CECILE LOBERT  

NATACHA BOILLOT  

JOSS LIAO  

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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 

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.  

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.  

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.

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.

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”. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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).