Félix Deschamps Mak is a French painter based in Paris, working in large scale figurative compositions that draw from an unusually wide net of sources: photographic archives, opera, cinema, literature, street observation, found objects. His paintings tend to gather soldiers, boxers, matadors, children, animals, and unnamed figures into the same ambiguous space, staged with the
Some artists search for inspiration in distant landscapes, history books, or moments of profound personal revelation. Leo Chesneau finds it in an A4 sheet of paper, a toner cartridge, a Post-it note, or the standardized dimensions of a hollow-core door. At first glance, these objects feel almost invisible. They belong to offices, classrooms, construction sites,
Rather than beginning with a rigid plan or predetermined outcome, Brittney Ciccone enters the studio with curiosity, allowing the work to reveal itself through experimentation, intuition, and process. The paintings that emerge are often the result of unexpected discoveries, accidents, and moments that could never have been planned in advance. That willingness to embrace uncertainty
