CECILE LOBERT  

NATACHA BOILLOT  

JOSS LIAO  

GLAIEUL SAMADANI 

Lee Musgrave, It Is Not Always Obvious To Me Just What It Is I’m Trying To Accomplish - Acrylic on Box Canvas, 2022, Unframed, 100cm x 100cm (40” x 40”) This larger format piece is simply a call to contemplation amidst a complicated, busy and sometimes oppressive world. As our lives accelerate and our attention is grabbed from every angle, the space to stop, think and genuinely consider things has become an urgent requirement for us. My hope is that the work will give onlookers the opportunity to slow themselves, to simply think and to remember the importance of s p a c e.

FRUITS QUARTZ, space shrine - The compass represented the sun, from which the rays of light created clouds, mountains, seas, and creatures. And it is all made up of light rays and clouds, and expresses what can be represented by a compass. Everything is connected. So it expresses that big clouds are also living things.

Stephanie Raj, Striped Equine - ‘Striped Equine’, Watercolor on paper is part of my wildlife series inspired by the photography of Jacob James. The composition captures the irregular stripes of the zebra in an abstract manner, drawing the viewer’s attention to focus on the stripes. This series allowed me to be drawn to the ordinary things that are captured in an extraordinary manner that we often do not observe.  

Nico Lattermann, Augenblick mit Tasso - This 90cm x 70 cm Canvas shows an realistic drawn Eye done 100 percent by spraypaint. Related to the culture of Graffit i asked myself what is possible to do with the Spraycan and , yeah.. thats it, didnt expected that. The Artwork contains a nice contrast betwenn the greenshades and the skintones, which works very smooth; contrasted by itself within the strong view of the Eye. To me it shows a mirrow of life, which always switching between smoothens and hard days with te result, if you stay focused you will grow - if you beliefe in yourself! 

Rocio G Montiel, ALWAYS FORWARD - My hands are my source of creation, what I feel I create and express, therefore I am. I tattoo on them a reminder that I create my own reality and embrace my power. Always keep in mind that the only constant in life is to change and transform, we have to be open to receive what life gives us with a full heart. I embrace the beauty of my constant transformation, we are always moving forward”. -Cindy | Hand portrait of Cindy - “A REAL BODY” Collection.

Rosemary Shen, The entitled untitled - It’s entitlement to put our own interpretations onto something ambiguous but it’s also entitlement when we leave the painting untitled, giving the viewers more responsibility than necessary.

Ki Nichole, The Immortal Woman - This piece was created to embody the motifs of growth, eternal life and peace within a woman. The base of this woman was illustrated with the root chakra in mind to display the foundation for life. The Woman’s face was created as a half monarch butterfly to emphasize the spiritual influences of reincarnation and represent strength, endurance, spirituality, transformation, and evolution. The woman was specifically painted with her eyes closed to personify peace in her solitude within her existence. Her hair and hair wrap is a tribute to royalty when a symbol of authority wears a crown as their headdress. 

Lou Patrou, Green Barney - Green Barney is one of a series of six paintings completed in 2020 called the Barney & Betty series. They are loosely named after Barney & Betty Hill who were abducted by aliens in 1961 in New Hampshire. There are three Barney versions and three Bettys in the series. All are the exact same size, 30” X 40”, acrylic on watercolor paper. I spent just over two years working on them, from developing the concept, the backgrounds, design elements and the color schemes.

Maria Lans, Woman in the sea sky - A woman lost in the sky and the sea. Time and place, all turned around. What is up and what is down? Is there any straight line between time and ages or do we cooexist at the same time? Is our real face visible or is it all a theatre? Where is the core? is there any? We are stuck in a ground that is moving. 

Dariusz Dencikowski, Empress - The Empress ... is in every woman.

Beata Dencikowska, Love. Desire. Fulfillment. Strad - The painting is my inner life and heart-like melody. Moreover, it is also my personal dedication to all artists who, despite the difficulties encountered on their way, have not given up on their chosen path of music and create the art of music in gratitude for everything that it gives to the heart and soul of human on a daily basis.

James Thompson, Figure in Repose - Acrylic on canvas. Completed in one sitting. Using a limited Zorn palette I work directly from life and as such, I work with haste. 20+ years in advertising lends my work a graphic style, with a strong sense of line. This figure was captured in repose, perhaps even asleep.

James Thompson, Seated Figure - Acrylic and charcoal on paper. Completed in one sitting, from observation and against the clock. In this piece the burnt sienna ground does most of the work, supported by my signature line work and slightly more than a whiff of Schiele.

Edward Ficklin, Offering 1: Water, a tentative resolve - A passive male figure is not unheard of in Western art, but passive in the form of a willing offering of themselves is not so common. It’s something I wanted to explore more in this work (and two more in the series). While the offering could have taken the form of something more mundane like a religious or political allegory, I wanted to instead go deeper. What if the offering is being made to something inhuman, otherworldly? Well then you have the subversive thrill of a male figure, usually associated with control and power, willingly giving in to, seeking union with larger elemental forces.

Lea Ervin, Scattered Pain - This painting represents the physical and mental struggle of living with endometriosis. A year ago, I started painting to explore the body and what it means to live with chronic pain and mental illness. This piece is a part of my“Scattered Pain” series in which I depict what is happening inside my body on the outside to give a visual representation of the symbiosis of chronic pain, ADHD, and OCD.  The pelvic regions of the figure have a touch of red to depict the pain and inflammation one experiences with endometriosis along with the scattered colors that represent a neurodivergent brain. It is difficult to express in words the experience of living in this body, so it was necessary to create a visual representation of life.

