Painting the Unseen: Folklore, Landscape, and the Art of Julianna Byrne
Steeped in myth, memory, and the quiet magic of the natural world, artist Julianna Byrne creates paintings that feel both incredibly dreamlike and yet deeply rooted in place. Her work drifts between the real and the ethereal, shaped by rural childhood landscapes, the...
A Tangle of Tenderness: The Portraits of Jessica Jane Charleston
In Jessica Jane Charleston’s work, the canvas becomes a threshold; part mirror, part dreamscape – where the familiar outlines of the body contort and unravel. What begins as a quiet act of self-observation quickly evolves into something more challenging. A...
Rediscovering the Artist: How a Birthday Sparked a Long-Buried Love of Art
Some creative journeys begin in childhood, others arrive like lightning – unexpected, electrifying, and impossible to ignore. For artist Ibi Meier-Oruitemeka (AKA Studio IMO), the call to paint came on the morning of her 43rd birthday, when a sudden impulse to...
The Body is Fluid: Carole Mousset’s Exploration of the Intimate
Carole Mousset is a Brussels-based multimedia artist exploring intimacy and the body as a fluid, ever-shifting container. She distorts inner realities through dreamlike, erotic, and organic imagery. Her use of body fluids – both symbolic and formal –...