Author: Seraphina Calder

Mandy West didn’t come into art with a formal education or years of gallery-hopping behind her. She started painting seriously in 2022, and that fresh, unpolished approach is part of what gives her work its pulse. She calls herself a mixed media artist, but that doesn’t fully capture what she does. Mandy is more of a creative wanderer—testing materials, combining techniques, and leaning into whatever draws her in that day. One moment she’s working with wax, the next she’s layering plaster into peaks, or scratching lines into wood grain. She’s not trying to perfect an image. She’s trying to stir…

José Brito Santos doesn’t paint for the sake of beauty. He paints to grapple with the noise of the world. His art doesn’t sit quietly in the background; it stands right in front of you, daring you to look away. Based in Portugal, Brito uses thick black ink, glued newspaper clippings, and rough textures to tell stories that aren’t simple or clean. His canvases feel like living, breathing battlegrounds—crowded, loud, and deeply human. His materials come with their own baggage: pages that once carried news, words that once held meaning, now stripped and reassembled. Brito’s paintings are not just images;…

Beth Vendryes Williams grew up surrounded by noise, life, and the endless motion of six younger siblings in a bustling home on Long Island’s North Shore. In that swirl of chaos, art became her quiet place. When the house got too loud, she escaped into books, the woods, or her sketchpad. Drawing and painting became more than hobbies — they were ways to slow down and listen to her own voice. Over time, her creative practice deepened. She began to wonder why the urge to create was so persistent. Art, for Beth, turned into a form of reflection. Through it,…

ArtDodson jewelryPortrait of Jack Whitten with Pink psyche queen (1973), Ca. 1975 © Jack Whitten Estate. Courtesy The Estate and Hauser & Wirth.Jack Whitten. Siberian salt chopper . 1974. Photo by John Wronn. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.You can almost feel a Swoosh of Air as Cascada paint through the canvas in Jack Whitten First move (1974). In this abstract painting, Whitten’s eternal experimentation, something that was critical of his artistic practice, comes to life in a blow. The gentle smell, a photographic blur made with paint,…

Richard Solstjärna is a Swedish abstract painter based in Berlin. His work isn’t just visual—it feels like a transmission. He’s not trying to map out the world around him. He’s trying to map the world inside. His paintings are raw, physical expressions of thought, emotion, and spirit. You don’t stand in front of his work to “figure it out.” You stand there to feel it. Solstjärna’s life has taken him through Europe, New York, and Odessa, painting, exhibiting, and absorbing the tension and beauty of different places. His process is direct. He doesn’t plan much. He lets the paint move…

Lisa Marie Coyne isn’t the kind of artist who chases spectacle. Her photographs don’t shout. They rest quietly, asking you to sit with them. They draw you in slowly. One of her pieces, The Light through Darkness, was born during a walk through Rineen Woods in West Cork with her sons. That day was split—serene sunlight above, a storm brewing inside. As she moved through the trees, light broke through a dense patch of darkness. It didn’t solve anything. But it stopped her. A camera in hand, she captured it. The image, like many of hers, doesn’t separate joy from…

Deborah K. Tash was born in 1949 and grew up in California’s Bay Area, where art and language found their way into her life early. She calls herself a Mestiza, a woman rooted in both Mexican and Celtic traditions—her mother’s Indigenous Mexican ancestry and her father’s Celtic bloodline flow together in her work. That duality is not a theme; it’s the essence. For Tash, art isn’t about choosing between story and sculpture, land or spirit—it’s about blending them, letting them speak all at once. Her life’s work has been about that union: poetry and visual art, ancestry and emotion, the…

Nestled near the vibrant city of Boston, USA, Scott Bruce has carved a niche for himself in the world of art with a career spanning several decades. His journey is a captivating tale of artistic evolution and daring exploration. From his early days as a sculptor and director of artist spaces to his later ventures into the world of collectibles, Bruce’s artistic trajectory has been nothing short of extraordinary. In the ’80s and ’90s, Bruce created his distinctive collections of vintage lunch boxes and cereal boxes. These collections were not mere displays of nostalgia but were masterfully curated assemblages that…

Nicola Mastroserio is not an artist who conforms to expectations. He does not chase fleeting trends or adjust his work to fit the commercial art market. Instead, his paintings are an exploration of deeper truths—questions about existence, intelligence, and the unseen forces that shape our reality. Mastroserio approaches his art with the discipline of a researcher, treating each canvas as a philosophical inquiry rather than a spectacle. For him, art is more than a practice; it is a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. He does not simply nod to artistic predecessors like Duchamp or Beuys—he actively engages with their ideas, challenging…

Shané Richter, known artistically as Lilith, works under the brand Darkly Dreamt, creating artwork that delves into the macabre, the psychological, and the gothic. Her pieces explore the beauty found in darkness, blending traditional and digital techniques to craft eerie, immersive visuals. Through ink, watercolor, and digital media, she builds imagery that feels both haunting and deeply personal. Every brushstroke and digital rendering carries an emotional weight, pulling the viewer into an unsettling yet captivating world. Her art is rooted in storytelling, drawing from mythology, personal experience, and gothic aesthetics to create work that evokes emotion and provokes thought. She…