VOGUE WEEK
T H I R D
EDITION 08 - 14 OCTOBER 2021 BOOMER GALLERY
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
VOGUE I THIRD EDITION As some of you might know, every time an exhibition is very successful we will have multiple editions with the same theme and for our next show we have “VOGUE”-Third Edition. The first two editions have been mind blowing from all points of view and the third and last one might be the best of this exhibition series as we are hosting this event in our newly open gallery space in Tower Bridge London. The purpose of this exhibition is to find out what is the current trend in contemporary art and how each artist feels is the right approach to a successful career. This Exhibition Will Take Place At Our Newly Opened Space In Tower Bridge. 150 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2TU.
Iya Voinich Guseva Ksenia Vadimovna Bill Jefferson Daria Zakharenkova Luiza Albastova Paul Blenkhorn Nike Beatriz Domínguez Alemán Lena Silva Mary Blue Tate Paviour Kati Beyaz Julia Tymańska Marcos Henrique Mello Nina KH William A. Browm Orna Adoram Jacqui James Christian McCulloch Anna Dogadkina Kim Chase Nina Tokhtaman Valetova Jess Coldrey Cat Askew Nika Nuova Klara Sedlo MARIE XI Iseult Bailie Beatriz Montes Stacey Wells Zhenya Z Jing Qiu Zhang Zong Nika Sokolovskaya Anastasia Ilkhanova Frank Boyce Felox Elyse Blackshaw Hidekazu Sato Mondi Maleknia
Louise Hapton David Elharar Alevtina Caravona Sydni Roach Karen Glykys Amy Row Leva Pazemeckaite Stevén ‘Gb-yega Fajana Eva Holts Kat Trevino Elena Ipatova Irina Selina Silvia Sun Rooba Ali Charlie Henzi Samira DEBBAH Elena Gonzalez Muñoyerro Sakshee Patel Manuel Morquecho Vera Hoi Christie Goldstein Kristina Novak Christy Grishina Sasha Libby Farren-Price Kristina Mitrovic K. Art Dr. Mankush Srivastava Anna Mavroudi Henna Vähä Joe King Dina Klumbys Erin Leatherbarrow Mehrunnisa Hashmi Kevin Devonport Tanya Dora Elena Zapletina Jason Grevtsev Anton Olga Kiseleva Ofelya Petrosyan
Elena Campbell Nikol Sadloňová Misako, Jinhan Wei Victoria Terme Anthony Cortes Olena Denysyuk Elizaveta Snadina & Roman Balyshev Niki Srinivasa Rossanne Pellegrino Tatiana Oskina Sharafieva Ilgizia Irekovna Ko Smith
Iya Voinich
I was born in Moscow, Russia. I graduated from the university with a degree in psychology. Then I got a second education in the field of art. I paint with acrylic, gouache and sometimes use powdered mineral pigments on canvas, paper, paperboard. My paintings describe a sensual and bizzare world, dominated by female characters and nature elements- mushrooms, flowers, insects, marine fauna etc.
Guseva Ksenia Vadimovna
Bill Jefferson
During my 50 years of painting, I have used the following mediums: pastel (on canvas), ink, oil, acrylic, enamel (on plexiglass), and both underglaze and onglaze ceramic. I have served hundreds of happy clients. I personally take pride in the quality of my craftsmanship and believe in building long term relationships with clients, emphasizing quality, honesty, and reliability as my credos. Fifty years of experience as an artist, both fine and commercial, have taught me the importance of clear communication being essential in developing any project.
Daria Zakharenkova My name is Daria Zakharenkova. I’m an embroidery artist from Belarus. Some time ago, embroidery became a kind of meditation for me. I want embroidery to become one of the art forms on a par with others because with the help of a needle and thread you can convey the same thing that with a brush, camera, computer, or other media.
Luiza Albastova
My name is Louise, I am 33 years old. I have been doing creative work since childhood. I graduated from art school and art institute, so I play the piano. I founded my own creative studio 8 years ago, where I teach painting, illustration, drawing, as well as playing musical instruments.
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Mostly I don’t have a plan for my painting. I listen for my inner sound of shapes and colours.
I had 3 personal exhibitions in Russia, and also participated in numerous general exhibitions. I paint portraits, most of my orders are precisely them and I am fond of night city landscapes, as well as Asian motives.
Paul Blenkhorn
Beatriz Domínguez Alemán
Paul Blenkhorn is a Manchester (UK) based artist who has been working in the field of sensory stimulation since the 1980s. Much of this has been developing computer-based systems to visually attract/interact with profoundly disabled children. He is interested in the light/colour of forms and the objects around them and has developed numerous apps for the earliest learners over the years both in academia (he retired as an Emeritus Professor of Assistive Technology in 2007) and in several disability companies. More recently this work has expanded into two new areas. The first is abstract, non-representational painting that has been more recently been drifting towards the surreal.
Beatriz Dominguez Aleman is a ChileanPuerto Rican photographer and Anthropologist who explores the themes of intersectional discrimination, gender and racism through the art of edited photography. Working mainly in remote rural villages as an anthropologist in Puerto Rico and Chile, the use of audiovisual aids has been vital to the development of her career. In most recent times, she has involved herself in the world of artistic photography as a form of expression of personal yet social issues. Her work has been showcased in Europe and North America in several magazines such as Art Hole, Artists responding to… The Working Artist, Flora Fiction and others, as well as online and physical galleries such as The Vacant Museum, RIVRE Gallery, NOMA Gallery, Envision Arts Show, Boomer Gallery.
