MASHAIL FAQEEF

(preferably), also on mixed fabrics

using stitch techniques she learned
watching YouTube. She sketches with a
pencil, uses a ruler to draw the lines and
then stitches. Enjoys mamas vintage
stitch magazines and takes long time
meditating in crafts shops looking for
threads and fabrics. A resident of
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, shes currently
working on a book with embroidery on
cotton and watercolors. Also works on
comission.

CODRUTA CERNEA

Mashail Faqeef, embroidery artist,

creates embroidery artworks on cotton

contemplative, emptied of tension,

anxiety, abandon, yet subject to them.
She is fascinated by the relationship
between body language, motion and
space. Codrua Cernea illustrates
atmospheres of nostalgia, freeze-frame
film-like sequences, private moments,
images of meditation.

Codrua Cernea is a Romanian painter

from the city of Trgu-Mure, with a
Masters Degree in Arts. Her collection
of acrylic on canvas works picture the
nature of complex messages as
conveyed in simple imagery. Her
paintings
are
calm,
serene,

DANIEL FAR

Christmas jumpers, watch silly cat

videos on YouTube and dream about
conquering the world. As his bio states,
he is a professional hipster. You should
check out his work, his themes are
lifestyle, travel, food, and people.

KYLE THOMPSON
Daniel Far is a young photographer
and graphic design student based in
Wrzburg, Germany. He likes to travel,
drink tons of coffee, wear ugly

of self-portraits, often taking place in

empty forests and abandoned homes,
surreal scenes of solitude that become
personal dioramas. Kyle Thompson was
born in Chicago on 11th of 1992; he
currently is based in Portland, Oregon,
United States.

BARA PRASILOVA
Kyle
Thompson began
taking
photographs at the age of nineteen after
finding interest in nearby abandoned
houses. His work is mostly composed

active carrier in fashion and portrait

photography with a recognizable style.
No matter if she`s working for a client
or doing her own projects, she is always
following her signature style.

Bra Prilov graduated from the

Institute of Creative Photography at
Silesian University; she lives and works
in Prague, Czech Republic. Her works
draw inspiration from her memory, a
mixture of real and fictional, as well as
absurdity and humour. Bara enjoys an

CHRISTINE WU

discovery while exploring the

tangibility of memories and the
way we remember. She is also
an
information
collector,
obsessive
organizer
and
springtime murderer.

Christine Wu is a fine art oil

painter and overall image
maker. Stylistically, her work is
multi-layered with haunting and
sensual undertones. She often
depicts people in flux, capturing
the
vulnerability
of
self

JOSE SILVA

Jose Silva was raised in Venezuela and

is a resident of Miami. His favorite
mediums of expression are drawing,
painting, sculpting, photography and
video animation, motion graphics and
visual effects. He has an Associates in
Graphic and Commercial Arts, and a
Bachelor Degree in Visual Effects and
Motion Graphics at the Art Institute of
Fort Lauderdale.

MANON CLAVELIER

projects (editorials or creative projects)

on location or in her own studio. She is
also
beginning
a
career
in
cinematography, as filmmaker and is
open for creative collaborations.

Manon Clavelier is a French Artist and

photographer based in Paris and Dijon.
Her personal work is mainly inspired by
human nature, and, in many cases, she
is trying to create a story around the
feelings we all can be confronted with
in our everyday life. She is available as
photographer for local or worldwide

MANJARI SHARMA

Manjari Sharma (b 1979) is an

internationally published photo-based
artist born and raised in Mumbai, India
and based in Brooklyn, New York.
Manjaris artwork is rooted in the study
of relationships, personal mythology
and experience.

For the last few years I have been

inviting
people
to
visit
my
apartment and allow me to photograph
them in a very intimate space; my
bathroom. I have also been inviting
them to take a shower as I continue to
shoot them. I soon came to the
observation that warm water running
over my subjects bodies relieved them
of any unnerving awkwardness the
camera brought about. Once they were
relaxed, the bathroom, formerly a
beauty
parlour turned
into
a
confessional and I the hair dresser.
Manjari Sharma about her Shower
Series

RICHARD TUSCHMAN

Richard
Tuschman creates
artworks that blend techniques
used
in
digital
imaging,
photography, painting, graphic
design and assemblage. His

digital
works
have
been
featured on the pages of
magazines, books, catalogs for
various clients. His inspirations
include Rembrandt and Edward
Hopper. Has lectured widely on
his artistic technique and
creative process, and has
taught at Cuyahoga Community
College
(Cleveland,
OH),
University of Akron School of
Art, and Ringling College of Art
+ Design (Sarasota, FL). He
currently lives and works in
New York City.

