillian Cheong creates vibrant paintings and textile collages inspired by Singapore’s extraordinary biodiversity, transforming everyday encounters with birds, insects, tropical plants, and urban nature into joyful celebrations of colour and discovery. A former biology teacher, she combines scientific observation with expressive artistic storytelling, encouraging viewers to slow down and notice the remarkable wildlife often hidden within familiar surroundings. Her richly layered compositions are filled with intricate botanical details, luminous birds, and playful patterns that reward close looking and invite a deeper connection with the natural world. More recently, Jillian has incorporated…
Robyn Palescandolo creates floral paintings that balance painterly realism with expressive brushwork, transforming flowers, fruit, and natural forms into deeply emotional experiences of beauty, wonder, and connection. Drawing inspiration from years spent studying art history, working as a designer, running a painting retreat in rural Italy, and continually returning to art throughout life's many changes, her work reflects both technical mastery and personal growth. Rich with soft pinks, lavenders, blues, greens, and luminous whites, her palette emerges from close observation of nature while gently heightening colour to capture emotion rather than…
Sepideh Shahgholi creates deeply personal paintings and wearable sculptures shaped by memory, identity, migration, and emotional connection to place. Moving fluidly between abstract landscapes, layered mark-making, organic forms, and intricate sculptural headpieces made from wire and natural materials, her work explores how emotions and memories live within the body long after places are left behind. Rather than beginning with fixed images, her paintings emerge intuitively through feelings, smells, colours, and fragments of lived experience that slowly surface onto the canvas through layered marks and washes. Alongside her paintings, Sepideh’s wearable sculptures…
Christiane Tabord Deillon creates abstract paintings that feel less focused on physical landscapes and more connected to emotional energy, intuition, and inner presence. Using powdered pigments, layered textures, flowing forms, and soft atmospheric compositions, her work explores invisible states of feeling rather than fixed narratives or places. Deeply influenced by mindfulness and meditation, Christiane approaches painting as both a creative and spiritual process, allowing emotional alignment and stillness to shape the energy of each work. Her relationship with materials is equally intentional, with handmade pigments and tactile surfaces becoming part of…
Mona Lisa Safai creates abstract works filled with movement, texture, and emotional energy, blending digital art, photography, and traditional painting into a layered visual language that feels both physical and atmospheric. Rather than focusing on narrative or recognizable imagery, her work invites instinctive emotional responses through scraped textures, shifting colour fields, and bold palette knife marks that hold traces of process and spontaneity. Moving fluidly between canvas and digital mediums, she explores how texture, light, and colour can communicate tension, softness, disruption, and calm before a viewer fully understands the image…