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the Front Cover
A World Master Artist
Green II
Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 24 in.
the Back Cover
Forest Reds
on Canvas 24 x 24 in.
On
Gayle Faulkner
Deep
Acrylic
On
Gayle Printz
Featured Artists
GAYLE PRINTZ
GAYLE FAULKNER
VALIA ABOU ALFADEL
CARLOS ABRAHAM
AD ACHKAR
CELIA CARL ANDERSON
HERB BARDAVID
PIUS BAUMLI
LENI BERLINER
JILL BILLINGS
FABIENNE BLANC
LUCIA JOHANNA BRAUBURGER
GWEN BULLOCK
LINDA CARRUTH
POUPÉE CAUSSIN-BELLON
DARREN CECH ART
WENHAO CHEN
ALISA CHERNOVA ART
CHRISTY CHOR
FREDI COHEN
WENDY COHEN
BUKOLA DAGILOKE (ARTS BY KOLA)
MICHAEL DEREZA RAFAËLE DÉSIRÉ
BERNARD DESJARDINS
VASCO DIOGO
EROS DUCHANNES
MICHAEL J DUKE
MARCELO FERREIRA
VIOLA FLORSCHUETZ ART
RK FOSTER
LORENZO GARDE
ADRIAN GIBBS
MITCHELL GIBSON
JANET GOLDSTEIN
JANE GOTTLIEB
HANA GROŠOVÁ HÁJKOVÁ
SOUAD HADDAD
HOWARD HARRIS
ANDREA RENEE HARRISON
REINHARDT TAKEO HOLLSTEIN
SHU-YA HSU
TOBIAS INDERMUEHLE IVISION
BESSIE JACINTO
KAT KLEINMAN
KULIKOWSKI ART
AKSHITA LAD
KAY LARKIN
LILIANA LAZAR
MICHEL LEGOUBÉ
ANTOINETTE LUCHESSA
CECILY MARKHAM
JOHN F MARSHALL
TAMARA MICHEL ART
BILLY MORO-WEY
KAREN NAIM
SVEN J NORRIS
FATMA (FATOŞ) OZAR CONKBAYIR
GULONG PEICHENG (SARAH) PEPPONI ART
GABRIELE PIONTECK
PIT (PETER THOMAS MUEHLHAEUSER)
TIMOTHY POE
CHER PRUYS
MONICA J RICH
ROBERTA ROUSOS
JOSIP RUBES-RUBY
RVFPHOTOART
HUMANS SATO
MARLIESE SCHELLER
ANGELA SCHERER-KERN
JUDITH SEILER-SCHLOEMMER (JS)
ANGELĖ ŠIMOLIŪNIENĖ
SHIRLEY SLUSHER
STANDA
CHRISTINE TERRES
WOLFGANG TUTTLIES-KOLBERG
MARTI WHITE
TRACEY DEAN WIDELITZ
MALINA WIECZOREK
ROOT YARDEN
ALESIA YEREMEYEVA
DEBORAH ZAVON
FRANCA ZE
Preface to Issue 45
In the 45th issue of Spotlight • Contemporary Art Magazine, we wanted to bring together artists whose work reminds us why art continues to matter so deeply in contemporary life. Across painting, sculpture, photography, textile art, digital media, and mixed media practices, the featured artists approach creation not as decoration or distraction, but as a vital form of human expression. In a world increasingly shaped by speed, noise, and disposability, the act of making art, looking closely at art, and choosing to live with art becomes something profoundly important. It asks us to slow down, to observe more carefully, and to remain emotionally and intellectually present.
What continues to move us as curators and publishers is the extraordinary diversity of ways artists transform experience into visual language. Some of the works in this issue are quiet and meditative, others bold, confrontational, joyful, or psychologically charged. Yet all of them reflect a deep commitment to creativity, sensitivity, and vision. Art allows us to preserve memory, challenge perception, imagine alternatives, and reconnect with beauty, complexity, and humanity itself. To collect art is not simply to acquire an object. It is to build an ongoing relationship with ideas, emotions, materials, and the lives of the artists behind them.
This publication exists to create meaningful encounters between artists and readers while encouraging a greater appreciation for contemporary art in everyday life. Whether you are an established collector, a practicing artist, or someone simply discovering the pleasure of living with original work, we hope these pages inspire curiosity, reflection, and connection. Supporting artists and engaging seriously with art remains one of the most enduring ways we affirm culture, imagination, and human depth.
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Why Art Matters, Why Artists Matter
Art matters because it allows us to experience life beyond utility, speed, and routine. It interrupts distraction and asks us to feel, observe, question, and remember. A powerful artwork can shift the atmosphere of a room, but more importantly, it can shift the atmosphere within us. It can hold emotion when language fails, preserve a moment of humanity, or challenge the way we see the world and ourselves. Across history, art has remained one of the few universal languages capable of connecting people across cultures, generations, and ideologies.
Artists matter because they are the ones willing to translate uncertainty, beauty, conflict, memory, and imagination into visible form. They dedicate years, often entire lifetimes, to refining a way of seeing that most people never pause long enough to articulate. The artist notices what others overlook. Through discipline, sensitivity, and persistence, they create works that continue living long after the moment of their making.
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, noise, and repetition, artists remind us of the value of individuality, risk, and human expression.
Collecting art is not simply about ownership or decoration. It is about living alongside ideas, emotions, and visions that continue to inspire over time. A meaningful collection reflects curiosity, identity, and personal connection. Whether beginning with a single piece or expanding an established collection, acquiring art is an investment in culture, creativity, and the enduring presence of human imagination. The most important collections are rarely built all at once. They evolve gradually, guided by instinct, emotion, and discovery.
The contemporary art world is filled with extraordinary artists creating ambitious and deeply personal work. Some are already internationally established, while others are only beginning to emerge. What matters most is finding work that moves you, challenges you, or stays in your mind long after you encounter it. Start slowly, trust your eye, and allow yourself to engage with art beyond trends or expectation. The right artwork does not merely fill a wall; it changes the way a space feels and the way a life is experienced. Go ahead, begin or enrich your collection now....
The next artwork that truly stays with you may also become the one you never forget!
GAYLE PRINTZ
A Force in Contemporary Art
American artist Gayle Printz is known for her dynamic, thickly textured abstract canvases that pulse with movement, rhythm, and emotional intensity. In just a few years, she has launched an extraordinary international trajectory, with her name appearing across major exhibitions, publications, awards, and collections worldwide. Her work now forms part of permanent museum collections, including Le Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou in France, and has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. With thousands of international awards and recognitions, alongside a dedicated and highly active studio practice, Printz has established herself as one of the most visible and ambitious voices working in contemporary abstraction today.
While her work naturally enters into dialogue with the history of abstraction, Printz refuses to situate herself within any predefined category or inherited structure. Her paintings emerge through instinct, emotion, and intuition rather than formal rules or academic conventions. Working without traditional training, she approaches painting with unusual freedom, allowing gesture, texture, movement, and color to unfold organically across the canvas. Printz often speaks of giving viewers the freedom to discover emotional meaning through their own imagination, and that openness remains central to her practice. Her paintings do not dictate conclusions; they invite experience. Dense surfaces reveal shifting forms, layered chromatics, and evolving rhythms that continue to transform the longer one looks.