Louise Hynes (Lula), Icon, Flower of Hope - Tracey Emin is the subject of this portrait . Love her or not, she has become an icon in the art world for our times . From being a wild young art student to a woman now dedicated to investing and providing opportunities for artists in her home town of Margate , fighting and recovering from a terrible cancer and never giving up hope for a better future for herself and others . The white flowers she holds symbolise hope . Something we should all hold on to in these confusing times . 

Nancy Walker, Taylor - What a tragedy it was when we lost this man, and what an amazing tribute to him in September. I painted this the day after the London concert, the love coming from the musicians and fans that day was inspirational.

Noreen Walsh Art, New Farm Jacarandas - My artist’s eye is drawn each spring to the poetically beautiful jacaranda tree which is an iconic symbol of tropical Queensland. There are few more stunning examples of this unique tree than can be found along the purple lined pathways of New Farm Park as they follow the meandering Brisbane River. The rich vibrancy of purple hues, combined with the unexpected shapes of the branches as they dance and weave around one another, focus the eye both upwards and downwards to the soft carpet of petals lining the paths.  Truly an immersive experience to nurture the soul. 

Maria Evseeva, Asking the Universe - ****  How often do we turn our eyes to the stars? How often do we ask why I am here? Which is the meaning of my life? 

Where did we come from and where do we go? Everyone asks their own questions to the universe. 

But sometimes we forget about looking for an answer.

This work came as a result of these reflections. We are made of stardust, we and the universe are one. 

Our home is the universe. 

Maria Evseeva, Katakamuna. Invitation for a meditation - ****  What is meditation? A journey of your mind in space or a journey in the space of your mind?

My intention in this work was to catch the moment of the travel in our interior or exterior, the moment of movement of the mind. 

Birke Dedig, Strong Backbone - As an abstract artist you never know beforehand what your painting will be like in the end. “Strong Backbone” was created in a time when I went through a lot of changes and challenges in my life. When I looked at the finished painting, I immediately realized that my soul was splashed out on the canvas before me. My painting reflected exactly what I was experiencing emotionally. Up to that point I thought I was just somehow getting through the rough patch in my life, barely hanging in there, somehow getting through each day. But when looking at my finished artwork I knew that I actually did much more than that: This hard time has made me stronger, had required me to get up no matter what and to keep going strong 

Megan Zuelke, Light at the end of the tunnel - This is one of my first works, I named quite literal early on. 

I love using the deep blue shades because they behave in the most beautiful way. In nature we see blue so often and it is a critical color in our world, however in this painting the blue transforms you to another place, where

something bigger is possible. I wanted to empower the viewer to see light in their own life or even beyond this world. The 3 figures are prominent for balance in nature.  Mind, Body , Spirit. Land, Sea, Sky. Also the many spectrums in life including Male, Female and everything in-between. 

Sue Trusler, FEAR IN DARKNESS - began with a sheet of paper that was covered with acid free tissue, creating texture. Picking it up, I saw a face then more and more appeared. I later discovered Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that causes the human brain to give significance and facial features to random patterns. I became absorbed with the faces that continued to appear, the longer I viewed the random pattern. Some were quite grotesque, prompting the title of this piece, that literally created itself, appearing from nowhere. Selected for an Open Art Exhibition at Turner House Gallery Penarth. it has prompted a lot debate, opening up an exciting new style for me to explore. Sue Trusler

Maria Lopes, Wrapping a Dream - “Wrapping a Dream” sets a new approach in my art as an emergent artist. Using, for the first time, mixed media - acrylic and oil – I have opened a new path in my art. These two mediums give the work an explosion of color and texture, materializing the power of my emotions. The painting talks about my world of dreams and the need I always had to wrap them inside of me, reflecting the repression I lived so many years by not fulfilling my dream of becoming an artist. Dreams are deep visions that we should not repress or ignore for they speak to our soul.

Natalia Schaefer (Schäfer) , Breath of Gaia - “Breathe of Gaia” is part of Natalias Schaefer project: Myth of Atlantis - the message for the present”. The project was supported by the Neustart Kultur grant in Germany. “Breathe of Gaia” presents our beautiful planet as a living being. On the artwork are hidden ancient symbolics and little stories to discover. 

Mike McKeown, Something I May Never Find - This piece is part of my “Natural Elements” series, where I explore abstracted representations of objects and patterns found in nature and space. “Something I May Never Find” is inspired by telescope images of deep space galaxies which we’ll never actually see with our own eyes. Created with a stippling technique where the paint slowly depletes itself, the solid elements slowly break apart at the edges, creating a sense of impermanence. The title is a nod to song lyrics by musical artist Weyes Blood in her song “Andromeda”.  

Heather Lowe, The Secret Life of Color Series - These Incredible burst of Magenta Colors we’re inspired by the Vibrant Fall changes. This year the Fashion World selection of hues included Reds, pinks, browns, oranges and desert colors. I love to just take minimal color choices and paint work that Our Industry and Interior Designers can work with. Our Studio Moto “The Paint is always the subject!!” is maintained in these abstracts.  

