A Conversation with Artist GABIE READ

I was born in Northampton, England. I grew up on a Council Estate; my family were the 'London overspill'. It was a short walk to be in the countryside, amongst wildflower meadows, the river Nene, and woods. Being in nature was an escape from the greyness of the Estate. I now try to return to the childhood way of looking at the world, using it as my personal Hauntology, in my Art.

A Conversation with Artist JOSEFIN NORLIN

I realized that I would never excel at anything as long as I didn’t keep pushing and striving. Come to think about it, it wasn’t so much a decision as just the way I am. I would describe it as a creative itch that gets worse and worse until it gets overwhelming and needs to be addressed. 
When it comes to the importance of the arts, for me, it equals life and being curious about the world around me.

A Conversation with Artist LUZ DEL CARMEN SERRELI

I just finished my installation, *The Wall*, in which I talk about immigrants and their journey in this exodus to survive and have a better life. As an immigrant, I have experienced firsthand the meaning of leaving your country, your culture, your food, your family, and friends. Just as my father emigrated from Italy to Mexico many years ago, I remember how I longed for his beautiful city of Cagliari at that time.

A Conversation with Artist ERIC DEVER

The importance of the arts is nothing short of a measure of our collective and individual humanity, offering lifetime opportunities for creativity, expression, and participation.

A Conversation with Artist ROBERTA FINEBERG

Every project challenges me -- while working, I don't dictate the outcome of the work. Sometimes I reach a precipice and wonder how I am going to solve the piece or the project - I keep going, following my gut. I find a way back from the edge and complete the piece that, in the end, I like.

A Conversation with Artist NICK DRIDAN

The thing that makes art important, as I see it, is that it allows people to express ideas and feelings in a way that usually involves creative thinking and often play. Maybe play gets overlooked a bit; there is at least some part of even the most serious piece of art that has a playful element in its creation.

A Conversation with Artist TAKASHI TSUSHIMA

For me, the importance of art is that it is not strictly necessary for human life. However, when it exists, it allows people to live with a deeper sense of happiness and fulfillment.

A Conversation with Artist ANNA ÅSTRÖM

My dream is to reach more people – to make them see the big in the small – the magnificent in the tiny. Give to their trees leaves, to their birds feathers, and to their feelings colors. Give to their hours minutes, and to their minutes seconds. I think that would help make the world a little better every moment.

A Conversation with Artist MARGARITA BRUM

That intangible presence of the memory of others invades my work in some way, and I think that when someone looks at my pieces, they are also curious to know who those people are, they imagine possible contexts, perhaps they connect with their own memories, with a sense of nostalgia, and with the impossibility of completing the story.

A Conversation with Artist THOMAS TUSTIN

I want viewers to experience a visceral reaction when engaging with my work, particularly in how I portray flesh. My goal is to evoke something raw and immediate—an instinctive response that bypasses intellectual distance.

A Conversation with Artist FLAVIUS PISAPIA

The process before creating a series is something I call intentional artful living, which includes specific meditations, study, nature experiences, and art observation. These are attuning practices that help me find inspiration in a process where I bring myself into a state of “at-one-ment.” I prepare in this way, integrating life, art, and spirituality for weeks or months before creating a series.

A Conversation with Artist SOPHIE ACHILLI

Creating is essential to me, not an addition to life but life itself, a breathing space I could not do without. It is also, from a wider perspective, the space where we can collectively imagine a better future, by taking a step aside and looking at things in a different way.

A Conversation with Artist MARY TEMPLE

Studying that environment, as I did even before I became a painter, helped me to learn to see. My Light Installation series came directly from experiencing the desert sun sifting through architecture. It wasn’t until I moved to NYC that I started making them, but I immediately knew that they originated from the memory of desert light.

A Conversation with Artist JONPAUL SMITH

I was wired through nature or nurture to interpret most things through a creative process. I assume it is not much different for those trained through science to use a scientific process for deduction or reasoning. The film "Powers of Ten" makes me think of the creative process in a similar manner. That is when pulled back or zoomed in, it is all connected. My creative process and the way in which I interpret the world are my ideas, which become my art and studio practice.

A Conversation with Artist CHRISTOS CHRISTOU

As a child, I experienced the war and its consequences. In the texts of Greek tragedy, I found answers to the problems of existence and human nature. That’s why my work deals with the issues of identity, war, peace, displacement-place, existence-exile eros and death, through the perspective of a poetic interpretation of reality.

A Conversation with Artist JUSTINE OTTO

Painting is as essential to me as eating or sleeping.
Art is my way of thinking, of feeling, of translating the world. It allows me to explore the spaces between clarity and ambiguity, presence and absence. In painting, every stroke holds time – you can see each decision, each correction, and that makes it deeply human. Art is where chaos meets care.

A Conversation with Artist Red Rae

I want my viewers and audiences to connect to their feelings and potential through experiencing my art. I want them to wonder what kind of portal their bodies lead to and use the metaphor of a portal to question their assumptions about others’ bodies.

A Conversation with Artist KATHERINE MCMAHON

I draw tons of inspiration from music and think of it as pure magic, the way a great song can get under your skin and make you feel things. The most powerful thing about the arts in all their iterations is the nuance with which they can communicate inexplicable emotions and the absurdity of everything.

A Conversation with Artist GIULIA LEONELLI

I think the importance of art lies in the fact that it connects us to the heart of existence, a place where we can share and receive the essence of all things. Art allows us to express something that could not be expressed any other way. And all of this comes from our body, from our mind.
Art has given me the immense privilege of meeting other artists and creatives who inspire my life and with whom I share this same desire, as essential as breathing.

A Conversation with Artist JOAN LEMAY

I don’t remember ever not drawing; I can’t imagine it. The arts are what make life worth living–what is humanity without art? Something awful, that’s what. Something devoid of love, of feeling, of communication, of care, of bonds, of everything. Unthinkable.