Interviews

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

Oscar Rey makes art the way others keep diaries, his canvasses are painted stories, lines pulled frompoetry and song. Each painting is a ritual, an attempt to preserve memory, to honor beauty, to map the ache between joy and grief.

Gernot Wieland is an Austrian artist based in Berlin whose films, drawings, lecture-
performances and installations comment on human notions of belonging within inherited
social, political and psychological processes.