Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, graduated from the University of Westminster with a BA in Photographic Arts under the tutelage of Victor Burgin and John Goto. Worked as a photographer with a Greek shipping line - travelling throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, the West Coast and Alaska. Left life at sea after three years and moved to New York City to concentrate on his own work. Became an acupuncturist in 1996, and an Interfaith Minister in 2001. He has been exhibiting in

Almost all of the lights in the night sky are ghosts. The further you look into the cosmos, the further you look back in time. The closest star to our sun is 4.2 light-years away. Meaning that the light coming from Alpha Centauri is 4.2 years old. Some of the stars you see at this present time in the night sky have probably already died thousands, millions or billions of years ago. However, the echoes of their existence in the form of their ancient light still arrive today on

Kai Johnson is a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in London. He documents events all over the country and is currently studying Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London. Specialising in photojournalism and documenting political events, he captures intimate and powerful moments between demonstrators, carefully creating thought-provoking imagery that reflects the current political climate in the UK. This series documents

Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting. As an artist, Wu

Harriet Pybus has recently spent time reflecting on photographs she has taken over the years, discovering that she has unknowingly been capturing moments to which she has felt deeply connected throughout her life. Now dedicating herself to sharing this body of work, Pybus creates photographs that offer sanctuary from the turmoil of the modern world. Her images evoke feelings of tranquillity, peace, and quiet romance, preserving fleeting moments in time and inviting viewers to

Francis Saber Sutphin was born in southern California. He lives and works in Oakland, CA and currently maintains a two-dimensional art practice of translating his impressions of the maze of California's agricultural industry and memories of place into works on paper, pages of books and collage. Saber is a self-taught photographer. He takes photos in motion, often from a train. His charcoal and ink drawings often include remnants and transfers of his photographs and found med

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Darren spent two decades in New York City where he studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, winning the coveted Critics Choice Award at graduation. Darren is a multidisciplinary artist and creative entrepreneur whose career spans fashion, art, publishing, television, hospitality, and interior design. For more than two decades, he has built brands and told visual stories at the intersection of art, style, culture, and rein

Anita Mókus is a Hungary-based photographer working with both black-and-white and color photography. Her practice focuses on atmosphere, spatial observation, and the subtle relationship between presence and absence within everyday environments. She is particularly interested in quiet visual details, urban fragments, reflections, and overlooked objects that reveal traces of human experience. Her images often combine minimal composition with an observational and contemplative a

Born in 1999 and raised in Bacau, Romania, Laura Candet is currently exploring the alarming increase in femicide in Romania and around the world. Experiencing the gender gap firsthand, her visual art conveys the frustration and powerful emotions felt during these turbulent times. With significant achievements in the artistic and academic fields, Laura Candet combines theoretical and practical study for a good artistic representation of her subjects. The artist has won multipl

Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting. As an artist, Wu

Marion Heres is a multidisciplinary Dutch artist with a background in medicine. Before dedicating herself fully to art, she worked as a gynaecologist, researcher and healthcare leader, experiences that continue to inform her artistic practice. Her work focuses on themes of exclusion, memory, identity and resilience, often creating immersive environments that make hidden structures visible. Through HeresAndHolti, she develops projects that explore the spaces between what is se

Caroline Perkins is a contemporary artist based in Hampshire. She studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is a Royal College of Art graduate, QEST scholar and Chapel Arts Studios associate. She is the founder of Unity Art Studio in Andover, an artist-led studio and gallery space supporting contemporary artists in the region. ''My paintings begin with marks made quickly, almost before thought has organised itself. Charcoal, graphite, acryli

Art, in its purest form, is a language—an unspoken dialogue that transcends words, bridging the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown. In this special edition of our magazine, we immerse ourselves in the boundless world of abstraction, where colors, forms, and textures become the voice of the ineffable. This volume celebrates international artists whose works push the limits of perception, urging us to engage in a deeper, more intuitive conversation with their creati

Martin Bruckmanns, has been taking photographs since the age of eight, when his parents bought him his first camera, a Kodak Instamatic. From that moment on he never puts down the camera, starts as a self-taught photographer and later also experiments in his own darkroom. After high-school he went to Italy to further his studies at the IED in Turin where he graduated 1996 in Visual Communication and still lives. He started to work for some advertising studios first as assistan

Liz Riley is a largely self-taught textile artist from the north of England. Her work is abstract and often three-dimensional and is a response to landscape and the natural environment. She has a Foundation Diploma in Textiles. Recently she has begun to transition away from acrylic paints and inks to colour and mark fabric to using plant-based dyes and paints made from natural materials.

I am an artist specialising in abstractionism, using oils on canvas, based in Yorkshire UK. I have spent my life being creative in many ways from crafting to music, but abstract art is the medium that sings with my soul. We all start life as artists. One of the first activities we enjoy as children is art based creativity. With either crayons, coloured pencils or felt pens. This stayed with me all my life, there's no other pleasure quite like creating. My paintings are an e

Goran Tomic, a self-taught artist from Sydney, Australia, creates collages that capture the chaotic beauty of urban life. His pieces, often made on the move—in cafes, pubs, or even on public transport—reflect the shifting dynamics of his surroundings and daily routine. Prompted by his transition from a spacious house to a compact apartment, Goran utilizes materials like cardboard, envelopes, and old book covers, blending them into distinctive compositions that embody the city

From a dance/choreographic background, with music in her DNA, graduate artist/painter Chris works from emotion, imagination and a cross-arts chromatic sensibility to make abstract music paintings. With a fascination for the way the arts inter-relate, she responds to - and expresses - music in paint on canvas, sometimes scarily forsaking the safety of the studio to ‘performance-paint’ in-the-moment, to live music, as the music hits her ear - and often with an audience.