Featured Practitioners

Alisa Burachuk

Alisa Burachuk is a Siberia-born, Netherlands-based fine artist. Her expanding practice is gradually moving from landscapes and still lifes to abstract compositions. She works with oil, mixed media and digital art to capture the brightest moments of her personal experiences. Nature is a primary inspiration, helping to bring colour and dynamism to each work. alisaburachuk.com I Instagram: @alisaburachuk

Cher Pruys

Cher Pruys is a painter specialising in capturing the everyday through hyperrealism. Still lifes, landscapes, flora and fauna, machines and portraiture all form part of the artist's practice; each piece is skilfully created with emotion and great attention to detail. Pruys believes that a well-executed painting can influence a viewer’s feelings in the same way music influences one’s emotions. artbycher.ca I Instagram: @cherpruys

Charly Meyer

Netherlands-based Charly Meyer sees the evolution of photography as a source of endless possibilities. The artworks in the Forest, Fields and Sea series are created using a photograph as a starting point. The images are then converted into patterns that are transformed into three-dimensional objects inspired by light, forms and colours found in the natural world. charlymeyer.com

ke sun

Ke Sun is a Chinese artist and designer whose practice includes traditional and digital paintings, as well as 3D animation and video installations. She draws upon personal, collective and cultural memory to create a visual language. The detailed works explore themes of nostalgia and the search for spiritual and cultural renewal amid contradictions of modernity – specifically, the Covid-19 pandemic reality. kesunn.com I IG: @_sun_ke

Kristine Narvida

Berlin-based Latvian artist Kristine Narvida works with oil on linen, using models as her subjects. Conceptually, her paintings explore the acceleration of time and humankind’s place within the present moment. She notes: “Every line and brushstroke is precise, just as every meeting with this person is a thought that crosses my mind. A work with thought allows me to encode how the ideal becomes material." narvida.com

Leili Khabiri

Leili Khabiri is a British-Iranian artist who works predominantly with textiles and sculpture. Her practice is centred around process – shifting the manner of approaching a piece to one that is more ritualistic. Tactility and time spent with the piece in its creation is of key importance. Some of Khabiri's methods include weaving and embroidering by hand, as well as foraging for precious materials for use in sculptures. leilikhabiri.com

Margaret Juul

Florida-based multidisciplinary artist Margaret Juul’s compositions invoke the colours, reflections and vibrance of water in motion, expressing the fluidity and volatility of the natural world. For over two decades, she has created paintings and illustrations, as well as interior and textile designs for celebrity homes, and corporate and hospitality collections. margaretjuulpaintings.com

Raine Storey

Canada-born Raine Storey is an emerging artist based in London who specialises in large-scale works. Her latest oil painting When it Rains demonstrates a distinctive style – combining realism with abstraction, emanating a vibrant atmosphere and spirit of humanity, whilst expressing a calmness in palette. Storey notes: "I want to blur boundaries between classical and contemporary styles." rainestorey.com I IG: @artbyrainestorey

sam taylor

Sam Taylor is a UK-based digital photographer. He has Cerebral Palsy and is a full-time wheelchair user; dexterity is a challenge, although advances in digital technology help him to further his art practice. Taylor combines traditional photography with new post-production techniques to create unique, highly-detailed compositions of local landscapes. taylor-prints.org.uk I Instagram: @taylor.designs.s

Soushi Tanaka

Soushi Tanaka is a Tokyo-based photographer. His work uses an optical mechanism to compress and transform global news information onto a flat surface. Each unique image features the corresponding date, month and year data and is posted online. Although it is not possible to read specific news on the abstracted images, the motifs and relevant dates can "shake the viewer's memory." tanakasoushi.net I IG: @soushi_tanaka

Stéphanie Poppe

Stéphanie Poppe is based between Belgium and France; she is a paper and embroidery artist influenced by her family’s background in the textile industry. Her style, sitting between abstract impressionism and baroque minimalism, has been informed by an ode to patience and the concept of “mono no aware” – a sensitivity to ephemera, and a wider awareness of transience and impermanence. stephaniepoppe.com

Yeonseo Hong

For Seoul-based artist Yeonseo Hong, home stands at the intersection of light, water, place and time, where there is no need for the notions of "inside" and "outside." As such, she believes that we instinctively look for a primal feeling of home. Hong paints simple, universal shapes inspired by her grandmother’s patchwork quilts to explore and express personal emotions of home. yourjuliana.com

Abigail Flanders is an emerging UK-based oil and acrylic painter who launched her creative practice during a Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. She creates a quality of realism by combining techniques from the old masters with contemporary views of 21st century landscapes, seascapes and portraiture. Texture and light are used to enhance vibrancy and a feeling of movement. Instagram: @aflanders_art Alegia Papageorgiou is an Athensbased multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the images that surround us – specifically their impact on our conceptions of reality and sense of identity. She challenges not only what we see, but also what we perceive as real, thus hoping to bring forth a redefinition of those images and of the ideas they imply. alegiapapageorgiou.com Instagram: @alegia_p

Alma Muminovic

For Denver-based Alma Muminovic, photography is a form of therapy – it allows her to be in a location and observe its calm, lonely beauty. She uses a refurbished Polaroid

SX-70 with manual features to achieve a mix of rich and faded colours and contrasting lighting – bringing forth the mood of a place.

