Painting

Stamatis Laskos

Born in Volos in 1985 and studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2002-2007) and graduated with a first-class degree. He has taught in special education (2010-21) and he also works as a painter with Jordan Nike Inc. an Oregon and as an illustrator of The New Yorker magazine in New York.

In his works(which range from canvases of very small dimensions to very large wallpaintings) he draws his inspiration from the contemporary urban art.

Nanda Type

Colombian Lettering Artist based in Barcelona, focused on the handmade letter shapes, through Calligraphy, Lettering & Sign Painting. I believe in the emotional, sensorial and social value of the handmade, in the beauty of imperfection and of what takes time, as well as in the letter forms power to tell stories, preserve thought and question the status quo.

I like to transform the identity of old and discarded objects, giving them a new purpose through handcrafted lettering. My work is about of the handmade relevance, in an era of increasing robotization, which imposes on us the yoke of immediacy, overproduction and excessive consumption. I see the need for a decolonial thinking and a contemplative life, contrary to the era of acceleration and hyperactivity.

Gursharn "Sharn"

The Mood Series is a visual representation of the inner work we do as it relates to the various energy centres or chakras of our bodies as we progress through life.

The Blue throat chakra has an especially powerful role in the impact we have on the world. Known as the ‘Vishuddha ’ in Sanskrit, this fifth chakra is located in the mid-point of the neck, and it’ s the energy centre that gives us our abilities around self-expression and communication.

Yellow represents our solar plexus or Manipura, which deals with human ego, emotions and self-love.

Ernest Compta Llinàs

Catalan artist and architect, I live and work in Barcelona.

My works try to express social and emotional diversity through the face.

Over the years I have moved between styles and formats, but I have always worked with the same theme: facial portrait. I work mainly with acrylics on canvas and paper, although some pieces are made with charcoal, oil, pastel and inks.

Tony Woods

Tony Woods is an Irish artist who favours painting abstract dimensions inspired by feeling and emotion. His many works range for the countryside and seas in his native Ireland and indeed from his travels to distant places like South Africa and Alaska.

Johnny Otto

Johnny Otto is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. He was born in Bay Village, Ohio in 1966, the grandson of Czech and German immigrants. Often compared to Basquiat, Haring and Picasso, Otto ’ s work is actually influenced by a trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts, which he visited as a child and where he was exposed to their vast collection of African Art.

Svetlana Talabolina

I am Svetlana Talabolina, a Los Angeles based artist. I was born in a Russian family in the land of Estonia during the Soviet Union era.

My love for art was born at the very beginning - it all started with my mom, Tatyana. When my sister and I were little, mom used to paint fairy tale characters on the wallpaper in our room. Princesses, Mickey Mouse, etc. they were always as large as the entire wall, starting at the bottom of it, nearly reaching the ceiling. Loving novelty my mama often would rearrange our furniture and replace the wallpapers, painting new characters every time it happens. It was magical and absolutely admirable!

Being an extremely emotional creature, I am absolutely mesmerized by human nature, the whole of that we are - our physique, feelings, connections with one another and the unique reasoning behind it all. I myself live on raw emotions and strive to capture them with my brushes. I deeply enjoy exploring different subjects, but we - the people, remain my true obsession. What you see in my artwork, is the tale of my story, but it possibly is your story as well.

Haydn Dickenson

Haydn Dickenson was born in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom where he still lives and works, specialising in large, subtly exuberant free abstract pieces. In his unique work on canvas and board, collage, acrylics, oils and other media collaborate in a suggestive dance of colour, texture and form at times urgent and vital, at others calm, meditative and spiritual. Haydn is inspired by the natural world, and by Humanity, Psychology, Mysticism and Spirituality. Musical references also appear – His former career was as a Concert Pianist.

Anna Marie Savage

Anna Marie Savage was born in 1966 and is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster, where she received a First-Class Honours Degree in 2009. She has most recently been accepted for Frontier Work which is part of the ‘Decade of Centenaries ’ project supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Artlink, Fort Dunree, Donegal. She was awarded the Creative Spark/Create Louth Residency Award 2015; Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc Residency Award 2013; was shortlisted for the RHA Tony O’Malley Studio Residency Award 2011 and recipient of SIAP, ACNI Award 2012, 2015, 2019.

In 2019 she was accepted for Drawn from Borders, which was part of the ‘Understanding the

Decade of Centenaries

’ project in collaboration with the Nerve Centre and the Tower Museum, Derry. Her work, in collaboration with landscape writer, Dr. Martin Cromie was shown at In the Open Asle-UKI & Land Conference 2017: Cross Multi Inter Trans, Sheffield and WAY-MAKING The Steel Rooms Gallery, Brigg, Lincolnshire UK, 2019.