Marta Obojska, The Eye - Black, blue, turquoise, gold - In the cycle The Eye I wanted to stay conscious about diversity and inclusion and to present many different eyes symbolising our diversity. The Eye - Black | Blue | Turquoise with golden sparks is one of them. It is an acrylic painting on a cotton canvas, 70x100x3.5 cm. Due to implicit cognitive biases, people may often attribute certain qualities or characteristics to other people, a phenomenon known as stereotyping. Stigma-induced discrimination and is associated with different negative outcomes such as more psychological distress, more depressive symptoms, less self-esteem and the reduction of perceived quality of life. 

Anna Mathai, Fishing in a Kiddie Pool (Coasting No. 2) + Charcoal of Sophie shown as dyptich - Both Coasting No. 2 and Charcoal of Sophie are part of the artist’s metallic waves body of work.  The coasting series touches on apathy and discontent in the corporate world— pulled into a rat race of excellence like a fish on a hook, while longing to just be ‘coasting’. Charcoal of Sophie is a summery piece inspired by the rainbow colored bird with the same name.

Gaya Chandrasekaran, Rippling Reflections - Rippling Reflections is a reminder that the world mirrors our inner state. Hold positive, uplifting thoughts and the world around us is a happy gorgeous place. The artwork is an invitation to positive thoughts and emotions. Gaya Chandrasekaran was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. A vibrant city where centuries-old traditions live in delightful harmony with rapid modernization. Gaya Chandrasekaran is a thematic artist exploring different mediums. Her choice of themes are inspired by key life moments. An expression of her thoughts and emotions, her artworks invite the audience to go deep within, explore and connect with their own experiences.

Izzy da Silva, Drama Queen - Have you ever felt like the others don’t understand you or your feelings? And that hurts so much, and makes it worse?  “Drama Queen” is about that. This painting is inspired and represent my personal experience with this feeling that I have all the time, that I fell too much, I cry too much, I love and hate too much, that I’m too much, and then the other people give me this crow, the name is not what she really is, but what the people think about her. But my feelings are valid and how I experience life too, and so are yours! Don’t forget that! You’re not alone, and we are not dramatic.

Steve Jensen, The Ice is Melting - For me, boats are meant to symbolize a voyage or journey. My parents are from Norway. My father and grandfather were fishermen. My other grandfather was a boat builder. Upon the death of both of my parents, I made a boat for their ashes and buried them at sea. Something like a contemporary Viking funeral. I also made a boat for my best friend and former partner of 24 years, again burying them at sea. These deaths were extremely tragic. My best friend died of AIDS, my father committed suicide with a gun, my mother fell apart emotionally and physically and my former partner from alcoholism. What I am attempting to do is to take something that was personally painful and turn it into something beautiful.

Viktoria Kurnicki, Immer nur eine Annäherung - Language and communication are a vulnerable field, since what is thought and what is said do not always coincide, let alone the assumption that what is said is received as the sender meant it. The foundation of my work lies in the question of whether (my) work is always only a compromise of the original thought. This relates to the social sender-receiver relationship as well as to the internal relationship between the thought and its expression.  

Areen, Urban Jerusalem - The Urban Jerusalem dress is a conceptual drape that went on to become an iconic piece of art because it was showcased in 6 different countries (Palestine, Poland, Germany, Bahrain, the UAE, and Lebanon) and in 9 exhibitions. The concept of the dress revolves around an iconic image that familiarizes viewers with Islamic visual perception to invite love and harmony. The printed abstraction shapes are derived from rugs that she created and the composition symbolizes spiritual life and communication without a physical space. 

Stefanie Savary, ART&COUTURE - ART&COUTURE is based on the idea to convert exclusive artwork into unique dresses. I wanted to translate the feelings that arise from looking at a beautiful and touching painting into a  wearable experience. What is wearable art? It’s more than a dress. We feel the art on our skin and blur the boundaries of the art experience. “ART&COUTURE” dresses carry the artist’s message and have an energy of their own. The  image on the dress comes alive and lives its story on flowing fabric that gently envelops and  accompanies the wearer. The visual medium is the woman and the dress - expanding the frame of reference and  adding to the appreciation of the entire artwork. Photo: Eva Kruiper / Canvas: Joelle Meissner.

Margeli Ioanna, Salty - Hi my friends. Thanks very much for the opportunity to share my art.I want to tell you that my work is with beauty products eyshadows, lipsticks and everything is with beauty. I work with these technique 7 years and I have my way to make art.I have finished the School of Visualand Applied Arts Faculty of fine Arts AUTH at Greece. I love so much to make art and I draw abstract paintings,portraits and landscapes with all the beauty products. I use them exactly  as someone use oil colors.I have spend a lot of time to get tge results that I want.Its very important for me the opportunity that you give me to share my artwork and to make new friends and talk about art.

Jamie Lee, The Desperate Romantic - Emotions got no theories, no formulas, so they cannot be understood. Let’s mix it up like an ocean that we do not know where it started from! A hunger of affection. We can always find the harmony of color, life and visual patterns in the natural world. They all coexist so elegantly in a nature that requires codependent interactions. I wanted to simply capture the vibrancy of the natural world in my own way with my emotions, something that is untainted and often taken for granted.

Vera Hoi, Beyond the horizon - This painting is a powerful vision of Love’s vibration, and Hope’s vitality. It was created and inspired by memory and experience and is developed using artistic intuition. It’s not tied to any specific region or time. It is all an abstract interpretation of memories, places, and dreams.