Lena Silva
Tate Paviour
A contemporary artist, Lena Silva has produced various artworks inclusive of abstracts, portraits and illustrations. Presently, her work is exhibited in Europe, where she was first noted by the famous Italian art curator - Loredana Trestini. Oftentimes, while creating her pieces, albeit using varied mediums, it’s meaning becomes clear once the colours absorb light. Then the shapes begin
Painting is an important process for me as a recorded performance it allows me through gesture, abstraction and mark making to access the internalised places I carry around within me, and to express the non visual as the visual. Sunlight can become a thick viscous material, and shadow an expansive almost dissolving substance. It can be a deep dive into the formative shapes, memories and emotions, that while significant, exist to us in a kind of indefinable periphery.
to form their identity. Furthermore, through her artwork she often gets a sense of belonging, an escape from the acrimony of daily life and chaos of society. Lena aims to evoke light, love, happiness and tranquility, through her work, gifted to the observer.
Mary Blue
Kati Beyaz
My paintings reflect upon the impermanence of life and the forces of nature. I weave poetry into layers of jewel-toned colours exposing the overlooked hidden effects of time. I paint light and shadow, the far horizon and the passing of time. In the minds of man, the sea and land seemingly exist as opposites, yet around the edges everything changes every six hours; I’m attracted to the fleeting. At the crossroads of impermanence, beauty remains. I find in life the things that are most fleeting are very powerful.
Kati Beyaz was born in 1984 in Belarus and studied there fashion design engineering.
I earned my Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 where I studied with the renowned landscape painter, Neil Welliver.
She has been invited to the “International Fashion Mill Festival” attended by universities and experts from various cities in Europe, which was held in Minsk. Until 2013, her designs took place in fashion shows every year and won many awards. Was invited for experience exchange and fashion shows to the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lette Verein Berlin, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts between 2005 and 2013. In 2009 attended the Belgium Fashion Week, Belarusian Fashion Week in 2010 and Antalya Fashion Week in 2020.
Julia Tymańska
Nina KH
Julia Tymańska, b. October 6, 1997 in Gdańsk. A graduate of the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Two-time winner of the Ministry of Culture’s scholarship for significant achievements. She received a special award in the national painting competition named after Wojciech Fangor and at the international exhibition of student drawing # RYSOWAĆ. She took residency at the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art, culminating in a solo show. Her works have been exhibited at numerous individual and collective exhibitions. She also runs the “Pawlacz” non-profit Contemporary Art Gallery in Gdańsk. In addition to painting, she creates objects, scenery,
My name is Nina. My main genre in which I work is portrait. I am inspired by a person and his inner world. The presented works also tell about who we are and what we feel. I try to show not only the external, but also the internal, for example, in the LOOK DEEP series, which tells that the most valuable thing is hidden in us, and the “golden apple” is just a metaphor.
Marcos Henrique Mello
William A. Browm
MARCOS HENRIQUE MELLO, was born on 17/07/1963 in the city of São Carlos - São Paulo - Brazil. He graduated in Physiotherapy, where he learned anatomy and today uses this knowledge in his paintings. A self-taught contemporary plastic artist, he is inspired by the sentimentality of Van Gogh’s paintings, by Rembrandt’s lights and shadows, and also by the movement and lights of William Turner’s paintings. His paintings show our current problems, such as environmental destruction, for example. It uses strong colors, but preserving a good combination, and it always tells a story, an event. In his paintings, he uses oil on canvas techniques, with brush strokes directly on the canvas, using his own brushes in the drawing, always after applying a background, he paints one paint over another bringing the light from the shadow.
I’m a retired college professor (Emory University) with a respectable history of producing and showing both art videos and designs and prototypes for photosculptures: https://william-brown-bzhc. squarespace.com . In 2019 I stumbled upon a new way to create paintings designed specifically to be created by robotic painting devices. I devised a computer aided high volume way to generate John Cage inspired true aleatory images, a long-time aspiration of avant-garde painters fascinated by the possibility of creating art without the usual stylistic pre-conceptions. In 2021 I became interested in using the vast supply of public domain art works to create highly unique photo montages.
Orna Adoram
Christian McCulloch
My work is effected by my own life story.
Christian McCulloch is a prolific Scottish writer with a background in Fine Art. He’s been an International teacher in British West Indies, Singapore (Principal), Japan and Hong Kong, also 10 years in Special Needs in UK. After 30 years in the Far East he returned to UK and now lives and creates in London.
After 20 years of running my own Interior Design business, I’ve decided to choose a different path outside the daily race, and devoted myself to painting. My day starts with a long walk on the beach before going to my day studio. My works, are originals multi-layered acrylic on canvas, combining the practical world of industrial architecture recycled building materials such as paint, plaster, industrial color, glue, glass and more with symbols and concepts from the spiritual world. My abstract works characterized by harmony of colors and shapes, are minimalist and powerful.
Jacqui James
Anna Dogadkina
I am a surrealist ceramist, I hand build my work and I only ever make one, I glaze my work by hand and mix glazes so there would be almost impossible to reproduce. I started ceramics when I retired from work, I use unorthodox techniques and use mixed mediums with the clay.
I’m Anna, I’m a landscape photographer for Canon. I‘m flying around the world to shoot landscapes in remote destinations.
Kim Chase
Jess Coldrey
I am ex-military, where I served as an F-18 aircraft mechanic and switched over to pilot and in my off time I served in the fire department as a firefighter. After serving 10 years, I moved into civilian life where I opened a pet store to support the needs of having 2 Great Danes. After 10 successful years, I moved up to the Arctic where I became the Chief Inspector of the Nunavut Liquor Commission and joined the fire department there. I moved south again after 3 years when my boys were heading into school. There I began painting again and found my passion after a long absence from art. I believe we are all connected to nature in a parallel way; behaviors, movement, attitudes, and visually.
