An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
Recent Artwork by QUARTERLY ART REVIEW
David Arsenault ∙ Angela Banks
∙ Ronn Beattie ∙ Eden Bender ∙
Jane Carney ∙ Sharon Covert ∙ Tim
Cutler ∙ Lyn Darlington ∙ Bernette
Derpaulian ∙ Georg Douglas ∙ Dr
Lowly ∙ Patrick Egger ∙ Margaret
Emerson ∙ Pavel Filin ∙ RK Foster
∙ Glauco Galarini ∙ Volodymyr
Glukhomanyuk ∙ Jane Gottlieb
∙ Michael Ian Goulding ∙ Daniel
Grannan ∙ Albert Handell ∙ Ulla
Hasen ∙ Agnes Havran ∙ Colin Ross
Jack ∙ Dita Jacobovitz ∙ Vivien Kabar
∙ Diane Kazakis ∙ Gerardo Labarca ∙
Lon Levin ∙ Yicong Li ∙ Wanning Liao
∙ Margaret Lipsey ∙ foto_art_work ∙
Nikolay Marinov ∙ Laurie Elizabeth
McKinley ∙ Kathy McKnight ∙
Mimbelbi ∙ William T. Moore III ∙
Noctua.Fall ∙ Marc Noël Avatar ∙ Ron
Pattern ∙ Carl Pinnington ∙ Ymilse
Rangel ∙ Patrick Rosenstein ∙ George
Rowbottom ∙ Schastok Art ∙ Amy
Schleif ∙ Ruth Schmidt ∙ Michal
Shelly ∙ Katty Smith ∙ Standa ∙ Bernd
Steinert ∙ Petra Stelling ∙ Tammy
Huynh Truong ∙ Julia Ulrich ∙ Kate
Van Doren ∙ Gary Wagner ∙ Carole
Weitz ∙ Jan Williams ∙ Vanessa
Wilson ∙ Amirata Winter
Published
Cover Image Patrick Rosenstein
Curated by Myrina Tunberg Georgiou
Produced and Published by Circle Foundation for the Arts
This is the 11th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review (Summer 2025)
FRONT COVER
Patrick Marie Rosenstein (France, Sculpture)
BACK COVER
Bernd Steinert (Germany, Painting/Mixed media)
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David Arsenault
Angela Banks
Ronn Beattie
Eden Bender
Jane Carney
Sharon Covert
Tim Cutler
Lyn Darlington
Bernette Derpaulian
Georg Douglas
Dr Lowly
Patrick Egger
Margaret Emerson
Pavel Filin
RK Foster
Glauco Galarini
Volodymyr Glukhomanyuk
Jane Gottlieb
Michael Ian Goulding
Daniel Grannan
Albert Handell
Ulla Hasen
Agnes Havran
Colin Ross Jack
Dita Jacobovitz
Vivien Kabar
Diane Kazakis
Gerardo Labarca
Lon Levin
Yicong Li
Wanning Liao
Margaret Lipsey foto_art_work
Nikolay Marinov
INDEX
Laurie Elizabeth McKinley
Kathy McKnight
Mimbelbi
William T. Moore III
Noctua.Fall
Marc Noël Avatar
Ron Pattern
Carl Pinnington
Ymilse Rangel
Patrick Rosenstein
George Rowbottom
Barbara Schastok
Amy Schleif
Ruth Schmidt
Michal Shelly
Katty Smith
Standa
Bernd Steinert
Petra Stelling
Tammy Huynh Truong
Julia Ulrich
Kate Van Doren
Gary Wagner
Carole Weitz
Jan Williams
Vanessa Wilson
Amirata Winter
Current Trends and Original Practices in Visual Art
EDITORIAL
Fine art right now exists at a richly complex crossroads, where code meets canvas, and presence contends with virtuality. In 2025, we find ourselves beyond the postmodern, in a moment where contradictions are not only accepted but essential. The digital is no longer an intrusion into fine art; it is one of its dominant dialects. Yet, across studios, exhibitions, and publications like Circle Quarterly Art Review, we also witness a vivid return to the handmade. This duality—machine versus hand, data versus gesture—defines the new aesthetic terrain.
One of the most potent reactions to our hyper-digitized world is the reassertion of the tactile. A generation of artists is rediscovering the physicality of paint, material, and process. Margaret Lipsey’s “If You Can’t Keep Up With Me, You Don’t F***ing Deserve Me” stands as a visceral testament to this impulse. Bold in texture and language, her work invites not just visual engagement but an emotional, almost bodily response. It speaks to the resurgence of the painterly—not as nostalgia, but as a conscious reaction to digital fatigue, a re-centering of art’s material soul.
Still, the digital is far from retreating. If anything, it has matured into a fully integrated language of contemporary art. Artists like Noctua.Fall (p. 84) utilize AI software not to replace the hand, but to extend it. Their work “Miss Quattrocento” combines the logic of algorithms with the poetics of atmosphere, resulting in a hybrid that reflects our blurred reality—one shaped by both neural networks and intuition. Similarly, high-profile exhibitions, such as Takashi Murakami: The Superflat World at the Cleveland Museum of Art, underscore how classical technique and digital aesthetics are not at odds but can be fluidly interwoven. Murakami’s animated iconography draws equally from Japanese art history and contemporary pop technologies, redefining the artist’s role as both maker and coder.