ILEANA PASCALAU

Ileana Pacalu lives and works in

Berlin after studying Art History and
Fine Arts at the National University of
Arts in Bucharest as well as the
University of Arts in Berlin. Her work
focuses on the representation of
amusement practices found in the desire
patterns of the contemporary urban
night-life.
I am confronting the viewer with rituals
of enjoyment, in which gestures
animated by obscenity are captured like
in a baroque tableau vivant.
Ileana Pacalu

MIRIAM VALLE

and University Diego Portrales,

Chile. Miriam shoots fine art
and portrait photography. Her
images and dark and sensual,
combining themes such as
growth,
nature,
loss
and
longing. You can follow Miriam
on Facebook or Instagram for
updates.
Miriam Valle is a talented artist
and photographer, who was
born in 1989 in Valladolid, Spain
and currently based in France.
Miriam studied Fine Art at
University of Salamanca, Spain

MORLEY

corporate slogans. Morley is an Alumni

of The School of Visual Arts in New
York. His work has been featured in the
books: Its A Stickup: Posters from the
Worlds Greatest Street Artists, Stay
Up! Los Angeles Street Art, Happy
Graffiti: Street Art with Heart, New
Street Art, and The Popular History
of Graffiti: From the Ancient World to
the Present, New Street Art.
Morley is a Los Angeles-based street
artist that specializes in bold,
typographic posters which he wheat
pastes within the urban landscape.
Blending humor, hope and his unique
perspective on life, Morleys aim is to
act as a friendly voice amongst the
cacophony of billboarded messages and

ALLI WYNN

various natural spaces in which she,

herself, has slid into her own
dreamscape. Unable to break away from
peering eyes, her portraits feel
vulnerable and exhibit a sincere and
emotional energy which give Allis
portraits an aura of both familiarity and
complexity.
Alli Wynn is a fine art photographer
based in Chicago. Her work embraces
conceptual and intuitive ideas that cling
to natures mysteries. Even though all
of Allis work is stunning, her selfportrait photography should be noted as
some of her best. Her raw and
voyeuristic photography captures Alli in

LEAH TINARI

based on photographs of her friends and

family, yet she also portrays total
strangers, the diversity of people, a
reflection of contemporary society. You
can find her work in various galleries,
online or off.

Picture this: Leah Tinari is a social

realist painter, her preffered subject
matter is painting color-saturated popart scenes framed through the looking
eye of a photo-camera, be it a photobooth, or just snapshots, documenting
people as they manifest themselves
vividly. Her work has consistently been

My paintings are snippets of time that

capture moments and function as a
visual diary to create my social realism,
a documentation of 30-something
contemporary lifestyle and behavior,
Leah Tinari

KRISTEN HATGI SINK

with flowers and glitter. She works in

film, digital and wet plate collodion.
Kristen received her BFA from the Art
Institute of Boston at Lesley University
in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in
New York, Boston, Washington DC,
Kochi Japan, Canada, and Denver.
Kristen lives In Denver Colorado with
her husband, Mark Sink.

Kristen Hatgi Sink Is a visual artist and

photographer, born in Denver, CO
1984. Kristen loves beautiful minds,
faces, bodies, and often makes pictures

VICTORIA LUCAS +
RICHARD WILLIAM
WHEATER

over a year in large red neon text,

twelve expressions are visually represented to an unsuspecting audience
going about their everyday lives on the
roof of Neon Workshops in Wakefield.

12
Months
of
Neon
Love is
collaboration between Victoria Lucas
and Richard William Wheater, and
began on St Valentines day 2011. The
project is formed using a sequence of
twelve lyrical statements, borrowed
from well-known songs that feature the
many configurations of love. Presented

MICHAL PUDELKA

pursuing opportunities for private

lessons with university art professors to
learn drawing, painting, composition
and colour work. This led him to study
fashion at Parsons Paris, where he
realised
a
notable
talent
for
photography, through which he
expresses his own extraordinary life
experiences. His professional fashion
photographs are
featured in
major
fashion and culture publications.

Michal Pudelka was born in Bratislava

and aspired to work in the fashion
industry from an early age actively

APOLLONIA
SAINTCLAIR

For Saintclair, the artistic process

begins in her own erotic imagination. I
work compulsively, she explains. I
depict stories that I myself find very
arousing, and I have a strong need to
cast my fantasies in a beautiful frame.
Her illustrations are highly provocative
and would turn anyone into a believer.

CYNTHIA TEDY
The artist Apollonia Saintclair draws
black-and-white alluring illustrations in
pen and ink, using beautifully fine
linework to render her explicit works.

Cynthia Tedy is a freelance

illustrator
from
Jakarta,
Indonesia.
The
illustration featured above is
one of several illustrations
created for themed project

called Salinity. In the artists

words: It is a visual poetry
about the experience of a
sudden homecoming; about
how
the
proximity
to
immediate family members
after a long separation is able
to renew ones awareness of
who they are. This project is
meant to chronicle what a
home may become: a memory
bathed under fervent sun,
leaving traces of faint shimmer
on the skin and raw tingles on
the tongue. Home is perpetual

summer and it scorches like no

other.

