Featured Practitioners

Yuko Mizobuchi

Yuko Mizobuchi is a “neo-primitive” Japanese artist who believes that the role of art is to revert to a “neutral” state within the human condition. This has led her to open the BrainBrunnGALLERY in Tokyo – a space built around freedom of imagination, where viewers are encouraged to have primitive, innate responses to art, unrestricted by the uniformity of white wall galleries. The current exhibition Brunn! is on view until 4 April.

www.brain-brunn.com Instagram: @brainbrunngallery

VICTORIA WAREHAM

Victoria Wareham is an Australia-based artist. She works across video, print and installation to explore the screen as an unstable, spectral entity that exists between the image, the object and the viewer. In response to the dominance of digital images, Wareham’s practice interrogates the ubiquitous screen as a carrier of radiant images – as demonstrated in Midnight Runners.

www.victoriawareham.com | Instagram: @victoriawareham

MARK FORBES

Melbourne-based artist Mark Forbes is best known for contemplative and atmospheric, nostalgia-tinged documentary photography. The use of film is an integral part of the creative process in his personal work. Traditional medium format cameras are used to capture the layers of beauty that exist everywhere around us – as shown in his Beautiful Solitude series. Exhibiting widely, Forbes’ work has featured in renowned art prizes, while his limitededition archival prints are held in public and private collections worldwide.

www.markforbes.com.au | Instagram: @_markforbes_

RICHARD GOWLAND

Richard Gowland is a UK-based contemporary artist specialising in paintings imbued with psychological drama. Of particular interest is the depiction of conflict and the devastating consequences of war. In the Psychosis series, the creation of each piece involves carefully researched subject matter, which is then expressed through strong use of colour and numerous layers of luminous oil paint to achieve intensity and realism. Gowland’s aim is to portray people going through traumatic events with dignity and even beauty.

Instagram: @gowland.richard I YouTube: Manoto+Gowland

JOAN ANDAL ROMANO

Toronto-based artist Joan Andal Romano questions public and private domains – what to share with the world and what to keep as hers alone. Vulnerability is at the core of her practice. She reads magazines from back to front and also views people in this way; when her mindset is free and heart is open, strangers become friends and indifference to encompassment. For Romano’s series Our Beautiful Flaws, she stitches painted papers amongst her moments typed on vellum. She does not cut threads neatly nor does she hide the flawed seams.

www.joanromano.weebly.com

Barry Martin

The practice of multidisciplinary British artist Barry Martin has spanned decades and he is perhaps best known as a pioneer of the Kinetic Art movement. Martin's boundary-pushing work has been exhibited at Tate Britain and Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, amongst many others; seen here are Spinning, Turning, Flapping, Leaning shown at the RA in 1968 and On the Case shown at the V&A in 2015. www.barrymartin.co.uk

Bootsy Holler

Bootsy Holler is a Los Angeles-based artist whose new large-format series Without Words: Grounded in Nature chronicles her vivid episodes of depersonalisation. Recreating scenes based on the visions she has in this state, she paints the possibility of an ecofeminist solution, casting women and nature in a powerful union against the social constructs that devalue them both. www.BootsyHoller.com I Instagram: @BootsyHoller

Ben Vickers

For Ben Vickers, art is where we try to meld our affinity for storytelling with our perception of reality. As such, he embraces montage, juxtaposition, an image-base fed by the media and a range of formats to explore sense-making in even the most mundane situations. His most recent paintings include the Flying to Ibiza series, which explores memory and projection. www.benvickers.co.uk I Instagram: @benvickers100

BRENDON MARCZAN

Brendon Marczan is a painter and illustrator based in London. Many of his artworks feature a tipi symbol – a nod to the traditional dwellings of some Indigenous Canadians and Native Americans. These triangular shapes represent shelter, safety and home. The tight patterns throughout Marczan's work further reinforce a sense of community in fractured times. www.brendonmarczan.com I Instagram: @brendonmarczan

Christine-Ann Richards

The gardens of China and Japan are a decades-long source of inspiration for the thrown porcelain and garden ceramics created by UK-based artist Christine-Ann Richards. Her often-commissioned larger works are greatly influenced by a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to Japan in which she explored "the way that water is used in landscape and architecture." www.christineannrichards.co.uk

david green

Digital artist David Green explores urban architecture with particular examination of the personal and national identity within the domestic parameters. Of his current Oscar Romero work, he notes: “This is a series of monuments to survival and protection which individually project the values, takes and idiosyncrasies of their inhabitants.” www.davgrun.com I Instagram: @artistdavidgreen

derek morris

Derek Morris is a Norwich-based artist who combines geometry, light and colour to full effect, creating constructed art pieces that are held in public and private collections. He holds a first class honours degree in Sculpture from Newcastle University and has developed a degree-level sculpture course at the Norwich School of Art. He later became President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. www.derekmorrissculptor.co.uk

