Tag: mixed media art
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Michele Rogers works with repurposed barn wood, scrap metal, and unpredictable materials she refuses to control. Instead of erasing their history, she lets every scratch and dent remain, building sculptures that honor survival, surrender, and the quiet necessity of making.
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.
Elizabeth Bessant’s work carries the weight of time lived outside the studio. After stepping away from fine art for 28 years to raise her son and build a career in couture, she returned with a language shaped by layering, fabric, and careful construction. Her mixed-media pieces weave together printmaking, fashion, and painting, where birds appear not as subjects but as quiet witnesses to domestic life. Familiar yet overlooked, they hold traces of memory, longing, and presence. Her work is not about starting over it’s about returning with everything you’ve gathered along…
Nena Lang creates paintings that feel less like images and more like emotional presence. Built through layers scraped, pressed, and reworked with knives and rigid rulers, her works give form to what cannot be spoken moments when holding everything inside becomes impossible and painting becomes the only way forward.
Rooted in the body and shaped by constant movement between cultures, Helena Barbagelata’s work resists categorisation. Her images don’t offer answers, they confront the viewer with presence, vulnerability, and the cost of never landing.
Taylor Katzman paints what lives between guilt and forgiveness. Through expressive faces and bold acrylics, her work holds emotional tension without resolving it, creating space for viewers to bring their own unfinished stories.
If you’ve been wondering whether your art belongs here, consider this your reassurance: it does. And more importantly, it’s wanted. Every submission so far has expanded this exhibition in ways we never expected, but there is still a space that only your perspective can fill. So if a place has shaped your heart, your imagination, or your identity, share that story through your work. Submit now, and let your landscape become part of a growing global dialogue about memory, meaning, and the worlds we carry within us.
In this studio visit, Carola welcomes us into her bright upstairs space in Frankfurt am Main. She talks about how she creates her paintings, the role music plays in her process, and the comfort she finds in the rhythm of her work. Surrounded by light, color, and the quiet presence of her cat Max, Carola shares how her studio has become a place where movement and stillness meet.
Get a sneak peek at the latest Birds submissions, a collection where creativity takes flight. Artists across the globe explore the delicate balance of strength and vulnerability in birds, translating it into brushstrokes, lens captures, and sculpted forms. Together, these works open new windows of perspective, inspiring and captivating with every detail.
Take a closer look at the recent Birds submissions, where artists from around the world explore the beauty, freedom, and fragility of birds. Each piece reflects a unique perspective whether through painting, photography, or sculpture showcasing movement, emotion, and imagination in ways that inspire and captivate.