HARSHITA NANDWANI
PAINTER Tell us about a workflow quirk you have picked up over your artistic career? Accepting my vulnerabilities, I guess. I am most vulnerable in front of canvas, as every painting creates itself and I am a tool, following the interaction between canvas and my feelings. Do you have a particular story that you would […]
PAYAM YASINI
PAINTER AND DIGITAL ARTIST When did you realize that you were an artist? I began drawing at the age of 12. When I started to be trained in this field, I copied almost all of Rembrandt and Raphael’s drawings at the age of 15. After finishing military service. I went to the Faculty of Art […]
ESTHER GLINA-MONTAGNER
PAINTER What motivates you to create? The happenings of our times is my deepest motivation. For instance when the earthquake struck Japan and to see that wave take everything away, it struck me deeply and I couldn’t stop painting for days until the series was finished. It was done quickly as well, just as what […]
NINA TOKHTAMAN VALETOVA
MIXED MEDIA ARTIST If you feel comfortable, tell us about the struggles you have had either as an artist, or in the process of creating your work, and how you overcame them. I have a lot of experience with struggling, both in my life and in the process of creativity. After graduating from university, I […]
ERIC CHRISTOPHER JACKSON
PHOTOGRAPHER Tell us about your artistic style? I think of the camera as a paintbrush. I visit local galleries to be inspired by fine art in various mediums. In some ways, the camera is limited to capturing reality. Oftentimes, people tell me the finished piece looks better than it does in real life. With this […]
AIRTON BRUNO
PAINTER Tell us about your background? I study art on my own, very much because I do not have good support for my studies, both financially and so much for the poor schools that exist in my state. Art has always been at my side, from childhood to the present day. As a child, art […]
DEX HANNON
PAINTER AND DIGITAL ARTIST When did you realize that you were an artist? I was always drawing, as long as I can remember, I was addicted. I didn’t know why everyone else wasn’t doing it too. Then I discovered artists in comic books and I saw paintings and found out people did this for a […]
ALEXANDRE VALENTIM
PAINTER If you feel comfortable, tell us about the difficulties you’ve had as an artist and how you overcame them. Being an artist in Brazil is for the strong. In a country where people are, first, worried about paying the bills at the end of the month and then feed some small dreams, selling art […]
KIM KEEVER
PHOTOGRAPHER When did you realize that you were an artist? When I was in kindergarten I really didn’t think much about who I was or how I fit into the world. It wasn’t until first grade when we made that big transition from playing to sitting in a certain seat that I realized a serious […]
LALTU PESWANI KANAKIA
PAINTER When did you realize that you were an artist? I am a creatively inclined person, so when I started painting around 2006 and people started appreciating and buying my art, I was pleasantly surprised that I was actually an artist! If you feel comfortable, tell us about the struggles you’ve had either as an […]
ERIKA LITTERAL
DIGITAL ARTIST If you feel comfortable, tell us about the struggles you have had either as an artist, or in the process of creating your work, and how you overcame them. I am new to sharing and being interested in selling my art. There is a lot to learn about, and I am going at […]
KRISTIN PAVLICK
PAINTER If you feel comfortable, tell us about the struggles you have had either as an artist, or in the process of creating your work, and how you overcame them. Finding the courage to call myself an artist was a long-time struggle for me. When the world wants to talk you out of a very […]