Between Code and Canvas: Reclaiming the Tangible in the Age of the Algorithm
Beyond technique, the political has returned with new urgency. In a world beset by ecological crises, social upheaval, and geopolitical trauma, artists are increasingly using their work as instruments of testimony and resistance. Wanning Liao, for example, channels the anguish of the Russia–Ukraine war into minimalist drawings and monochromatic compositions. Like Goya’s war etchings, her sketches reduce color to silence and amplify form into protest. The art here is quiet but unflinching—a meditation on collective pain.
This turn toward visual storytelling as sociopolitical commentary finds echoes beyond the studio. The Museum of the Palestinian People’s recent exhibition, Gaza Remains the Story, uses artwork to preserve and humanize a contested history, reminding us of art’s critical role as witness and record. The line between aesthetic and ethical is increasingly thin, and many contemporary artists walk it with intention.
At the same time, boundaries are dissolving across disciplines. Artists like Klára Hosnedlová are blending craft, sculpture, and performance in immersive installations that explore identity and memory. Similarly, in Circle Quarterly Art Review 11, we see this hybridity reflected in works like William T. Moore III’s tactile sculptures and Jane Gottlieb’s vibrant photo-paintings, which merge analog methods with digital manipulation to create richly layered experiences.
In this landscape, originality is not defined by novelty alone but by synthesis. Today’s most compelling works emerge from friction—between media, messages, and traditions. This is not an age of movements but of propositions. Each artist builds their own lexicon, responding to the fractured reality of now with voices both urgent and nuanced.
As we turn these pages, we encounter not a unified thesis but a tapestry—raw, luminous, encoded, and fiercely human. Art’s role is not only to reflect the times but to resist them, to suggest another way of seeing, being, and belonging.
QUARTERLY ART REVIEW
MYRINA TUNBERG GEORGIOU
Born 1986 in Athens, Greece, Myrina Tunberg Georgiou grew up on the island of Crete. After graduating high school she moved to Athens to attend the National University of Greece and study Methodology, History and Theory of Sciences. Next, she moved to Santa Barbara, California to study Studio Art at SBCC. Deeply inspired by Professor, Department Chair and sculptor Ed Inks she further pursued an education in Art History and Studio Art
After earning a degree in Design & Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute, Myrina continued to be involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art community working for a variety of art institutions, museums, and galleries. In 2011, she co-founded Kitsch Gallery, an experimental art space in the city’s vibrant, Mission District, which housed 12 artist studios and a gallery space where she co-directed a variety of visual and sound art exhibits. In 2012, Myrina moved from California to Paris, France where she did freelance design work for galleries and publishing houses. Since 2014, Myrina has been living in Lyon, France.
After a decade of experience working in galleries and art institutions in the USA, Greece, and France, in 2017, Myrina created Circle Foundation for the Arts. Inspired by the variety of practices and perspectives in contemporary art and with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of art and culture as an integral part of our social and political lives, the Foundation functions as a platform publicizing the work of remarkable artists around the world.
Myrina continues to curate exhibitions, books and magazines and has to date collaborated and consulted over 8,500 artists worldwide.
CURATOR’S NOTE
Welcome to the 11th edition of Circle Quarterly Art Review. My intent in curating this issue is to present an international array of contemporary artists whose work challenges, inspires, and reflects trends and original directions.
This summer issue features a remarkable range of practices—across media, aesthetic, and ideology. From traditional painting and sculpture to digital experimentation, the selected works resonate in texture, composition, and conceptual rigor. Each piece invites the viewer to pause and engage with the complexity of emotion, form, and thought. The contrasts—between abstraction and figuration, silence and intensity—form a compelling visual dialogue throughout these pages.
These artworks are not merely illustrations of artistic skill; they are statements of presence, reflection, and relevance. Whether born from intuition or research, each creation contributes to the evolving narrative of global art today.
As you move through this volume, I encourage you to take your time with each artist—visit their websites, explore their portfolios, and consider connecting directly. Collecting a work of art is not just about acquisition; it’s about choosing a companion for your daily life, one that offers perspective, emotion, and meaning for years to come.
Thank you for joining us in celebrating this rich and diverse collection and enjoy the read!
Myrina Tunberg Georgiou CFA Director
A lifelong devotee of light and form, Albert Handell captures fleeting atmospheres with a masterful hand. Working in oil and pastel, he renders landscapes and portraits that pulse with clarity, texture, and emotional depth. From Parisian studios to the light-drenched hills of Santa Fe, his journey is one of constant refinement and passion. Handell’s paintings exude serenity and radiance, revealing his command of traditional technique and his ongoing devotion to beauty’s quiet power.
ALBERT HANDELL
www.alberthandellstudio.com
The Pink Adobe Oil 16 x 20 in.
Albert Handell • Circle
Douleur
Black Marble 20 x 15 x 14 cm €5,200
A figure folded inward, veiled in abstraction—Patrick Rosenstein’s ‘Douleur’ renders the silent force of pain in stone. Sculpted from veined black marble, the work is as much about what is hidden as what is revealed. Pure lines and quiet volume evoke a somatic poise, marked by scar-like traces in the surface. There is no drama, only dignity. Rosenstein’s minimalist tension invites contemplation of grief, presence, and endurance—offering a timeless expression of the human condition through the eloquence of form.
