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Hadi Khani: From the collection of contemporary man

Hadi Khani: From the collection of contemporary man

Nata Buachidze: Mountain Waves, 2021, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

Daniela Perez-Lozada: Pelorus, 2021, acrylic and charcoal on canvas

Larry Wolf: Try Not to Stare, 2021, acrylic paint pushed through the back of a silk screen canvas, 19 x 22 inches Larry Wolf: Windows into My Mind II, 2021, acrylic paint pushed through the back of a silk screen canvas, 19 x 22 inches

Gail Deptford: The excited aftermath of reading a book about the chaotic and colourful history of medieval England.

Aristo Vopenka: Vanished 01 (above) Vanished 04 (right)

Jing Qiu: Disorganized Desire No.7, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 60cm

Samantha Wood: Swatch Watches I, 2020, acrylic on gallery edge canvas, 6 x 12 inches

Mathieu V. Staelens Embodied World Politics, 2021, color pencil & ballpoint on polymer, 8.4 x 7 cm Next page: The Crowning of Self Value, 2021, color pencil on polymer, 11x 8 cm

Kristine Narvida: Look How I Move, 2021, oil on canvas

Olivier Saint-Gelais: Lana 3 Olivier Saint-Gelais: West Coast

Isabela Castelan: Mole, 2021, oil on canvas, 130 x 195cm

Lena Snow: I Am from Neptune Elise Mendelle: Coffee and Kindness, 2020, oil on canvas

Danté-Danýel: Thifar, mixed media on plywood, 50 x 50 cm

Shokoufeh Karimi: mascara on paper

Mitra Tashakori: From the Sense and Side collection

Mitra Tashakori: From the Sense and Side collection

M E S S D E C K A R T I S T S

Nata Buachidze Nata Buachidze is an artist from Tbilisi, Georgia, born in 1967. She grew up in a family of artists and architects, so being an artist is natural. In 1990, Nata graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (Graphic design department), Tbilisi, Georgia. www.natabuachidze.com IG: @nataliabuachi

Isabela Castelan I am originally from Brazil, and I now live and work in London. London is an important place for me to spend time in the studio developing work and an exciting place to be immersed in contemporary art culture and the chance to take part in exhibitions. www. Isabelacastelan.com

Danté-Danýel Danté-Danýel is a Creole-Brazilian artist and writer based in Germany. Since art has always been important in his family, he was enrolled in art classes and in art school from the age of five till the age of sixteen. He had his first solo exhibition at the age of 13 but, due to trauma, he stopped painting altogether four years later and turned to write essays, poetry and columns instead. In 2021 he started painting and creating objects again to process his childhood trauma and PTSD and his experiences with racism. “Ever since I started painting again, my work changed completely. I used to paint mainly figuratively, with a strong focus on planning my artworks. Now it's all about abstract art, unplanned and intuitive with a focus on surfaces and textures. Thifar I is about a breakup I had during the second lockdown in 2020, and it is the first piece in a minimal art series about loss and self-love and about finding something to replace whatever you lost and to fill that space in your life and in your soul with something meaningful that gives you happiness, and that gives you peace of mind. ” IG: @dan _dann _paints Gail Deptford I am a painter based in deepest rural Lincolnshire, England. www.gaildeptford.com IG:@Deptfordgail

Shokoufeh Karimi www.sheydaeigallery.com IG :@sheydaeigallery

Hadi Khani Born on Earth in 1992, he began his artistic journey in IranZanjan. He graduated in engineering and started painting in 2007. Hadi Khani has had more than a few group and solo exhibitions. He seeks the depths of silence in the universe. IG: @hadi.khani.13

Elise Mendelle Elise Mendelle is a Canadian painter living and working in London, UK. Her expressive brushstrokes and stripped-back subjects aim to capture a moment in time and ask the viewer, 'what happens next?' Elise is inspired by the simplicity of these everyday moments and how they link to a deeper understanding of what is happening behind a person's outer veneer. Elise has developed her practice and cultivated a loose and rhythmical style. Interest in her work has grown, with her paintings now part of collections worldwide. She has exhibited in Rome, London, Madrid, Luxembourg, and New York. www.impressionsbyelise.co.uk IG: @impressionsbyelise

Kristine Narvida Kristine Narvida is an academic visual artist from Latvia, living and producing in Germany in Potsdam and Berlin. She regularly presents her fine artwork throughout Europe or online. She prefers working with models and works with oil on canvas. www.narvida.com IG: @kristine_ narvida_art

Daniela Perez-Lozada Daniela Perez-Lozada was born in Mexico City, and she is currently based in Orange County, California, where she has been living for over 14 years. As a self-taught artist, she has used her bright use of colours and boldness to express a wide array of emotions tied to her mental health. Lover of animals and lush tropical plants, her work represents a vivid kaleidoscope of her Hispanic heritage. www.shewolfcreative.com IG:@art.shewolf Jing Qiu Jing Qiu (1998, China) is a visual artist who lives and works in GuangDong, China. His works involve media such as video, photography, sculpture, painting, and installation. His artworks have been exhibited in China, UK, USA, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, etc. IG: @xixiaoart

Olivier Saint-Gelais Born in 1978 at Chicoutimi. Work and live in Montreal. Studied in cinema, literature and graphism. Undergraduate in Fine art at Concordia. Influenced by photographic art portrait, cinema and some expressionist artists like Bonnard, Munch and Peter Doig. I see my portraits as journeys into dreams and memories sensations.