Eric Wiles

Northern California-based artist Eric Wiles' unique focus on fine art and landscape photography reveals dynamic images of natural beauty and manmade objects. His contemporary photographic creativity has propelled his work into exhibitions around the world and has been shown in numerous mainstream art and design magazines. www.ew-photo.com I Instagram: @eric.wiles.photo

Elissavet Sfyri

Athens-based Elissavet Sfyri holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths. An award-winning multidisciplinary artist, she has participated in several international group exhibitions. Sfyri created Dichotomy – an interactive sound performance and installation – as part of To Camp at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (MAMCO). www.elissavetsfyri.com I www.vimeo.com/286691548

flor Troconis

Flor Troconis is a Venezuela-born artist based between Miami, Los Angeles, London and Istanbul. Her extensive travels fuel a curiosity and appetite for experimentation with geometric colour and form. She notes: "Inspiration reveals itself unexpectedly from the abstract beauty of architectural structures; misty evenings in the UK; desert wastelands; lush tropics." www.flortroconisart.com I Instagram: @flortro

gail fox

York-based artist Gail Fox worked for many years as a ceramicist before turning her attention to abstract collages. Concerned with juxtaposition and composition, her work relies on intuition whilst adjusting and distilling towards a sense of balance and harmony. Fox’s work is held in private collections in Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. www.gailfox.co.uk I Instagram: @gailfox.art

ira Hoffecker

Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist based in Victoria. Her new painting series explores the perception of depth in organic and geometric forms, where aspects of one informs the other. The colour incursions rouse the picture plane, revealing intimate exchanges within each painting's interiority. Hoffecker holds an MFA from the University of Plymouth and has shown work in exhibitions in Europe and Canada. www.irahoffecker.com

marc santos

Marc Santos is a fine art photographer based in New York. Long-flowing motion blur with luminous figures is a hallmark of his organic improvisation style. The works reflect reality, as the lines from motion are created and recorded in the moment – there is no compositing of any kind. Santos believes that showing movement in this way allows the viewer to time travel within the image. www.MarcSantosPhotography.com I Instagram: @pixmarc

Molly Harrington

Molly Harrington is a mixed-media sculptor based in Boston who aims to show the value of the permanence of a moment in time. She draws from personal experience as well as the natural world, philosophy, science, culture and psychology. Harrington notes that although nothing is truly permanent, she longs to portray a sense of history, for the next best thing to forever is a long time. Instagram: @mharringtonstudios

Patrizio Sanguigni

Patrizio Sanguigni regards decoration, in the serial repetition of patterns, including architectonic detail, as a playful activity springing from closeups and concentrating on the particular – leaving the centralisation of the image as merely peripheral. Untitled is a study of decoration in oil and tempera on canvas that highlights the importance of perspective. www.patriziosanguigni.it I Instagram: @patrizio_sanguigni

Robert Palmer

Phoenix-based artist Robert Palmer graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Fine Art from Arizona State University. He specialises in painting representational landscapes, capturing the varied elements of the natural world through a lively colour palette. Palmer uses his own photographs, sketches and watercolours as inspiration for oil on linen compositions such as Speculum Lacum and Somniare Aquae. Instagram: @robert.palmer.7505

Paul Butler

UK-based artist Paul Butler is obsessed with the circle and its myriad possibilities. Experimentation with colour, texture and materials brings the elegant simplicity of this round plane figure to life. Extensive travels and collaboration with artists have also contributed to his practice. Butler's work is held in private collections and he is preparing for an exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, St Ives in October. www.blue10art.com I IG: @paulbutler64

Saccades

Saccades is an experimental work in photography and storytelling. The project produces one medium-format roll of film per week, primarily black and white, and always undeveloped, numbered and signed: a roll of potential images. The decision to develop and utilise the photographs, or not, is handed over to whoever acquires each roll. Context is added by online soundscapes and diary archives. www.saccades.co.uk I IG: @saccades2

Astra Papachristodoulou is a UKbased experimental poet and artist. She fuses natural materials with text to create interdisciplinary sculptures, mainly using ecologically friendly materials to respond to urgent environmental challenges. The works often have an interactive element, offering alternative ways for poetry to be presented and understood beyond the page. www.astranaut.co.uk Instagram: @heyastranaut

brett dyer

Brett Dyer is an award-winning artist and professor based near Dallas. His latest series combines abstract figures with evocative colours, patterns and textures, revealing the complexity of the human spirit. The acrylic on canvas piece shown here is entitled Colour is Light, 2020. Dyer’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the USA. www.brettdyerart.com Instagram: @brettleedyer