I create windows and doors with depth and harmonic vibration which let peace, harmony, stillness, serenity, and love in your life - Vera Hoi 

Cicci Grensner, Peaceful - Painted from My heart like always. My feeling when I painted it was just peaceful. So it was easy to name this painting. My purpose to paint is to give our world colors and peaceful feelings to the ones who see my art. 

You can find more art by Cicci Grensner at FB Galler art from HEart & Instagram ceciliagrensner 

Anastassia Skopp, Smell Of Silence - “I feel my mission to create art works from inner silence.” - Anastassia Skopp. Anastassia’s artworks are a result of years of studying spiritual books of Eckhart Tolle. 

According to Eckhart Tolle „Flowers are like messengers from another world. Like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They exude not only a subtle smell, pleasant to people, but also an aroma from the kingdom of the spirit. In this way she would like to invite the viewer to immerse themselves in a colorful yet calm world of impasto colors full of meditative floral magic.

Lucia Boaghe, The sunrise, oil on canvas board, 45x60 cm -This work is part of a diptych, meant to show the beauty of life from different perspectives and time. Sun itself as a planet is the symbol of life, the energy that keeps everything alive on Earth. Sunflower fragile and ephemeral as any other flower is the symbol of love, devotion, optimism and peace. It turns towards the sun to capture the energy of love and every day is a new beginning. It forgets the night and is ready again to follow the sun during its short life. The sunflower has a special place in all cultures around the world from American natives and Inca to Greek and Chinese mythology.

Lucia Boaghe, The sunset, oil on canvas board, 45x60 cm - This work is part of a diptych completing the sunrise. The sunset is about day and night, ups and downs and the duality of life. The fragile sunflower’s sadness during the sunset is a metaphor of dark time in a human life. Different purple shades in this painting are calling to reflect on our life connecting to the universe and higher self. As the coolest colour in the spectrum purple takes us to reflection and meditation, to cooling down and understand the beauty of life in all its phases. Deeply connected with the Earth, with its strong roots and following the Sun, the sunflowers are the symbol of love, peace and optimism.

Cicci Grensner, Flying High - This painting came to me when I thought we should be more like the bumblebees “fly” to as many beautiful flowers as we can, and still not compare them to each other. And we should value all the insects on earth, who help us human beings with much more than we do not pay attention to.

It will be more bumblebees painting for me with watercolors, I’m sure of that. Hope you like it.  

Always art from HEart / Cicci 

Hyun-seo Kang, Settlement - When we do art, we are often trapped in a confusion of ideas. That happened recently. I think I’m staying still because I forgot where to go. I think this experience may have been experienced not only by artists but also by other professions. I thought we didn’t have to drag on our messy environment. Rather, it experienced adverse effects. I didn’t give up my career as an artist. I’m just taking a break for a better future. I hope you do, too. I want you to remember that rest doesn’t mean falling behind.

Maroula Lambis, Empty Nest - This piece began as a way for me to engage with the melancholy I was experiencing when within the space of a few months my son moved out of home and our beloved 18 year old dog died. The grief and loneliness hit hard and in the depths of a miserable winter I was left completely alone in a very quiet space. As the project developed and time passed I tentatively began laying foundations for the next life phase. This work accessed (and continues to access) creativity in a way that supported my transition through the empty nest.

Iwo Zaniewski, Painted Chinese - Is a part of an ongoing series of mine, centered around my quest for a perfect harmony. I work with traditional oil painting, predominantly focusing on matters of composition. I consistently explore formal relations and draw on the history of figurative painting, portraying subjects from contemporary, everyday life. In order to reach the state of perfect visual harmony—my ultimate goal—I have been constructing my works in a way that each element of the composition becomes irreplaceable support for the arrangement of others. In collaboration with theoretical physicists, psychologists, and neuroscience researchers, I designed the Algorithm of Harmony—a concept illustrated by a mathematical formula. 

Miguel E, Story20 – “Late Summer sunbeams gently warming my soul…” - ART is to Miguel E a form of expression that makes us feel something, moves us, giving no room for indifference. Miguel E series “Stories” try to represent the deepest emotions of Woman’s soul, the feelings arising from subtle single moments, from relations between People. “Story20” tries to represent the “Contemporary Woman” gathering strength in a Late Summer afternoon to face Modern Life’s coming challenges. Miguel E invites All to “feel the emotions represented in each of the canvases and, due to their own interpretation, to see beyond”.

Julia Paulina Gancarz, Love on a boat - I moved to Amsterdam back in October 2021. For the past almost a year here I have been here I struggled with finding any inspiration to draw. I started to feel lost and abandoned my creativity. But any artist can agree with me that you cannot just give up on what you love, so I decided to change my attitude towards this city and start capturing the daily life of people in the city. Right now I am talking about long walks and a lot of pictures that inspire me to show the good and bad side of Amsterdam through my art. This illustration represents specifically the simple joy of Sunday afternoon in Amsterdam. I wanted to capture the first days of spring and make someone smile.

Hanwei Li, Buildings On This Planet - My main focus is on 2D mediums such as painting and printmaking. My work focuses on the feelings that things around me bring to me and visualize them and then communicate them to the viewer. This time I focused on the surreal architecture in the world. In my travels, I have seen many strange buildings with different shapes and colors, as if they were not built on this planet. So I expressed the feelings that these buildings conveyed to me through screen printing.