KAETHE BUTCHER

Kaethe Butcher is a young German

artist living in Berlin, who illustrates
lovely women in very erotic and
provocative ways. She started drawing
by happenstance, watching Sailor
Moon, and turned it into a lucrative
hobby. Her artistic inspirations are
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, as well as
Art Nouveau, which give her seductive
drawings a touch of romance. I want
people to make their own stories with
my illustrations to think about the
text and to identify with the whole
thing. And then I love to hear from
people their stories and why exactly
this work is so important to them. Its
one of the most beautiful things.

Kaethe Butcher, as
on Ladies Who Draw.

interviewed

CHRISTIAN GROSSKOP

Christian Grokopf (1963) is

born in West Berlin, studies at

the Berlin University of the Arts

(HdK), works in the United
States, Mexico, Australia, New
Zealand, Spain etc. Holds a
Masters degree in Art. Brings
together the painters group
Bright
Sight.
Since
1989,
Christian hosts solo and group
exhibitions in Germany and
abroad. Currently lives in Berlin.

MARINE MARBLEINDEX

pictured using simple lines, bright

colors, and digital techniques, her
themes illustrate modern life with an
exquisite simplicity. She gets her
inspiration from Russian models and
she really wants to go there one day.
I like beauty, sweet pastel colors and
sexy women; when you see her I want
you to think I want to meet her.
Marine Marbleindex

Marine Marbleindex is a young

illustrator from France. Her work is

ANNA JENSEN

Anna Jensens paintings are a synthesis

of classical and abstract figuration. Her
body of work is inspired by moments of
both trauma and exaltation. Her skillful
combination of abstract and graphic art
is reminiscent of Frances own
Figuration Narrative a movement
from the 60s and 70s, which was a

reaction to English and American Pop

Art. My paintings are psychological
landscapes and emotionally complex
narratives. I combine references to
art history, pop culture, natural
science and personal chronicles to
represent the conflicts of life. The
titles are important elements. Like
me the stories are at once funny and
sad. Anna Jensen

JEN MANN

HEITOR MAGNO

Jen Mann is an emerging Canadian

artist from Toronto Ontario, working
mainly in large scale portraiture.

of the world: the forests and urban

decay and even death sit perfectly
together in his art.

SEBASTIAN BIENIEK

Brazilian Heitor Magno is a visual artist

who knows this principle. His stunning
double exposure photographs, as seen in
these breathtaking examples, combine
the human body with the other elements

ROCIO MONTOYA
Sebastian Bieniek is an artist, movie
director, author and photographer. He
lives in Berlin.

Her
specialty
is
the
experimental photography, land
on which has moved from its
creative
inception.
Also
passionate for the editorial
design,
in
2010
she
founded DOZE
Magazine,
which has co-directed and
designed until its closure in
June 2014.
Rocio
Montoya is
a
photographer, graphic / web
designer and editor based in
Madrid, Spain.

HORYON LEE

Horyon Lee creates fetishized images of

womens bodies, revealed through lifted
or taken down skirts.

CHADWICK AND
SPECTOR

the top artists working in Asia from

the Sovereign Asian Art Award in both
2006 and 2008. Their work has been
published
in The
Harvard
Review, Ripleys Believe It Or Not!, and
in the book, The Real Real Thing: The
Model in the Mirror of Art by Wendy
Steiner. Museum Anatomy artwork can
be seen in exhibitions and collections
around the world.

Chadwick
Gray and Laura
Spector currently reside in Houston,
Texas after having lived in Chiang Mai,
Thailand for ten years. They are both
Fellows of The New York Founndation
For the Arts, exhibitors in FotoFest
2014, and finalists considered among

CASSTRONAUT

Cassie
Meder is
a
young
freelance filmmaker, illustrator,

actress
and
model
from
Portland, Oregon whose work
has ranged from dark and
philosophically confronting to
quirky
and
clever.
As
a
conqueror and crusader of
many art forms for five plus
years, she is now described as
possessing
a
dark
and
fascinating aesthetic sense and
her
film
direction
and
illustration work have been
called
mesmerizing
and
haunting.

ANTONIO MORA

profession. His worksboth personal

and evocativeare meant to trigger
intense feelings. In the words of
Georges Braque, Antonios work is
inspired by the notion that art is made
to disturb the conscience.

ALEX GARANT

Antonio Mora, a creative art director

since 1995, gradually gravitated
towards the more artistic realm of his

She decided to truly commit to

her passion for Arts after
suffering from a heart attack in
2012, changing forever how she
would see the world.

Queen of Double Eyes, Alex

Garant studied visual arts at
Notre-DameDe-Foy College
just outside Quebec City. After
graduating in 2001, she
ultimately settled in Toronto,
Canada.

ADARA SNCHEZ
ANGUIANO

to draw at the same time as I

learnt to count and read.
I started my Fine Art degree in
my born place, but I finished it
between Belgium and Cuenca.
After that I got a master in
illustration in Barcelona.
Now Im in Seville again
enjoying sunny days, taking
care of my cat and drawing a
lot.
I was born in Seville in 1987,
Ive always had pencils in my
hands, its impossible to know
when I started drawing. I learnt

SHAE DETAR

HENRIETTA HARRIS
Shae
DeTar creates
otherworldly
photographic
prints,
combining
photography and painting to take her
subjects out of reality and place them
within her etherial world. DeTar shoots
analog and digital photographs and then
adds layers of paint to exaggerate color,
create texture, and add an element of
fantasy to the image.