Memories and the perceived quickening of time as we age also play a role in the creative process. Instagram: @praecordiasghost

Carcazan

Illustrator and animator Carcazan offers new visual commentaries on themes of the othering, borders and human rights issues. Her debut stop-motion film Write To Protest considers UK artists' rights; she has worked with social justice groups to provide content for campaigns. UK-based Carcazan is organising the launch of an illustration festival, illoFEST, to debut in 2022. carcazan.com I IG: @Carcazan illo-fest.com

Cecilia Sjölund

Cecilia Sjölund is a Swedish painter based in Stockholm. Traditional oil techniques are combined with a contemporary perspective; the compositions tell insightful stories about small, intimate, everyday moments. Sjölund's work has been accepted for numerous art fairs, including the London Art Biennale 2021 and Portrait Now! 2021, The Carlsberg Foundation's Portrait Award for Nordic artists. csjolund.com

Cristiane Chaves

Brazil-born Cristiane Chaves uses the loom to weave narratives. Based between London and Lisbon, she upcycles various waste materials, interlacing lived experiences from the community and her immersion within it. For Parkside Estate, Chaves manipulated domestic waste; the resulting collages and projections transcend the physical and forge disruptive possibilities through an unembodied digital platform. Instagram: @cristianechaves_textiles

Clare Newton

Clare Newton is a conceptual artist, photographer and curator. Deeply inspired by nature and conservation, her reflective and experiential works are created to help "reconnect us with the rhythms of life and quieten human emotions such as fear and anxiety." Newton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has displayed work in numerous solo exhibitions across the UK. Artnewton.co.uk

gal Shahar

Digital and analogue photographer Gal Shahar is based in Tel Aviv. She uses the camera lens as an outlet of the subconscious; as such, her images are the product of the questioning of personal experiences throughout life. She notes: “We can find our inner selves, in every step, every move and every act in our daily lives." Although the work is personal, Shahar aims to create an engaging story for the viewer. galshahar.com I IG: @galishahar

Iana Tovalovich uses the beauty of nature as a key inspiration for her paintings of landscapes, still lifes and abstracts. Tempera helps to convey a smooth flow of tones and oil is used to bring forth the bright and sometimes lush palette of the natural world. The works are imbued with life's broad spectrum of emotions – from the everyday to the profound. Tovalovich has exhibited work throughout Europe. Instagram: @art_miller_tovalovich

Junpei Murakami

Japan-based artist Junpei Murakami expresses the dynamism, vitality and variety of living things. His unique and intricate form of art is created by arranging folded silk cloths. Traditional handicraft techniques are combined with a contemporary viewpoint to convey the diversity of nature. Murakami is particularly interested in achieving delicate beauty and harmony. Instagram: @mitizure_tsumami Twitter: @_mitizure_ Iryna Sych was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. When she was 17, she moved to the culturally rich city of Prague, where her passion for art evolved. Sych's compositions are abstract and she explores the use of diverse materials such as oil, acrylic, gold and silver imitations, epoxy, crystals and inks. Each painting represents freedom whilst the colours offer a message of hope and aspiration. Instagram: @artabstracto

Kunal Kohli

Kunal Kohli is an award-winning photographer based in New York. For the series Absolution he notes: "It is about our strength to move on from our past and what we don’t know about our future. When we accept and surrender to what is now, only then we can reach our absolution. I also want to emphasise the emotions we go through before reaching our absolution." kunalkohli.com IG: @kunal_kohli_photography

La Chigi

La Chigi is an Italian visual artist based in Trento. She utilises unconventional materials and objets trouvés to explore themes of the “house” as a physical space and a place of the soul, as well as the relationships between its inhabitants. In the resulting three-dimensional installations, La Chigi distills their complex feelings into small, ironic and lighthearted skits. lachigi.it Instagram: @la.chigi.art

Richard Wohlfarth

Richard Wohlfarth graduated from the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin, where he became interested in perceptual psychological phenomena. In his work he questions fundamental relationships of nature and time, displaying complex and elaborate visual worlds in black and white. Wohlfarth will exhibit images at Rotterdam Photo, 10-13 February. richardwohlfarth.com Instagram: @richardwohlfarth

Practically Creative

Laura Robertson and Jared Holden are an artist and engineer duo known as Practically Creative. Their more recent interdisciplinary works combine the art of surrealism, analogue collage and generative AI technology. The duo are lauded for their experimental and deliberate approach, as well as diverse use of unique materials. practicallycreative.co.uk Instagram: @practicallytv

Rieko Whitfield

Japanese-American Rieko Whitfield weaves immersive worlds with speculative mythologies through performance, moving image, installation, sculpture, painting, music and text. Her non-linear storytelling decentres narratives of western capitalist individualism to move towards beyond-human collectivism. Whitfield is the founder of London-based performance art platform Diasporas Now. riekowhitfield.com IG: @riekowhitfield

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