Linda Schroeter, born in 1963 in Australia, has long been drawn to the quiet drama and symbolic power of Dutch master paintings. There’s something in their mood—the flicker of light, the stillness that feels heavy with meaning—that has stayed with her. Over the years, Schroeter has taken that inspiration and carved out a path of her own, rooted in traditional techniques but reaching for something personal. She doesn’t just paint a scene—she shapes an atmosphere, invites you to pause, to look closer, to feel something underneath. Her method is slow, intentional. She builds depth through layers, manipulating light like a…
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Anna Mazzotta doesn’t follow trends. She observes, absorbs, and responds with a brush. Born in the UK but rooted in Italian culture, she splits her time between London and Bristol, and her work carries the energy of both cities. Her training at the Royal College of Art gave her the technical footing, but her real voice comes from somewhere else—somewhere smoky, decadent, and draped in velvet. Her paintings are bold, funny, and a little unruly. They don’t ask permission. They walk in wearing feathers and cigarette smoke, humming an old tune, looking you dead in the eye. Mazzotta’s world is…
Julian Jollon isn’t a painter chasing trends or market noise. He’s someone who’s walked through fire—both literally and creatively—and come back with something to say. A trained artist who stepped away from art for fifteen years, Jollon’s story is one of survival and return. During that long break, he underwent a liver transplant and worked in hospital epidemiology—witnessing the fragility of life up close. When he returned to art, it wasn’t as a hobby or escape. It was a calling. A slow, steady rediscovery of purpose. His work, shaped by myth, spirit, and symbolism, isn’t interested in surface beauty. It…
Mary Arnold’s photographic work doesn’t shout—it glows. In this piece, printed on aluminum, she draws you in not with subject matter alone, but through the energy of light and texture. The image shows what appears to be the close-up of a palm frond, captured with such clarity and intensity that it becomes something else entirely. It no longer feels like a leaf, but a sculpture of flame, or the spine of something ancient and strong. The symmetry is the first thing that hits you. Each rib of the leaf folds outward in a perfect arc, like the bones of a…
Alexandra Jicol doesn’t chase trends. Her art is personal, introspective, and raw in a way that invites you to slow down. She doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. Instead, she walks alongside the viewer—observing, feeling, and asking questions. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Jicol came of age during a time of political tension and limited freedoms. That early experience shaped how she looks at the world—with care, curiosity, and restraint. It also explains her deep sensitivity to nuance. Rather than painting for spectacle, she paints to reflect. Her work isn’t decorative. It’s an invitation to listen. Her ongoing…
Some artists paint what they see. Kimberly McGuiness paints what’s felt—what floats just beneath the surface of awareness. Her work isn’t about explaining things. It’s about reminding you that you already know. That somewhere in your chest, or your gut, or maybe just behind your eyes, you’ve carried that truth all along. Kimberly’s art sits at the edge of reality and myth. There’s a strong pull toward the natural world—its colors, its creatures, its wild rhythms—but also toward stories that come from somewhere older. Her pieces don’t just show you a horse or a peacock or a mythic figure—they carry…
Marina Chisty is a Russian-born artist whose work feels both personal and universal. After moving from Russia to the United States, she carried with her not just memories of home but also an instinctive understanding that art can speak across borders, across languages. Her paintings don’t shout—they linger. They work like quiet meditations, full of tension and gentleness, made of shape and mood rather than fixed narratives. She isn’t trying to explain the world. She’s letting you feel it. Chisty’s process blends discipline with intuition. She works with a mix of materials—powdered pigments, charcoal, acrylics—but there’s nothing showy about it.…
Caroline Kampfraath doesn’t shy away from complexity. A Dutch artist working in three dimensions, she uses materials like metal cans, old bottles, handmade paper, and casts of human forms to build a visual language that speaks through texture and object. Her art feels both immediate and distant—rooted in memory, emotion, and the physical world, but also stretching toward something symbolic. Her works are layered, literally and conceptually, touching on personal history, environmental awareness, cultural contact, and human vulnerability. Nothing is random. Each object she chooses has a reason to be there, even if that reason isn’t explained directly. The viewer…
Dóra Pál, known as BYDORAPAL, doesn’t just paint pictures—she tells stories. Her work blends classical fashion aesthetics with an intuitive sense of emotion, turning canvas into conversation. Each painting is precise, elegant, and deeply human. She has an eye for beauty, but not the kind that fades. Her portraits capture something quieter: a glance, a stillness, a thread of hope or introspection. This isn’t surface-level art. It goes beneath, beneath, beneath. There’s something intentional in the way she works. Every hue, every detail, is placed with care. Dóra doesn’t just want her viewers to look—she wants them to pause. She…
Katerina Tsitsela’s work doesn’t sit neatly in one corner of the art world. She moves between painting and engraving, not to switch gears, but to deepen the same question: what does it mean to feel? Her art is rooted in human emotion, but it doesn’t scream or dramatize. Instead, it opens quiet doors. Her focus isn’t on the world as it looks but on the world as we experience it from the inside out. Tsitsela calls these “internal landscapes”—mental and emotional spaces shaped by anxiety, grief, reflection, and the need to survive. These are not literal depictions. They are not…