Henrietta Harris is a certified

New Zealand Artist. She has
graduated
in
2006
with

Bachelor of Fine Arts from

Auckland
University
of
Technology, and has steadily
built a name for herself. A
skilled hand-drawer, she paints
portraiture and lanscapes in
watercolors and guache with a
slight distort to picture an
ethereal moment in passing.
Her works deal with memory
and identity. Henrietta has
worked
with
numerous
magazines and museums to
showcase her art.

GABRIEL ISAK

rich in ideas and emotions, in order to

allow the spectator to reflect of their
own journey. A central element to his
art is introspection. Gabriel is currently
residing in San Francisco, California.

LAURENT PERNOT
Gabriel
Isak was
born
in
Huskvarna, Sweden. His medium of
expression is photography, with an
objective to picture human experience
from within an inner world of dreams

Laurent Pernot was born in 1980, and

lives and works in Paris. He holds a
university degree and is a graduate of
Le Fresnoy national studio of
contemporary arts. His unique career

has been punctuated with numerous

residencies and exhibitions in both
France and abroad. Identity, fragility
and the origins and limits of life are
among his major themes, and are often
developed against the tide of the
principles belonging to modernity and
mass culture. The exploration of the
fictional potential of exhibition spaces
and the relationship to the viewer are
also crucial to the artist. His works take
him through means of expression such
as installations, the creation of objects,
images, video, lights etc. He also works
on commission.

CAN DAGARSLANI

Graduating in 2006 from Mimar

Sinan University of Fine Art,
Istanbul, Can
Daarslan became increasingly
more interested in photography
while studying architecture. It
all began in 2003 when
Dagarslani started working on
landscape shoots of different

places that would bring out

each citys architectural plan.
His work deals with shapes,
femininity,
man-woman
relationships,
beauty,
akwardness. He enjoys natural
light and colors and mostly
plays with scenes and the
models posture. Also works on
comission for various projects.
My photo series revolves
around intimate captures
that are shot in such a way
as to make the viewer feel
not so intrusive. The subject
remains mostly anonymous,
allowing people to imagine

their own significant others

in her place or someone
they wish to be their
significant other. Poetic and
poignant, the subject offers
herself entirely.

KATIE OHAGAN

Katie OHagan was born and raised in

the far north of Scotland and moved to
the US in 1993. She lives in Beacon,
NY with her two daughters and her dog,
Seamus. Growing up on the remote
north coast, she often passed the time

by sketching the customers who came

into her fathers pub. Her work has
shown in many galleries and museums
nationally and internationally, including
The National Portrait Gallery in
Washington DC, The World Art
Museum in Beijing, The National Arts
Club and the Butler Institute of
American Art. She has also received
awards from the Salmagundi Club,
Allied Artists of America, The Artists
Magazine, Oil Painters of America, and
The Portrait Society of America.

ANNA MADIA

Born in Turin but based in France, Anna

Madia produces works that enchant and
amaze with their evanescent and
suspended atmospheres. Graduated in
painting at the Accademia Albertina di
Belle Arti of Turin, after having
participated in numerous national and

international exhibitions and awards, in

2010 she moved to Troyes (France),
where she currently lives and works,
after winning a studio at the
Contemporary Art
Center Ginkgo.
Searching on sleepwalking and other
disorders (narcolepsy, hypnogogic
and hypnopompic hallucinations), I
started to investigate another kind of
portrait: hidden faces, eyes cleared,
enigmatic situations in which flashes
and personal hallucinations appear.
Anna Madia

ALEXANDER
KOTCHETOW

Alexander Kotchetow (1966) is an

Ukranian painter born in Kiew, USSR.
Graduated from the Art School in Kiev,
a student of the Academy of Fine Arts
in Kiev, graduated from the Academy of
Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. His
subjects reflect the mundaine society, in
all of its working class glory and
exuberance. Alexander lives and works
in Munich.

HANNEKE BENAD
Hanneke Benad completed the degree
BA (Fine Arts) in 1993 at the University
of Pretoria and worked as a part-time
lecturer in drawing between 1994 and
1998. She exhibited extensively in

Gauteng from 1993, taking part in

group shows locally and abroad. She
participated at the Joburg Biennale and
was represented at the London Art Fair,
received several awards, among them
Merit Awards from ABSA Atelier and a
Brett Kebble. In 2008 she received two
Kanna-Awards at the Klein Karoo
Nasionale
Kunstefees
in
Oudtshoorn. Portraits have always
occupied a major part in her work. A
fine weave, of a man in profile
buttoning his shirt describes both the
quality of the fabric and the person
wearing the shirt.