Lou Patrou, Traveler - Traveler, is an acrylic painting on watercolor paper, 30” x 41”, done in 2022. I was thinking of two things when I came up with the concept for this painting; time travel and the idea of timelessness of soul or spirit. Putting an upside down face in the piece was both a thematic idea (spinning thru time and dimension) and an artistic treatment. The premise is that the faces are the same being that is stopped in motion mid “travel”. The background represents the fabric and membranes of inter-dimensions and time. 

Sue Ransley, Mum Hugs - My Mum died over 28 years ago, but I can still get a sense of giving her a big squidgy hug.  This painting was not intended as a portrait of her, or my brother – I haven’t attempted to capture their likenesses at all – rather, what was essential to me was capturing the sense of that squidgy hug. The all encompassing love and warmth.

Sue Ransley, Where do babies come from Grandpa - All children reach a really inquisitve phase, where every question is a why, or how. Then they start asking the really tricky questions that challenge every parent and grandparent. I wanted to mark that phase - when you flip from being totally relaxed and having fun, to that brain freezing moment when they come up with these really tough questions and you have to grapple with how to answer them, age appropriately, and in line with how you think their parents would answer them! 😊

Ben Jurevicius, Light Overcomes the Darkness - Photographer and friend Daria Bielienkov posted some wonderful photos of her lovely daughter, Anastazja, which gave me the inspiration to create this allegorical painting on the subject of light overcoming the darkness.  Anastazja is seen in a fanciful lace collar, like a springtime rain, as she glances away from the evil depicted in the upper left of the piece.  She is innocence, truth, and light.  All that is required to subvert fear, darkness, and lies.

Paulina Ree, Perfidia a una Joven Madre - Perfidia to a young mom. The title of this work comes from a well known song of love and betrayal. This is a portrait of my mother as a young mom. This work is part of a series called “Toda una vida”, meaning a whole life. 

Iris Katharina Salzburger-Lindlar, Child Soldier - This painting was made after I read a report on child soldiers entitled ‘The Lion Cubs Homecoming’, in the summer of 2016, about ‘The Lion Cubs of Saddam’, the then child soldier unit that emerged after the Iraq-Iran War. The article reported on the ‘Islamic State’, which in Iraq and Syria had in its power thousands of little boys and they had been taken from their usual living environment. The approximately 11-year-old traumatized boy ‘Wahad’ photographed there didn’t get out of my head for years with his cruel, experienced story and at the end of 2021 I followed the wish I had internalized for years, although not an audible one for him, who managed to escape voice but to give a face. 

Iris Katharina Salzburger-Lindlar, Forgetfullness - A declaration of love to the mother was the aim behind this painting, created in early 2022, the creation of a small memorial for a living woman who is slowly losing her memories and who can only encounter many things in everyday life with empathy and a pinch of imagination. The constant, sometimes difficult, attempt to impose on her a world that is no longer hers. A time that also demanded a lot from me as ‘The Child Iris’ in the often brutal feeling of irretrievability of some thought puzzle pieces that now resemble a peaceful landscape, for example that of a carefree childhood. Before her alert mind threatens to sink completely into the depths of oblivion, I continue to proudly see her before me.

Quentina Lynchberg, Project N. - During the 2020 pandemic I spent my days in close contact with my mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Her constant loss of memory, paired with the tormenting situation the world was facing, made me wonder how I could use images to describe identity. Project N. was born as a starting point for reflection on the loss of identity and its consequent research. I built a “Black Room”, a cube divided in half by a wall, in which people can enter. On the wall there is a bidirectional mirror reflecting the image of whoever enters the cube. I am on the other side of the wall and I can see the people through the mirror, although they can’t see me. So, they can experience a deeper connection with themselfs.

John Hicks, Under Pressure 18 - I’m John Hicks; Artist, Art and Photography teacher, living in Wales. I’ve been working on a series highlighting mental health. This theme reflects what I’ve witnessed in those around me over recent years. I’ve found painting these images cathartic and I’m told viewing is also cathartic for others. I have completed 19 - 100 x 120cm oil paint on canvas’ as well as many digital remixed of these images.

Sue Ransley, Friends Round Friday - Family life to us has always centred around our kitchen table. I want to feed people. I have to make cake if family or friends are coming round. So I decided I should celebrate that table, and acknowlege all the conversations that happened around it. The rows. The celebrations. The birthdays. The highs and lows of our family life. And this memory of one of my daughters with a bunch of her friends seemed appropriate – a big batch of Spag Bol had been made, and they were all chattering away, giggling, having a good time. It always felt a privilege to quietly be in the background pottering around, hearing all their chat. Those are important moments, as you learn how your children fit into their peer group. 

J Max, Walking Colours of 2022 - This paint is an artwork produced in late summer 2022. The expressionist brushstroke mixes colours of different mood and intensity. The dominance of red, yellow and blue towards a colourful harmony is intended to leave the observer to think about life and love. The artist usually creates his works playfully and with a lot of joy, passion and impulses that is mirrored in the drawing. The restlessness of the brush and the various colours used remind of a childhood that needs to be guarded.

Nicola Barth, Nannu Wissa Lei - Traumtänzernebel - There is indeed a world behind this world. And it´s constantly moving. As a philosopher without words, I try to make milkglas permeable… over the time, however, I realized that words and language were to `brained` and that it lacked the means to express what there was to say. In non-objective painting I the found exactly this possibility of expression. It leads from the depth into the depth of an experience of beeing, it is another, for me more open form of communication, which is grasped with other senses and leaves more scope and freedom.