PATRICK ROSENSTEIN
www.rosensteinpatrick.fr
Through palette knife techniques and layered color, Pavel Filin captures the atmosphere and emotion of a scene. His oil paintings span portraits, landscapes, and still life—each one rendered with sensitivity to light, movement, and mood. Combining traditional methods with experimental flair, Filin invites viewers into expressive spaces where color and composition tell stories beyond the frame.
Lady in Veil Oil 45 x 55 cm €2,500
Citlalli, 2025 Oil and Pastel on Dibond 32 x 48 in.
Kate Van Doren is an American artist and art therapist whose work blends healing, activism, and human rights. Through her Healing Words Project, she creates safe spaces for women to share their personal stories and healing mantras—rooted in neuroscience and positive psychology—exhibited alongside their portraits. Based in Mexico, her work invites viewers to witness resilience and that healing is possible for all: ‘I heal, you heal, we heal.’
KATE VAN DOREN
www.katevandoren.com
Intermediate Passage Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm €2,500
A vibrant balance of emotion and form defines Michal Shelly’s dynamic abstract paintings. With expressive brushwork and textured layers, she explores identity, memory, and the subconscious, creating visual dialogues between intensity and restraint. Her vivid palette and intuitive compositions invite viewers to interpret freely— each piece serving as a mirror for personal reflection and emotional resonance.
Retrospective Perspectives
Mixed Media 19 x 23 x 22 in. $11,500
From clay to story, Eden Bender sculpts lives into form. Raised among farms and junkyards, her early fascination with objects and their histories became a lifelong artistic language. Her expressive figures are informed by human resilience and empathy—echoes of those she met through charitable work. With international exhibitions and numerous accolades, Bender’s work is deeply personal yet widely resonant, honoring not only the material but the profound narratives it can hold.
EDEN BENDER
Precious Things Mixed Media 17 x 15 x 15 in. $5,800
Distant Horizon Egg Tempera 12 x 18 in. $950
Ron Pattern’s paintings emerge from a practice of close observation and deep sensitivity to the natural world. With a spirit of curiosity and visual attentiveness, he distills moments of light, shadow, and form into compositions charged with atmospheric intensity. His daily engagement with his environment informs a process that is both meditative and intuitive. Whether depicting landscape or abstraction, Pattern explores the intersection of memory and presence, offering work that is lyrical, grounded, and suffused with a sense of wonder.
With a style shaped by mid-century aesthetics and the radical creativity of San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, RK Foster brings a bold sensibility to contemporary art. Influenced by modernist design and psychedelic poster culture, his work melds vibrant color, expressive forms, and architectural rhythm. Foster’s art is a testament to enduring curiosity—rooted in tradition but constantly evolving, channeling decades of visual exploration into an energetic modern language.
www.modernartbyrkfoster.com
Inferno
Acrylic 30 x 20 in. $3,599
Glamour Greens, 2025 Oil on Canvas 70 x 100 cm
For Dita Jacobovitz, art is a quiet search for truth and serenity. Her evocative paintings, rooted in a figurative tradition, avoid direct representation in favor of emotional resonance. Landscapes become metaphors, shaped not by geography but by feeling. Working intuitively, Jacobovitz paints her way through questions of reality and illusion, finding solace in the process. Her canvases, like meditations, offer viewers a space of reflection and a reminder that meaning transcends words.
Dita Jacobovitz • Circle
Lucia
Mixed Media 31 x 23 in. $1,500
Bernette Derpaulian creates impressionistic portraits and animal studies that distill moments into luminous stillness. Working with oil pastels, she captures the ephemeral— the way light grazes a face, or energy flickers behind a gaze. Her compositions tell quiet stories, like frozen frames from unseen films. For Derpaulian, art is joy, direction, and connection: a single, resonant image standing in for a thousand words.
BERNETTE DERPAULIAN
Patrick Egger • Circle
Brumes Évanescentes sur les Sommets
Acrylic 80 x 60 cm 3400 CHF
Patrick Egger creates meditative landscapes that hover between realism and reverie. Hyperdetailed yet quietly imaginative, his work evokes not just place but presence—of the viewer, of memory, of emotion. Egger paints to lose himself, and in doing so, offers others a space of reflection. His scenes are symphonic—composed with precision, yet infused with personal resonance. Each one is an invitation to wander slowly through the mind’s terrain.
www.artpegger.jimdofree.com
Gogo 01
Digital Capture on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 50 x 60 cm
MUA: Ethan • Model: Xenia
Photography becomes a conceptual lens in the work of Carl Pinnington, where beauty, fashion, and art converge. Known for his collaborative approach and refined technical language, Pinnington constructs visual paradoxes that challenge perception. In-camera effects and traditional photographic techniques become tools of disruption, drawing viewers into a realm where identity, reality, and the image itself are continually redefined. His striking compositions blur the boundary between surface and substance.
