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
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
From the beginning, Eva Dixon’s relationship to making things was tied to the rhythms of labor and construction. She grew up watching their dad build the houses they lived in, convinced as a child that they were helping just as much as he was. The garage became their first studio, a place where she felt
Marc Sparfel’s story begins with an act of discovery, the kind that happens quietly, without expectation. Born in Brittany, France, he grew up surrounded by nature, with animals and trees forming the backdrop of his earliest memories. He speaks of this time as one filled with observation, a sensitivity to the natural world that would
In his Berlin studio, Ruprecht von Kaufmann works surrounded by the quiet textures of linoleum, a surface he has made his own. Sheets of it lean against the walls, layered with traces of paint, scratches, and cuts that record both his process and his thoughts. The space feels lived in, not in the cluttered sense,
Julie Stoppel never planned to become an art teacher, or a gallery owner for that matter. But in her life, the most meaningful turns have often come from spontaneous moments, from saying yes before she had time to think. As a child, she was always drawing. “I was the kid who sat next to the
Nancy Goldring remembers her first studio vividly. It was not a grand loft in New York or a well-lit atelier in Italy, but a corner of her family’s basement in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a child, and her mother, wanting to keep her occupied, gave her a small space to call her own. “My