New technologies appear in Jess Coldrey’s sculptures, festival installations, and mechanical video works, taking on the language of experiments, games, and electronic tangles. Objects are scanned, sensed, mechanised, 3d-printed and lasered through the constant knitting of humans and machines. Coldrey’s work playfully shares the perspective of social determinist Leila Green, who argues that society ultimately shapes technology rather than vice versa. She believes our fears, ecstasies, and mythologies about technology disconnect us, creating a dissonance between the present and the past’s future.
Nina Tokhtaman Valetova
Cat Askew
Nina Tokhtaman Valetova is New York based artist.
Cat Askew makes art that doesn’t take itself too seriously, using discarded materials as she enjoys the challenge of turning something old into something groovy. She prefers to re-use objects and considers the environmental impact of her art. She uses embroidery, collage and paints random objects.
Nina is award winner of Premio ALBA 2009, Certificate and Medal, Casa Editrice Alba, Ferrara, Italy in 2009. Nina is American Art Award winner in category”Cubism” in 2018. Many of paintings are in public and private collections in Russia, United States, in Denmark, Germany. Nina Valetova explores the relationship between ancient cultures, mythologies, fantasy, metaphysics and philosophy. The theme of science is also presented in artworks, like a homotopy and mobius strip.
Cat uses bold, mostly “girly”, colours and typography in her work, whilst injecting a bit of well-mannered hilarity. Her work provides alternatives to and comments on societal norms, from the materialistic nature of capitalism to the importance we place on our appropriate outward appearance. Her motivations are to draw attention to these issues and to spread cheer.
Nika Nuova
MARIE XI
“My name is Veronika Lazareva, however now I prefer to go by Nika Nuova.
My name is MARIE XI, I am an artist from Moscow and founder of my gallery MARIE XI ART. My positioning is luxury exclusive artworks. My clients are modern, free, successful and picky persons with perfect sense of taste, design, style.
Through textile, I’m trying to express emotions using multi-temporal fashion fabric materials. I was born in Russia in the city of Krasnodar. At the Moscow Institute of Technology and graduated with a degree as a clothes designer artist in 1992. In 1996 opened my atelier and took part in seasonal shows of the Russian Fashion Week.
I successfully sell my artworks in online galleries in particular on Saatchi. There are my artworks in private collections in the US, UK, Italy, Luxembourg. I am experienced in business communications, clients-oriented, able to arrange timely OTC process, I provide branded cases and use the best quality packing.
Since 2007 for more than ten years, I have worked in the Mateo Glass company as a designer and art director.
Klara Sedlo
Iseult Bailie
Klara is a figurative painter living and working in Prague. She finished her studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2020 with master’s degree. She has been participating at many exhibitions in her home country and also abroad. She is a finalist of BBA Artist Prize 2019, Germany and Mostyn Open 21, Great Britain.
22 year old artist from France, practicing in London. I work primarily in painting, focused on various printing techniques and with an emphasis on mythology, history, and anthropology. I choose monoprinting to mirror the layered nature of a palimpsest - something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Effacing each layer with new context superimposes its meaning, contributing to the overall piece and so serving as a way of ingraining the narrative into the work.
In her works she focuses on modern pop-culture and consume culture elements as emojis, sharp colored toys and plastic decorations. Her another inspiration source, quite unexpectedly, lays in baroque and rococo epoch. The final painting is combination of both – the old dark era and contemporary vibrant colored 21st century.
Beatriz Montes
Zhenya Z
A few pieces of her artwork have been presented on exhibitions at La Trasera (Facultad de Bellas Artes, UCM, Madrid); the video art festival El país de los tuertos (Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid) and also at Viewbug by being selected at least 36 times winner of photography awards.
Zhenya Z works with Condé Nast, Grazia Italy and Australia, Garage NYC, L’Oréal Paris, Revlon and others, she’s also taught illustrating at design schools around the world and has featured in a variety of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar and Beauty Hub Magazine.
Beatriz Montes, or better known as Ruska, is a visual artist, photographer, illustrator, video artist and performer born in Madrid, Spain (1998) that shows violence and experimental ethnography through those disciplines.
Zhenya Z is a fashion Illustrator and architect. Her aesthetic is characterised through her neat and elegant lines, littered with eye-catching colours that capture each of her subjects’ spirit, transforming them into a dazzling illustration.
Stacey Wells
Jing Qiu
Stacey Wells is a mixologist of art, music, wine, pop culture and humour, creating edgy, pop style art that embodies the essence of moments and starts a conversation.
Currently working and Shenzhen, Guangdong
Inspired by music and wine, Wells is known for her unique wine artworks, reflecting good times had with music and wine, essentially capturing time in a bottle. Wells art hangs on art collector’s walls worldwide, including a few celebrities. Large Corporations such as the Hard Rock Hotel International and Raiders? Allegiant Stadium each commissioned Wells to create art to represent their brands and hang at their venues.
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“Occasionality, unknownness, directness, and emotion are the essence of my paintings. In the material and spirit, symbol and metaphor, truth and lie, complexity and simplicity, square and circle, line and surface, the boundary of space is blurred through the interweaving of elements. Explore the self-spiritual world. Everything is created in the unknown, and there is the subconscious mind of my own creation in the unconscious. “
Zhang Zong
Anastasia Ilkhanova
My name is Zhang Zong, a Chinese, professional photographer and photography studio in Beijing. I have won the first prize in China in the National Geographic global competition and the silver prize in photography in the International Photography Awards.
