Valeria Vertii is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Paris who works across painting, drawing, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, moving so fluidly between mediums that she has trouble listing them all without leaving something out. She trained first as a painter and has spent the last several years pulling that foundation toward sculpture and installation, driven […]
For Portuguese painter Mafalda d’Oliveira Martins, painting is a way of understanding people. Working primarily in oil, Mafalda creates figurative paintings that explore memory, vulnerability, relationships, and the quiet moments that often pass unnoticed. While her paintings frequently begin with ordinary scenes or familiar faces, they become much more than records of reality. They are
Dominik Gegaj is a contemporary watercolor artist based in Paris whose work explores themes of identity, memory, love, isolation, belonging, and personal transformation. Born and raised in Austria to immigrant parents from Kosovo and Albania, Gegaj has developed a distinctive visual language built around indigo and ultramarine watercolor paintings that balance emotional vulnerability with technical
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
