Author: Aria Sorell Vantine
Carolin Rechberg approaches art as a living dialogue rather than a finished object. Born in Starnberg, Germany, she works like a traveler gathering impressions from every medium she touches. Her practice moves freely through painting, ceramics, sculpture, installation, sound, performance, poetry, and photography—each one another language of perception. What connects them is not style, but presence. Rechberg’s process is rooted in awareness—the feeling of material meeting gesture, of motion transforming into stillness. Her work is a reminder that art is not separate from the body; it begins with it. She treats creation as an act of listening, an exchange between…
Carlotta Schiavio, also known by her creative name YaTii Talisman, lives and works between worlds — cultural, geographical, and imaginative. Born in Italy and raised in Ethiopia, she carries within her a mosaic of Italian, Russian, Syrian, Austrian, and Ethiopian influences. This blend of heritage shapes her vision and gives her art its unique rhythm. For Schiavio, identity is not fixed but fluid — an ongoing dialogue between past and present, memory and reinvention. Her art becomes a reflection of that movement: a way to explore belonging, transformation, and the shared pulse of human experience. Her creative journey spans painting,…
Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1964, Adamo Macri is a multimedia artist whose creative reach extends far beyond convention. A graduate of Dawson College, he built a foundation in commercial art, graphic design, photography, art history, and fine arts—disciplines that together form the backbone of his multidisciplinary practice. Though sculpture remains his central focus, Macri’s visual language flows across photography, video, painting, and drawing. His art probes transformation, identity, and the tension between perception and truth. Rather than seeking comfort or beauty, he uncovers the hidden layers of existence—the spaces where fear, memory, and reflection converge. Macri’s work feels like…
In the boundless world of art, some creators simply make, while others breathe entire universes into being. Kimberly McGuiness belongs to the latter. Her work feels like storytelling through color and emotion, each piece an invitation to step into a realm of quiet wonder and reflection. McGuiness doesn’t just paint; she conjures presence, turning visual expression into a form of meditation. Her art lingers in the spaces between words—where stillness speaks, and imagination takes root. She balances serenity and intensity with ease, weaving her visual language through symbols and mood rather than declaration. Every creation holds a whisper of mystery,…
Julian Jollon, an American artist, creates from a place where life, myth, and spirit converge. Trained in Fine Arts, Photography, and Painting, his creative path took an unexpected turn—a fifteen-year silence marked by illness and recovery. After receiving a liver transplant and spending years in Hospital Epidemiology, he found his way back to art with a renewed vision. What emerged from that return wasn’t simply a continuation but a transformation. His work became a dialogue between the seen and unseen, between the human and the sacred. Each image he creates carries the sense of someone who has lived through fragility…
Bea Last, a Scottish artist working from the rugged beauty of her homeland, creates art that lives between sculpture and drawing. Her practice transforms the overlooked—recycled, repurposed, salvaged, or gifted materials—into what she calls sculptural drawing. In her hands, the discarded becomes eloquent, reshaped into forms that carry both fragility and force. Her art is a conversation about how we survive and rebuild in the face of destruction. Through abstraction and process, Last explores conflict, displacement, climate anxiety, and the quiet persistence of hope. Her work doesn’t seek to soothe—it awakens. It asks viewers to sit with discomfort and to see beauty…
Eliora Bousquet, a French-listed abstract painter and illustrator, paints at the threshold between emotion and infinity. Born in Angoulême, France, in 1970, she began her artistic path in 2009—a journey guided by intuition, wonder, and the quiet rhythm of stars. Her art draws from both the seen and unseen, shaped by the beauty of nature and the mystery of the cosmos. Each canvas feels like a meeting point between heaven and earth, where color becomes language and silence becomes meaning. Eliora’s work is not about capturing what we see but about revealing what we feel—the endless pulse of creation that connects…
Born in 1973 in Graz, Austria, Gerhard Petzl has spent over thirty years shaping a creative language that lives between art and daily life. Now working between Vevey, Switzerland, and Kalsdorf/Graz, Austria, he is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice embraces both the traditional and the unexpected. His materials range from bronze and wood to recycled objects and even chocolate—each chosen for its ability to tell a story about transformation. Petzl’s art is not confined to one medium or technique; it is a continuous dialogue with time, process, and renewal. For him, creation is inseparable from living—every act of making, cooking, or collecting…
Helena Kotnik, who studied at Barcelona University and the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, creates art that feels like a conversation between color and consciousness. Her paintings, often described as “psychological human landscapes,” explore how we move through the unseen spaces of emotion and thought. Working in a style that’s both vivid and deceptively simple, she uses color and gesture to explore what lies beneath human behavior—the humor, chaos, and tenderness that define us. Drawing inspiration from artists across many eras, Kotnik’s work becomes a kind of visual reflection, showing us our shared contradictions and quiet strengths. Through her…
For William Schaaf, art has never been about decoration—it’s an act of devotion, a way to make sense of life through creation. At 80, he’s still in his studio, shaping horses from bronze, clay, and canvas with the same focus he’s carried for more than six decades. The horse, his lifelong subject, has become his chosen language. Each one speaks of endurance, memory, and the unseen link between body and spirit. Schaaf’s approach draws from the spiritual traditions of the Zuni and Navajo peoples, whose fetishes were never made for display but for healing and connection. His work borrows from…