HELENA HAUSS

Helena Hauss is a young Parisian

Illustrator. She draws very large pieces
of art (usually around 100cm x 70cm)
that allow her to really go into details of
hair, patterns and typography, all in BIC
pens, with bright and contrasted colors.

Her subjects portray situations youd

find looking at last nights party
photos. She has always had a big
attraction for the color blue.
In the beginning I used to feel a little bit
ashamed for using ball-point pens, like I
didnt feel like a real artist, but in more
recent years I noticed it became kind of
a trend and I got to embrace it, as it felt
this was actually exactly the right time
and the right place to do just that!
Helena Hauss

MAIA FLORE

Maia Flore is a French artist born in

1988 and educated at lEcole des
Gobelins, Paris. Her photography is
inspired by what she perceives as the
superposition between reality and
possibility. Her subjects are young
women. Flore wishes to emphasize the

attraction the girls feel towards their

new, boundless surrounding, and the
lightness of the reality they are entering
into. Their movement is meant to
articulate a contrast between physical
limitation and the limitlessness of
imagination.
One way to challenge the mundane
everyday is to reveal surprises within it
Maia Flore.

JEAN-FRANOIS
LEPAGE

Jean-Franois Lepage (b.1960) is a

photographer whose working methods
are closer to that of a painter. His
paradoxically alluring and disquieting
photographs bare evidence to a process

in which he physically cuts, draws and

works into their surface to intricately
evolve and brutally deconstruct the
original image. Lepages intuitive
approach to the image-making process
is cathartic.

JANINE MIZRA

Im like a surgeon who faces his

patient with lucidity and commitment
but with the absolute certitude that the
only person I can really save is
myself.
Janine Mizra is a German
graphic
designer
and
photographer currently living in
Hamburg. She first started her

photographic
experiences
during travels around europe
with a clear even graphic
approach to landscape and
architectural photography and
a love for details shapes and
eroded
structures. Ever
since 2010 she specializes in
portraiture of close friends as
well as self portraiture while her
passion for nostalgia and silent
colours influenced her work
more and more.

JESS MARSHALL

Jess Marshall is an Interactive Arts

student at Manchester Metropolitan
University. Her illustration work
explores themes that relate to finding

solace when youre lost with your

thoughts. She has been working with
the Visual Arts Arts on Prescription
groups for adults who have been
referred by their GPs to help with
milder mental health problems. It helps
provide relief in giving the members a
sense of achievement in completing a
project and pride in learning a new skill
whilst also providing opportunities to
make new friends and gain support
from others facing similar issues in their
lives. Her projects include The MMU
FemLib society, currently thinking
about visiting exhibitions, running
workshops and outreach sessions for the
general population.

TRINA DALZIEL

Trina Dalziel has worked as a freelance

illustrator since the mid 1990s, and
more recently has also crossed over into
surface design. She loves the challenge
of answering a brief and finding a clear,
clever, visual solution whether its for a
complex text or idea or just to provide
an appropriate beautiful image. Irina
has worked as a visiting tutor at many
UK Art Colleges and is specialized in
Professional Practice. Originally from
the North of Scotland, she grew up on a
tomato farm, a current resident of
London.

LORETA ISAC

Loreta Isac was born in family of artists

in Chiinu, Moldavia. She was raised
into an artistic universe and continued
her studies at the University of Arts in
Iai, Romania, she got a scholarship in
Hasselt, Belgium, where she had the
opportunity to experiment with various
mediums:
design,
animation,

photography and illustration. She holds

a journal of art, making hard work feel
simple and fulfilling. Currently resides
in Bucharest, Romania, hosts art
exhibitions, illustrates for childrens
books, magazines and advertising,
designs fashion pieces and keeps herself
busy.

CHRISTIAN SCHLOE

Christian Schloe is a talented

Austrian artist whose work
includes digital art, painting,
illustration, and photography.

As he says: Anything can

happen in a world that holds
such beauty.

AKAGENO SARU

Im just a student. I like drawing and

reading books. I want to sleep. Always.
And Ill become the PIRATE KING.

SARAH DANES
JARRETT
Sarah Danes Jarrett qualified in 1985
with a graphic design diploma then
embarked on a graphic design career in
Johannesburg, where she won 3 CLIOS.
In 1998 she retired from design to
became a mother and a few years later,
faced her first blank canvas.

Of the 400 works Sarah has created,

almost half have sold to international
buyers with works in private collections
from Switzerland, Germany Ireland and
England. Her work can be found in
America, Sweden, Austria, the Middle
East, Botswana, Zimbabwe and
Namibia.

TOM KITCHEN

Tom Kitchen is an illustrator and

printmaker, currently working from
Cardiff, Wales. His work involves a
combination of digital techniques with
traditional illustration and screen
printing.

ANDREAS ENGLUNG

Englund takes us into the candidly

humorous life of an anonymous
superhero who has probably seen better
days. Though he still puts up a tough
fight, the wear and tear of battling crime
has taken its toll on this elderly action
figure.