Fusion Green 1
Oil on Panel 18 x 24 in. $950
Experimental and visually bold, Daniel Grannan pushes the limits of materials and process. His paintings, known for their vibrant color and strong structure, explore abstraction as an act of innovation. Grannan’s work is a visual playground where new techniques and unexpected textures challenge traditional expectations. In each canvas, he invites viewers into a space of discovery—where the act of making becomes a form of transformation.
DANIEL GRANNAN
www.dangrannan.com
Celebration Romantica
Mixed Media 32 x 39 in. $4,500
Lon Levin’s art reflects a lifelong devotion to creative exploration. With roots in early childhood painting and a spirit of activism, his visual work challenges assumptions and inspires hope. Levin’s practice is driven by imagination and purpose, embracing the power of art to propose new futures and kindle transformative thought. His canvases are visionary spaces—both personal and aspirational.
The paintings of Colin Ross Jack oscillate between European tradition and Japanese influence. From romantic Venetian scenes to ukiyo-e-inspired acrylics, his diverse portfolio reflects a lifelong devotion to the act of painting. Oils and acrylics become his dual languages—one rooted in Western realism, the other in Eastern stylization. This stylistic duality lends his work a layered richness, where fantasy, memory, and cultural crosscurrents coexist across vibrant, expressive canvases.
www.colinrossjack.co.uk
Apollo Artist Oil on Canvas 100 x 80 cm
Carole Weitz brings the precision of a seasoned designer and the sensitivity of an artist into every composition she creates. With a background in high-profile advertising and an education steeped in Bauhaus principles, her work reveals a masterful balance of form, color, and emotion. Weitz’s paintings are elegant, purposeful, and expressive—each one a distillation of visual storytelling honed through decades of creative practice. For her, art is not only a return to passion but a personal act of resilience.
CAROLE WEITZ
Study of Florals in Vase 2 Collage Mixed Media on Canvas 25 x 25 in.
Diarist’s Box
Mixed Media 66 x 41 cm $613
For Standa, art is an open-ended story. Working in mixed media and surreal abstraction, his paintings explore emotional adaptation and viewer interpretation. Inspired by literary narrative, he leaves visual space for the audience to complete the picture—to see not only what’s there, but what could be. Standa’s work is layered, poetic, and endlessly imaginative.
STANDA
Anatomy of Change
Ink and Acrylic on Canvas 70 cm diameter €1,800
Diane Kazakis paints with layered vision. Her mixed media landscapes—built from ink, acrylic, and shifting transparencies—mirror nature’s rhythms and fragility. Organic forms emerge and dissolve, light bends around shadow, and textures trace the passage of time. With each piece, Kazakis invites viewers into a world that is both ephemeral and intricate—an ode to transformation, vulnerability, and the quiet power of change.
DIANE KAZAKIS
New York Neon Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 in. Private Collection
David Arsenault seeks stillness within the noise. Using saturated color and bold compositional structure, his paintings meditate on the overlooked beauty of ordinary places. The strong contrasts and simplified forms create a dreamlike sense of space—at once rooted in the real and abstracted from it. Each image captures a fleeting mood, a light-soaked pause, an invitation to see the everyday anew. In Arsenault’s world, peace is not absence—it is presence, distilled.
DAVID ARSENAULT
August Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 in. $6,000
In Georg Douglas’s botanical paintings, the macro and micro collapse into one complex, fluid vision. Dandelions merge with molecular forms; woodland geraniums reveal their hidden geometries. By ignoring scale and combining realistic and abstract elements, Douglas opens a new way of seeing nature—not just as beauty, but as layered intelligence. Each piece offers a quiet complexity, where biology becomes art and structure becomes revelation.
In Margaret Lipsey’s abstract compositions, bold textures and saturated color reflect inner states of rage, release, stillness, and change. Her work moves intuitively—guided by emotion and embodied experience. Each painting becomes a layered narrative, a personal reckoning, and a shared invocation. Lipsey’s art is an open invitation to feel deeply, to acknowledge what’s hidden, and to honor transformation through visual expression.
Mixed Media 60 x 80 cm
Mimbelbi weaves nostalgia and joy into vibrant compositions that blend figuration with abstraction. Her paintings evoke the soft glow of childhood memory—bicycles in summer, sunlight on skin, colors that hum with warmth. Using stylized forms and a playful palette, she captures fleeting sensations with enduring charm. Each piece feels like a dream revisited—both deeply personal and joyfully universal.
Sonnenbad
ChromaticFlowNYC#1
Photograph on Metallic Paper 23.6 x 35.4 in. $1,500
Bettina Loppe, aka foto_art_work, approaches photography as a form of intuitive storytelling. Her images arise from deep observation—moments captured not for spectacle but for their subtle emotional charge. Whether documenting the pulse of a city or the quiet shimmer of natural light, her lens seeks presence over perfection. Photography becomes a spontaneous, instinctive act—one that invites the viewer to pause and feel. Each frame is a fleeting question, a visual echo of lived experience suspended in time.
In Ruth Schmidt’s paintings, spiritual and emotional dimensions find gentle expression. Drawing from personal experience and quiet contemplation, her art navigates themes of love, loss, faith, and connection. Each piece is a window into her inner world, rendered with a warmth and sincerity that transcends representation. With soft palettes and tender brushwork, Schmidt transforms the invisible into something tactile—an intimate testimony of soul.