My name is Anastasia Ilkhanova, I was born in Moscow, 1991. I’ve graduated from the Moscow State University, the faculty of Law, and I’ve worked for several years in different organizations as a lawyer. But my yearning to art was very strong. I’ve started to study drawing and painting at art school in 2014. I use different techniques, but my absolute favourites are: watercolor, ink, pastels and oil. I adore watercolor I for its ability to express momentary impressions, wonderful accidents. In this sense, watercolor is like life - many amazing things often happen in it by chance, are given as revelation to us, but it’s only up to us - to see the chances and decide, whether to use them or not.
Nika Sokolovskaya
Frank Boyce
My name is Nika Sokolovskaya, I was born in a faraway small town in the north of Russia, now I live near Moscow. At the beginning of 2021 I started my journey as a digital artist. In my works I reveal the themes of female sexuality, self-acceptance, our inner child, personal freedom, the versatility of the human soul.
Frank Boyce is an Artist, Teacher and Maker living in Northwest Ireland. He completed his BA hons in Fine and Applied Art in the University of Ulster, Belfast in 2001 Having returned to producing Art during the first lockdown of the Pandemic after a ten year break, Frank’s work continues to explore themes such as the human condition, politics, religion and social issues. Language and how we use it to ascribe meaning is central to his work. The Artist is interested in posing questions through the subject matter of his work but also through his process and the materials he uses. Often using found objects or materials that have been repurposed.
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Hidekazu Sato
IMAGINARIUM is a project of autobiographical meaning where I explored the subconscious, the natural world and memories in my early age. This aesthetic experiment is based on stories, narratives and dreams conceived on a purely abstract plane with elements of a concrete and real world. Subjects, objects and animals with which I have a certain EMPATHY are narrative symbols which, arranged in a scene, are combined with unexpected elements, thus constructing contradictory scenes with a completely new dimension, which transmits a unique image with a life of its own, rooted in the unreal.
Hidekazu Sato is a painter based in London. His paintings express the essence of life as a human potentiality, unconsciousness and views of life and death based on the philosophy of Japanese ink wash painting and surrealism. Layered with the philosophy of traditional agelong Asian painting and worldwide contemporary issues, he depicts the essence of life in the present day. He aims to make artworks that come to life and represent the attitudes of people’s hearts that are filled with potential. Hidekazu got semi-grand prizes (2019, 2018) and Foreign Minister prize (2019) in Japan ink wash painting competition.
Elyse Blackshaw
Mondi Maleknia
Elyse Blackshaw is a London based illustrator and a graduate from the Royal College of Art, and has worked for clients such as Samsung, Fashion Scout and Graduate Fashion Foundation. She works as a visual communicator for fashion media, and most recently installation as a result of winning the Westfield Future Fashion award for window display. After illustrating London Fashion Week for nearly 10 years, Elyse aims to bridge the gap between the fantasy of fashion and the reality of its environmental challenges through three main roles: Illustrator of fashion and figures for gallery and commercial contexts. Educator of fashion illustration. Activator of change in retail and gallery spaces.
Born and raised in London, MoNDi is a Persian British Artist. She studied BA Fine Art at Middlesex University & then went on to study a Masters in Animation & Illustration at Kingston University. She is also a qualified Teacher, gaining her PGCE through Goldsmiths University. MoNDi specialises in her own unique style of fantasy meets reality Art, creating fantastical creatures with hidden & powerful messages, on the street and on other surfaces such as paper, canvas and recycled materials. These paintings all tell their own fragments of her story. MoNDi loves painting on the street as she says it gives people from all walks of life, access to Art that they may not otherwise have had the chance to see.
Louise Hapton
Alevtina Caravona
My name is Louise Hapton, I am a young French artist and writer newly based in London. My main concern is the human mind and the different perceptions it can have of the world we all live in. Eyes are very present in my work: they represent madness, excessive anger, illness and death. They don’t come from my artistic imagination but from my inside world, as they are my chronic hallucinations since the age of 10. In my work, I try to recreate the feeling I have about things surrounding me when they are covered in eyes and dark hands. My first book was published when I was 14 in France (Arnold, ed. Jets d’encre) and my first exhibition was earlier this year in Chicago Urban Art Center.
My name is Alevtina Caravona. I spent my childhood in Ukraine and my teenage years in Moscow. My professional background is an artist, fashion stylist and a model. I graduated from Institute Marangoni with Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Styling, with a focus on graphic design and Art History. Later, I continued my art studies at Heatherley School of Fine Arts, with a focus on oil painting portraits. In my oil paintings, I use real life experiences, live models, music, and personal interests to reflect spiritual and environmental energies that surround us all; i feel that portrait could be a reflection of the soul.
David Elharar
Sydni Roach
Im David Elharar, a graphic designer from israel.
Her Roaring Twenties is an emotional self portrait series. Using colors words shapes and realism to convey or express the emotions. I dive into emotions such as depression, anxiety, adhd, feelings of self worth and confidence and expression. It is also as if the younger self is peering through the looking glass to the older self. My artwork is the journey, to know more, about myself, and my creator. The complexities of my own mind, and how they can help me see more about how the world works. Undoubtedly, there is so much beauty in this world, I have yet to discover, and this is it. The world I see, and who I am.
I have an bachelors in visual communication from Shenkar institute of engineering & design. I have these characters i create that symbolises the empowerment of the weak to me, they sprout from influance i receive from various artists I love, from basquiat to austin lee and many more. As an israeli, in the complex everyday drama it is important to me to bring joy and humor to the viewer and hope to uplift even for a moment.
