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Jonathon Downing: Idols and Projections
Jonathon Downing is a young painter originally from Town and Country, Missouri, and currently lives and works in Westland, Michigan. He is recognized for his distinctive aesthetic, which he developed during his studies at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Downing creates portraits that combine digital photo montage and…
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Artists
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Jonathon Downing: Idols and Projections
Jonathon Downing is a young painter originally from Town and Country, Missouri, and currently lives and works in Westland, Michigan. He is recognized for his distinctive aesthetic, which he developed during his studies at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Downing creates portraits that combine digital photo montage and…
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Deborah Saks: Circles of Life
Deborah Saks is an artist originally from the East Coast of the United States, who has been living in Liverpool since 2022. With a background in photography and design, Deborah unexpectedly found her way into collage after attending a workshop led by Rosemary Luckett at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center in Alexandria, Virginia. This was…
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Devid Biscontini: Between Painting and Sculpture
Devid Biscontini is an artist from Gualdo Tadino, Italy, who creates sculptures and paintings by exploring the expressive potential of plastic through a unique thermoforming process. Biscontini uses coextruded plastic films that he personally selects and works with as his primary material. He shapes his sculptures using open flame and high-temperature air, creating layered surfaces…
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Livia Tiwari: Feminine Essence
Livia is a British-Hungarian artist whose life spans across different continents and various creative disciplines—currently based in Belgium, where she paints from the quiet alchemy of her atelier. Through her work, Livia explores surreal presences, feminine essence, metamorphosis, and states of consciousness through the relationships between vulnerability and power. Livia celebrates femininity that is bold…
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Andreas Perlick: Chiaroscuro Fleeting Moments of Happiness
Andreas Perlick is a photographer based in Southern Germany who explores architecture and landscape through his work using a pinhole camera. Instead of presenting panoramic views of space, his focus is directed towards details—structures, light, and subtle changes within the landscape and architecture. Andreas is not interested in what can be seen with the naked…
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Brigitte Verstuyft: A Practice Shaped Across Generations
Belgian artist Brigitte Verstuyft returns to artistic creation following a lifelong immersion in a family of artists. Raised among canvases, brushes, and creative gestures, art has never been a profession alone, but a way of inhabiting the world. Working intuitively, Verstuyft allows colour, material, and texture to guide her process. Her recent body of work…
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Daniel Cleal: Where Chaos Becomes Composition
Daniel Cleal is a Caribbean-British graphic artist based in North London. His work explores the transformation of chaos into visual harmony, creating pieces that inspire reflection and emotional connection. Working primarily in abstract contemporary expressionism, he also creates portraits influenced by tribal line work. His multidisciplinary practice includes tattoo design, illustration, and photography. His work…
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Rita Matos: Layers of Memory
Rita Matos is an abstract painter based in London whose practice is grounded in the act of leaving a trace, where her artistic expression becomes a space of continuous exploration, change, and accumulation.Her works develop intuitively, through a gradual process of adding, covering, and removing layers.Each stroke leaves an imprint as a record of a…
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Ulrike Pichl: Photography and Poetry as a Form of Expression
Today, we are writing about Ulrike Pichl, a German artist who is also a photographer and poet. Born in 1985 in Nuremberg, from an early age she combined art and language, eventually graduating in communication design with a thesis in photography. Photography has accompanied her throughout her life, first through her family tradition of analog…
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Anna Shipulina’s Ceramic Practice as Self-Discovery
Anna Shipulina is a ceramic artist currently based in the United States, where she moved from Russia in 2011. Before discovering ceramics, she was balancing family life, homeschooling her son, and contributing to a successful family business — a period she describes as overwhelming and disconnected from her creative side. However, in 2020, when the…
Exhibitions
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Manon Wertenbroek – In guts and heads at Rose Easton, London
Rose Easton223 Cambridge Heath RdLondon E2 0EL7 March – 25 April 2026 Manon Wertenbroek’s solo exhibition In guts and heads is now on view at Rose Easton in London until 25 April The Swiss-Dutch artist presents a new series of leather and glycerin sculptures that explore the body, skin and emotional projection. Her work often…
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Hannah Murray – Charm at Ginny on Frederick, London
Ginny on Frederick99 Charterhouse StreetLondon EC1M 6HR6 March – 10 April 2026 Hannah Murray’s solo exhibition Charm is currently on view at Ginny on Frederick in London from 6 March to 10 April 2026 About exhibition A woman sits poised on a plush rose scalloped chair. Heavy crimson velvet curtains line the walls, their folds…