Tag: mixed media art
Mónica Nicolau creates textile artworks that transform as light moves across their richly stitched surfaces. Working with commercial cotton fabrics, oil paint, cotton batting, and free-motion machine quilting, she builds dimensional compositions that sit somewhere between painting and sculpture
Gaëlle Étémé approaches art as an act of listening rather than control, allowing lines, colours, and gestures to guide the work as it unfolds. Working across Indian ink, charcoal, pastel, collage, textile, and painting, she has developed a distinctly calligraphic practice rooted in rhythm, movement, and the mysterious autonomy of the sign. Her journey began through sociology, metaphysical questions, and an intense exploration of the origins of alphabets, eventually leading her to draw lines continuously for a year and develop her own graphic language, which she calls the “alphabet of suffering.”…
Kea Elisa’s paintings turn travel, memory, and homecoming into layered contemporary works, combining acrylic, spray paint, oil pastel, embroidery, pearls, and natural pigments. From her Atlantic sailing journey to her Stitched Dreamscape series, discover how places and experiences become part of her artistic language.
Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.
Niyati Mehta’s creative journey is shaped by experimentation, curiosity, and a desire to understand herself through art. Working across watercolour, graphite, acrylic, and oil, she gives herself the freedom to explore different techniques and visual possibilities rather than staying within the boundaries of one medium. Each material offers a new way to approach an idea, while the process itself becomes a form of personal discovery. Her practice reflects the belief that an artist’s visual language develops gradually through making, experimenting, and paying attention to what continues to feel meaningful. Personal experiences…
Discover the Portraits Virtual Exhibition by Women in Arts Network, featuring an inspiring collection of women artists from around the world. Through painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, and mixed media, these selected works explore identity, memory, emotion, culture, and human connection, revealing how portraiture continues to evolve as one of art's most powerful forms of storytelling.
For thousands of years, artists have turned to gold to express beauty, spirituality, power, and emotion. Explore the fascinating history of gold in art, discover iconic masterpieces, and learn why contemporary artists continue to use this timeless material in creative ways.
Agy Lee creates richly textured embroidered landscapes inspired by moss, coral, weathered surfaces, and the quiet resilience of nature. Working with free-motion embroidery, thread, fabric, and even concrete, she pushes traditional textile techniques into contemporary sculptural forms that blur the boundaries between drawing, embroidery, and installation. Originally trained in science, Agy brings experimentation and close observation into every stage of her practice, translating overlooked natural details into tactile artworks built stitch by stitch. Her work explores fragility, renewal, environmental awareness, and the surprising strength found in the smallest living systems. By…
Discover the inspiration behind The Beauty of Still Life, Women in Arts Network's latest virtual exhibition. Explore the history, symbolism, and contemporary relevance of still life, meet the artists who shaped the genre, and learn how you can share your own interpretation through this international exhibition.
Diana Strandin creates surreal collages that deconstruct the human figure and rebuild it through unexpected combinations of flowers, plants, photographs, and fragmented imagery. With a background in fine art, sculpture, and photography, Diana found collage offered the freedom to bring images from completely different contexts together and create new visual realities. Her work explores the connection between humans and nature while embracing contrasts between strength and fragility, attraction and repulsion, and the familiar and uncanny. Working with magazine cutouts and paper, she rearranges existing imagery into compositions where bodies merge with…