RUTH
Ode to Joy Oil on Canvas 74 cm €3,000
Elilith I
Digital Photograph 11 x 14 in. $400
Michael Ian Goulding captures the human body as both form and metaphor. Rooted in classical aesthetics and executed in black-and-white photography, his work celebrates the female figure with reverence and abstraction. Each composition distills curves and contours into luminous studies of beauty, vulnerability, and power. For Goulding, art is a way to uplift—to remind us that creating and witnessing beauty is not a luxury, but a necessity. His images are quiet homages to form, spirit, and the grace of existence.
MICHAEL IAN GOULDING
www.gouldingphotography.com
Lyn Darlington transforms moments behind the lens into richly composed photographic artworks. Based on the Central Coast of Australia, she draws inspiration from local birds, wildlife, and landscapes, creating imaginative composites that blur the line between documentation and dream. Self-taught and deeply intuitive, Darlington’s practice elevates nature photography into something personal and poetic—a celebration of the seen and the felt.
Seeing No. 54
Hand Engraved Glass, Oil Paint & Custom Frame 50 x 50 x 5 cm $2,200 AUD
Amy Schleif constructs visual spaces that shift and unfold with time. Her layered color fields, shadows, and reflective surfaces invite a dynamic viewing experience, where perception is fluid rather than fixed. As the viewer moves, so too does the work—revealing, obscuring, and transforming. Schleif’s interest lies in the ephemeral: how we see, how we change, and how art can reflect that liminal, elusive quality of perception itself.
AMY SCHLEIF
Photo Credit: Greg Piper
Amirata Winter’s paintings fuse classical technique with psychological depth, conjuring atmospheric scenes that hover between dream and memory. Working primarily in oil, the Swiss-based artist creates symbol-laden compositions where figures and spaces are rendered with cinematic precision and emotional resonance. His subjects often inhabit intimate, suspended moments, inviting the viewer to enter a contemplative world shaped by mystery and beauty. With a refined sense of light and detail, Winter’s work transcends realism, offering poetic reflections on identity, vulnerability, and the unconscious.
AMIRATA WINTER
Taken by the Sea Oil on Canvas 85 x 120 cm
Subterranean Skullduggery Acrylic on Wood Panel 46 x 61 x 4 cm $4,600
George Rowbottom paints without pretense. Grounded in figurative tradition, his work is guided by curiosity and a commitment to personal visual language. Rowbottom’s subjects are as varied as his moods—each canvas an idiosyncratic response to inspiration. Through rich color and stylized forms, his work dances between the eccentric and the poetic, the experimental and the intimate. These are pictures born of instinct, made to engage.
GEORGE ROWBOTTOM
Witness Wool, Mohair, Fiber Fill , Variable dimensions
Tactile, tender, and deeply meditative, Yicong Li’s soft sculptures explore the emotional power of fiber. Using traditional knitting and crocheting techniques, she transforms wool and mohair into sculptural forms that convey comfort, healing, and empowerment. Her practice is intuitive and embodied, guided by color, energy, and the quiet rhythm of making. Li’s work stands at the intersection of craft and contemporary art, offering viewers sensory sanctuaries that honor care, slowness, and inner connection.
Mixed Media Illustration 42 x 59.4 cm $688
Sydney-based, Tammy Huynh Truong composes with color the way one might with sound. Her mixed media works echo the rhythm of classical music, interwoven with the fluid forms of nature. Drawing on both traditional and digital techniques, she creates delicate visual harmonies that capture moments of quiet connection. Truong’s art is poetic and intuitive, offering spaces of emotional resonance where illustration becomes a lyrical bridge between motion, memory, and mood.
TAMMY HUYNH TRUONG
www.instagram.com/tht.visuals
Last Brazilian Rain Forest Tree
30 cm £1,060
Ronn Beattie sculpts with urgency. Through ceramic and mixed media, she confronts the ecological crisis head-on—giving form to grief, passion, and the need for action. Her work critiques pollution, the exploitation of nature, and the political inertia surrounding climate change. Yet within this protest lies poetic structure: vessels, forms, and figures that express both loss and endurance. Beattie’s art becomes a voice—a material call to awaken, protect, and change.
RONN BEATTIE
The
Porcelain, Wood, Glass, Horn & Rope 243.84 x
Born in Ukraine and living in Croatia, Volodymyr Glukhomanyuk’s marine paintings are heartfelt tributes to ships and those who serve at sea. With a lifelong passion for nautical subjects, he documents the grace, resilience, and engineering marvels of maritime vessels. His work honors the quiet strength of sailors and the enduring presence of the sea, offering viewers both nostalgia and reverence for this timeless domain.
Delight
Oil on Canvas 120 x 240 cm €10,800
Moonlit Rhythms
Oil on Canvas 60 x 40 in. $6,900 CAD
Swirling with energy and radiant with color, Ymilse Rangel’s paintings transcend the floral forms they depict. Each piece is a portal—an invitation to enter luminous, otherworldly spaces shaped by texture and intention. Her vibrant palette and expressive surfaces speak to human emotion, unity, and the transformative power of beauty. Rangel’s flowers are not botanical—they are spiritual, radiant, and alive with symbolic depth.
