Tag: intuitive painting
Biaani Lopez creates luminous oil paintings where women, animals, and surreal landscapes merge into emotional inner worlds shaped by memory, spirituality, and intuition. Rooted in her life in San Luis Potosí, her work unfolds slowly through layered oil painting, meditation, and reflection, allowing each image to emerge as both personal and symbolic. Influenced by conversations with women and her own emotional experiences, she transforms feelings into color, gesture, and dreamlike environments that feel intimate yet universal. Animals, eggs, and fantastical settings become metaphors for creation, connection, uncertainty, and feminine identity. Rather…
Irina Forrester’s abstract works move beyond representation, using shape, colour, and composition to explore identity in a way that feels both personal and open-ended. While rooted in classical training, her practice has evolved toward interpretation rather than accuracy, allowing emotion and atmosphere to take the lead. Her paintings often emerge from everyday observations, but they are distilled into forms that carry memory, presence, and feeling rather than literal meaning. A viewer once recognised a strong sense of female identity within her non-figurative work, revealing how her compositions can hold narratives even…
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…
Marika Junikajtes returned to painting after a deeply personal loss in 2024, discovering that paint could hold what words could not. Through layered blacks, fluid pours, and precise brushwork, her portraits explore dignity, vulnerability, and quiet strength. Each face carries stillness, resilience, and emotional depth, inviting viewers into a slow and personal dialogue that unfolds over time.
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…
In this conversation, painter Lee Mohr shares how her connection to nature guides her work — from her early years in Alaska to her current studio practice in the Pacific Northwest. She talks about the calm of painting, the balance between structure and intuition, and how place continues to shape the way she sees the world.
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.