“Green II” offers a compelling example of this approach. Built through vigorous accumulations of paint, the work balances exuberance with surprising complexity. Luminous greens collide with energetic linear passages and densely worked textures, creating a visual field that feels simultaneously chaotic and cohesive. The painting seems to oscillate between landscape, organic growth, and pure abstraction without ever settling into a single reading. The work sustains a remarkable balance between force and openness. Physically assertive and emotionally direct, it nevertheless remains generous in its ambiguity, inviting viewers to project their own associations and discoveries into its layered surface.
Bold, charismatic, and entirely uncompromising, Printz brings the same fearless energy to painting that defines her personality. In a contemporary landscape often shaped by repetition and restraint, her work retains a rare immediacy and sincerity. What is particularly striking is the scale of her achievement within such a relatively short period of time. Supported by a sustained commitment to her practice and a visual language that is instantly recognizable, Gayle Printz continues to build a body of work distinguished by conviction, originality, and emotional resonance. Her paintings are not merely exercises in abstraction; they are declarations of creative freedom, and their growing presence in collections and institutions suggests an artist whose influence is still unfolding.
A distinguished example of the artistic vision that has earned Gayle Printz international recognition, “Green II” combines expressive gesture, layered textures, and nuanced color relationships within a compelling abstract composition. Its rhythmic energy and dynamic movement create an immersive visual experience, balancing spontaneity with formal sophistication. Celebrated through international awards, exhibitions, and critical reviews, “Green II” reflects the strength and maturity of Printz’s abstract practice.
GREEN II, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 24 x 2 in. / 24 x 36 x 2 in.
Zephyr
Digital Media 16 × 20 in.
Linda Carruth builds lush digital compositions through layered imagery, botanical references, texture, and color. Rather than relying on direct narrative, her work evolves intuitively through accumulation and visual interplay, allowing meaning to emerge gradually through process. The resulting images feel immersive and imaginative, balancing material experimentation with a strong sense of atmosphere and visual curiosity.
LINDA CARRUTH
https://linda-carruth.pixels.com
Lucia Johanna Brauburger explores the hidden tensions beneath human expression through bold, reduced imagery influenced by Pop Art. Her striking faces initially appear graphic and accessible, yet closer viewing reveals psychological complexity beneath the vivid colors and clean lines. Rather than traditional portraiture, the German artist creates surfaces of projection where emotion, ambiguity, and unspoken narratives quietly emerge.
LUCIA JOHANNA BRAUBURGER
https://artandbuilding.de/
Venise été (Summer Venice)
Tadelakt on Polished Wood 150 × 100 cm
Following a career in architecture, Poupée Caussin-Bellon turned toward painting through the tactile beauty of Moroccan Tadelakt plaster techniques. Adapted into both figurative and abstract compositions, her surfaces carry softness, movement, and sensual material presence. Drawing from an architect’s understanding of structure, rhythm, and spatial balance, she creates atmospheric works where buildings, reflections, and landscapes dissolve into textured fields of light and memory. Her paintings feel simultaneously grounded and ethereal, balancing precision with emotional openness.
POUPÉE CAUSSIN-BELLON
Poupée Caussin-Bellon
Caussin-Bellon
Tadelakt on Polished Wood 140 × 96 cm · 13 · Spotlight 45 · Poupée
The featured Venetian works demonstrate her ability to transform familiar architecture into meditative visual experiences. Using layered plaster and muted luminosity, Poupée blurs the boundary between representation and abstraction, allowing water, sky, and stone to merge into fluid painterly surfaces. The tactile quality of Tadelakt remains central to the work’s emotional resonance, giving each composition a quiet physical presence shaped by touch, time, and material sensitivity. Poupée invites us into spaces of stillness, atmosphere, and contemplative beauty.
L’Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
Connect
For Celia Carl Anderson, painting functions as a deeply personal form of communication. Her works suggest narratives without fully defining them, inviting viewers to enter through memory, emotion, and reflection. Rather than imposing meaning, Anderson creates open visual spaces that encourage connection and introspection. This balance between intimacy and universality gives her paintings a contemplative presence, allowing each viewer to discover something quietly personal within the work.
CELIA CARL ANDERSON
Acrylic on Canvas 24 × 36 in.
Celia
In ‘UFO: Unclassified Falling Organs’, Lebanese artist Ad Achkar merges recycled mechanical fragments with organic materials to imagine speculative futures where biological and technological evolution become inseparable. Suspended beneath glass with a striking sense of fragility, the installations blur the boundaries between machine and life. The works feel simultaneously futuristic and poetic, revealing Achkar’s ability to transform industrial remnants into contemplative meditations on transformation, instability, and coexistence.
AD ACHKAR
Crank Stepper
Photography Sculpture 90 × 67.5 cm
Valia Abou Alfadel brings remarkable vitality to watercolor through expressive movement and emotional spontaneity. Rather than pursuing strict realism, she allows color and gesture to guide the composition, creating works that feel immediate and deeply alive. Her quick, intuitive brushwork carries both energy and sensitivity, revealing an artist interested not only in representation, but in atmosphere and feeling. With international recognition and a highly personal visual language, Valia’s paintings radiate warmth, motion, and emotional sincerity.
VALIA ABOU ALFADEL
https://valiagallery.com
Valia Abou Alfadel ·
Coincidence and transformation lie at the heart of Swiss artist Pius Baumli’s imaginative practice. Coffee stains become figures, accidental paint drips evolve into compositions, and melted Styrofoam suggests relics from another world. His playful yet thoughtful approach reveals beauty within the unexpected, allowing ordinary materials to take on entirely new meanings. Baumli’s work is inventive, humorous, and driven by a spirit of curiosity and openness.
· 17 · Spotlight 45 · Pius Baumli
Mexican photographer Carlos Abraham approaches the human body as both a site of vulnerability and affirmation. Working primarily through intimate male portraiture, his images explore desire, identity, sensuality, and emotional presence with unusual honesty and restraint. Rather than relying on provocation alone, Abraham constructs carefully observed compositions that foreground tenderness, self-awareness, and psychological nuance within contemporary queer experience.
CARLOS ABRAHAM
Sentado Mesa Photograph
The photography of Herb Bardavid is marked by clarity, atmosphere, and a refined sense of visual balance. Through thoughtful composition and careful observation, he creates images that invite sustained viewing without relying on excess or spectacle. There is a quiet confidence in the restraint of his practice, allowing mood and structure to emerge naturally. Bardavid’s work carries a contemplative quality that feels both grounded and enduring. · 19 · Spotlight 45
HERB BARDAVID
www.blog.herbbardavid.com
Wenhao Chen paints with unusual sensitivity to atmosphere and tempo. Rather than describing a place directly, the China-based artist allows light, color, and gesture to carry emotional weight, creating works that unfold slowly through observation. His compositions balance movement and restraint, drawing from both lived environments and interior states of reflection.
WENHAO CHEN
Wenhao Chen · Spotlight
Architecture, landscape, and memory surface throughout Chen’s practice, though never as fixed subjects. What remains central is mood: the sensation of air, distance, silence, or passing light. Combining expressive brushwork with carefully modulated harmonies, Chen creates paintings that feel intimate, contemplative, and quietly immersive.
