Natasha Zraikat is a Gold Coast (Yugambeh Country) based artist uses a carefully constructed aesthetic vocabulary of fantastical elements and deliberately executed realism to visually rekindle man’s connection with the natural world. Born in California to Jordanian and Russian-Ukrainian parents, Natasha immigrated to Australia in 1990 where she has lived ever since.
Pritha Bhadra is an emerging Indian portrait and still life painter based in Singapore. Her traditional paintings focus on daily life, encompassing portraits and still life compositions. Growing up in a small town nestled in the Himalayan foothills in India, the surrounding people and nature inspired her from an early age. She eventually started drawing and painting before focusing on a degree in biotechnology. During her years of education, she continued to find joy in engaging in art during her free time, as well as immersing herself in reading about art.
Rachel Romano is a New Surrealism Figurative Painter. Her connection to art began at age 7 with sojourns with her father, a poet, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which planted the seeds of storytelling. Rachel finds inspiration in personal myth and the stories of others. The laughter, love, and sorrow of our lives fills her creative well.
A Balkan mountain child and a young arts protege who grew up to become a world renown contemporary artist with a PhD in art history. Iva Troj grew up in the outskirts of Bulgaria’s Romani slums in the last decade of communism – a world full of sexual predators, communist propaganda, censorship and no path to artistic livelihood other than what she could imagine in her wildest dreams. Today, she is a Gerety Award winner and 3 times Cannes Lions nominee for her Halo Masterpiece [biggest ever launch in the Halo franchise’s history, with more than 20M players, 520M reach], Towry Best of England Award winner, and 2 times Contemporary Art Excellence Artist of the Year award winner.
Andrea du Plessis (born 1980) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Cape Town, specialising primarily in the fields of traditional painting. She has studied Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, completed a postgraduate diploma in Art Therapy in the UK, as well as a degree in Multimedia Digital Visual Arts through UNISA (Cum Laude). As the overall winner of the prestigious Sasol New Signatures award in 2021, Andrea showcased her first solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum in 2022.
Kate Van Doren explores human resiliency, connection, and the healing power of nature through realism paintings, drawings, and photography. Having worked as an art therapist in the mental health field for more than two decades, Kate offers a unique lens, cultivating connections with her inspirations to foster their stories about the human condition. She is deeply devoted to creating art that raises healing awareness in the lives of others.
Miguel Casco, a dynamic and multifaceted visual artist from Puebla, Mexico, skillfully merges his expertise in cultural management, information design, photography, and museography to craft a distinctive artistic voice. A magna cum laude graduate in Fine Arts from the University of the Americas Puebla, and holding a master's degree in Information Design, Casco has honed his artistic prowess through an array of prestigious seminars and workshops.
TheArtistRobert is the moniker of Robert Walker, a UK-based fine art painter best known for his 'geo-figurative' works that derive their meaning based on the model's body language or expression and perceived cue. He paints in oils enjoying its multiple technique uses and is currently experimenting in mixed media as he further develops his practice.
Theo Polymorphos is a North American painter of imaginative realism, whose art explores the mysterious journey of the soul, exploring themes of ecstasy, initiation and metamorphosis. Taking a deeply personal approach, he builds on these themes with symbols and motifs from his own dreams, spiritual practices and natural environment. After a decade wandering the globe as a consultant, he rekindled his childhood love of drawing and painting and quickly became obsessed. The confidence gained from learning traditional drawing and painting methods unlocked the door to his imagination, catalysing a total reorientation in life. He recently completed a three year course in imaginative realism under Tenaya Sims at the Georgetown Atelier in Seattle, Washington. He currently resides in Central Florida where he continues to develop his portfolio.
Born in Sydney, Australian artist Jacqueline Michell Butterworth has been painting as long as she can remember. These days a full-time visual artist based between Sydney and London, she specialises in hyper realistic oil paintings and murals.
Born in Mexico and now residing in Canada, Tassy creates surreal animal paintings that capture the complexity of human emotions. Their art invites viewers to explore their own emotions and the depths of their imaginations. Tassy's work is a celebration of the fantastical and the imaginary, each piece is a snapshot of a dream with its own set of rules and a unique universe.
Dave Seeley is a figure painter living in Boston, MA. Making things has been essential to his satisfaction for as long as he can remember. After earning dual degrees in architecture and fine art from Rice University, he embraced an architecture internship in Los Angeles, revelling in the city’s vibrant arts culture.