The Dream Dancer Fog (Traumtänzernebel)

Minna Mazzone, Breakfast in Barcelona - This painting is inspired by the colours, shapes, soundtrack and architecture of Barcelona. It’s playful, colourful and jazzy and the composition draws from the musical rhythm of the Spanish language.

I favour bold colours and strong, curvy lines and shapes in my work.  

Malti B Lee, Strolling through Spring - One of my favorite things about any large European city is the beautiful sights you stumble across when aimlessly strolling through the streets. This painting is a nod to spring in Rome as I reminisce of my last trip to Italy. As I stood by the Spanish Steps at sunset, I looked up and noticed the details. In my creative practice, I leverage my experiences of living and working across Europe, Asia and America to explore nature in urban settings; in this painting, you see white blossom against the striking architecture of the church in the beating heart of Rome. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.

Fourkiddream, White Flower Moon - Inspired by the Korean folklore paintings, my love for Asian art grew into a mini series of three original abstract paintings, of red moons, and Chinese characters meaning ‘love yourself’. Cultures always played a big role in my life, being mixed and travelled a few times , to Asia included. I am and always have been drawn to the bright colours and symbolisms used in ancient Asian arts. 

The ‘Red Moon’ is used and seen in folklore Korean paintings.

Denisa Elena Viulet, Childhood - This 3D acrylic painting represents a colorful explosion as a reminder of the childhood time. I tried to include the candies as the center of the artpiece because candies remind us always how to be a child again, and feel the joy as we never got old.

KON ART, Noches de Ibiza / Ibiza nights - Acrylic abstract art, mixed media original painting on canvas. Paint protected with matt varnish. Inspired by the light that projects the nights of ibiza over the sea. The good energy of the island.. 60x 81 cm

Alessio Bonini, Exploded view of Chromatic Extrusion 1 - The work is intended to evoke a plastic, sculptural action, the three-dimensional twisting of color in a space dimensionally outside the canvas. The gold and Indian yellow coloring is derived from association with the note B major of the musical scale, inspiring the viewer with a deep sensory experience. The artist desires the viewer to transcend to a state of complete symbiosis with the painting’s primitive gesturality.

Adina Potop, Can we go somewhere quiet? - This piece envisions the story of me discovering my own voice. The point where I’ve stopped trying to do what others do. The very same moment when I allowed myself to

breathe and fully listen to what my art is asking from me. While being caught up in this process, I found that creation must be born somewhere quiet. And this place is very deep inside you, underneath all those layers of anxiety, that are screaming from the top of your lungs “You are not good enough”. You are, you just need to dive deep under your skin to find yourself in the quiet. Stay there.

Reginald Miles, Whimsical - During the summertime over nineteen years ago, my oldest children were between the ages of two and five. I was in a very happy, confident, and faithful place. The painting emanates a lot of positive energy. The playful colors exude my children’s youth and expresses my fatherly love. It is a free-spirited painting that has no boundaries. Feelings of divine laughter and emotions of grandeur were in my heart. I felt pure ecstasy when I painted it.

Anita Angelina Gallone, It’s nice in Nice - This piece captures the vibrancy of scenic Nice, on the French Riviera (where Henri Matisse once resided). Anita is a yoga teacher, small business owner and energy healer based in London. She is self-taught and discovered her passion for art during the Covid pandemic - having never drawn or painted previously. “My work has helped me obtain a sense of freedom and expression, something akin to my yogic and energy pratctices. For me art is a multi-dimensional modality: meditative; energetic; exploratory; expressive; evolutionary: ultimately a powerful healer. Like yoga, it constitutes a journeying back to self, to truth, to authenticity”. 

Giovanna Arancibia Marquez, Earth Goddess - “Earth Goddess” is a digital artwork created with Photoshop that enhances a woman blowing from inside out, sitting on a huge tree that symbolizes her throne: the Earth. She has deep roots which give her confidence and strength. The nature is a key element to her own anchorage and self achievement as it takes all the background. Her face has been replaced by a white rose, symbol of purity which means the goddess is showing her integrity and authenticity to the world.  I decided to create a dark mystical atmosphere in order to emphasize her magnificence. Finally the hummingbird on the right, represents, in Native American culture, the spiritual guide that is attracted by this divine woman’s Rebirth. 

Crypto Far-West, HOPE - Hope is shown here as a heart full of life and light. This piece, which was inspired by the Pop Art movement, is the iconic figure of Crypto Far-West’s HOPIUM art collection. It is a visual and multidimensional conversation about hope, which is an infinite and powerful human resource. Hope which is shown here as a still piece of art, can also be seen beating and glowing in various videos artworks. One of them, minted as a Non Fungible Token (NFT) contains a riddle that only their owners can solve.

Liz Darrell, Underrated - Underrated is a meditation on thoughts and treatments towards vulvas and vaginas. For those of us who are born with them, we are suddenly launched into a world where a mysterious and terrible being lives between our legs: something so truly flabbergasting that full grown adults tremble at the idea of naming it publicly. Truly, people’s most frequent reference to vaginas are as insults. The fact is though, that they’re a very necessary part of life, as well as often an enjoyable one. This piece is meant to encourage care for the vulva and vagina both in actuality and in our thinking on it theoretically. To view the vagina as something to be cared for and appreciated for all its multifaceted experiences from maternal to functional. 