Karen Glykys
I am a self taught, mixed media artist. My influences and are vast and complex I am adventurous and experimental, both on canvas and behind the lens I create Pop Art, Abstract Acrylics, and PhoneArt. I am a pioneer of Smartphone Photographic PhoneArtists. Using strict control parameters, pushing the boundaries of Smartphones and free android apps.
Leva Pazemeckaite
Leva Pazemeckaite @ieva_bee is artist and graphic designer, born in Lithuania, graduated graphic design and visual communication BA in Denver USA. Worked as graphic designer more the 15years. Later move to UK and now based in Merton Abbey Mills were she open her art studio @beecreativearthub working on her personal art career and collaborations with other artist. Finalist of the coffee art project 2021.
Amy Row
Stevén ‘Gb-yega Fajana
Working with different mediums, I fancy bold vibrant paint colors, yet appreciate the many shades and details of a simple pencil. Nature moves me and people inspire me. I love sunsets, each night offers its own beautiful unique palette. Much like our ever changing moods and emotions, some nights are vibrant & bright, and some nights are somber & calm. In a dark moment, laughter is thought to be the best medicine, so sometimes adding humor to my artwork feels therapeutic in a way. We all seek balance and life is never what we anticipate. Dodging life’s punches isn’t always an easy task. Sometimes head on is the only option, forcing an internal review, and release of emotional creativity.
Art and creativity always mesmerized me since I was young, the infinite mix and variations. I have not been courageous to pursue this vocation whole heatedly. Now I am stepping into the other side of the glass as a creative and multidisciplinary artist. I live in London and gain my master’s in Design and Media Arts at the University of Westminster. My artistic temperance is in photography, painting, video, moving images and dance on screen. All these are interwoven to explore the visual gesture and the narrative possibilities presented in a type of “galleria and creative nuance”. My earlier works are dance on-screen films, employing movement and dance moving imagery as the protagonist.
Eva Holts
Elena Ipatova
Eva Holts (1994) - photographer, writer. Lives in Kyiv. She has figurative thinking, but until February 2020 she hasn`t taken photos and didn’t understand why people do it.
My name is Elena Ipatova - I am a photographer in love with the beauty, around me. I would like to paint as a great artist, but I can show you the beauty of elegance and the charm of simple things, with photographs.
Once, after the hard work day, I had rented 10 axes, pushed them into the ground and shot it just on the phone. Since then, I have realized what photography can mean.
Sometimes we look for beauty in something big and global, and she’s there. - In the spring green, in the snowflakes on the hair, in the smile of the child, in the clouds reflected in the puddles on the asphalt. My camera helps me capture these moments, and I’m happy to share them.
I’m currently working with Barbie — they are for me a reduced copy of the people with whom you can put any idea, without further ado. Always nice and friendly — the perfect object of study of human relationships, violence.
Kat Trevino
Irina Selina
Kat Trevino has exhibitions continuously from L.A. to Laguna to Palm Springs for the past 25 years. Her artwork now is on tv and streaming on LOUPE art channel for the world to see 24-7 in their own homes. She has made the cover of MVIBE art magazine this July and won 2nd in an international competition for her Graphic Art. Ms. Trevino has adorned many cities with her art as she began in L.A. on mural row and recently has painted for the art districts in Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Sherman Oaks.
The artist was born in 1984, the city of Astrakhan. Now he lives and works in Moscow. She was educated at the Children’s Art School No. 1 in Astrakhan. Irina prefers to create with ink, watercolor and stained glass paints, periodically mixing these techniques. Black-and-white graphics, clear pencil lines and watercolors perfectly convey the symbolism in the artist’s works. At the same time, bright, juicy and multifaceted stained glass paints emphasize realistic and romantic motifs in her paintings.
Silvia Sun
Charlie Henzi
Silvia Sun is a Linz based Austrian artist, dealing with the position of the individual in society and its boundary points with nature. She is a Fashion College and Vienna University graduate and Board member of a contemporary artists’ association (diekunstschaffenden.at). She received grants and scholarships, had national and international exhibitions, her works are in public and private collections.
‘Charlie Henzi is a multidisciplinary fine artist, living and working in London. Her work focuses on a female aspect, often combining clashing images to deal with concepts around femininity and the stereotypical female role in society. She mainly works with multimedia collaging, though her practise extends to other mediums. She has developed a fascination with pop culture and how women have been depicted within that over the last 100 yearsfrom cooking books, to sofa advertisements, porn magazines, and fashion. ‘
Positioned at the interface between pop music, photography and art, literary texts, song lyrics as well as personal comments flow into the works.
Rooba Ali
Samira DEBBAH
Rooba Ali comes from a small country in south Asia called Maldives. Mostly known as paradise by outsiders, for artists it has its challenges due to the country’s developing limitations. Despite such obstacles, Rooba works her way to thrive by exploring who she is as a person and as an artist. She goes against her social norms and intruiges and challenges the audience with her creations. From dark, erotic and fantasy themes to abstract and portraits. She is constantly looking for a way to evolve her art by practicing one style to another, mixing and matching. Learning and finding inspiration from other artists and making her own style merged together. She’s discovering as she is growing.
Samira DEBBAH is an artist painter and sculptor based in Morocco. After my studies and a career in entrepreneurship. I decided to realize my dream, which was close to my heart, to become an artist and make a living from my art. The passion for creation came to me from childhood. Artist and designer. My work spans various media including fine art, sculpture and surface design. I transform my passion for Art into a timeless and unique design. My work is the interpretation of everything I am, what I connect with the most in life, especially my sentimental side. I like to create an art which gives the possibility to the spectator to create a debate between him and the work.