MIRANDA LORIKEET

In his ongoing series of photorealistic

oil paintings called the Aging
Superhero, Swedish artist Andreas

assistant by day, taking spare

moments,
evenings
and
weekends to produce gradient
and island filled drawings on MS
Paint. Using pictures of sunsets
for colour reference, and taking
a day per image working for
hours to get the mountain
ridges and gradients just right,
Miranda is crazy prolific.

IZUMI MIYAZAKI

Sydney-based Miranda Lorikeet,

or Lazybones,
is
an
HR

18-year-old Izumi
Miyazaki arranges her
daydreams into surreal
photographs that are filled with
deadpan humor.

KELLY REEMTSEN

The paintings for Kelly Reemtsen are

elaborate depictions of the role of the
modern day woman.
Strikingly
feminine at first glance, with their
figures adorned in fashionable vintage
designer dresses and runway-worthy
accessories, Reemtsens women are not
simply pinup girls or arm candy. Rather,

the women, while dressed to the nines,

undertake household, and often
traditionally masculine, tasks. The
objects that they hold, from dishrags to
wrenches to even chainsaws, range
from being domestic to borderline
menacing, and yet, as a body of work,
answer the question as to the proper
role of the contemporary woman.
Reemtsens answer to that is quite
simple anything! Anonymous torsos,
the
women
remain
beautiful
representations of the female with
which anyone can identify.

DANNY GALLIEOTE

Instructor/Founding Member at New

Masters Academy.

PENNY BYRNE
Danny Gallieote is a contemporary
Figurative Painter- Draftsman of the
Modern American Scene and Art

present an ongoing inquiry into

popular culture and
international politics. Her
training as a specialist ceramics
conservator informs her
practice.

Penny Byrnes sculptural works

are politically charged, highly
engaging and often disarmingly
humorous. She uses materials
such as bronze, glass, vintage
porcelain figurines and found
objects to create artworks that

LAMIAA AMEEN

human interaction. She is based in

Cairo.

EMILY W. MARTIN
Lamiaa Ameen is an inspiring artist and
a gentle soul. Behind her modest
exterior lays a brilliant fascination with

Animals,Day Dreamers, The Wonderful

Things You Will Be, and other childrens
books. When she was small, she spent
every moment drawing, reading, and
having peculiar daydreams. When she
grew up, she began to illustrate those
peculiar daydreams, and after college,
she created a shop called The Black
Apple, where you can find her art &
etceteras.

JOSE MURPHY

Emily Winfield Martin makes paintings,

books and other things. She is the
author and illustrator of Dream

CAL REDBACK
Jose Ignacio Romussi
Murphys embroidered art features
colorful needlework on vintage photos.

compositions that redefine the

genre
of
creative
special
effects. He enjoys landscapes,
portraits, nude photography
and has a keen eye for blending
humans and natures into hybrid
botanical bodies.

Cal
Redback is
a
French
photographer and retoucher
based in Paris. Cal is a skilled
editor and manipulator of
images
in
Photoshop,
his
images
are
surreal

TOMOYOSHI
SAKAMOTO

Tomoyoshi SAKAMOTO (1985) is

an artist born in 1985. His
acrylic
paintings
are
representative of Neo-Nihonga
Japanese style. Tears are a

common
characteristic
of
Sakamotos subjects, as they
inflict pain and humiliation
upon themselves. Not all of his
works are graphic, or feature
the element of pain, some are
strangely unsettling, some are
peaceful, yet eerie. He uses a
technique similar to Manga
characters, fine renderings, soft
and youthful expressions, yet
his subjects are pictured in
morbid situations.

CLAUDINE DOURY

t
en
Crime (2004), Loulan
Beauty(2007) and Sasha (2011).
Claudine Doury is represented by La
Galerie Particulire in Paris, Box
Galerie in Brussels, and she is a
member of VU agency.

Claudine Doury is a photographer born

in Blois and living in Paris. She
received the Leica Oscar Barnack
award in 1999, the World Press in 2000
and the Prix Niepce for her entire work
in 2004. Her first monograph, Peuples
de Sibrie, was published in 1999.
Since then she has published Artek, un

DINO VALLS

Dino Valls is born in Saragossa, Spain,

a licentiate (six years Degree) in
Medicine and Surgery, also a most
wonderful painter. His works have been
exhibited in multiple collective and

individual exhibitions and he is

regarded as one of the most influent
Spanish painters to date. In the words of
Mira Editores, , we can learn that:
he is a Spanish representative of a new
and intriguing kind of art which is
beginning to subvert some of the most
cherished assumptions of 20th century
Modernism, in addition, radically
challenges established notions about
what is, and is not, avant-garde. () In
Valls paintings it is the psychological
situation itself which is the subject. His
figures, are containers for emotional
events

ALEX DE MORA

pretty handy with the camera and has

snapped an impressive number of iconic
artists, his editorial photography is
featured in various magazines, ads,
billboards, record labels. He works
from a private studio and keeps himself
busy making friends with the music
industry. Check his work, youll love it.

