Tag: figurative 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…

Nadja Eleonora Milsten’s work sits in the space between doubt and trust. Her watercolor figures feel present but unfinished, shaped as much by emotion as by restraint. Some of her strongest paintings are the ones she almost abandoned—set aside for months until time changed how she saw them. Moving from oils to watercolor during a turning point in her life, she stopped painting for expectation and began painting from instinct. Her practice isn’t about certainty. It’s about letting doubt exist, stepping away when needed, and trusting that what doesn’t make sense…

Stepping into Christine Dimaculangan’s studio feels like entering a quiet corner of her world. The air smells of oil paint and wood, and her walls are lined with studies, notes, and photographs that guide her next body of work. In this studio visit, she talks about her routines, the tools she keeps closest, the way she lets ideas settle, and how she moves through the space while working on several paintings at once. It is a warm look at how she builds her practice day by day, inside a room that…