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Alessio Guano Alessio Guano is a visual artist, curator and writer based in Italy. His research ranges between painting, photography and installation. He boasts collaborations with artists from all over the world.

Born in La Spezia in 1984, he is the creator of choral projects. His passion for art led him to develop a research space project, atelier 97 arte contemporanea, an online space that allows artists from around the world to collaborate. He is also a collector of contemporary art and artist books. Since 2015, he is the curator of Uber - archivio del libro d'artista.

Maksim Shishov

Maksim is a young artist based in Arkhangelsk, Russia, where is a member of Artists Trade Union of Russia. He has been the artist-in-residence at the Shanye Dreaming Art Gallery in Qionghai, Hainan Island, China between 2018-19. During this time he has created 3 sculptures called “WE ARE THE SAME” with 6 paintings.

One of the artworks called “SAY NO TO RACISM” was a finalist in the Walter Koschatzky Art-Award in Vienna. As well as exhibiting in the Boomer Gallery, London, Maksim has had successful exhibits in the Estonian Academy of Arts & an SOLO ONLINE EXHIBITION in ALBE Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

U / 2020 Maksim Shishov 118 x 59 x 4 cm Aluminum, wood frame , acrylic

This work is like a mirror of the human essence. Aluminium blurs the reflection of you. There is a dissonance, is it something blissful or something so dystopian that I stop being like myself? The black frame refers us to something sacred, where you are left alone with yourself, answering your uncomfortable questions.

MariaKarra Maria is an emerging artist from Volo in Greece, where she has exhibited in some groundbreaking shows. She was involved in an exhibition in Volos for the artist Vasiliki Perka at the Cultural centre of Nea Ionia, where she was a member of the sculptural setup team, which won first prize in 2018.

Throughout her work, Maria makes use of motley elements, where she is expressing her truth about the modern myth of fairytales and their feminine role. In her works, Maria will tear, sew, to find solutions, to the destroyed, the drowning or the burned. She quotes all the elements of the "crime". Which in reality, we see artworks with mapped sentiments, where the figure is always standing there, hidden or just out of the frame.

MY WEDDING DRESS IN THE EIGHTIES // 2020 // MARIA KARRA PAINTING // MIXED MATERIAL ON TORN AND SEWN DRESS // 165 X 130CM

EXOTIC BREW // 2018 // MARIA KARRA PAINTING // MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER // A5

THE LEMON AND ITS ENVIRONMENT // 2020 // MARIA KARRA PAINTING // MIXED MEDIA ON CARTON // 70X50 CM

PORT // 2020 // MARIA KARRA DRAWING // PEN ON PAPER // A4

LÎ VE // 2019 // MARIA KARRA PAINTING // MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER // A5

Alexey Adonin

As an explorer of the mysterious universe of oil painting, Jerusalem based abstract-surrealist artist Alexey Adonin, has dedicated over one and a half-decade to convey his vision of hidden otherworldly realms connected with a timeless source of inspiration.

Alexey was born in Slutsk, Belarus, 1973. He graduated in 1993 from the State Art College named after A. Glebov (Minsk, Belarus). In the same year, he has immigrated to Israel. Since 2002, Alexey has exhibited locally and internationally. His work has also been acquired by notable private collections worldwide.

Alexey Adonin ////

PSYCHEDELIC FOREST // 2020 OIL ON CANVAS // 80X100CM

Alexey Adonin ////

NEW AGE // 2018 OIL ON CANVAS // 90 X 90 CM

PRANA // 2019 OIL ON CANVAS // 80 X 100 CM

EXISTENTIAL SPHERES // 2019 OIL ON CANVAS // 80 X 100 CM

Alexey Adonin ////

OBJECTS IN A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS // 2018 OIL ON CANVAS // 90X90 CM

Kalyani U. Uday Kalyani Uday resides in Mumbi, India where she has numerous shows since completing her Masters in Art. Her technique and skill with charcoal are unique, soft yet forceful. In 2011 Kalyani was awarded a fellowship for drawing with

the MINISTRY OF CULTURE and has been awarded three golden awards for painting and drawing.