Elena Gonzalez Muñoyerro
Manuel Morquecho
I am a mixed media artist who graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca (Spain). I have done several art exhibitions in London, Spain, and Italy.
Originally from Mexico, Manuel Morquecho started to study digital photography in 2009 in Guatemala City, graduating in 2014 from Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts in Washington D.C. where he currently resides. His main body of work focuses on exploring the urban landscape, the integration of the face and body into fine art, and fashion photography.
I have been painting my whole life exploring different techniques to create unique artworks. My subject matter is the body and, more specifically, the women’s body. I decontextualize body shapes, and then I reconstruct them as an exploration of women’s strength through vulnerability. My goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them. I show the power of femininity through curve lines to enhance certain body parts, showing the subject’s soul.
Manuel was the International Photographic Society Photographer of the Year in 2016 and won the Leonardo 1st Prize for Photography and Digital Art in Italy’s 2018 Chianciano Art Biennale. In 2019, he had a solo show at Onishi Gallery in New York City as a result of winning the Gallery’s competition among more than 40 artists.
Sakshee Patel
Vera Hoi
I am Sakshee Patel, an Indian artist, deeply inspired by Surrealism, with Rene Magritte as my muse. Having had 2 years of training as an art student in high school, I am currently pursuing my BFA in Painting (2019-23) from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. After having lost my father in 2019, art has become cathartic, and my concerns lie around the ideas of time, life and death, loss and grief, along with my kin interest in landscapes and objects of nostalgia. While creating a piece of work, I tend to think in terms of negative and positive spaces, trying to bring about balance and harmony. I want to create an intimate space for the viewers to pause and contemplate, thinking about their own lives amidst the chaos around.
Vera Hoi is a professional Artist from Austria. She was born in Minsk, Belarus. After graduating from the University of Entrepreneurial Activity and having professional experience in business, Vera moves to Austria. There she learned academic methods of oil painting and also has attended abstract art school. Her work focuses on abstract and textured compositions of colors and shapes. She uses acrylic paints, various structure pastes, inks, etc. She gets her inspiration from the beauty that surrounds us, and painting art for her is a way to express this beauty on the canvas and share it with the world. Presently she has participated in several exhibitions in Austria and Russia.
Christy Grishina
Christie Goldstein
I often fail in my ability to convey in words what I am able to convey with my camera; my voice, my words are found in my images. My photographic approach is to try and capture movement, texture, and color in a framework that hopefully creates a visceral response from the viewer if for no other reason than they have never seen the subject captured in this way. My secondary goal is to tell enough of a story that it leaves you wanting to know more, to see more, to feel more. Creating a mixed media look shows how art interacts with life from the torn pages to the glitch. It is often what connects the art to the viewer in this current time.
Christy Grishina is a documentary photographer from Russia. She graduated from the university with a degree in psychology. In her works, she touches upon the themes of anthropomorphism and the interaction of man and society. In front of me there is a body. This body is a metaphor for pain and misery. I look into these empty plastic eyes and involuntarily attribute a mind to their owner, but not free will. Pn.assive and indifferent, it has been created for endless medical manipulations. An open mouth lets out a silent scream for help. If hell truly existed, it might look like this - a soul reincarnated in a medical mannequin.
Kristina Novak
Sasha
I am an artist based in Frankfurt, Germany. Born and raised in Canada I grew up with different languages and influnces. At the age of 18 I made my Technical diploma for Fine Arts in Wiesbaden, Germany. After that I went for a Fine Art Semester at the John Abbott College in Canada to get a different view and learn some more art skills. Today I specialize in pet portraits and wildlife art but recently discovered contemporary art as well, which I like to express my feelings to certain topics. The artwork “Inequality” has the topic gender pay gap.
Being an Artist Teacher I am always exposed to student conversations in the classroom and their opinions of the arts, what is trendy and what is outdated. Year after year I have found the one subject that never becomes obsolete is the expression and discovery of self. This is a topic that I have explored through many viewpoints and attempted to express with a variety of mediums exploring each stage of our development and discovery of interests, values and individuality.
Libby Farren-Price
Dr. Mankush Srivastava
Srivastava is a contemporary artist based in Dubai over a decade originally from the colourful state of Rajasthan from India. Her love affair with painting and drawing has been since childhood when doodling famous characters like Micky mouse and Donald Duck at the back of the notebook was her favorite pastime.
Libby Farren-Price is a young artist, currently studying Foundation Art and Design at Oxford Brookes. She creates vivid and colourful, paintings based on the everyday beauty of nature, human interaction and the world around us. Her main sources of inspiration are sunlight, colour, nature and water. Libby aims to combine the realms of abstraction and realism within her paintings with emphasis on light and how this affects the subject of the works. Libby’s work has been exhibited in Winchester Cathedral, where she grew up, and she hopes to study a Fine Art degree following this year’s Foundation Course.
Almost after many decades in 2016 she started her work again as a hobby and as years went by her tools and medium of expression changed to make her a passionate artist today. She loves to paint her inner feelings and emotions within the four walls of a canvas.
Kristina Mitrovic K. Art
Anna Mavroudi
I am Kristina, by profession an engineer and by soul, a self-taught artist. I am trying through art to send a message that we are one with the Universe and that we should have more respect and take care of our Nature. By doing so, we are taking care of ourselves and our future generations. We should all find balance with the sound of the Universe.
My name is Anna Mavroudi and I am from Greece. My short stories, poems, fairy tales, sketches, paintings and photographs have been published in collective books by various publishing houses in my country. I love digital art and painting.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. My natural curiosity led me to study nature in order to decipher the mysteries of life. I enjoy traveling around the world to find my place under the Great Blue Sky.
