Camilla Mihkelsoo (b. 1978) is an Estonian-born Finnish visual artist who lives and works in Sicily, Italy. She works primarily with figurative oil painting, often based on found photographs, film stills and her own image archive. Placing the human figure at the centre, Mihkelsoo explores a subtle, psychological ambivalence in her characters, who inhabit staged, often…
Nadia Valavani, the Greek artist behind Old Brown Shoe Stories, creates vibrant, self-sarcastic illustrations that turn everyday life into visual storytelling. Her characters, drawn with humor and heart, are often caught in simple moments — drinking coffee, daydreaming, gossiping — yet each one carries an unspoken history. Viewers are invited to pause, wonder, and imagine: What…
Jaime Danielle Smith is a Zimbabwean-born abstract expressionist artist now living in Stuttgart, Germany. Due to political disturbances in Zimbabwe, she immigrated to South Africa where she completed her studies with a degree in Film and Social Anthropology.Following a career in film production, she decided to make a bold transition and spent the next four years…
Steven Seinberg is a Brooklyn-born painter whose lyrical, gestural abstractions span nearly three decades of exploration into nature, perception, and the poetics of mark-making.With an BFA from Atlanta College of Art and MFA from Georgia State University, he has exhibited widely across the U.S. and Europe, including recent solo shows at Galerie Benjamin Eck (Munich), Galeria…
Vera Jochum is an abstract artist based in Illingen, Germany, whose paintings serve as layered reflections of her inner world. These are raw, textural, and emotionally charged.Her creative process unfolds in silence, on a large horizontal worktable where she builds each piece through an ongoing dialogue of adding, scraping, and revising. What began in 2019 as…
Maartje Strik is a Dutch artist known for her evocative fantasy portraits, poetic still lifes, and expressive floral paintings that seamlessly blend dreamlike elements with tangible reality. Working with oil paint, pastels, and mixed media, she explores themes of human fragility, time, and connection, often merging figures with elements of nature.
Lucía Martínez Mayer (Buenos Aires, 2000) is an emerging talent in the world of comics and illustration, seamlessly blending storytelling with visual beauty. A philosophy student, comic artist, and illustrator, she studied under Mariano Díaz Prieto and the renowned Argentinian comic artist Ignacio Minaverry. In this interview with the artist, she takes us through her creative…
Elaine Smith is a passionate and deeply intuitive artist whose work is a vibrant reflection of the natural world around her. With nearly 30 years of artistic exploration, she draws inspiration from the landscapes she encounters while kayaking, hiking, or simply wandering through her neighborhood. A lifelong learner, Elaine embraces the creative process with curiosity and…