Born and raised in Berlin with Kurdish roots, Kara Su grew up far from the traditional art world. Her mother raised seven children on her own. Galleries, collectors, and studio culture were not part of her environment. Art school existed in primary education, but the idea of becoming a painter did not. In her twenties […]
For Logan Sylve, painting is a steadfast companion. “I feel like painting is my first love and the most reliable companion I have,” he says. In a world of unpredictability and disappointment, creativity stands above it all. Even when the act of making art can feel frustrating, the rewards are deeply sustaining, offering a sense
Mario Picardo approaches painting as a space of personal freedom. The studio is not a site of pressure or anxiety for him, but a place of pleasure and ease. Each day he arrives to work, he describes the act of painting as happiness itself. It is not something he worries about or negotiates with. It
Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Hill Spriggins has been living and working in Brooklyn, New York for the past seven years. She identifies herself simply and decisively as a painter. While people often ask whether she draws, photographs, or works in other mediums, her answer is consistent. Painting is her focus, the only practice she
Brenda Zlamany has been painting for most of her life, and she speaks about it as a continuous, accumulating act rather than a series of isolated achievements. One painting leads to the next. Each body of work grows out of the previous one. What drives her is not competition with art history anymore, but a
In the studio, drawing and painting are the moments when Henry Ward feels most fully himself, even as he admits that the act of making art can feel heavy and unavoidable. He describes it as a compulsion that remains inseparable from how he understands himself and the world. If he could choose not to make
There has never been anything Eleanor Arbor enjoys more than making. It is not about prestige or outcome, but about the act itself. She describes art not as a special talent set apart from the rest of life, but as a way certain people are wired. In her words, if you are truly an artist
For Ruben Tönnis, art is not just a practice but a way of structuring life itself. Living and working in Berlin, painting gives him a sense of purpose and aliveness. A day spent making art, he says, is always better than one without it. What began as a hobby eventually became the center of his
Marie Amélie Chéreau return to art came after a life that had been deliberately built away from it, shaped by discipline, expectation, and success in a world where becoming an artist was never considered a viable path. What makes her story resonate is not only the transformation itself, but the depth of time that passed
Caroline Absher describes painting with oils as “the most enjoyable thing in the world,” it’s a way of living inside the material rather than controlling it. For her, oil paint is not something to be mastered through precision or restraint. It is something that wants to move, to change, to figure itself out. Control enters
