Author: Aria Sorell Vantine

Luigi Francischello was born in Zurich and spent his early life between Switzerland and Australia before eventually settling in Italy, where he now continues his creative journey. His work has traveled across borders as much as he has, finding homes in exhibitions in London, Paris, Alice Springs, Amsterdam, Montecarlo, Rome, Porto, and Venice. Francischello often describes his practice as a channel of energy, shaped toward a purpose: reaching a state of aesthetic bliss through art. He is deeply engaged with art history, fascinated by its depth, its beauty, and the endless range of references it holds. In his paintings, layers…

Jane Gottlieb’s artistic path has been shaped by a lifelong devotion to color, movement, and visual energy. Originally from Los Angeles and now based in Santa Barbara, she began her creative life as a painter before turning toward photography, where she found new ways to explore structure, rhythm, and light. Over three decades ago, Gottlieb took a decisive turn that would define her practice: hand-painting individual Cibachrome prints, transforming photographic images into singular, tactile objects. This labor-intensive process allowed her to merge painting and photography into one physical surface, where color became both material and message. Today, Gottlieb extends that…

Linda Cancel was born in 1959 in Moscow, Idaho, and her way of seeing the world has been shaped early on by the quiet drama of the Pacific Northwest. Landscape, atmosphere, and the slow movement of light across land and water have stayed with her since childhood. One of her earliest memories—watching fireworks bloom over the Snake River when she was just over a year old—became a kind of visual imprint. That moment of light against darkness still echoes through her paintings. Cancel’s work is grounded in observation, but it is never detached. She paints from lived experience, from moments…

Carolin Rechberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across materials, sensations, and states of awareness. Born in Starnberg, Germany, her work moves fluidly through ceramics, drawing, installation, illustration, painting, performance, printmaking, photography, poetry, sculpture, sound art, textiles, and voice. Rather than treating these mediums as separate categories, Rechberg approaches them as interconnected languages—each one offering a different way of listening, sensing, and responding. For her, making art is not only about producing an object, but about entering a process that shapes perception and presence. The act of creation becomes a way of moving through the world with heightened attention.…

Randa Hijazi is a contemporary Syrian-Canadian painter based in Laval, Quebec. Her life and work have been shaped by movement—geographical, cultural, and emotional. Born in Damascus, Syria, she graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus in 2000, grounding her practice in classical training while remaining open to experimentation. Her path then expanded beyond painting. In 2008, she completed further studies in Mass Communication and the Science of Media at the same university, an education that sharpened her visual awareness and narrative instincts. Hijazi’s journey took her from Damascus to Dubai, and eventually to Canada in…

Ted Barr is an artist who was born in Neodar, Romania, near the shores of the Black Sea. When he was four years old, his family moved to Israel. In 1975, he entered the Israeli army, where he served for twenty-six years in various roles, including regular soldier, officer, and reservist. In 1992, he completed his studies at the Israeli Battalion Commanders’ Academy and went on to serve as a deputy battalion commander with the rank of Major. After completing his compulsory service in 1980, Barr dedicated seven years to studying subjects that fascinated him, such as Symbolism, Buddhism, Ancient…

Born in Japan in 1948, Kiyomitsu Saito has built an artistic practice shaped by curiosity, doubt, and a persistent questioning of how humans construct meaning. From his early exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka to his later move to New York, Saito’s path reflects a steady refusal to settle into fixed answers. His work often circles language, symbols, and social structures—not to clarify them, but to unsettle them. A key moment came in 1990, when he relocated to New York, entering an environment that encouraged risk, friction, and experimentation. While the shift expanded his visual and conceptual range, Saito never abandoned…

Sigrid Thaler is an Italian artist based in Milan whose practice is shaped as much by geography as by inner reflection. Born in Italy and raised in a small mountain city, her earliest experiences were rooted in close contact with nature—its rhythms, silences, and quiet authority. Over time, her life expanded outward through travel and residencies in Austria, Paris, Singapore, and São Paulo, placing her in dialogue with Nordic, German, and global cultures. These movements did not fragment her vision; instead, they layered it. Thaler’s work reflects a steady interest in how environment, culture, and personal choice intersect. Rather than…

Sue Nicholas is a British artist whose path through art has been shaped by both intellectual rigor and intuitive exploration. She studied at Goldsmiths’ College and Imperial College, University of London—institutions known for encouraging critical thinking across disciplines. While this academic grounding informs her practice, it is not what defines it. Nicholas is less concerned with surface identity or outward narrative and more interested in the internal terrain of human awareness. Her work moves inward, toward the shifting, elusive experience of consciousness itself. Rather than describing the self as something fixed, Nicholas treats it as fluid—an energy that expands, contracts,…

Judy Gittelsohn’s paintings feel like conversations that happen quietly, without urgency, but with weight. They don’t announce themselves. They wait. Color, gesture, and form come together in a way that suggests lived time rather than a single moment. Her work carries memory, family, longing, and return—not as concepts to decode, but as sensations that linger after you step away. Born in Portland, Oregon, Gittelsohn has spent much of her life moving through different places, absorbing the emotional climates of each. Painting has been her way of marking those internal shifts. Now, after twenty-eight years away, she has returned to San…