Whispers of Spring Oil on Linen 31.5 × 39 in.
Questions of identity, control, and emotional exposure drive the psychologically charged work of Alisa Chernova. Influenced by psychoanalytic thought, the artist constructs visual systems that appear stable while quietly revealing fracture and tension beneath the surface. Restrained color, texture, and contrast intensify this sense of instability, creating works that feel both intellectually sharp and emotionally vulnerable.
ALISA CHERNOVA
Despair
Acrylic on Canvas 80 × 65 cm
Alisa Chernova
Chernova’s practice explores the fragile structures through which people define, protect, and perform themselves. In ‘Despair’ and ‘Who Am I?’, Chernova explores identity as something unstable, constructed, and emotionally exposed. Drawing from Freudian psychological concepts, the works examine the tension between external control and internal rupture, where the self begins to fragment under emotional pressure. Through restrained color, texture, and carefully balanced compositions, the artist creates images that appear ordered while quietly revealing instability beneath the surface.
Who Am I? A Monologue with Myself Acrylic on Canvas 80 × 65 cm
Christy Chor transforms humanity’s relationship with nature into tactile ceramic sculptures shaped by storytelling, material sensitivity, and emotional reflection. Her ongoing ‘Back to Nature’ series explores themes of wonder, ecological imbalance, survival, and rebirth through forms inspired by birds, bears, mountains, and the natural world. Rich textures and handbuilt surfaces give the work both physical presence and quiet meditative stillness.
CHRISTY CHOR
www.christychor.com
Working primarily in stoneware, Chor combines sculptural form with symbolic narrative to examine the fragile balance between humanity and the environment. Her practice reflects both admiration for nature’s beauty and concern for its vulnerability, creating works that feel contemplative, immersive, and emotionally grounded. Through material, texture, and form, she invites viewers into a deeper reflection on coexistence, resilience, and transformation.
Moments
Ceramics 19 × 9 × 18 in.
Grace, freedom, and interconnected beauty flow throughout Fredi Cohen’s ‘Flying Feminine’ series, where organic forms unfold with lyrical softness, elegance, and remarkable emotional clarity. Delicate avian and botanical references merge into luminous compositions that celebrate individuality while emphasizing the harmony shared across living forms. Cohen’s work possesses a rare generosity of spirit, balancing femininity, movement, and material sophistication with a visual language that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.
FREDI COHEN
Peacock Seductress Ceramic Mounted on Wood 46 × 37 × 3 in.
Fredi Cohen ·
Born and raised in New York City, Fredi Cohen has developed a multidisciplinary practice shaped by sculpture, drawing, mixed media, and decades of artistic exploration inspired by transformation, intuition, and creative autonomy. Influenced by the Women’s Movement and recognized through numerous international exhibitions and Circle Arts publications, she continues to create work that feels visionary, refined, and emotionally uplifting. Whether through her ‘Visual Symphony’ series or the radiant compositions of ‘Flying Feminine’, Cohen demonstrates an exceptional ability to transform inner experience into poetic contemporary form, reaffirming her place as a distinctive and deeply thoughtful voice in contemporary art.
Flying Feminine Ceramic, Stained Glass, Acrylic Paint, and Wood 34 × 34 × 5 in.
Gwen Bullock ’s paintings exist in a compelling space between realism and emotional interpretation. Through expressive brushwork, thoughtful composition, and a sensitive use of color, the Australian artist translates personal feeling into images that remain open and relatable. Music, nature, and human connection all shape her visual language, giving the work a lyrical quality that feels sincere, intimate, and deeply alive.
GWEN BULLOCK
Young Boabs
Acrylic 51 × 61 cm
French artist Fabienne Blanc draws on her background in architecture to explore space through painting. Working at the intersection of figuration and abstraction, she constructs compositions where lines, planes, and color create shifting spatial tensions. Rather than depicting stable forms, Blanc fragments and rebuilds perception itself, transforming the canvas into a dynamic field of movement, structure, and visual uncertainty.
FABIENNE BLANC
Dream of Pine Boughs
Triptych
Washington, D.C.-based painter Leni Berliner creates landscapes that feel alive with gesture, atmosphere, and movement. Drawing inspiration from the Mid-Atlantic coast, New England, Quebec, and the Catskills, she translates the energy of a place into richly textured acrylic compositions shaped by observation and intuition. Her work recently received a glowing curatorial review by renowned curator Despina Tunberg, who praised Berliner’s ability to transform landscape into an experience of “forces rather than arranged viewing,” highlighting the emotional vitality and sophisticated material language present throughout her practice.
LENI BERLINER
www.dancingtreearts.com
Jill Billings is a British textile artist whose handwoven works explore colour, texture, and materiality through hand-dyed silk and other natural yarns including organic cotton. From hand-dyed silk scarves to contemporary home textiles, her practice combines technical precision with a refined sensitivity to colour and structure, creating pieces that are both timeless and deeply tactile.
JILL BILLINGS
www.jasminecottagecrafts.com
5-D Sunset
× 35.56 cm
Darren Cech approaches painting as a translation of inner vision, creating works inspired by what he describes as “visions of the soul.” Guided more by intuition than observation, his imagery carries a contemplative and deeply personal atmosphere. The emotional sincerity within the work gives it a distinct presence, allowing viewers to enter a visual world shaped by introspection, imagination, and spiritual reflection.
DARREN CECH ART
Instagram@darren_cech_art
Rafaële Désiré creates dreamlike paintings where landscape, memory, and intuition merge through fluid color and expressive gesture. Moving between abstraction and suggestion, her luminous compositions are guided less by representation than by atmosphere, inviting moments of contemplation, imagination, and quiet emotional reflection.
Mindfulness, wellbeing, and shared humanity form the emotional foundation of Bukola Dagiloke’s artistic practice. Working under the name Arts By Kola, the artist creates work that encourages presence, reflection, and emotional openness without becoming overly didactic. There is warmth and sincerity in her approach, allowing creativity to function as both personal expression and quiet social connection. Her work reminds viewers of the restorative power of art, empathy, and attentive living.
BUKOLA DAGILOKE
www.bukoladagiloke.com
From Australia, Wendy Cohen creates vibrant mixed media compositions that celebrate rhythm, color, and the expressive possibilities of collage and paint. Her layered surfaces pulse with movement and visual conversation, allowing contrasting forms and textures to coexist in dynamic harmony. What distinguishes the Australian artist’s work is its balance of spontaneity and structure, transforming abstraction into an experience that feels joyful, tactile, and emotionally alive.
Art Washes Away From the Soul
C-Print 138 x 107 cm
Symbolism, psychological reflection, and philosophical inquiry converge in the surreal compositions of Bernard Desjardins. Through layered imagery and energetic forms, the artist constructs works that function as mirrors of human experience, encouraging viewers to engage with deeper emotional and existential questions. His art avoids direct political commentary while remaining provocative and intellectually charged, offering visually intricate meditations on consciousness, perception, and the complexity of inner life.