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Marc Noël Avatar invites us to feel first, then to see. His paintings are not merely visual—they are sensory provocations, designed to unlock perception beyond logic. Layered with symbolic abstraction and a unique chromatic vocabulary, his work turns canvas into a metaphysical space. Each piece dares the viewer to move beyond the familiar and “feel outside of the box,” where the invisible becomes perceptible and the intangible, real.
Former physician cum technopreneur turned full-time artist, Dr. Lowly channels the spontaneity of life into his signature “squeeze and splatter” paintings. Vibrant, gestural, and emotionally charged, his abstract works reflect a deep reverence for natural forms and human complexity. Without formal training, he has cultivated a language rooted in instinct—one that embraces imperfection and invites joy. From his health-tech past to his present as a painter, Dr. Lowly embodies the alchemy of transformation through creativity.
Echoes of Giza
Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 151 x 8 cm $20,000
Shape of Things
Archival Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminum 30 x 45 in. $4,000
Color becomes poetry in the vivid world of Jane Gottlieb. A pioneer of photo-painting, she merges decades of travel photography with digital alchemy, crafting kaleidoscopic visions of an idealized world. Gottlieb’s work radiates with joy and imagination—sun-drenched cityscapes, lush gardens, and glowing architecture transformed through her signature palette. With Photoshop as her brush, she reimagines reality, offering viewers a jubilant, utopian escape shaped by memory, wonder, and a fearless embrace of color.
JANE GOTTLIEB
Wüstenblume
Acrylic on Canvas 80 x 60 cm
From Germany, Petra Stelling creates exuberant abstract paintings that express the depth and vitality of the human spirit. With bold color, gestural mark-making, and layered textures, her work speaks to emotion, strength, and the power of presence. Each piece is a resonant visual experience—multifaceted like a jazz solo—capturing the complexity of feeling and the raw beauty of aliveness. Stelling’s art is both a celebration and a reflection, inviting viewers to connect with their own inner rhythms and the richness of being.
PETRA STELLING
Sonnenaugen Acrylic on Canvas 80 x 60 cm
Gary Wagner’s photography reveals the sublime beauty of nature through an artistic lens. With an eye for atmospheric light and intricate textures, he transforms landscapes into evocative compositions. His work captures the quiet power of the natural world, where fleeting moments of shadow and illumination create an ever-shifting dialogue between land, sky, and time.
www.garywagnerphotography.com
Ancient Wonder Digital Photograph 16 x 20 in. $675
Akya, 2024
Mixed Media 40 x 60 in.
Gesture, color, and vitality are central to Gerardo Labarca’s dynamic portraits of humans and animals. Working in large formats, he blends charcoal, acrylic, collage, and gold leaf into multilayered compositions that radiate emotional intensity. His intuitive, music-infused process infuses each figure with movement and presence. Whether imagined or observed, Labarca’s subjects carry a sense of optimism and raw power, reflecting a deep engagement with the expressive possibilities of contemporary portraiture.
GERARDO LABARCA
www.gerardolabarca.com
Blind, 2021 Mixed Media 48 x 72 in.
“My work focuses on human and animal portraits, driven by instinct and emotions. I specialize in figurative gesture painting on large canvases, preparing the textured surface with palette knife strokes before sketching the subject in charcoal or chalk.
Based in Johannesburg, Angela Banks constructs painterly worlds at the intersection of reality and imagination. Her studio becomes a portal through which South African social realities merge with speculative ecologies and personal myth. Through lush, layered narratives, she questions structures of power and invites reimaginings of coexistence. Her visual realms are dreamlike yet grounded—places of reflection, resistance, and deep beauty.
ANGELA BANKS
www.angelabanks.co.za
Birdhouse Reverie Oil on Canvas 102 x 77 cm
The Silent Pact Oil on Canvas 110 x 150 cm
Unification 1
Soft Maple, Epoxy, Stain, Gilding and Polywipe 32 x 14.5 x 11 in.
William T. Moore III, born in 1960 in Decatur, Alabama, lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art (1984) and an MFA from Kent State University (1996). His work has appeared in five solo online exhibitions in Canada, three solo U.S. gallery shows, and over 40 group exhibitions across the U.S., Canada, and France. Moore’s sculptures are included in publications, public spaces, and private collections, and have received both national and international awards.
www.wtmsculpture.wixsite.com/sculp
Soft Maple, Epoxy, Stain, Gilding and Polywipe 26 x 14.75 x 11 in.
Trap –
by Mr.
For Vivien Kabar, painting is resistance. Her work confronts violence, injustice, and suffering while celebrating beauty’s capacity to survive within it all. Expressive brushwork and luminous color convey a heightened reality—one where every moment is felt, not filtered. Art for Kabar is not escape, but confrontation with empathy and clarity. Her canvases vibrate with urgency, echoing a need to speak, to remember, and to transform silence into form.
