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
Terry Szpieg grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and from as far back as he can remember, drawing was simply something he did. It required no special materials and no permission, only curiosity and a pencil. When he visits his parents today, his mother sometimes pulls out his old sketchbooks from elementary school, filled with birds,
Painting did not begin as a career for artist Sophia Frese. It arrived instead as a kind of return, a recalibration, a way of coming back to herself after years spent inside disciplines that lived almost entirely in the mind. She had painted since childhood, but the moment she allowed it to become central came
Ádám Dóra is a Hungarian visual artist working between Budapest and Barcelona, whose practice bridges sculpture, installation, drawing, and conceptual research. His work is rooted in the subtle exchanges between the body and its environment, how gestures become form, how memory settles into material, and how attention transforms the ordinary into something quietly transcendent. Through
Sébastien Jupille’s story begins simply. As a kid he drew constantly, not because anyone pushed him toward art but because it was the activity he returned to on his own. When adults asked him what he wanted to do later in life, he said he wanted to draw. Even then he felt unsure about pursuing
