The most important theme in my work is the research of the influence of the public domain on private life.~Cecile van Hanja As an inspiration source the metropolitan surroundings works both for and against creating art in my studio, which can be seen as a metaphor for an inner experiment.Although I’ve trouble to shut out the hectic life...
Artist, painter and printmaker based in London, UK. I work predominantly in the medium of acrylic painting, but have also an interest in printmaking and digital art. I started taking an interest in art from an early age and for most of my life painting, drawing and creating things has been both my profession and passion. About my art: colourful...
Ekaterina Panikanova turns vintage books into grid-like canvases for her paintings. In her paintings, she often depicts images that represent nostalgic scenes of people, animals, baked goods, and household items we all might remember from our childhood. In each of Panikanova’s works, she first reads the texts in the books and carefully selects...
San Francisco artist, Kim Cogan, paints urban landscapes from around the US with an expressiveness and drama that puts the cities’ genuine personality on display. Opting out of representing the more iconic views of the city, he walks us through alleyways and residential areas less commonly viewed and renders them using heavily textured...
Polish painter, Grażyna Smalej, incorporates a variety of different styles in each one of her works. With a solid foundation in realism, she incorporates surreal and abstract elements to create flowing, expansive scenes in her paintings. Figurative elements become a jumping off point for a journey into a dream world where emotion and meaning is...
Melbourne-based artist, Adam Lee, creates fantasy worlds that draw inspiration from Biblical narratives and history. Working in traditional mediums and watercolor, his luminous paintings evoke a sense of story-filled wonder reminiscent of Marc Chagall. From Lee’s website, “His practice focuses on a re-interpretation of painting and drawing...
Painter Ruben Fuentes explores his feelings of love for nature and sympathy for all the ecosystems of our planet through his ethereal paintings of nature. His latest works, titled Mind Landscapes, are influenced by Chinese and Japanese “shan-shui” landscape paintings. The series includes the dance of yin and yang forces: night becoming...
American painter, Ben Aronson captures scenes and moments from urban landscapes around the US. His works combine both a realistic and impressionistic style which create a unique characteristic in the works; one that preserves detail while maintaining a loose and expressive stroke. And he brings light into each work to dramatize the subjects as a...
American artist Courtney Heather has a strong admiration for mainstream media. She is fascinated by the power that music, novels, and cinema have on us and how we use them to distract ourselves from the mundane world. And once the temporal distractions run out, we replay them infinitely in order to maintain our state of pleasure. Heather’s...
If anyone likes their art to be awash with narrative, they should check out the work of artist Jolene Lai. She herself admits that she likes to add “a tinge of provocative into the storyline,” and this is clear when you take a look at her work. Each work tantalizingly teases you with a mysterious premise; in one, a man lies dead on the floor...
Hi AIA, My name is Sean David Morgan and I am from the USA. My work deals with forced human interaction that can become violent or uncomfortable. I live in my studio and help run an alternative art gallery called Not Gallery in Austin, Texas. Party on!