VIVIEN KABAR
www.vivienkabar.at
The Candy
Tempted
Monopoly, 2024 Oil on Canvas 80 x 70 cm
Into the Calm Acrylic Paint on Canvas 20 x 24 in. $3,200
Soft edges or electric hues—Margaret Emserson’s abstract paintings are born from emotion and instinct. Working in expressive color fields, she creates compositions that shift between soothing and vibrant, each piece an extension of her inner landscape. Painting is her meditation, a way of balancing joy and release. Emerson’s work invites viewers to share in this emotional resonance, offering a visual rhythm that feels both personal and universal.
The Crossing Oil on Canvas 110 x 90 cm £1,800
A lone rider beneath twin suns, crossing a stark terrain—Vanessa Wilson’s ‘The Crossing’ is more than a scene; it’s a metaphor. Rooted in her reflections on 1970s gender roles, Wilson’s paintings explore solitude, resilience, and masculinity through a cinematic visual style. Her work carries a sense of movement—of becoming— inviting viewers to reflect on their own journey across landscapes both internal and social.
www.vanessawilsonpaintings.art
Posing Muse Mixed Media 36 x 36 x 1.5 in. $1,300
Shapes, textures, and intuition coalesce in the mixed media work of Katty Smith. Her process is guided by feeling, yet always reaches for clarity of narrative—often one centered on the experiences of women. Bold color and gestural mark-making define her visual language, but beneath the surface is a subtle storytelling instinct. Smith’s art is both refuge and revelation, a space where personal expression finds resonance in shared human emotion.
White Room IV
Oil on Canvas 100 x 70 cm €1,500
Bernd Steinert resists simplicity. His paintings are layered, conflicted, and deliberately difficult—rejecting harmony in favor of tension and critical depth. When a composition becomes too polished, he intervenes, disrupting aesthetic ease to preserve authenticity. For Steinert, truth is subjective and elusive; his work is a challenge, a provocation, and an invitation to question imposed narratives. Through complex techniques and a rejection of surface-level beauty, he creates visual spaces where contradiction becomes a form of resistance.
BERND STEINERT
www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de/author/steinert-bernd
Terrain Acrylic Spatula Mixed Technique on Canvas 120 x 100 cm €2,200
Drawing from the textures of nature and the impressions of lived experience, Swiss artist Barbara Schastok crafts visual meditations that speak across language, culture, and place. Her work originates from a deeply felt necessity—an inner urge to give form to the intangible. Each composition is a threshold, where perception becomes material and memory is transmuted into image. Her practice emphasizes art’s potential to transcend borders, revealing a silent yet powerful language that connects viewers to the shared essence of being.
BARBARA SCHASTOK
Contemporary realist, Julia Ulrich creates paintings that celebrate presence, slowness, and the quiet poetry of everyday life. Living in a handmade home by the forest, her work is rooted in the rhythms of nature, seasons, and simple acts. Through delicate symbolism and subtle detail, Ulrich captures moments of mindful doing, where time pauses and meaning reemerges. Her art honors traditional values and intuitive connection, offering viewers a gentle invitation to return to themselves and to the stillness and beauty of the natural world
Egg Crack Oil on Wood 80 x 80 cm €1,950
In Jane Carney’s studio, each work begins as an improvisation—an active dialogue with material, gesture, and memory. Her process is one of layering, breaking, reworking, and discovery. Drawing from personal experience and abstract formalism, Carney creates richly textured compositions that feel both chaotic and composed. Her dynamic practice resists static interpretation, allowing intuitive movement and narrative fragments to emerge from visual complexity.
Carney
Pink Cloud Mixed Media on Canvas 60 x 60 in.
My Best Friend’s Garden Mixed Media on Canvas 60 x 60 in.
“Whenever I initiate a drawing, collage, or painting, a dialogue begins. It becomes a conversation, a back-and-forth of visual bantering. I play with materials and surfaces, and in the process new directions and images emerge. This allows me to work with disparate ideas that evolve from personal experiences and the world around me. Through improvisation and experimentation, I grab both conceptually and physically from my surroundings. Within the chaos, I search for a hidden order using figurative abstraction, gestural mark-making, and formal elements of design. In my studio practice, I attack, pull back, destroy, and rework surfaces. It is a dance where the choreography is constantly changing until the piece tells me to stop. I am rewarded with the joy of discovery.”
Hinter Hermann Hannes Haus Oil on Canvas 170 x 140 cm €3,500
Agnes Havran explores luminosity as both a subject and a method. Her paintings, infused with light and color, transform ordinary perception into extraordinary reverie. Born in South Africa and based in Belgium, Havran works from a quiet attentiveness to daily beauty. Her pieces are immersive, sensory-rich meditations where color glows and light becomes a narrative force. Through each brushstroke, she offers a portal into a more tender, contemplative world.
AGNES HAVRAN
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Skewed
Digital render 25 x 25 cm
Industrial echoes, poetic fragments, and mythic matter converge in the restless work of Tim Cutler Equally at home in drawing, sculpture, and verse, Cutler builds his language from the textures of labor and the residues of memory. Travel, illness, and solitude shape his vision—conjuring a world where iron and loam meet the metaphysical. His forms feel unearthed as much as made, offering quiet testimony to survival and transformation. In Cutler’s hands, matter is memory, and imagination, resistance.