DS Mangus

Dereck Stafford Mangus is a visual artist and writer based in Baltimore. His work is informed by the urban landscape, which he views as a massive work of art composed of complex, moving parts. As no single image adequately represents the ever-changing city, he employs the photomontage technique in series such as Ruins, Constructions and The Square Project. www.dsmangus.com Instagram: @ds_mangus Elvira Lepikhina attends the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, specialising in Textile Design. She is currently experimenting with plastic and creating new fabrics for a collection of outerwear. An award-winning artist, Lepikhina has participated in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia as well as in numerous festivals and events throughout Europe and Asia. www.livemaster.ru/elviralepikhina Instagram: @elvira_lepikhina

claudia pombo

Brazilian-Dutch painter Claudia Pombo offers an adapted view of nature and human situations past and present. Her creative expressions include illustrations of Amazonian mythology, metaphysical art, flora as well as colour-rich landscapes. The piece shown here, entitled Without Choice, reflects the artist's ruminations on current world events. www.clpombo.wordpress.com clpombo@gmail.com

ELLIE ELLIOTT

UK-based photographer Ellie Elliott focuses on fashion-related images. Analogue methods are often used to capture the emotions of her subjects whilst exploring underlying socio-political and environmental issues such as identity, fast fashion, modern industry, marine pollution and animal habitats. www.ellie-elliott.co.uk Instagram: @by_ellieelliott

Ji Eun Lim

South Korean multidisciplinary artist Ji Eun Lim is currently based in New York. Her focus since 2020 has been cardboard art – a material explored in both her MAT thesis and teaching practice. The myriad possibilities of this ubiquitous yet often-ignored material are harnessed by Lim in bold new ways. The creative process itself allows for intense exploration of self-awareness: as a person, artist and educator. www.jieunlim.net Instagram: @jieunjieunlim

Johanne Narayn

Johanne Narayn is a UK-based paint and print artist who is fascinated by the flora and fauna of her father's birthplace, Trinidad. Vibrant colours are used to depict the beauty and elegance of birds such as flamingos and hummingbirds in natural and fantasy habitats. Narayn's Flamingo Arts Emporium sells limited-edition merchandise designed from her paintings as well as unique handpainted products. www.johannenarayn.com

Kirstine Mengel is an award-winning Danish architectural photographer, specialising in creating space and capturing lines of manmade structures. The style of her work is influenced by visual serenity, light and minimalism. The multi-awardwinning Stairs series highlights Mengel's signature emphasis on graphic elements enveloped in a Nordic style. www.kirstinemengel.dk Instagram: @kirstinemengel

Melanie Furtado

Canadian sculptor Melanie Furtado explores subtle emotional states through the contemporary figure. Her work often depicts groups of solitary individuals during intimate moments of introspection. Furtado is based in Paris, where she is currently completing Women: States of Being, a series of unconventional female figures. www.melaniefurtado.com Instagram: @melanie.furtado Portugal-based Maya Mitten is an internationally-renowned collage artist. Traditional cut and paste techniques are used as a vehicle to explore journeys both real and dreamed. Mitten's work has featured on album covers and in books, and she has inspired others through her classes at a variety of locations including the Saatchi Gallery, London and schools in Hamburg. www.mayamitten.com Instagram: @mayamitten

Nina Valetova

Nina Valetova explores connections between ancient cultures, fantasy, mythology, metaphysics and philosophy. Searching for new ways of expression, she has established a synthesis painting style in contemporary art – the integration of suprematism, surrealism and cubism with abstract and figurative forms. This is aptly demonstrated in New Ways, a coloured pencil drawing. www.valetova.info IG: @ninatokhtamanvaletova_art

Qianwen Yu

China-born, USA-based Qianwen Yu is an interdisciplinary artist and MFA graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She harnesses both traditional and contemporary techniques, combining them with 20th century modernism in weaving, animation, sound and architecture, to explore new possibilities within the moving-image arena. Yu’s work has been widely exhibited. www.qianwenyuyu.com Instagram: @qianwenyuyu

Seema Mathew

Hong Kong-based Seema Mathew is a self-taught artist. A key component of her practice is experimentation, as seen in her most recent work with water-soluble graphite on linen paper – this is combined with a philosophical and inward-looking approach. In Nocturne, each painted panel is a window into an inner world. Mathew was selected as one of the Artists in the Spotlight by the 2021 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice. Instagram: @seemamathew_ink

Simay Kislaoglu

Simay Kislaoglu is a contemporary Turkish artist based in Istanbul. Her practice is influenced by time spent in Florence, where she studied the Italian language as well as a variety of art masters. This has inspired Kislaoglu to explore two avenues: oil paintings that focus primarily on female portraiture, such as Luna, and clothing designs which feature nods to classic, timeless prints. www.simaykislaogludesign.com Instagram: @simaykislaogludesign

Tomasz Susul

Tomasz Susul is a Polish fine art photographer and mixed-media artist specialising in landscapes and urban architecture. In his latest series of works he pursues a unique form of craftsmanship – combining alternative photography techniques, handmade paper and woodworking, including the Japanese Yakisugi technique – to create the Art Objects series. www.tomaszsusul.pl FB: Tomasz.Susul.Photography

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