-When I create, there is a meeting of the conscious, the unconscious and the subconscious in a living room. There they can converse, philosophize, disagree, flirt, dream ... but they always move the baguette of my hand and create an image of poetry that each of them can paint its own note on canva.
Henna Vähä
Dina Klumbys
Henna Vähä is a lens based artist whose most recent work is an exploration of natural diversity within an urban setting. She sees her place in these environments as that of an active participant rather than a passive observer. We are culturally trained to separate ourselves from these green spaces and tune ourselves to the rhythm of a city when in truth our basic intuitions will always link us to these places. We are not in nature, we are nature.
My pieces have a laid back simplicity and inspired by mine upbringing in a little country Lithuania, the beauty of the nature and vibrant colours in every day being. Painting for me is a poetic expression, a state of mind.
Joe King
Erin Leatherbarrow
From his studio in the creative hub of Hackney Riviera (Hackney Wick) John (aka Joe) crafts his dystopian vision of life and the meaning of it all in an eclectic mix of two-, three-dimensional and digital media. People, they’re everywhere in his topsy-turvy world, a metaphor for the times we live in.
My Name is Erin Leatherbarrow. I am an Artist based in London developing my practice as a painter. I received my BA(Hons) from RADA in Scenic Art and Technical Theatre and my MA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University.
JK has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, most notably of late in the Engagement and Entrapment exhibition at the prestigious Binyamin Gallery in Tel Aviv and the very smart Zmart Gallery in Cyprus. He has recently been awarded an Arts Council or England grant and received ‘Highly Commended’ in the Redline Art Award for politically aware art (zzz).
I focus on depicting the figure in interior. I aim to depict universal appreciation for isolation and loneliness. It is a shared experience and one so personal and powerful to each individual, my works try to be impersonal in its depiction of a figure so that a viewer can create a more personal, meaningful connection to the emotion of the painting.
Mehrunnisa Hashmi
Tanya Dora
Mehrunnisa Hashmi is a Pakistani artist, anthropologist, ESL teacher, scribbler and traveler. She is currently based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
My artwork is an extension of commonplace feelings and experiences for all women. I tend to focus on many different aspects of womanhood as the subject matter, and I enjoy to communicate via art materials and strokes, be it with ink or in digital paintings. I graduated with my MFA degree in 2020 from Houston Baptist University. I currently live in Los Angeles, California, and I grew up in Houston, Texas.
Her subjects come from her social surroundings after thorough research of cultural symbolism and society wherein they compose a narrative through scenes which generally people can relate to spontaneously.
Kevin Devonport
Elena Zapletina
Kevin Devonport is currently based at Assembly House Studios in Leeds. It could be said that he has had a somewhat unorthodox entry into the art world as he originally learnt to paint whilst serving a prison sentence for drug offences. In the short period since becoming an Artist, Kevin has made significant progress with his career being featured internationally in a number of exhibitions and publications alongside numerous features in the press around the UK. He is an award winning artist gaining a Koestler Award for painting at London’s South Bank alongside gaining prominent positions in other international contests.
My name is Elena Zapletina. I’m not a professional artist, but I was born with a love of drawing and have been drawing since childhood. I really like to draw portraits and am delighted with watercolor. Drawing is a happiness for me, which I share with the help of my works.
Jason
Olga Kiseleva
As a mixed race artist, Jason explores the authentic nature of objects in order challenge expectations in the language/object relationship. After all, what is an an authentic Philpino Irishman? Or an Irish Philipinoman?
Photographer Olga Kiseleva lives and creates her projects in Novosibirsk (Russia), shoots in the genre of fairy tales and surrealism. Olga is a psychologist and lawyer by education, she began to study art from an early age, when she studied at an art studio, she came to the world of photography in 2014. Olga collaborates with designers, decorators, modeling agencies, has created a series of projects about somnambulists, has exhibited her works at personal photo exhibitions, and is also the founder of the “CREATORS OF FABULOUS PHOTOSESSIONS” photo community.
Grevtsev Anton
Ofelya Petrosyan
Grevtsev Anton (born 1983, Moscow, Russia). Amateur artist. Received a law degree. Studied painting at a private painting school. He creates his works in oil on canvas and graphic materials on paper. The main stylistic directions are academic painting and impressionism. The main genre is marine.
My life is divided into two parts: professional as a lawyer and artistic as an artist and fashion designer. I live two lives at the same time and it helps me to realize myself well.
The sea fascinates with its space and a sense of freedom. The sailing ship evokes unconscious associations with a person, and the sea - with life and time. As the lives of people are different, so the voyage of ships at sea takes place in a special, individual way. Anton strives to show these associations and diversity in his works.
My artistic life starts from the age of 4-5 and continues to the present day more or less with interruptions. More intensively and professionally I have started to paint from 2016. I had “Dreams in reality” , an individual exhibition in Armenia in 2017 at Naregatsi Art institute, also I have participated in the Luxembourg Art prize competition in 2020 and I have a certificate of participation. Moreover as part of art in January 2021 I took fashion design and modelling classes. I am preparing to participate in the fashion show next year with the classic wear collection.
Elena Campbell
Misako, Jinhan Wei
My name is Elena Campbell and I am a fine art student in Canterbury, hoping to break out into the London art world.
hey are contemporary artists while I am the’temporary’ artist. I am Misako, Jinhan Wei (@misako_ han), a Chinese artist basedin London. Graduated from the Royal College of Art, I am studying Fashion at University of the Arts London. My field of art practice is mainly a combination of Deconstructed Fashion and Fine Art. Abstract and Surrealism art forms and the philosophy of ‘Beings and Absence’ are my research topics. The painting ‘discarded Statue’ is a vivid demonstration of the philosophy of human and nature with the symbolistic forest and the torso silhouette .