SAYAKA MARUYAMA

Alex de Mora is a music and fashion

photographer, based in London. Hes

Maruyama primarily gained notoriety

for her Japan Avant-Garde series, in
which the artist intertwined digitally
manipulated images with elements of
paper collage and watercolour paint to
create intricate, multi-layered imagery,
extolling a sense of beauty.
Sayaka Maruyamas practice traverses
the mediums of photography, film,
drawings, installation and performance.
Drawing
on
classical
Japanese
references and Surrealist motifs, her
work
explores
contradictory
contemporary
understandings
of
Japanese notions of beauty, from both
Western and Eastern perspectives.

Maruyama was born in Japan in 1983,

and graduated from the Art University
of Japan in 2005, when she began her
renowned Neon OClock Works project.
Her
first
monograph,
entitled
Krageneidechse, was published in 2007,
the year she moved to London.She
exhibited widely in London and Tokyo,
and have been published.

ANWEN KEELING

Anwen Keeling (born in 1976) is

an Australian contemporary
realist
portrait painter. Working primarily

with oil paints, her artworks have often

focused on introspective women in
private settings. Keeling was born
in Sydney and received a Bachelor of
Arts (Visual) with Honours (First Class)
and University Medal, from the
Canberra School of Art at the Australian
National University. She received a
Master of Arts (European Fine Art)
from the Winchester School of Art
at Southampton
University in Barcelona, Spain.
Her
artworks have been exhibited in Spain,
Japan, Australia, and England. Her
artworks are currently exhibited and
represented at the Liverpool Street

Gallery and the Schubert Contemporary

Galleries in Australia.

AMANDA CHARCHIAN

Amanda Charchian was born

and raised in Los Angeles. She
earned a BFA in Fine Art from
Otis
College.
Her
analog
aesthetic blurs boundaries and
creates
a
multimedia
experience
that
blends
appreciation for the beauty of
nature.
Her
fine
art
photography and sculptures
have been on exhibit around
the world. She works on
commission for notable clients.

OBI WOLF

Cologne
based
freelance
photographer Obiwolf travels
around
Germany all the time; he meets new
people, spends some time with them

and photographs them. Hes a

photographer and designer, has worked
with a number of publications, has
hosted a number of exhibitions.
Meeting new people is his thing, a selftitled strayer searching for characters to
bring close to his art.

ANNA SK

village in Iceland called Sandgeri.

Travelling widely, she has previously
lived in Australia, America, Sweden and
Norway. She currently resides in
Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anna sk is an Icelandic photographer

interested in contemporary portrait and
fashion photography. Growing up in a
small village in Iceland built her
character and imagination, both of
which came in handy as she entered the
world of photography. She was born in
her grandparents homestead in a small

JOSEPH LORUSSO

Joseph Lorusso was born in

Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and
received his formal training at
the American Academy of
Art. .Through several early trips
to Italy, his parents introduced
him to the works of the Italian

Masters. Lorusso would look to

these influences throughout his
early artistic development and
they are still evident in his work
today creating landscapes and
figurative works described as
warm and dreamlike, places of
restful escape with a sense of
spirituality,
and
share
timelessness with the works of
other eras.
I believe truly great art serves
as a trigger into something
deeper within all of us

STEPHEN CRISCOLO

Stephen Criscolo is a young conceptual

photographer now attending the
University of Georgia and studying
Photojournalism. Like many young
talents, he is completely self-taught. As
you can tell by his photo manipulation

skills, hes equally comfortable behind

the camera as he is in front of his
computer. Stephens photography is full
of content, details, and can be described
in many ways. His photography can be
described as beautiful, futuristic,
artistic, and inspirational. He works
with all kinds of different themes within
his photography, yet he tries to keep a
style that is true to himself.

LAURA MAKABRESKU

Laura Makabresku (born in 1987; lives

in Krakow) is a Polish visual artist and
photographer. Her photographs are
overflown with mystic symbols close to
the surrealistic aesthetics, she creates
visual methaphores concerning
eroticism and death.

My photographies are like screenshots

from beautiful but cruel fairy tales.
Their narrations are not straight. Images
that appear are more like feelings that
come during a lecture of an old folkbased story. The structure of my works
is similar to the structure of a dream
where natural tendencies of collecting
and
organizing
impulses
and
motivations coincide with irrational
clashes of objects and feelings. Isolation
divide beastillness from humanity and
dreams from horror.Laura Makabresku

ELISA SCASCITELLI

Elisa Scascitelli (born in 1989, lives in

the world of fairy tales). Her
photographs are characterized by
dreamlike scenes and childish personas,
full of wonder and magic, which, at the
same time, carry you inside a
nightmare, where horror and death reign
supreme.