Informed by a vibrant dialogue with nature and emotion, Nikolay Marinov’s paintings exude movement, energy, and sensuous color. Rooted in observation yet propelled by imagination, his visual language transforms everyday phenomena into dynamic compositions. Faces, landscapes, and light become expressive forms through sweeping brushwork and layered hues. Marinov’s practice reflects a passion for interpreting the world’s visual richness—capturing fleeting sensations and grounding them in structured abstraction. His work invites the viewer into a vibrant, sensorial space where inner feeling and outer beauty intersect.
Marinov
Girl with Dog Oil on Canvas 30 x 30 cm €800
Phyllis’s Garden Bounteous Blossoms Oil and Cold Wax 30 x 23 cm
Kathy McKnight is an abstract impressionist who paints with oil often mixed with cold wax medium for the unique effects it can create. She develops her paintings with multiple layers utilizing the translucency of the oil and wax mixture. This style of painting brings complexity and depth to the work with visual and physical textures that mimic the forms and light she sees in the natural world.
Massai Family Oil on Linen 40 x 30 in. $8,000
Laurie E. McKinley crafts richly layered paintings that delve into myth, symbolism, and the unseen dimensions of the human experience. Drawing from historical references and personal intuition, her work is evocative and emotionally resonant—balancing elegance with mystery. Each canvas becomes a threshold, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface and explore themes of transformation, femininity, and spiritual reflection. With a refined sense of composition and a poetic visual language, McKinley offers images that feel timeless yet deeply intimate.
LAURIE ELIZABETH MCKINLEY
www.laurieelizabethmckinley.com
Losing Bits & Pieces
Polyester, Iron, Fibreglass 58 x 29 x 24 cm
Australian sculptor, Jan Williams uses the human figure as a vessel for metaphor. In works like “Losing Bits and Pieces,” he speaks of aging through sculptural symbolism: a cloak of fading memory, sun chariot wheels, and a figure holding tightly to itself. With quiet dignity and layered references, his sculpture reflects life’s transitions—each fragment a testament to endurance, loss, and the stories we carry.
JAN WILLIAMS
Glauco Galarini paints emotion itself. His colors are not just hues but sensations—vessels for connection, memory, and quiet revelation. Through expressive abstraction, he invites viewers to step out of routine and into feeling, where breath pauses and the soul recognizes itself. Galarini’s canvases resonate like music—unique to each listener, stirring something unspoken and timeless.
GLAUCO GALARINI
www.glaucogalarini.com
Glauco Galarini • Circle
Untitled Oil on Canvas 60 x 100 cm
Metropolis (0988)
Acrylic on Paper 40 x 40 cm
Urban density and ecological disconnection form the core of Ulla Hasen’s philosophical reflections. Her work speaks to the psychological alienation of life in megacities, where nature becomes a quoted reference rather than an integrated experience. Through text, image, and concept, Hasen explores the tension between human creativity and dystopian potential, carving out space for artistic reorientation in the fractured landscapes of modernity.
ULLA HASEN
Coming Home Digital Photograph 16 x 16 in. $375
Darkly surreal and deeply personal, Sharon Covert’s self-portraits explore myth, trauma, and transformation. Rooted in dreamlike symbolism and anonymity, her photographs reveal the unseen self—layered with emotion, vulnerability, and quiet strength. Covert’s visual narratives blur the line between reality and fantasy, creating spaces for healing, discovery, and silent storytelling.
Sharon Covert • Circle
Written in the Stars
Digital Photograph 16 x 16 in. $375
Despair Standing in the Cold Wind
Colored Sketching Paper, Colored Charcoal, Chalk 50 x 65 cm
Wanning Liao explores the trauma of war and the weight of history through stark, minimalist sketches. With roots in classical training and deep affiliations across global art institutions, her work now focuses on the Russia-Ukraine conflict—distilling collective suffering into visual fragments of memory. Using muted palettes and stripped-down compositions, Liao evokes emotional ambiguity and existential solitude. Her approach recalls Goya’s rawness: form as truth, black as sorrow. These quiet yet searing works resonate with psychological intensity and unflinching honesty.
WANNING LIAO
Dear Dad, Where Is He, 2025 Colored Sketching Paper, Colored Charcoal, Chalk 50 x 65 cm $1,500
Miss Quattrocento AI-assisted digital media
Noctua.Fall captures the transient beauty of nature in transformation through shifting textures and subtle luminosity. Working with layered paint, ink, mixed media, and AI software, their process merges organic mark-making with digital experimentation. The resulting images reveal delicate ecosystems of form and light—landscapes that shift with perspective, echoing the fragility of the natural world. Ethereal and meditative, each piece invites viewers to pause and observe, offering a visual poem on impermanence, where technology and nature converge in a quietly transformative dialogue.
Liesbeth Bronze Lifesize €85,000
Eddy Roos is a Dutch sculptor and choreographer whose bronze figures capture the elegance and dynamism of the human form. Influenced by classical sculpture and modern dance, his work reflects a deep sensitivity to movement, balance, and emotion. Trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and later under Giacomo Manzù in Italy, Roos developed a unique visual language that merges stillness with motion. His renowned sculpture garden at Verhildersum Manor exemplifies his vision—where art, body, and landscape interact in a timeless choreography of space and form.
EDDY ROOS
An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