BERNARD DESJARDINS
https://bernarddesjardins.com
For more than three decades, Toronto-based artist Michael Dereza has explored the relationship between abstraction, geometry, and perception through striking digital compositions. Drawing from Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, and Conceptual Art, he creates immersive visual environments where vivid color and shifting structures destabilize conventional ways of seeing. His work feels both technically precise and visually expansive, revealing how digital media can transform foundational artistic principles into contemporary sensory experiences.
MICHAEL DEREZA
Picking Scabs
Watercolor 20 × 24 in.
Eros Duchannes approaches art with unusual emotional honesty, transforming isolation, vulnerability, and personal resistance into psychologically charged imagery. Emerging from years of self-imposed withdrawal, her “Scab” series explores the paradox of concealment and revelation, where refusal to open up becomes a form of exposure in itself. The work feels raw yet controlled, carrying an emotional tension that gives the artist’s visual language both intimacy and striking authenticity.
EROS DUCHANNES
https://erosduchannes.com
Vasco Diogo moves fluidly across disciplines, combining experimental cinema, painting, performance, sound, artificial intelligence, and digital media into a highly exploratory artistic practice. Rooted in both film theory and artistic research, his work continuously tests the boundaries between technology, consciousness, and creative expression. The Portuguese artist’s multidisciplinary approach gives the work a restless intellectual energy, reflecting an ongoing search for new visual and conceptual possibilities.
Ghost
Michael J Duke balances classical photography with imaginative digital experimentation, creating images that move between observation and interpretation. While part of his practice remains rooted in urban life and candid reality, another side explores more conceptual territory, encouraging viewers to question perception and visual certainty. Exhibited across the UK, Europe, Italy, and the United States, Duke’s work reflects both technical experience and a lasting curiosity about the evolving creative possibilities of photography.
MICHAEL J DUKE
http://mjdukephotoart.co.uk/
Brazilian artist Marcelo Ferreira combines jewelry, sculpture, and design through a practice rooted in craftsmanship and imagination. A professional jeweler and sculptor, he transforms precious materials into works that embody memory, beauty, and emotional connection. Ferreira approaches art as the materialization of dreams, creating objects intended to endure both physically and emotionally.
MARCELO FERREIRA
The Gold Miner
Sterling Silver, Acrylic, and Semi-Precious Stones 52 × 36 × 40 cm
Turquoise Discipline I, The Swan’s Landing, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm
German painter Viola Florschuetz creates striking acrylic compositions defined by her self-developed concept of “Color Discipline.” Working within carefully restricted tonal worlds, often near monochrome, she uses color as a structural force rather than decoration. Her paintings balance bold visual coherence with subtle atmospheric depth, giving figures, animals, and landscapes a powerful and almost iconic presence.
Nature, architecture, color, and modern design all feed into RK Foster’s expressive contemporary paintings. Guided by instinct and lifelong creative curiosity, the artist allows ideas and techniques to emerge organically during the making process itself. His work carries both spontaneity and structure, shaped by a strong appreciation for mid-century aesthetics and the emotional resonance of abstraction. The resulting compositions feel energetic, intuitive, and visually optimistic.
https://modernartbyrkfoster.com
Sea of Joy Acrylic on Canvas 30 × 24 in.
Internationally recognized artist Gayle Faulkner transforms the sensory experience of wooded landscapes into richly textured paintings filled with movement, atmosphere, and vitality. Known for her distinctive wet-into-wet technique and expressive forest compositions, she creates immersive works where color, texture, and gesture expand organically across the canvas. With a remarkably varied and prolific practice, Faulkner continues to build a highly recognizable visual language rooted in nature, intuition, and a passionate engagement with the act of painting itself.
GAYLE FAULKNER
Deep Woods: Mossy Acrylic 15 × 30 in.
Gayle Faulkner
“Exploring wooded areas is a feast for all senses. Taking these same sensory images to the canvas is an energizing experience of the moment. Painting wet into wet allows the impressions to take shape and expand. As an artist, I love sharing my passion with the world.”
Deep Woods: Marti Gras Acrylic 18 × 24 in.
Lorenzo Garde’s work exists in a space of mystery and suspended meaning, drawing viewers toward what remains unresolved and unseen. Rather than offering fixed narratives, the artist creates atmospheric images that feel open to interpretation and emotional projection. There is a quiet tension within the work, where ambiguity becomes its own form of beauty and discovery.
LORENZO GARDE
https://lorenzogarde.com
Before turning fully toward painting, Adrian Gibbs built an early career as a professional ballet dancer, an experience that continues to inform the sensitivity and rhythm within his artistic practice. Movement, balance, and physical awareness remain deeply embedded in the work, giving his visual language a distinctive sense of grace and controlled energy. His paintings reveal an artist attuned to both discipline and expressive freedom.
ADRIAN GIBBS
Gibson’s impressive international presence includes major awards such as the International Prize Michelangelo in Rome and the Jury Prize for Creativity at the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, positioning him as a compelling contemporary artist whose work carries both collector appeal and global recognition.
Surf’s Up Acrylic and Pouring 30 × 30 in.
Movement, texture, and emotional atmosphere converge in Janet Goldstein’s layered abstract compositions. Based in Montreal, the artist embraces imperfections and unexpected material shifts as essential parts of the creative process, allowing each work to evolve organically. Rich surfaces and multidimensional textures give the paintings a sense of openness and continual discovery, encouraging viewers to experience the work differently over time.
JANET GOLDSTEIN
https://janzdzigns.com
Jane Gottlieb has spent decades constructing a vibrant visual universe shaped by photography, painting, and fearless experimentation with color. Long before digital manipulation became commonplace, she transformed Cibachrome prints by hand-painting saturated and intentionally unrealistic hues directly onto the surface. The result is a distinctly personal visual language where reality becomes playful, luminous, and emotionally heightened through imagination and chromatic intensity.
JANE GOTTLIEB
Hana Grošová Hájková brings remarkable emotional depth, technical refinement, and perseverance to her artistic practice. Returning to painting later in life after years shaped by personal loss and distance from formal artmaking, the Czech artist transforms lived experience into works filled with authenticity and quiet strength. The daughter of a painter and restorer, she carries a deep understanding of traditional technique while maintaining a highly personal visual language.
HANA GROŠOVÁ HÁJKOVÁ
https://absolutearts.com
Lady in Love Oil on Canvas 47 × 33 in. Hana Grošová Hájková ·
What distinguishes Hájková’s work is the originality and consistency of her painted figures, whose recurring facial features create a distinctive and immediately recognizable identity that feels entirely her own. Her confident brushwork, sensitivity to form, and masterful handling of paint reveal an artist of exceptional talent and maturity. Both emotionally resonant and technically accomplished, her work reflects a powerful artistic voice with lasting promise and presence.
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Souad Haddad celebrates femininity, resilience, and emotional vitality through richly textured acrylic paintings filled with color and movement. Beginning her artistic journey in Dubai in 2008, the self-taught artist evolved from decorative mixed media toward expressive contemporary painting. Her energetic impasto surfaces and recurring motifs of flowers and women create works that balance optimism, tenderness, and emotional depth. www.souadhaddad.com
SOUAD HADDAD
Down the Aisle
Acrylic 80 × 60 cm
For Howard Harris, perception itself becomes the subject. A pioneering digital artist long before the medium became mainstream, Harris creates immersive Techspressionist works through layered photographic imagery, light, movement, and spatial distortion. Internationally appreciated and featured in numerous Circle Arts projects, he continues to push the expressive possibilities of contemporary digital art with originality and innovation.