My work has a structure similar to a

dream. There is a character between two
worlds, where the charm and innocence
are intertwined with the macabre, and
with strange spells and sorcery. The
photos are inhabited by people
apparently normal, childhood objects
that open the doors to the mysterious
territories. Dark corners and cold,
humid, only the tents provide shelter
and safety in the woods and from these
places. The whole thing is wrapped in a
veil of tranquility, as if everything was
normal as possible, creating a strong
visual impact. Elisa Scascitelli

MIRRAH JOHNSON

Mirrah Johnson is a talented film

photographer from a small town in
Middle Tennessee. She currently studies
fiber arts at the Appalachian Center for
Craft, and works part-time. She will
receive my BFA in Art Education in

2016. Currently most of her time is

spent in the fibers studio weaving,
printing/dying fabrics, and sewing.
Sometimes, taking a picture feels like
Im telling a secret. For me,
photography is a language used to
communicate all kinds of emotions, tell
all kinds of stories, and express things
that cannot be put to words. It is a
subtle yet powerful way for me to show
others my perspective what I see and
experience.
Mirrah Johnson

SALOME GASSIBE

Salome Gassibe is an award winning,

fiction-based
photographer.
Her
work focuses on fashion and portraiture,
works in digital, also analog. Salome

attended the University of Fable, and

received a Bachelors degree in Art with
a specialization in Photography.
Salomes work has been featured in
international publications and media.

JAMES GALLAGHER

Behavior which launched

acclaim in 2013.

to

much

James Gallagher earned a BFA from

The School of Visual Arts in New York
City, and is the Creative Director for the
Museum of Sex in NYC and an
Instructor at Parsons the New School
for Design.

James Gallagher uses collage to

investigate human form and personal
identity. Also he is the publisher, editor
and
creative
director
of
the
contemporary
art
magazine Secret

Using found photographic imagery I

investigate the human form by
constructing scenes that deal with
personal space, physical relationships
and secret behavior. My focus towards
the subtleties of gesture, tension, and
intimacy.

FRANK BAUER

time, he portrays his friends in clubs, at

a party, in the dressing room, on the
beach, just about everywhere. His
paintings are vivid representations of
people, night life, still life, landscapes.
His works will impress.
It appears to me, that I carry the
paintings inside me somehow, like a
matrix, and whenever I see something
that fits into this matrix, I feel inspired
to paint it.

Frank Bauer (1964) is an exquisite

hyper-realist painter and a DJ, basically
a hard worker with an eye for music.
Based upon photographs of moments in

Frank Bauer

VICTOR FOTA

Victor Fota is an visual artist

from
Bucharest,
Romania,
majored in conservation and
the restoration of classic works
of art at National University of
Arts, Bucharest. He believes
theres
an
ever-present
relationship
between
the
technique of paintings and their
meaning. The representations
close to his heart belong to his
imaginarium of surrealism.

TRACEY EMIN

disclosure, using her life events as

inspiration for works. Emin reveals her
hopes, humiliations, failures and
successes in candid and, at times,
excoriating work that is frequently both
tragic and humorous.

Tracey Emin is an English artist known

for
her
autobiographical
and
confessional artwork. Emin produces
work in a variety of media including
drawing, painting, sculpture, film,
photography, neon text and sewn
appliqu. Tracey Emins art is one of

Tracey Emin was born in London in

1963, and studied at Maidstone College
of Art and the Royal College of Art,
London. She has exhibited extensively
internationally including solo and group
exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Japan,
Australia and America.

TOMS JETELA

Tom Jetela is one of the most

distinguished contemporary Czech
painter of the youngest generation. His
works deals with themes of vanity and
transience of life that were often used
by classical painters of 17th century.
Tom Jetela is graduate from Academy
of Fine Arts in Prague in 2011 (studio of
Michael Rittstein).

KATHERINE FRASER

Cecelia
Beaux
Portrait
among
others. Since graduation she has been
exhibiting throughout the Mid-Atlantic
region, as well as nationally.

Katherine Fraser is a Philadelphia-based

artist and is a graduate of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
As a student; she received the
Thomas Eakins Painting price, the

Life often strikes me as a string of

moments, like a series of film stills, in
which we observe ourselves. I paint
people experiencing these moments of
profound
self-awareness
and
growth; my memories of growing up in
Maine, Pennsylvania, are a great source
of inspiration. Though my subjects
usually stand alone

FERNANDO VICENTE

has won three Awards of Excellence

from the Society for News Design.

Fernando Vicente is a Spanish painter

and illustrator based in Madrid. He is
prolific for caricatures, anatomy of the
human body, pinups and cartoons, also
for fashion illustrtions. Studies the
human body intensely based on medical
books and anatomical atlases. He works
with various magazines and has been
published regularly. Thanks to this work

MARK HARLESS

Mark
Harless (also
known
as
Bleeblu)
is
a
conceptual
photographer who creates worlds of
fertility, vitality, birth and rebirth.
Mystery and ritual are recurring motifs
in his work, the ceremonial aspect of
relationships between people and
nature, life and death. He also hosts
online classes as a tutor in photography,
composition, editing, the works. Check
out his website, maybe learn a thing or
two, hes an inspiring artist.