A Conversation with Artist IAN BROOKS

Science figures out how the world works, but art explores our place in it and provides a personal, emotional response to it.

A Conversation with Artist HELENA TAHIR

In my project The Last Sector, I was drawn to archaeological artefacts, which became motifs in my drawings. These objects carry their own layered histories, but they also mirrored the way I was working; uncovering, assembling, and making sense of fragments.

A Conversation with Artist ANDERSON SANTOS

What I try to evoke in my work is not a definitive answer but an opening. I like to think of painting as a space of suspension, of subtle displacement, a sensitive interval where the gaze becomes both lost and found.

A Conversation with Artist LUCIANO CIAN

I think there's no time for art. Time is very relative when we're doing any artistic activity. This operation is complicated because you have to get used to a metric that defies reason.

A Conversation with Artist RUSLAN ASERKOV

My work is escapist by nature. In art, the highest manifestation of communication, escapism can also be an attempt at communication. The creative process for me is a way to return to where I came from without resorting to the services of death.

A Conversation with Artist SARA ARNAÙ

Still, my approach to paper has always been special and privileged, and it is its delicate manual nature that I like when I begin a new work. I always start by reasoning with that material. Then I also head elsewhere.

A Conversation with Artist BAKULA NAYAK

More than anything, I’m inspired by the layers of everyday life—by overlooked objects, repeated gestures, old letters, shared meals, and quiet acts of care. These ordinary details are often where the deepest meaning lives, and I try to let that guide the heart of my work.

A Conversation with Artist TIM LOWLY

I don't recall ever not wanting to be an artist, so the movement in that direction was rather early on. I think that the context of thinking about art within a social/political/spiritual context led to a desire to make art that carried that intention into a representational art practice. I am biased towards an art that bends towards a purpose larger than simply making an aesthetically pleasing thing.

A Conversation with Artist NATALIE FRANK

I knew I wanted to be an artist at the age of 12. The feeling of drawing the figure, in real time, and using the body to tell stories was exhilarating. The arts tell us who we are.

A Conversation with Artist STEVEN PEARSON

How does one recognize the impact they have upon entering an existing space while also acknowledging one’s self-transformation through the process? I foreground my suburban middle-aged experience as I portray myself as an aging Hercules engaged in Quixotic chores. While my drawings are meant to ridicule the implied heroism of the mundane, yet sustained activities, they also interrogate my own role in maintaining suburbia’s protocols.

A Conversation with Artist CECILIA WHITTAKER-DOE

I remember falling in love with shadows. I had a rather heavy hand (something that was to be a thorn in my drawing teacher's side while an undergraduate). I just loved to get deeply involved in the darkness of charcoal. I think it was the medium that gave me pleasure. I still find myself searching for those places in my paintings; the deep, rich areas that nurture a kind of hope.

A Conversation with Artist LAUREN COHEN

I value the handmade and tactile process of painting or sculpting ceramics. For me, it’s essential that my mind and hand are fully engaged. There’s something irreplaceable about the physical act of making, the imperfections, the intimacy. That’s where meaning lives for me, and where human art continues to hold its power.

A Conversation with Artist REBECCA PERDUE

I purposely make my work using traditional hand skills and tools to underscore my somewhat Morrisian belief that the greatest endeavours of humankind are the works and knowledge of skilled craftspeople. I hope that people view my work and can appreciate the 'visible' hand of the artist.

A Conversation with Artist EBRU YILMAZ ÇAKMAK

Anyone who works with care and passion inspires me. A man sweeping the street with intention, or a woman composing a symphony—both move me deeply. I look at them and think, “I want to bring the same intention to my own work.”

A Conversation with Artist MICHELE XIAOYUN FAN

I didn’t arrive at this style until the end of the COVID pandemic. During that time, I became aware of life’s fragility and unpredictability—but also its fierce will to thrive when given the chance. Through my work, I hope people can feel both tenderness and the quiet force of life. I want to capture that resilient, life-affirming spirit.

A Conversation with Artist GIULIA BERRA

For sure, growing in a little wunderkammer—surrounded by books or by golden rugged landscapes, so different from my fields and rows of poplars—has been so formative. I recognize in me something like a naturalistic imprinting, but I also feel part of a bigger, great, interconnected unity.