HOWARD HARRIS
Los Angeles-based painter Andrea Renee Harrison creates luminous oil paintings shaped by close observation, technical precision, and a lifelong connection to nature. Influenced by daily encounters with animals, flowers, and shifting landscapes, she carefully orchestrates color, texture, edges, and value to produce compositions filled with subtle visual discoveries. Her works reward sustained attention, revealing new relationships and details over time. www.andreapaintsart.com
ANDREA RENEE HARRISON
Orchydia 1 Oil on Canvas 24 × 48 in.
Andrea Renee Harrison ·
· Andrea Renee Harrison
Andrea paints exclusively on fine linen canvas and approaches the act of painting with remarkable discipline and sensitivity, often beginning in silence or reflection before building each composition. Her ongoing ‘Orchydia’ series exemplifies this thoughtful approach through paired, nearly identical paintings distinguished only by the placement of her signature. Inspired by the idea that beauty can remain balanced from any perspective, the series transforms perception itself into part of the viewing experience.
Orchydia 2 Oil on Canvas 24 × 48 in.
Wall Beer-Tap Painting Abstract
American artist, Reinhardt Takeo Hollstein transforms historical memory into interactive contemporary art through works that combine craftsmanship, humor, and conceptual wit. His “Berlin Wall Beer Tap Painting” converts a fragment of painted wall into a functioning beer tap, collapsing boundaries between sculpture, installation, and social ritual. Both playful and symbolic, the work reimagines an object once associated with division as one centered on participation, exchange, and human connection. https://reinhardt-hollstein-artist.ueniweb.com
REINHARDT TAKEO HOLLSTEIN
Berlin
Acrylic 24 × 48 × 4 in.
Reinhardt Takeo Hollstein
Kay Larkin brings a scientist’s precision and an artist’s wonder to photography. Her background in biology and photo-microscopy informs an eye deeply attuned to structure, light, and close observation, while her experimental approach introduces softness, motion, and atmosphere. Influenced by Luminist painting, she uses photography to express awe before the beauty of the natural world. Her images feel contemplative, luminous, and deeply appreciative.
www.kaylarkinphotography.com
Škocjan Cavern Photograph 36 × 48 cm
Tobias Indermuehle merges photography, still life, and speculative technological imagery into visually layered compositions that question the evolving relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence. In “The KI Liquid Lab. - Out of Control,” earlier digital works intersect with contemporary photographic staging to create a futuristic environment charged with tension and ambiguity. Drawing from his experience producing photographic work for international magazines, the Swiss artist combines technical sophistication with conceptual curiosity, transforming current technological anxieties into striking visual narratives.
TOBIAS INDERMUEHLE
www.tobias-indermuehle.com
With remarkable restraint, Taiwanese painter Shu-ya Hsu builds compositions that privilege atmosphere over spectacle. The work moves quietly, drawing the viewer into subtle shifts of mood, space, and perception rather than immediate narrative. Through refined imagery and careful balance, Hsu creates a visual language where stillness carries emotional weight and simplicity becomes unexpectedly resonant.
SHU-YA HSU
Natural beauty, human emotion, and storytelling intertwine gracefully in the work of Bessie Jacinto Both artist and writer since childhood, she approaches visual creation as a narrative experience, weaving memory, atmosphere, and emotional nuance into paintings and photographs alike. Her use of color balances joy with serenity, while her sensitivity to both natural and man-made environments gives the work warmth, elegance, and quiet emotional depth. https://bjacinto.com
BESSIE JACINTO
Rainy Day
Acrylic on Canvas 20 × 20 in. Bessie Jacinto
Raw emotion and personal honesty shape the work of iVision, whose images function as both self-expression and emotional release. Treating art as a therapeutic dialogue, the practice embraces vulnerability while moving fluidly across subjects and visual approaches. This sincerity gives the work a strong sense of immediacy, allowing viewers to connect instinctively with the emotional experiences embedded in each piece.
Downfall
Photograph
Kat Kleinman creates vibrant floral collages that radiate optimism, renewal, and emotional warmth. An internationally published artist and dedicated member of the Circle Foundation community, she has developed a highly recognizable visual language built from flowers, succulents, and layered photographic elements. Her intricate compositions feel both meditative and uplifting, revealing a sincere belief in beauty as a restorative force.
KAT KLEINMAN
www.katkleinmanart.com
Lindy’s Butterfly Collage on Board 16 × 20 in.
Kat Kleinman
Kat’s tableaus are works to live with, bringing color, calm, and joy into everyday spaces. Through meticulous construction and an intuitive sense of harmony, she transforms natural forms into immersive compositions that encourage viewers to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with wonder.
East Meets West Collage on Board 16 × 20 in.
Kulikowski transforms landscape into an explosion of color, rhythm, and sensation. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Bonnard and Van Gogh, he creates paintings that pulse with movement and emotional intensity while remaining unmistakably his own. Each composition feels immersive, generous, and alive with painterly confidence.
KULIKOWSKI ART
www.kulikowskiarts.com
An internationally exhibited emerging artist, Kulikowski has developed a highly recognizable visual language built through fearless color relationships, rich texture, and instinctive composition. His paintings carry the energy of music translated into paint, where chroma and gesture work together to create atmosphere, emotion, and visual momentum. ·
“My work often begins in the imagination, transforming internal visions into tangible forms. Color is like music to me — each hue carries rhythm and mood, adding emotional weight to the canvas.”
KULIKOWSKI ART
www.kulikowskiarts.com
Pink Sunset Acrylic and Oil 36 × 36 in. Kulikowski
Michel Legoubé brings a distinctive contemporary vision to bronze sculpture, moving from figuration toward abstraction through the deconstruction and reconstruction of the feminine body. His work explores sensuality, volume, and form with a strong sculptural identity, creating pieces that are immediately recognizable through composition and finish. The result is elegant, modern, and tactile, honoring the body while transforming it into a refined language of movement and structure.
MICHEL LEGOUBÉ
https://michel-legoube.lovable.app
Quasimadam de Paris
49 × 26 × 24
9:30 AM
Liliana Lazar’s artistic path reflects discipline, emotion, and a lifelong devotion to beauty. Trained in law and active as a magistrate, the Romanian artist sustained a creative practice that later expanded through formal art studies and public exhibitions. Working across oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, and decorative art, she creates images that offer escape from ordinary reality into a more ideal, emotional, and imaginative world.
LILIANA LAZAR
https://circle-arts.com/member/liliana-lazar/
Liliana Lazar · Spotlight
Dubai-based artist Akshita Lad brings together technical precision and emotional sensitivity in paintings marked by warmth, atmosphere, and quiet elegance. Recognized with the UAE Golden Visa for exceptional talent in culture and the arts, she has exhibited internationally in more than 40 exhibitions. Her compositions create an immediate emotional resonance, balancing refinement and intimacy with striking visual confidence.
