Tag: symbolic art
Faye Johansen’s practice begins with attention to nature, to material, and to the quiet traces things leave behind. Working across watercolour, collage, and handmade journals, she builds surfaces that carry both process and place. At the centre of her work is a powerful series of one hundred charcoal portraits of Indigenous children, drawn onto discarded books layered with torn maps, music notation, and fragments of text. Each material holds meaning, speaking to displacement, memory, and loss, while charcoal allows the faces to remain both present and fragile. Alongside this, her journals…
Jessica Fisher creates intense, close-up portraits that eliminate distance, pulling viewers directly into the emotional core of the face. Her work explores memory, identity, and the subconscious through gestural brushwork and tightly framed compositions where the eyes become the focal point. Drawing from personal experiences of trauma and healing, painting became her language when words failed. Her Blasphemous Saints series shifts focus away from identity, using cloaked figures and gesture to express vulnerability and tension. Now working on larger scales, her paintings feel both intimate and confrontational at once. Each piece…
Ligia Fascioni creates layered portraits that merge photorealism with hand-drawn floral and figurative elements over real urban textures. Using photographs of the Berlin Wall and torn street posters, she builds faces on surfaces rich with history and meaning. Each piece reflects the idea that identity is formed through layers—cultural, emotional, and historical. With a background in engineering and design, her work is both structured and deeply expressive. Her compositions transform decay into beauty, turning overlooked materials into powerful foundations. The result is art that invites viewers to look closer and uncover…
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.
What do birds mean to you? Are they symbols of freedom, fragile companions, or messengers between worlds? Our international bird-themed exhibition invites artists to explore these questions — and the submissions we’ve received so far are breathtaking. From quiet moments of a single perched bird to sweeping visions of migration across continents, each artwork tells a story of memory, longing, resilience, and hope. Together, they form a living archive — wings of color, form, and emotion that remind us how birds connect us to the sky, to each other, and to…