Tag: painting practice
Patricia Frederick makes a mark on canvas and then waits to see what it wants to become. In this interview, the retired art educator talks about her process-based approach to painting, the difficulty of trusting gut feeling over years of design training, and how her work has turned into a way of investigating consciousness. She discusses what happens when paintings show her thoughts before she recognizes them, why she stays away from anything resembling a horizon line, and what she means when she says her work is supposed to act as…
Mandi's studio isn't what you'd picture when you think of an artist's workspace. Walk through the door and you're hit with mess. Real mess. Papers piled on papers, images cut partway through, notes written in whatever state of mind she was in at the time. In this studio visit, the multidisciplinary artist explains why her space looks the way it does and what all that disorder actually makes possible. She talks about how thoughts move from her journals onto canvas without getting squeezed into a plan, why she works on several…
In this interview, Lebanese visual artist Rania El Osta speaks about moving from Medical Sciences to painting, the influence of family memory, and why birds and old houses continue to appear in her work. She shares how observation, color, and lived experience shape her process, and what it means to carry images of Lebanon beyond its borders.
In this studio visit, we step into the working world of a Brazilian clinical psychologist and visual artist Bruna Gazzi Costa who paints between therapy sessions and long, quiet weekends. She shares how listening shapes her practice, why acrylic paint fits her routine, and how working inside a shared art space during the pandemic helped her stay steady. From early morning light to unfinished canvases waiting on the walls, this conversation offers a look at a studio shaped by time, care, and daily life.
In this interview, Sokhna Mariama talks about migration, nature, and working across different mediums. She shares how her life between Dakar and Italy shaped her way of seeing, how ideas guide her process, and how her projects invite people to take part rather than only observe.
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…