AKSHITA LAD
Golden Hues
Acrylic and Soft Pastels on Canvas 100 × 100 × 4 cm
Antoinette Luchessa creates delicate three-dimensional paper botanicals inspired by Pacific Northwest plants, lichens, and seaweeds. Combining watercolor, colored pencil, and sculpted paper, she balances scientific precision with artistic interpretation. Her work reveals an exceptional sensitivity to form, craftsmanship, and the quiet beauty of the natural world.
ANTOINETTE LUCHESSA
www.antoinetteluchessa.com
Quercus Garryana Branch Paper, Watercolor, Wire, and Acrylic on Paper 17 × 21 × 1 3/4 in.
Antoinette Luchessa · Spotlight
Born in Dublin and now based in Ontario, Canada John F. Marshall brings classical discipline and painterly sensitivity to contemporary realism. Having studied at the National College of Art in Dublin as well as in Paris, he developed a meticulous approach grounded in the traditions of the Old Masters. His reproductions, particularly after Leonardo da Vinci, seek not only visual accuracy but emotional presence, restoring a sense of spirit, depth, and humanity to the original works.
JOHN F MARSHALL
Morning Radiance Oil on Canvas 4 × 8 ft.
Golden Afternoon
Cecily Markham’s life in art began early. Raised in an intrinsically artistic home and educated through both formal training and decades of self-directed study, she developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, photography, installation, poetry, and integrated arts. Growing up near Washington, D.C., she spent countless hours studying museum collections, absorbing influences that continue to shape her visual language today.
CECILY MARKHAM
Acrylic on Canvas 48 × 24 in.
Cecily Markham · Spotlight
The lineage behind Markham’s paintings is wide-ranging and thoughtfully absorbed. Echoes of Rembrandt’s humanity, Monet’s atmosphere, Van Gogh’s emotional intensity, Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensitivity to form, and Rothko’s contemplative use of color can all be felt within a body of work that remains distinctly her own. Rather than imitation, these influences serve as points of departure for exploration and discovery.
Blue Day
Acrylic on Canvas
48 × 24 in.
When You Arrive
Cecily’s abstract paintings embrace surprise and intuition. Sweeping gestures, layered color, and expressive mark-making create compositions that evolve organically across the surface. There is movement everywhere, but also moments of stillness allowing the eye to rest and reflect. Working with a freedom rooted in experience rather than formula, Markham paintings feel both spontaneous and deeply considered, balancing emotional intensity with a strong sense of structure and atmosphere
CECILY MARKHAM
Acrylic on Canvas 48 × 24 in.
· Cecily Markham
Alongside painting, Markham has developed a compelling installation practice that meaningfully brings together found materials. These immersive works extend her interest in memory, transformation, and emotional resonance into physical space. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, the installations encourage personal interpretation, inviting viewers to move through environments where symbolism, absence, and presence coexist in subtle and often unexpected ways.
For ‘Bride in the Wilderness,’ Markham combines branches, flowing white fabric, and a single glove to create a scene that feels both beautiful and unsettling. The work suggests a story without fully telling it, leaving space for themes of absence, transition, memory, and vulnerability to emerge. Its emotional power lies in this openness, inviting viewers to complete the narrative for themselves.
CECILY MARKHAM
Cecily Markham
· Cecily Markham
Over the years, Markham has presented solo exhibitions, installations, public artworks, and award-winning paintings and photographs. Her work has been recognized through numerous exhibitions and honors, including awards for both painting and photography, reflecting the breadth of her creative practice. What unites this diverse body of work is a belief in art’s ability to move people. Whether working on canvas, in space, or through language, she continually creates opportunities for reflection, surprise, and meaningful connection.
Tamara Michel is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Vienna whose joyful, elegant paintings balance impressionistic freedom with a distinctive figurative sensibility. Working in oil, watercolor, and acrylic, she is recognized for her radiant color combinations, expressive brushwork, and highly personal visual language shaped by both imagination and observation.
TAMARA MICHEL
www.tamaramichelart.com
Lotus Oil on Canvas 80 × 100 cm
Tamara Michel Art ·
Influenced by Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Nicholas Roerich, Tamara creates floral and landscape paintings filled with movement, warmth, and lyrical atmosphere. Her unusual approach often merges watercolorlike transparency into oil painting, giving the works a freshness and luminosity that feels instantly recognizable and uniquely her own.
Glückliche Blumen (Happy Flowers) Oil on Canvas 100 × 80 cm
For more than three decades, Tamara has exhibited throughout Austria, with works held in private collections across Austria, Germany, France, and Russia. Beyond their technical refinement, her paintings carry genuine emotional generosity, inviting viewers into worlds of beauty, color, optimism, and poetic escape.
TAMARA MICHEL
www.tamaramichelart.com
Karen Naim’s work bridges inner emotion and the outer world through images that hover between photography and painting. Her current practice embraces a more limited color scale, demanding concentration, restraint, and conscious choice. Paradoxically, this discipline has opened a new sense of freedom in the work. Her fading, atmospheric images feel introspective and expressive, revealing beauty in disappearance, control, and emotional transition.
https://karennaim.wixsite.com/naimarts
Apocalypse Oil on Canvas 70 × 154 cm
Billy Moro-Wey creates imaginative drawings that move fluidly between observation, fantasy, surrealism, and abstraction. Often inspired by characters glimpsed on the streets of New York, his works transform fleeting urban moments into dreamlike compositions filled with shifting perspectives, atmosphere, and emotional ambiguity.
www.billymorowey.com
Working with remarkable draftsmanship and intuitive freedom, Billy blends layered pastel and drawing techniques into richly textured images that feel cinematic, restless, and deeply personal. His ability to balance technical control with imaginative distortion gives the work a distinctive visual language that remains both poetic and psychologically charged.
The Sunset Soft Pastel on Paper 36 × 28 cm
Regenesis 5
Graphite on Paper 8 × 8 cm
Sven J Norris returns to abstraction with renewed energy in his “Regenesis” series, reconnecting with the intricate lines and shaped forms that first defined his artistic identity in the 1990s. After a career detour, the pull of abstraction remained alive, resurfacing through original drawings and digital derivatives. His work carries a sense of revival, evolution, and visual rhythm, transforming past artistic language into a fresh contemporary direction. www.svennorrisart.com
SVEN J NORRIS
J Norris
Fatma Ozar Conkbayır’s works are filled with love, joy, and imaginative escape. Born in Kyrenia, North Cyprus, she began painting during university and developed a practice that combines surrealist and fantasy elements across canvas and stone. Her process allows her to separate from the noise of the world and enter a space of happiness and expression. The paintings carry warmth, optimism, and sincere emotional energy.
FATMA (FATOŞ) OZAR CONKBAYIR
Secret Garden
Acrylic on Canvas 150 × 120 cm
Gulong Peicheng (Sarah) has developed one of the more original and conceptually ambitious contemporary practices emerging between spirituality, abstraction, and metaphysical inquiry. As the pioneer of “Divine Vipassana Art,” Sarah transforms multidimensional visions into radiant compositions filled with movement, symbolic energy, and chromatic intensity. Her work carries the conviction of an artist guided by a clear philosophical vision and highly personal creative manifesto. Recent recognitions, including the 2025 American Art Award, further affirm the growing visibility of her distinctive artistic voice.