Lena Snow I am an interdisciplinary artist from Germany, and with my "Identity series, " I intend to capture several emotions and character traits in specific. The females I depict show a certain moment in time – compared to a moment captured on camera. The artworks represent the state of mind, attitude, wish, or perception of oneself rather than an accurate illustration of reality. Some artworks are influenced by the atmosphere of famous movies or tv series and convey the impact and lasting impression of strong female characters. Some artworks within this series are also influenced by the relationship with my mother and finding my own identity. My goal with this series is to leave a memorable impression of strong, fascinating, and enigmatic appearing women and give an impetus for dealing with one's own identity. IG: @janagoddessarts

Mathieu V. Staelens Belgian artist Mathieu V. Staelens saw the light of day in Ostend, that obscure place where Marvin Gay recorded some songs and James Ensor fooled around with the establishment. After his studies in the visual arts, he stayed in Antwerp. Mathieu V. Staelens uses drawing, painting and sculpture in his quest to emancipate "Beauty. " His work originates from a hybrid of visual culture and philosophy. The artistic research focuses on personality industries: Fashion as a proposalmachine of identities, Design as the production-machine of attributes, while contextualizing those fabricated identities. It's the realm where those identities are defined and start pressuring the etiquette of social interactions. His work focuses on the construction of identity rendered by the current status of beauty, the quest for meaning, and the question of happiness from the viewpoint of identity-proposals by the earlier mentioned personality industries. At the heart of Staelens' work, we find meticulously small drawings in a self-developed technique, holding situations of duality, irony and simple beauty. www.mathieuvstaelens.be IG:@mathieuvstaelens_artist

Mitra Tashakori She was born in 1975 in a religious city in Iran. After receiving an experimental diploma through the art entrance exam, she entered Dr. Shariati University of Arts in Tehran, and after graduating, she joined the education and teaching system in the conservatory. After a few years, she went to Tehran again and graduated with a Bachelor's degree. She continued teaching in art conservatories and art schools in Mashhad, and at the same time, participated in individual and group exhibitions. In 2018 he graduated with a Master's degree in illustration. Her paintings and drawings are a combination of his interests and work characteristics, which is, in fact, a combination of painting, illustration and graphics. "Sometimes shapes and forms invade our brains, and we want to record them on a piece of paper or a canvas. Our inner senses are very different and sometimes very amazing. I do not have a diary and a good relationship with writing, but I can easily remember my feelings engraved on sheets of paper or canvas. These are my diaries. These are the painting notebooks and canvases I work on. " IG: @Mitratashakori1 Aristo Vopenka Aristo Vopenka is an artist and film director, born in the , Netherlands and working from Brussels, Belgium. Vopenka uses a variety of art forms. In his recent work, Vopenka explores the boundaries between photography, illustration, painting and print. Using an experimental attitude towards these different media, new forms of expression take place. The fascination to work with space, light, sound, and visuals is a constant evolution of what we know, questioning the possibilities of today's art. “My art is about finding that equilibrium, in which I capture a moment, a sensation that was in our now and vanished shortly after. Even when life sometimes seems to be an endless hurdle race, my work tries to extract the colourful moments that keep us going. The current practice focuses on the unknown, the mystery of something that we haven't seen yet and finding stories that haven't been told. It is about extending the experience of art beyond the initial medium, finding new ways of expressing myself and questioning the power of art. ” aristovopenka.com IG:@ a.vopenka

Larry Wolf A criminal defence attorney in Los Angeles for 45 years, Larry Wolf became an artist about ten years ago, merging his profession with his passion into a collection of abstract works he has chosen to call "A Brush with the Law. " His work reflects a never-ending search for new alternatives and solutions to problems in art and the courtroom. Larry utilizes an intriguing and unique process whereby he pushes acrylic paint through the back of a silkscreen canvas, resulting in strikingly vibrant abstract compositions layered in eye-catching shapes and textures. www.abrushwiththelaw.com IG:@ _abrushwiththelaw

Samantha Wood Samantha began her career as an art teacher and recently left the classroom to focus on her own art fulltime. Samantha works from her home studio in Tennessee, where she alternates painting with acrylics and gouache. She is dedicated to painting varied subject matter and has no interest in limiting her focus. www.samanthawood.art IG:@ samanthawoodart