Art to Collect, the curated platform by ArtDependence, continues to thrive as a space where collectors and artists meet over works that spark reactions with clarity, depth, and exciting visual language. Each week, we spotlight a selection of artists whose works are not only captivating but investment-worthy, balancing the pulse of contemporary sensibility with timeless artistic value.
Art to Collect, the curated platform by ArtDependence, continues to thrive as a space where collectors and artists meet over works that spark reactions with clarity, depth, and exciting visual language. Each week, we spotlight a selection of artists whose works are not only captivating but investment-worthy, balancing the pulse of contemporary sensibility with timeless artistic value.
This week’s selection offers a dynamic range of practices. From rigorous abstraction to intuitive mark-making, and from architectural dreamscapes to emotionally resonant portraits. The featured artists—Nick Hare, Cecile van Hanja, Zofia Iwaszkievicz, Oscar Rey, Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, and Micha Patiniott—represent distinct voices in the evolving narrative of contemporary art. Together, their works form a compelling cross-section of what it means to collect art today.
British artist Nick Hare approaches painting through a philosophical lens, using figuration and digital motifs to question the structures of power and image-making in a screen-saturated world. His works often straddle the line between the familiar and the surreal, offering eerie, hyper-contemporary compositions that prompt reflection on our digital existence.
Niki Hare, The Way We See Things, 2025, Acrylic on canvas diptych
Through rich surfaces and semiotic layering, Hare’s paintings feel like decoded transmissions—commentaries on commodification, identity, and technological decay. His work is particularly relevant for collectors seeking pieces that speak to the current cultural moment with both intellectual rigour and painterly sophistication.
Dutch artist Cécile van Hanja is renowned for her layered, geometric interpretations of modernist architecture. Her paintings translate the clean lines and structural purity of Bauhaus and De Stijl into dreamlike compositions infused with translucent colour and illusionistic space.
Cécile van Hanja, Sunset Oasis, 2023, Acrylic on canvas
In her current works, van Hanja continues to explore repetition, transparency, and the beauty of rational design, often employing isometric projection to give a floating, almost metaphysical quality to the spaces she depicts. These are not just buildings; they are meditations on order, memory, and utopian ideals, making them perfect for collectors who gravitate toward abstraction rooted in architectural history.
Zofia Iwaszkievicz brings a painterly tenderness to themes of memory, domesticity, and femininity. Working in soft tones and gestural brushwork, she captures fleeting moments and inner states, creating what she describes as “painted diaries.”There is a subtle rebellion in her approach: the choice to depict small, quiet, intimate scenes in a world obsessed with spectacle. Her canvases breathe slowly, with a sensibility that borders on poetic realism. For collectors seeking emotional depth and resonance, Iwaszkievicz offers paintings that feel personal and profoundly humane.
Zofia Iwaszkiewicz, The Vogue Dalmatian, 2025, Acrylic on board
Oscar Rey brings a visual language that is both instantly recognisable and wildly inventive. Influenced by comic books, street art, and surrealism, his works are vivid explosions of colour and symbolism. Human figures morph into fantastical creatures, while urban and natural environments collide in his compositions.
There’s an anarchic joy to Rey’s work—unapologetically expressive and rich in subtext. His bold, graphic style appeals to collectors looking for contemporary figuration with cultural commentary. Rey’s art does not whisper; it declares.
Oscar Rey, A Bottle of Tabasco Sauce, 2024, Acrylic on canvas
The granddaughter of screen legend Audrey Hepburn, Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, is forging her path in the art world through evocative figurative painting. Her portraits are not celebrity tributes, but deeply personal investigations of identity, trauma, and healing.
Using a muted, often melancholic palette, Ferrer paints figures that seem suspended between vulnerability and strength. There is a softness in her technique—a sense of looking inward while being observed. With themes that draw on memory and selfhood, Ferrer’s work bridges autobiography and universal emotion. Her growing presence in the art market makes her work an intriguing addition for collectors investing in emerging talent with depth and longevity.
Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, Church at Lago di Garda, 2024, Intaglio etching with hard ground, soft ground, and aquaforte
Dutch painter Micha Patiniott moves between the absurd, the uncanny, and the lyrical. His canvases are teeming with ambiguities: figures float without context, objects defy gravity, and gestures remain unresolved. There’s a subtle humour embedded in his painterly decisions, offering viewers the sense that logic has been purposefully left behind.
Yet, behind the apparent spontaneity lies deep discipline. Patiniott’s brushwork is deft and assured, and his compositions are carefully calibrated. His art invites interpretation but resists conclusion—ideal for collectors who enjoy narrative suggestion without linearity. Each work is an open-ended story, or perhaps a dream that refuses to fade.
Micha Patiniott, Sail Cloth, 2007, Oil on canvas
The six artists spotlighted this week underscore the diversity of contemporary artistic practice across borders, disciplines, and visual languages. From Hare’s media critique to van Hanja’s modernist homage, from Iwaszkievicz’s emotional intimacy to Rey’s visual dynamism, and from Ferrer’s portraiture to Patiniott’s surreal reflections, each brings something distinct and lasting.
Art to Collect remains committed to presenting artists whose work not only speaks to the present but continues to unfold in meaning over time. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or new to the art world, this week’s selection offers an entry point into thoughtful acquisition—art that enriches space, provokes thought, and tells stories worth holding onto.
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