GULONG PEICHENG (SARAH)
Goal by Messi · The Warrior God
Acrylic 120 × 120 cm
Through projects such as “Guardians of the Earth,” Sarah merges intuitive painting, meditative awareness, and ideas connected to quantum science into immersive visual experiences that feel both visionary and emotionally charged. Beyond their striking visual impact, these works are part of a broader effort to imagine new relationships between consciousness, creativity, and human interconnectedness. In this sense, her practice aligns with what she describes as a new Renaissance of spiritual and cultural awakening, positioning her as a distinctive voice within contemporary spiritual abstraction.
Nancy’s Blue Storm Magical World
Acrylic 120 × 120 cm
Gulong Peicheng (Sarah)
Peace Talks
Acrylic on Canvas 40 × 50 cm
Travel, memory, and color shape the distinctive visual world of Pepponi Art, the artistic identity of German-born Birgit Kalkofen. A life spent across Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, including more than a decade in Kenya, informs her vivid use of form and atmosphere. Her paintings carry the imprint of diverse landscapes and cultures, transforming lived experience into a contemporary language of color, movement, and emotional vitality.
PEPPONI ART
www.pepponi.de
Gabriele Pionteck
Art becomes both exploration and resilience in the work of German painter Gabriele Pionteck
A self-taught artist working in abstraction and portraiture, she continues to develop her practice despite the physical challenges of multiple sclerosis. Her paintings reflect curiosity, emotional openness, and a lifelong attachment to creative discovery. Through color, form, and expressive experimentation, Pionteck presents art as nourishment for the soul and a source of inner strength.
GABRIELE PIONTECK
www.kunst-am-ziegelhof.de
Matera Weltkulturerbe (Matera World Heritage)
Acrylic on Canvas 70 × 90 cm
Evolution of Sound Églomisé with Reflective Elements 40 × 60 in. Timothy Poe · Spotlight 45 · 92 ·
Timothy Poe’s practice moves fluidly between painting, object-making, and illusion. Using reverse painting on mirrored glass alongside found materials, wax, and reflective surfaces, the American artist constructs layered works that shift with light, movement, and viewpoint. His longstanding engagement with verre églomisé and mixed-media experimentation gives the work both material richness and conceptual depth. https://tpoestudio.com
TIMOTHY POE
Thomas Muehlhaeuser)
“‘OUI-No ‘Here it is the eternal (male) doubt about a woman who drives you completely up the wall in one moment and then gently wraps you around her fingers! Is this temptation? What are my thoughts doing with me? I thougt I arrived after all. “OUI” thats right says your inner angel and “NO” there is no end “because the earth is round” prompts the little devil inside your mind! Always mind: You create what you think!”
OUI-NON
Acrylic on Canvas
Architecture, landscape, and light shape the refined paintings of Monica J Rich. Formally trained as both architect and artist, she is especially attentive to how buildings sit within their surroundings and how changing light alters perception. Her use of gouache, chosen after a personal health experience led her toward environmentally friendly materials, gives the work softness and clarity. Her paintings feel thoughtful, atmospheric, and rooted in sensitive observation.
MONICA J RICH
www.monicajrichart.com
San Gimignano at Sundown Gouache on Archival Paper 10 × 8 in.
Monica J Rich · Spotlight
Cher Pruys (ASAA, SCA, IGOR, AAPL, CSAA, AMS, LMS, OSA, MAA, CFA, NOAPS, PSOA, AWA, AAOA, PSOC) brings extraordinary technical refinement and emotional sincerity to contemporary realist painting. Internationally recognized for her dedication to craftsmanship and visual storytelling, Cher creates works that transform inner vision into images filled with warmth, precision, and expressive human presence.
CHER PRUYS
Soaking Up the Sun Acrylic 9 × 9 in.
Roberta Rousos creates work from the unexpected turns of life, finding her voice in the fertile space between abstraction and realism. Her paintings seek to reach beneath conscious interpretation, asking viewers not only what they see, but what they feel. That emotional connection becomes the final stroke of the work, completing its life beyond the studio. Her art feels honest, intuitive, and deeply connected to rediscovery.
ROBERTA ROUSOS
www.robertarousos-artist.com
Mostly Innocent
Acrylic on Canvas 20 × 16 × 1 in.
Roberta Rousos
METALLICON OS COMITATI: Defense And Provocation
German mixed-media artist Angela Scherer-Kern approaches art as a reflection of transformation, movement, and interconnected experience. Working across digital processes, painting, and found materials, she creates layered compositions where texture, decay, and reconstruction coexist in balance. In “Defense and Provocation,” rusted metal and weathered surfaces become metaphors for resilience, tension, and continual change.
ANGELA SCHERER-KERN
www.lunartis.de
Geometric Compositions No. I
Croatian painter Josip Rubes-Ruby, born in 1942, brings decades of experience into a geometric abstract practice rooted in precision, rhythm, and color harmony. Raised near Zagreb and later trained in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he creates carefully balanced compositions that combine technical discipline with imaginative design. The depicted work radiates energy through interlocking geometric forms and luminous pastel tones, revealing an artist deeply committed to the beauty and structure of abstraction.
JOSIP RUBES-RUBY
https://apstraktno-slikarstvo-josiprubes.com
“Le Veilleur de Nuit” is part of Marliese Scheller’s Black and White period. With its focus on line, two-dimensionality, and the interplay of stark contrasts, where black represents the ink and white the paper, it draws on the visual language of graphic art and reveals the influence of Belgian printmaker, Masereel. It also shows Scheller’s originality and ability to visual storytelling, creating a compelling work.
MARLIESE SCHELLER
Le veilleur de Nuit (The Night Watchman) Ink Drawing 66 × 102 cm
Musician 2
Digital 30 × 30 cm
Science, philosophy, and visual imagination merge in the work of Japanese artist, Humans Sato With a PhD in theoretical physics and a background in string theory and black hole physics, the artist explores fusion as a central creative principle. His works bring together visible and invisible forces, mathematics and emotion, natural and social systems. The result is a distinctive practice where art becomes a bridge between scientific inquiry and human perception.
HUMANS SATO
https://humanssato.com
RVFphotoART transforms photography into a fluid study of motion, light, and perception through images created entirely in-camera using intentional camera movement. In “Colors of Autumn,” a coniferous forest dissolves into vertical streams of color and atmosphere, turning landscape into abstraction without losing its connection to nature. With no AI intervention and only minimal postprocessing, the work preserves the immediacy of photographic capture while revealing a striking sensitivity to rhythm, color, and poetic visual experience.
www.lightreframed.studio
Colors of Autumn Photograph
Badender Vogel
Mixed Media 70 × 50 cm
Judith Seiler-Schloemmer develops her ideas directly through the act of painting, working at the threshold between reality and abstraction. This border space gives her work a sense of openness and discovery, where recognizable impressions gradually shift into more intuitive visual structures. Her practice values the unfolding process, allowing each image to find its own balance between observation, feeling, and painterly transformation.
