Karen Turner is an award-winning artist whose paintings are a commentary on the weight of expectations. Born in London in 1978, Karen attended Hampstead Fine Arts College before going on to a career in the City. Since returning to art in 2020, she has been awarded the President’s Prize by the Institute of East Anglian Artists, the Professional Artist Award by the Visual Artists Association and the Art Fluent Evolution Grant.
Christian Boehmer is an autodidact artist and started his first artistic steps in the graffiti scene of the late 1990s. In the process, he very quickly began to focus exclusively on figurative picture elements. The principle of colorful and very dynamic image design, borrowed from the graffiti context, can still be found in many of his works.
Marco Santos is a self-taught figurative artist who currently resides in Portugal. Born in 1981, Marco has always used drawing as a form of communication and expression for his imagination. His love for pop culture and drawing began at a young age, where he drew about his surroundings, including his parents, pets, and schoolmates.
Noah Norrid is a self-taught artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having been an English and Design teacher for more than 20 years, ton-Emil? (Do You Dare, Anton-Emil?) His current body of work is the culmination of both his extensive interests in natural history, literature, mythological and religious symbolism as well as his near pathological interest in painting with watercolor and obsessing about details. Particularly the details that bring his subjects to life.
An award-winning artist known for her colorful and whimsical portraits of animals, Gina Matarazzo aims to show the viewer a magical way of looking at ordinary things. Through their point of view, she tries to reveal truths on how to be more genuine like animals are and be in tune with the things that matter the most in life. Her work is meant to distract the beholder from the difficulties that the world presents to them, promote peace and joy, and to remind the viewer how there is beauty available to them if only they stop for a moment and take notice.
Steve Cleff is a Phialdelphia-based figurative artist who works primarily with watercolors. He has synesthesia, a condition which causes him to see vibrant colors when he experiences sounds, tastes, or emotions. The color palette and style of his paintings incorporate these visions.
His studies in Jungian Psychology, mythology, philosophy, gender roles, pop culture, and quantum physics have shaped his world view along with the imagery and narrative of his art.
Art had played a large, healing part in Lilith Divine’s life even when luck had turned its back on her. Every time she felt that her life was done living, Lilith Divine found a pencil and paper, and drew. When she didn’t have the money for even one colour, Lilith crushed a flower, a leaf and a brick, mixed them with water to make watercolours, and drew.
Liba Warning Stambollion grew up in South East Asia which must have influenced her love of Shanghai reds and golds. Liba’s parents are American and we eventually moved to the USA in her teenage years. She hated school but couldn't wait to get into art school. Liba received a scholarship to go to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Art school inflamed her passion but it really didn’t teach her the materials and techniques she uses today. Liba have been a lucid dreamer since childhood, and she paint her most important dreams.
As an artist trained in the Old Master tradition, Gabrielle melds classical technique and historical inspiration with fashion and artistic expression of the moment. Stories are written between the seams of history. There is nothing that holds a secret or a good story like a well worn dress! These are the stories she paints.
Robert Steven Connett is a self taught artist currently working in Los Angeles California. His beautifully realized visions of an unseen world teeming with vibrant and complex lifeforms, opens windows into a universe that we rarely contemplate. Microscopic biological phenomena of the natural world, both flora and fauna, and particularly that of oceanic origins, provides Robert with bountiful inspirations. His colorful imagination ensure his creations rise above the natural and inhabit a sphere somewhere between the familiar and the extraordinary.
Crystal James' art delves into the themes of youth and beauty, and food and death. Youth and beauty are often seen as synonymous, but she believes that beauty goes beyond the surface level. As she depicts youthful subjects in my art, crystal aims to capture the essence of their innocence, curiosity, and wonder. She wants to celebrate the beauty that comes from living in the present moment, unencumbered by the weight of past experiences.
Rain is a classically-trained, symbolist painter with a passion for dark surrealism, utilizing allegorical and at times provocative imagery to convey ideas about the more elusive aspects of the human condition. During the student years, she was influenced by renowned mentors whose guidance helped develop a singular focus, diligent work ethic, and an expanded vision of where she could explore her ideas.