Interviews

Finding Stillness Amid Turbulence: Samir Farah’s Artistic Journey
Article date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Finding Stillness Amid Turbulence: Samir Farah’s Artistic Journey

For Samir Farah, painting began as an act of quiet resistance, a way to turn away from the turbulence of the news cycle and toward something more enduring.


Bassam Andari: Creating Art without Borders
Article date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Bassam Andari: Creating Art without Borders

Bassam Andari is a Lebanese-British self-taught artist based in London. After a long career in journalism, he turned to painting as a powerful medium for storytelling, channelling his passion for human emotion and experience into landscapes and figurative works. 


Daria Startseva: Creating Spaces of Transformation and Presence
Article date: Monday, October 6, 2025

Daria Startseva: Creating Spaces of Transformation and Presence

Daria Startseva has always been drawn to visual storytelling, she studied Graphic Design and Advertising at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 

 


Riemer den Ouden: Beauty as an Answer - A Conversation on Art and Connection
Article date: Monday, September 29, 2025

Riemer den Ouden: Beauty as an Answer - A Conversation on Art and Connection

Riemer den Ouden's work invites us to step away from daily reality and enter a world where light, color and emotion take center stage.


Kirsty Wain: Reimagining Nature through Color, Rhythm and Serenity
Article date: Monday, September 22, 2025

Kirsty Wain: Reimagining Nature through Color, Rhythm and Serenity

Kirsty Wain captures the living spirit of the landscape through bold, lyrical forms and a palette that transforms nature into something dreamlike.


Mieke Jonker: Finding Harmony in Quiet Interiors
Article date: Monday, September 22, 2025

Mieke Jonker: Finding Harmony in Quiet Interiors

Mieke Jonker started her creative career as a goldsmith, but was inspired to satrt painting after she saw Rembrandt's portrait of Haesje van Cleyburgh at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.


From Struggle to Freedom: Geert Lemmers' Journey through Art
Article date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

From Struggle to Freedom: Geert Lemmers' Journey through Art

For Geert Lemmers, composing artworks is almost a philosophical question in transferring his thoughts in a sort of metaphor representations. These developments help him to transfer his thoughts into strong and compassing images.


Between Reality and Imagination: Rafael Smet's Mystical Landscapes
Article date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Between Reality and Imagination: Rafael Smet's Mystical Landscapes

Rafael Smet grew up in a family where art was an important part of life. His mother, an art teacher at the Nymburk Elementary Art School in the Czech Republic, and his grandfather, a passionate violinist, gave him inspiration and support to develop his creative talent.


"Power, History, and Change": The Art of Marit Otto
Article date: Thursday, September 11, 2025

"Power, History, and Change": The Art of Marit Otto

Dutch artist Marit Otto experiences art on many levels and in many different ways. She looks for aesthetics and eloquence but also for a particular angle. 


Dr. Gindi’s Cathartic Work addresses how to oscillate within the Infinite
Article date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Dr. Gindi’s Cathartic Work addresses how to oscillate within the Infinite

With the following conversation, I have ventured to engage in a conceptual exchange with Dr. Gindi, a sculptor of nourishing cathartic vigilance.