Stuart Beck, Untitled No.13 - This original abstract painting in acrylics was commissioned in 2021. It is a large scale painting at 183cm x 122cm. The main brief was to include some bright colours. As with many of my commissioned pieces, I view them as collaborations because I discuss my previous paintings with the customer and try to find the elements that draw them to my work.   

Andela Tucakovic, Through the eyes of Behemoth - Andela is a Croatian figurative painter whose theatrical symbolic narratives enriched by the language of mood in literature often reflect the idea of nausea of uncertainty through compositions that critically examine seemingly ordinary everyday life. The title of the work suggests the influence and the intermedial interpretation of Bulgakov’s masterpiece The Master and Margarita. The expressed duality of light and dark in all aspects is juxtapositioned through a double self-portrait, one showered in light, and the other in semi-darkness. Elusiveness is perpetually projected in the mirrors’ reflection, shifting as constantly as our emotional impressions of the transitory surroundings of the mundane.

Nytia Jenkins, Pretty Abstract Piece II - This abstract piece consists of a woman posing in a geometric themed outfit and background. Combining art with fashion, the color choices and shapes are meant to draw attention to the details and engage the viewer.

Anne-Mei Blom, Bess - Words: Picture of my friend Bess on a rainy spring day in Amsterdam. About to step on our bikes to go to Lentekabinet, a big festival that should be full of sunshine and spring fever. But we are in the unpredictable Netherlands and preparing ourselves to dance in the rain and be soaked to the skin. Preparing with some raincoats and cigarettes. 

Monel Aliote, Monel - Self portrait 

Devanshi Patnaik, Lacquered Scars - Lacquered Scars is a metaphorical portrait of who I am at the end of a year of hurting and healing. It is inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese tradition of mending cracked pottery with golden lacquer, which creates a far more precious piece than the original. Likewise, the wounds we suffer become sources of resilience and personal growth, sculpting a sterling version of ourselves. My hope for this piece is that it serves as a reminder to own and honor the scars that truly are worth their weight in gold.

Catarina Diaz, Zenobia, Serenity - Only time allows us to look over our shoulders with the serenity that experience gives us. This female figure with oriental features symbolises this maturity. From the back of her head proliferate golden flowers and green foliage. Three cranes fly above them. They represent loyalty, peace and longevity, concepts also mirrored in the delicate profile of this woman. But the whole composition comes to life behind the image of a feline, which seems to observe something out of our sight. This lynx, a symbol of understanding, is the personification of the present as the female figure represents the serene and lucid look over the past, which will allow us to walk safely into the future.

Ryan Horton, The Fate of Agony - As I am consistently on display, I must fight to keep my emotions in check. The agony of unexpressed emotions brings endless tension waiting to engulf me.

Marina Trani, Magic Boots - “Magic Boots” drives awareness of a skin disease – Podoconiosis (Podo) – prevalent amongst barefoot workers walking on irritant red clay soils in highland areas of Africa, India, & Central America. This disease can be both prevented and treated by daily washing of feet with soap & water regularly and by wearing shoes. A pair of bespoke boots, combined with daily hygiene (costing less than $20) dramatically improves the prospects of Podo sufferers. 

I have created this painting in collaboration with the Ethiopian NGO ‘Action on Podo’ (https://actiononpodo.com). This painting is for sale with 50% of proceeds to be donated to this NGO and its remarkable work.

Alicia Garza, Merging with Gaia - With this artwork I express my connection to mother earth wishing to emphasize how important it is for us humans to feel being part of nature. To respect nature and learn to appreciate it. Appreciating nature and the abundance of its beauty is my main inspiration source and one of the core  messages I express through my art.

Iris Katharina Salzburger-Lindlar, Life and all its suffering - This painting seems to depict an attitude to life of our time. Although it was created in 2015, I have never been able to develop such a strong connection to this work as I have before. In the creative process, the artist’s ego often defends itself against these forces, which the picture can produce, but the last two years in particular have opened my eyes to this through the increasing borderline experiences of the pandemic. Persistent exhaustion redraws our faces and quietly gnaws at our hearts. We seem more trapped in a nebulous state than smugly wrapped in cotton. Who couldn’t despair about it and give room to tears?

Stephanie Itimi, Ojanomare The Market Woman - Ojanomare’s journey begins with a visit to Balogun Ajeniya Market in Lagos (Nigeria), one of the world’s most famous informal markets. Stephanie was so impressed by cultural wealth, female entrepreneurship, and remarkable beauty that she decided to create a digital space where others can share this cultural experience. Ojanomare is an Urhobo name that means “I have conquered the task.” A discussion with Suliat, a hairdresser in Lagos, inspired the name and art. Suliat discusses the challenges women face as entrepreneurs, wives, and mothers, and how she overcomes them every day.  The art represents being seen but hidden, which represents the common story of women in Nigeria’s informal sector.

Clinton Willis, The Artist In Reds And Mars Violet - My self-portrait is an oil painting influenced by the German expressionists of the early 20th century. Artists such as Max Beckmann, Ernst Kircher, and Emile Nolde have helped inspire me. My goal as an expressionist isn’t to capture realistic aspects surrounding the subject but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. I wanted my portrait to capture a stoic mood. As if an individual was looking at a statue rather than an oil painting of a man. When looking at the face, hardly any well-defined features stand out. When looking at the eyes in the portrait, they are deep and shaded in order to create an expressionless gaze. 