UNTITLED DRAWING CHARCOAL ON PAPER KALYANI U. UDAY

DISCERNING EYE NUDITY is a part of natural beauty that has been showing aesthetically beautiful in Indian art but society finds vulgarity in it which expressed by the artist. In college period, I have studied the drawing of male and female in the nude during practising portrait and represented a partial part of it in my artwork of creative drawing. When I saw the model, they were NAKED and after studying they were NUDE for me. Because there is a difference of VISION which grow the ability to see beautifully towards the things. What I see that is reality. When it reflects in my artwork, it is only an ILLUSION that differs from objective reality. Things are beautiful as we see as beauty of the creation of NATURE and ARTIST. According to me, VISUAL ART IS A LANGUAGE OF VISION. Here I took a DISCERNING EYE to capture the beauty of nude and represented it with the creative mind through drawing.

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David Darcy has been coined as a Neo-Abstract Expressionist for this immense work depicting intense abstractions that can be contemplative expanses that draw the eye. But when talking to David he has stated this was further from the truth. David has stated he is an experimental artist leaning towards the Avant-guard.

Each painting or piece is a thought bomb encaged by the canvas.

They are not abstracts or expressionist painting, they merely are.

MY FALLEN FAITHFUL // 2018 OIL ON CANVAS // 16 X 20 INCHES

/// David Darcy

BRONTĂ‹ // 2018 OIL ON CANVAS // 16 X 20 INCHES

He is known for combining contemporary methods with the urban street movement or the Neo-expressionist. His work is intended to capture humanity marked by the movement of space, encasing equal parts of sensation and inquiry, rooted in mid-motion gestures. The palette and forms shift freely according to content and mood. Movement and line express desire and vitality as well as essence/existence point of departure from the philosophical.

David’s approach to the paint medium emboldens his nontraditional methods, confirming a commitment to his favourable visual and philosophical point of departure. His adoption of chance operations and other experimentations supported endless lines of inquiry.

/// David Darcy

LATE NIGHT 2018 OIL ON CANVAS 16 X 20 INCHES

ENGLISH SORROW 2020 PAINTING MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS. 32 X 40 INCHES.

PASS THE BILL 2020 OIL PAINT ON CANVAS 32 X 40 INCHES

THE ROAD LEAST TAKEN 2019-20 OIL & SPRAY PAINT ON CANVAS 60 X 50 INCHES

RICHARD BENBOW

Richard is a Visual Artist based in the North West of England.

He studied BA Hons Fine Art at the University of Salford 2017 – 2020 and graduated with First-Class Honours. He has won the Howarth Life Drawing Prize in 2018 where he travelled to Berlin with the bursary award.

~ "My current practise focuses predominantly on painting. I explore

the local landscape and react to my environs; researching through photography, video, note-taking, and poetry. I then translate this information, with the aid of satellite maps, to produce abstract bird's-eye views of the landscape."

RICHARD BENBOW // 2020 // UNTITLED 1 // 10 CM X 20 CM ACRYLIC ON CRADLED WOODEN PANELS

RICHARD BENBOW // 2020 // UNTITLED 2 // 10 CM X 20 CM ACRYLIC ON CRADLED WOODEN PANELS

RICHARD BENBOW // 2020 // UNTITLED // 10 CM X 20 CM ACRYLIC ON CRADLED WOODEN PANELS

RICHARD BENBOW // 2020 // UNTITLED 4 // 10 CM X 20 CM ACRYLIC ON CRADLED WOODEN PANELS

RICHARD BENBOW // 2020 // UNTITLED 5 // 10 CM X 20 CM ACRYLIC ON CRADLED WOODEN PANELS

SOURAJATA KUMAR SAHA Painter

Potter

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Penny Nichol Penny is based in the beautiful market town of Sudbury, UK where she works in her home-based studio. Her works primarily focus on the abstract where she places layers of impasto to show the evolution and progress of the piece, giving the work a breath of its own.

Her use of using vivid colours, lines and shapes create a sense of texture and movement. For Penny painting is her every day.

Penny Nichol

CONVERSATION // 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS // 40 X 40 CM

Penny Nichol

BLUE PINK // 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS // 30 X 23 CM

PENNY NICHOL

TRIANGLE TRAVEL // 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS // 40 X 40 CM

Penny Nichol

THE WAY // 2020 LACRYLIC ON CANVAS // 23 X 30 CM

Penny Nichol

PINK DOODLY DOO // 2020 LACRYLIC ON CANVAS // 30 X 23 CM

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