Andrew LaFarge Hamill describes himself as an artist and garden designer, but he is interested in what happens when they overlap, when sculpture begins to behave like a landscape, when a garden becomes a site for an artwork, or when a piece of discarded plastic becomes the starting point for an idea. His current practice
Felix Benton grew up surrounded by people who made things. His grandmother was a glass artist, his mother was a chef and painter, and his father designs furniture, including the chair sitting in his studio during our conversation. For a while, that creative environment had the opposite effect one might expect. Benton was determined not
Jackie Reeves grew up in Montreal in a family where making things was part of everyday life. Both of her parents were architects with seven children, art supplies were always within reach. Large sheets of paper covered the floor, her father drew and her mother built architectural models. Jackie learned by watching them, developing an
French visual artist and designer based near Basel, Stéphane Koyama-Meyer grew up surrounded by art, with parents who regularly took him to museums when he was young and a father who painted and taught him to draw. He remembers being exposed to the work of major twentieth century artists from an early age, seeing enormous
For Adèle Aproh, drawing began long before she knew it could become a career. Her first real memory of making art goes back to primary school, when a classmate showed her how to draw a parrot by connecting dots in a particular order. She remembers being amazed that something as simple as following a sequence
There are museums you visit to check a box. And there are museums that quietly rearrange how you look at everything for the rest of the week, this is Dia Beacon. An hour north of Manhattan, on the banks of the Hudson River, sits a museum that most New Yorkers have heard of but far
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,
From digital worlds to airbrushed paintings, Austin Lee explains why the future of art isn’t about technology, it’s about connection. Sitting in his Brooklyn studio surrounded by luminous canvases, airbrushes, sculptures, and computer screens, Austin Lee doesn’t describe art as a profession or even a practice. Instead, he describes it as a way of existing
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