Alyona Sychyova, Star catcher - This is a metaphorical painting, where the hero is a symbol, and the charming details that create a “whole another world” complement and further reveal the idea of the painting. She creates a story within a story. The hero sits on a chair which legs are growing trees. What is this man doing? He’s watering them. After all, the higher the legs of the chair will grow, the higher the man will rise. The hero strives for his dreams, for the stars, the Star catcher.

Ben Freeland, Kyiv, 2022 - I’m selecting this piece as I feel it is very relevant to the time we live in. It is A1 and painted in oils on a wooden board. The essence of the painting is that of the horror that’s occurring to our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, and how I chose to portray it in my own style as you can see. I’m equally as pleased with a number of my other paintings but this example, I feel, holds special importance as it’s the sort of imagery the world needs to see. Everything is symbolic, I hope it’s burned into your mind.

mirku, BLUE MOTION - Mirku is in love with dancing. “Blue Motion” tries to capture the beauty of the human body in motion. It might remind us how important it is to be connected with ourselves and our bodies. The technique is watercolor and ink on cardboard paper. The cardboard paper gives the watercolor this specific texture.

Dana Al Rashid, Do you Eat Alone? - A miniature representing the state of isolation that many of us have faced during the pandemic. A fun take on time travel, the medieval Islamic character watches a series on his magical device while eating a home-delivered meal, with his facemask laying about. The confined room becomes almost prison-like, isolating him from the lustrous green outdoors.

Leigh Witherell, Invisibility of Grief - This piece speaks to phenomena of becoming invisible after our daughter died. This is a very personal piece born of pain. 

PICARDO, THE CENSORED SOUL - Picardo makes a statement about our mystic order of existence and how this relates to everyday life in our physical universe. Over a decade most of the body of work of art that I have been producing are primarily for the creativity activity that I personally named experimentation out of the power of emotions, or any subject related with humanity.

Yannick William ASSIEDOU, Melting-pot - Artist based at Brussels, self-taught, Yannick Assiedou, has been honing his skills in acrylic painting for the past several years. 

His roots are on the Ivory Coast, which he left at a very young age to discover the world. This reflects in his work, inspired by biodiversity of our planet combined with the multifacets of human perception.

Through bold colorful work he is challenging the expression and sensation of deep emotions. 

Jeff Sheel, On My Way - Unadorned, without filters and mercilessly honest - this is how US-born artist Jeff Sheel passionately captures moments, situations and snapshots of life. His photographs show the world unvarnished with all its facets and destinies, telling an individual story with each shot. His approach to street photography is capturing moments of ordinary life and people you would look at on the street. “Inner Stories“ 

( double exposures ) are a part of his creative journey.

Riveting Welds, Hartley Hare - Hartley Hare is a construction of mostly bike spanners which have lived a long life either in the junk drawer of most houses or from the cold confines of the shed or garage after a very short life in the operation of mechanical adjustment. There are a few other bits as well.

Hartley for me reminds me of Pipkin! A kids program in the late 70’s and early 80’s...... a scary puppet of a hare who had a brummie pig and an ostrich as friends! Who said kids programs in the 70’s were tame!

His heart is ticking ready for the off at any time just watch the eyes.... Any minute now !  

Megan Mickael, Blu - Growing up, Megan Mickael’s family moved constantly: the only space that never changed was her mother’s art studio. This studio became Mickael’s safe space, and generated the passion for art that shaped her into the artist she is today. Mickael works in the medium of photography, snapping her documentary images anywhere and everywhere; deeply introspective, at times psychologically charged. Mickael’s oeuvre exhibits a broad range of subject matters, yet is all connected by the reverence she feels towards the visual phenomena she experiences at any given moment.

Wendy Baker, Grand Canal Venice - This art piece of The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy was created by digitally layering my original photograph with watercolor brushes to resemble a watercolor painting. I apply luminance with a light sprinkling of fine crystal glitter to the final print-- (Canson’s Infinity Rag Photographique).  

Ghia Haddad, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (from the Decolonizing History series) 100cm x 76cm mixed media on canvas- Ghia, February 2021 - Women in history have found themselves at the losing end of a misogynistic narrative. Women of color more-so, as they have had the misfortune to be seen through the patriarchal lens of history as well as an orientalist one; where their story -and with it their lasting representation- was fabricated to satisfy economic and political ends. I am currently dedicating my artistic endeavors to help decolonize our own image of ourselves - with the deliberate usage of mediums that would be considered “primitive” or “exotic”. 

Rachel Mercer, Radiate Absorb - My paintings juxtapose everyday scenes and classical themes, the subject fades into the sensuality of the medium. The figures in my work move and dissolve across the canvas, creating a sense of disappearance and presence. This painting was made from a memory of friends sitting on a sunny patio.  

Alice Gur-Arie, Nav Lights: On, from the Reflections series - I called the series “Reflections” not only because it is based on repainted photographs of reflections, but also because of the second meaning of the word - to think, or consider. In my practice, which combines photography and painting, exploring what we see - what we think we see - is my focus. The result is achieved by treating my photograph as the canvas, interpreting as I repaint the picture by hand digitally in layers to achieve washes, and enlarging the image to paint pixel by pixel where detail requires. 

In Nav Lights: On I wanted to offer the viewer clues about the reflection, using traditional navigation 

colours: red, for port, green for starboard. One-of-a-kind giclee print.