Nikol Sadloňová
Victoria Terme
My name is Nikol Sadloňová, I am 18 years old and I live and work mainly in Slovakia and Czech Republic. My artistic career started about 5 years ago. I learned the technical knowledge of drawing from various masters from Slovakia, besides, I am completely self-taught. I am mainly engaged in oil painting and for the last 2 years I have also been actively involved in photography. The beginning of my career wasfollowed by author exhibitions in my hometown and every year I participate in group exhibitions of Slovak paintersthroughout Slovakia. In my artworks, I focus mainly on the reaction to the political and global situation. Sexism and feminism are also frequently used topics in my works.
The great installation has been created in a purpose of this special project using the branches of oak tree. The tree has been choosen the special one: the old one oak dated the several decades that was dying and sick. It was a symbol of my loss either. Long time do not be enough courage to remove it here I have found a solution for it - to make this tree as a part of my art and use its dying branches to create the nest as a symbol of a new life, new hope and faith in future. The poetry of pregnancy sometimes is not obvious to everyone. There is a place for beauty and fears, doubts and happiness, love and suffer, strength and sacrifice. “Nest” is a personal project realized after difficult period of a life and loss of a baby after his untreatable genetic sickness.
Anthony Cortes
My name is Anthony Cortes. I am a 32 year old artist from the United States living in Denver, Colorado. I spent the years before the pandemic as a Social Studies teacher and made the switch during the pandemic to pursue my childhood passion, Art. I mainly create my works on Photoshop using primarily one or two brushes with a limited color palette. I try to stick to traditional methods and principles of design as much as possible as digital art can become “gimmicky” if not handled with fidelity. I draw inspiration from American and Asian pop culture as well as conceptual art from the entertainment industry. I enjoy creating portraits, landscapes, comics, characters as well as inventing new narratives and building worlds.
Elizaveta Snadina & Roman Balyshev Elizaveta Snadina and Roman Balyshev, fashion designers and accessories designers. Undergraduate students of Novosibirsk Technological Institute (branch) of the Kosygin State University of Russia. The presented models of the collection “The Silk Road” were made by the patterns of traditional Japanese kimonos, showing at the same time that they can be worn in the modern world, among other items, as clothing for special events.
Olena Denysyuk
Niki Srinivasa
In my artistic practice I portray physical, mental, andemotional landscapes through the layer of my feelings, memories, emotions and nostalgies. Often, I make myself my own camera subject. Sometimes I stage other people, which, while being their own selves, become my own reflections through my lens.
“Niki Srinivasa is a California native and is primarily self-taught in fine arts. Beginning her creative career in fashion, she soon discovered the art-focused printmaking, realized that Fine Art was her true direction, and dedicated herself to developing her skills. She has a deep interest in embroidery, beadwork, ornate details and fiber arts, which is primarily informed by her Indian heritage. She aims to incorporate those elements alongside her use of traditional mediums, creating personally authentic, textural fine art experiences. Her art is reflective of her personal life story, and her unique style has resulted in achievements including having been commissioned to create a piece of art for the new Aretha Franklin Biopic, “RESPECT,”an upcoming Billboard featuring her art in Times Square, an exhibition at Art Basel”.
My own reality is often the starting point for every single image. My own vulnerability is my main source of inspiration. However, I also like to create narratives, ambiguous reality, fantasy stories bordering reality featuring the untold.
Rossanne Pellegrino
Sharafieva Ilgizia Irekovna
Rossanne Pellegrino is a mixed media artist in St Leonards-on-Sea who makes works about memory, identity and place. She explores these themes using old photographs, found imagery, pre loved or vintage-inspired items, and combines them with embroidery, textiles and collage. Her use of experimental techniques involving craft, printmaking and photography can be seen throughout her work. Clay sculptures replicating everyday items and objects from childhood memories cab also be found in some of her recent pieces.
I have never been an artist and did not have an art education, I have not painted since school. But there was a disaster in my family. The third child, named Robert, was born with a pathology. He was diagnosed with retroperitoneal neuroplastoma. It was a blow. At 9 months old, he died. I didn’t stop working during pregnancy and after giving birth, so after the funeral I had to go to work right away. It was necessary to continue to live and support the family. And somehow I was walking past a creative store (I love beautiful threads and knitting). She came in. Passing by the shelves, I saw easels, canvases and paints. I was far from art, but I couldn’t resist buying everything in a row.
Tatiana Oskina
Ko Smith
My name is Tatiana Oskina and I am a Russian artist based in Prague. My production covers several fields, going from photography, to painting, and to video making.
Ko Smith is a New York based artist whose artwork explores the construction of identity, nationhood, and narrative to examine cultural behaviors. Throughout his career, the themes uniting his projects involve personal and collective memories’ interaction with daily experience to shape a cumulative understanding of the moment.
My paintings are with oil colours on canvas, and I use a very individual mix of techniques. The final result is always a very colourful painting, figurative enough to have very recognizable subjects and abstract enough to be paired with contemporary furniture and house decoration. I take inspiration from the nature and the life of people. Sometimes also from works of the past, in particular from mediterranean ceramics.
In the “Partisan” series, figures emerge from abstracted atmospheres; rendered in red and blue, they simultaneously represent the political schism that is increasingly gripping America and our nuanced nature as individuals. This series embraces the complexity of identity through its multilayered technique; incorporating drawing, oil painting, and screen printing, it creates a physical metaphor to the multi-layered construction of identity.
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