JUDITH SEILER-SCHLOEMMER
Judith
Human emotion, adaptation, and interpretation sit at the center of Standa’s surreal-abstract mixed media practice. Since the early 2000s, the artist has explored how psychological experience can be translated into layered visual form, increasingly embracing ambiguity and openness. Rather than dictating meaning, the works deliberately leave space for viewers to build their own associations and emotional readings, giving the paintings a lasting sense of mystery and participation.
STANDA
www.saatchiart.com/en-ca/StandaRiha
At ninety-three years old, Shirley Slusher continues to practice the delicate and demanding tradition of egg tempera painting with remarkable dedication. Her work carries the quiet discipline and timeless sensitivity associated with one of art history’s oldest mediums. In an era dominated by speed and spectacle, Slusher’s commitment to patience, craftsmanship, and enduring technique feels especially moving and deeply authentic.
SHIRLEY SLUSHER
Souix Chief Big Head
Egg Tempera 24 × 18 in.
Slusher
· 105 · Spotlight 45 · Angelė Šimoliūnienė
Lithuanian artist Angelė Šimoliūnienė has built a strong international presence through solo exhibitions, global competitions, and numerous art publications. Her paintings move beyond representation toward metaphysical reflection, exploring light, consciousness, and inner energy. Through luminous color and contemplative form, the works invite viewers into meditative visual experiences charged with spiritual intensity.
www.facebook.com/angele.simoliuniene
Gathering of People Acrylic on Paper 44 × 64 cm
The photography of Wolfgang Tuttlies-Kolberg is rooted in the maritime world of northern Germany. Drawn to ships, harbors, and coastal life, he documents the atmosphere and rhythm of places shaped by the sea. His work captures not only industrial and nautical structures, but also the quieter human presence surrounding them, revealing a deep personal connection to maritime culture and environment. www.wt-foto.com
WOLFGANG TUTTLIES-KOLBERG
Based in Ireland, Christine Terres brings more than two decades of photographic practice to works shaped by architecture, landscape, and geotechnical observation. Her images explore patterns found across both natural and constructed environments, shifting between micro and macro perspectives with analytical precision and visual elegance. The result is photography that feels structured yet organic, balancing scientific curiosity with artistic sensitivity.
www.christineterresphotography.com
Sweet Pea
Photograph 90 × 90 cm
Marti White is a mixed media artist working in both abstract and representational subject matter. She is self-taught with the help of many artist mentors and workshops. Marti enjoys beginning with color and medium and letting her tools take her where they want to go. Ms. White works in watercolor, acrylic, mixed-media and collage. She likes to experiment with a variety of “what ifs.” Her work is shown locally, nationally and internationally.
MARTI WHITE
https://circle-arts.com/marti-white
For Root Yarden, nature is not simply inspiration but a place of belonging. This direct and essential relationship shapes work grounded in atmosphere, presence, and emotional connection to the natural world. The simplicity of the statement carries through the art itself, where observation becomes a form of intimacy and quiet recognition.
https://yardenroot.wixsite.com/rootyarden
Antrum Vitae
Photographs Ea. 40 × 60 cm
Fairy Tales Do Come True Dean Village Edinburgh Scotland
Photograph 18 × 24 in.
American writer, poet, and photographer Tracey Dean Widelitz brings literary sensitivity and visual lyricism into a multidisciplinary creative practice shaped by symbolism, atmosphere, and emotional reflection. Her photography and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, while her dragonfly imagery was featured at New York’s Agora Gallery during the “New York, I Love You” exhibition.
TRACEY DEAN WIDELITZ
www.traceydeanwidelitz.com
· 111 · Spotlight 45 · Tracey Dean Widelitz
On Wings of Grace Halloween Pennant Dragonfly Photograph 18 × 24 in.
Tracey’s photography reveals a delicate attentiveness to nature, memory, and quiet transformation. Balancing poetic imagination with visual clarity, she creates images that feel contemplative, intimate, and gently symbolic, inviting viewers into moments of stillness, wonder, and personal interpretation.
Polish artist Malina Wieczorek has spent decades exploring the female nude as both physical presence and existential symbol. Her paintings move beyond direct representation, reducing the body toward abstraction and sign, opening space for imagination, vulnerability, and philosophical reflection. Internationally exhibited and recognized for her distinctive contemporary vision, Wieczorek has developed a practice that feels both deeply personal and intellectually ambitious.
MALINA WIECZOREK
www.malinawieczorek.com
· 113 · Spotlight 45 · Malina Wieczorek
Act, Body of the World, Terra Ignota Cycle 120 × 80 cm
Rather than offering fixed narratives, Malina uses the figure to question identity, truth, and human experience itself. The work feels intellectually searching yet emotionally intimate, balancing sensuality with contemplation through a refined visual language shaped by years of sustained artistic inquiry. Her paintings possess a rare ability to feel timeless, psychological, and unmistakably her own.
Living and painting in the UK, Alesia Yeremeyeva has developed a distinctive practice centered on marine painting and the emotional atmosphere of the sea. Working primarily in oil, she combines impressionistic sensitivity with elements of marine realism, shifting between alla prima spontaneity and layered sfumato techniques. Her work has been exhibited in the UK, including at Mall Galleries in London, and is held in private collections internationally.
ALESIA YEREMEYEVA
www.alesiayeremeyeva.com
Sunlit Oil on Linen 30 × 40 cm Alesia Yeremeyeva
· 115 · Spotlight 45 · Alesia Yeremeyeva
Across these contemplative seascapes, Alesia captures fleeting moments where sunset light dissolves the boundary between memory and direct experience. The recurring presence of children introduces a sense of freedom, immediacy, and emotional openness within the landscape. Rather than dramatizing the ocean, she focuses on subtle shifts of atmosphere and color, creating paintings that invite stillness, attention, and quiet emotional reflection.
Collecting Stardust Oil on Linen 30 × 40 cm
New York artist Deborah Zavon approaches drawing with remarkable intimacy, treating graphite not simply as a medium but as a vehicle for emotional and psychological presence. Educated at New York University, The New School, The School of Visual Arts, The New York Academy of Art, and the Art Students League, where she is a life member, she has built a practice grounded in serious draftsmanship and sustained observation.
DEBORAH ZAVON
https://deborahzavon.com
Butterfly Garden
Pastel 12 × 12 in.
· Deborah Zavon
Her pencil works push realism beyond technical display, revealing extraordinary sensitivity to texture, light, and human expression Zavon’s drawings have appeared in galleries, competitions, and exhibitions throughout New York and beyond, earning multiple awards and commendations for their refinement and emotional depth. Rather than relying on spectacle, she achieves intensity through restraint and precision, transforming simple graphite marks into images of striking humanity and psychological nuance.
Hibiscus Study
Pastel 12 × 12 in.
From Germany, Franca Ze’s imaginative, story-driven paintings move between surrealism, folklore, and personal mythology. Her highly distinctive visual language combines theatrical figures, symbolic objects, and dreamlike settings into compositions that feel both playful and psychologically charged. Influenced by the transformative power of imagination, Franca constructs poetic worlds where mystery, humor, and emotional reflection coexist, inviting viewers into spaces that resist logic while remaining deeply human and strangely familiar.
FRANCA ZE
www.franca-ze.art
Homemade from the Series WeibsBild Oil on Canvas 73 × 60 cm Franca
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