Debra Keirce works from the size of your palm to four feet tall. The true miniature pieces are less than 25 in sq and ⅙ life size or smaller. It is a genre that harkens back to the work of the scribes and European miniature portrait artists, and it intrigues me. Miniature work is so small and detailed that it invites the viewer to lean in, get closer, and experience the art with more intimacy.
Janaina Medeiros is a Brazilian artist and illustrator. She creates lush and dreamy images with delicate lines, using traditional, digital and mixed techniques. Her work has been featured in books, comics, magazines, oracles and exhibited in art galleries.
Since moving to Australia from the UK textile sculptor Robyn Lees-West has become fascinated by the colourful & noisy birds. She has always hoarded retro fabric. As a child she used to love visiting the Victorian Taxidermy Museum of William Potter & The Booth Museum in Brighton. Robyn has now combined all of these passions in her work. She sculpts faux taxidermy birds from reclaimed retro fabric, some of which hats! Recently Robyn has become obsessed with recreating the internal anatomy of birds as well.
Chichetam Okoronta (b.1997) is a self-taught visual artist living in Owerri, Nigeria. He creates realistic figurative artworks that explore his thoughts and views on the beauty of the mind and how it defines every aspect of our experience with life as it relates to mental health awareness and self-discovery.
Saskia Huitema (1975) is a self taught Dutch acrylic painter who lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her passion for painting started at a later stage in life and her art has evolved ever since. Saskia’s work is recognizable by the use of color, crisp details, and narrative content. Saskia has exhibited her paintings at galleries, museums and other venues since 2015. In 2020 she started creating work for @78 Tarot and joined the international Star Dust Art Collective. Her paintings have been adopted by collectors both nationally and internationally.
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.
Tom Christophersen is a Sydney based, non-binary, Queer performer and visual artist who is as petrified of beautiful things and death as much as he is transfixed by them. It is primarily the car crashing of these two themes which permeate the surrealistic, often dark portraits and films he makes. Tom works almost exclusively on watercolour paper and creates mixed media works which comprise elements of drawing and painting to produce highly rendered, tonally realistic but slightly illustrative figurative works.
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.
Markus Åkesson is interested in esoteric spaces, meeting points, vanishing gaps between the hidden and the show, dream and reality, life and death. It is a quest that unfolds before our eyes, a quest for meaning and a search for spiritualities. Then you can't help but think about those faces, that are always hidden from us. Faces that carry the greatest mysteries of mankind, and its most absolute thoughts. Wouldn't they be the object of this research? A painting by Magritte comes to mind, a magnificent kiss from two veiled lovers, an impersonal embrace, universal love. In all these works, hidden behind a succession of mythical motifs, lies human nature and all its secrets.
Reinhard Riedel has been involved with art throughout his life, starting with the advanced course in high school. After studying computer science and mathematics, he was 4 decades in senior positions in the IT sector. After retiring for 2 years, he wants to professionalize his hobby. In painting but especially in sculpture he has perfected his artisan skills. He can now use the different techniques and materials so that they support his ideas in the overall composition of the work of art.
FAYBEL (Elaine/Ellie Nesbitt) is a self-taught digital painter, gallery and cover artist. She currently resides in the Great Lakes lowlands of Ontario, Canada. FAYBEL’s digital portraits feature compelling expressive eyes, at times quite large, with surrealist flare. Her painted works derive from tales that sing of peoples and creatures from uncanny realms and misbegotten places. From a collection of original narratives, she laces her fantastical characters with careful brushwork into digital colour spaces.
Aidonas is a french artist. Since childhood, she traveled a lot and lived in different countries due to my father’s work. She grew up in different cultures and got exposed to various folk lore. She developed a sensitivity to the different and not common.