Paul Battenberg-Cartwright was born in St. Ives UK in 1990. He works accross a broad range of medium from sculpture, the written word, right through to conceptual performance art and spacial interventions. From 2009 until 2017 he was part of the art collaborative ‘Battenberg-Cartwright’, a joint effort art lifestyle performance work challenging the then held notions of human relationships and societal frameworks. His work has been shown throughout the UK and Europe as well a

Ian Middleton grew up in East Anglia and studied at Sheffield College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He worked with Eduardo Paolozzi before moving to the West Country. He has taught at several British art schools, including teaching sculpture at Farnham from 1988 to 2005. In 2013, he completed a Fellowship at Chelsea College of Art, and in 2014 he was elected an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy, where he served as a Council member for six years and on th

Haejae Debbie Oh is a South Korean self-taught artist, writer, and office worker. She holds both a B.A. and M.A. from Ewha Womans University. She began her artistic practice in 2014 without formal art training. Her international debut came in 2019 at the Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong, and since then, she has actively participated in various art events both in South Korea and abroad. Her works have received recognition in numerous international art competitions, includ

Rita Skowronska, working under the artistic pseudonym Deux Meus, is a contemporary visual artist based in Poland whose practice resides at the intersection of fine art and sacred craftsmanship. Her work has gained international recognition, notably being selected for the prestigious International Contest of Contemporary Art (YICCA) and showcased in publications like USANews.com. Skowronska has established a unique artistic voice through her signature "beading on canvas" techn

Vincent Baltazar Paa was born in Pampanga, Philippines. Moved to Macclesfield, England, in 2006. He works in fine arts, poetry, photography, auditory visual. ''My creative practice is rooted in empowering others to trust their intuition, embrace self-love, and communicate with authenticity—principles I’ve come to live by through my own journey as an artist. I work primarily with visual language and symbolism, using numbers as a central motif. I view numbers as a deeply emotio

Harry French has focused on printmaking techniques in his studio since retiring from education in 2001. His woodcut series of mythological creatures was inspired by his observation of the Gundestrup Cauldron at the National Museum of Denmark in 2008. The woodblocks are cut on Meranti plywood and printed by hand in small editions on handmade English and Japanese papers. Many of his ideas in art and design are informed by visits to cathedrals, medieval churches, and museums acr

Tina Anderson is a visual architect, media mythographer & scenographer of baroque mechanisms. She does not invent worlds — she mediates their appearance. Her artistic practice is rooted in an academic background in cultural history, including her thesis on The Book of Thoth, where Tarot arcana function as a symbolic cosmology. This research formed her interest in how ancient systems encoded the universe through symbols, mechanisms, and ritual diagrams Her practice emerges at

Matthew F W Dennis is an internationally exhibited artist & photographer based in the South West of England. Since graduating from The Nottingham School of art in 2019, his work has been shown at various galleries and festivals including The Holburne Museum, Bath, OFF Photo Festival, Bratislava & The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. His series ‘Landscapes of our Being’ was shown at his first solo show at Sìtheag, Oban in 2024 and went on to The Holburne Museum for thei

Adam Piechocki-Brown is a photographic artist currently based in Sussex, UK. “The Virgin in a Jam Jar” explores themes of faith, mourning, and iconography. It forms part of an evolving body of work exploring the relationship between the religious and the secular; between ancient and modern.

Some seasons arrive quietly, and others seem to alter the very atmosphere. This edition begins with a feeling—diffuse, ungraspable, yet unmistakable. Love, in all its forms, does not simply appear; it circulates. It passes between bodies, across distances, through objects, images, and gestures. It is carried in glances, embedded in rituals, stored in memory, and released without warning. To say “love is in the air” is to acknowledge something both intangible and pervasive: a

Lucille Dweck is a London-born painter of Egyptian Jewish heritage whose work explores presence, intimacy, and connection through portraiture and nature-based painting, where light shapes mood and perception. Trained working from life at Central Saint Martins and Byam Shaw, she combines close observation with sensitivity to atmosphere and material, creating works that invite the viewer to experience fleeting moments of universal tenderness and presence.

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

Annabel Merrett tries to take the fear out of mental health within relationships. She makes art that show how each partner is feeling and how their brain might be working - 3D pictures show relationships moving back and forth, through; joy, impulse, confusion, misrepresentation, and fear. Using strong coloured crayons and silicon tubes she creates a picture of connections between couples over time. Merrett lives and works as a full-time practising artist in London. Several ye

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

Igor Grechanyk is a sculptor and artist whose work blends philosophical symbolism, mytho-poetic imagery, and a contemporary sculptural language. His creations are visualized fragments of spiritual experience, resonating with the collective unconscious and touching on the eternal questions of human existence. He gives form to the undefined, materializing spirit in bronze. Born in Kyiv into an artistic family, Grechanyk graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1984. His e

There is a particular kind of silence that gathers around objects. Not the absence of sound, but a presence—dense, attentive, waiting. Still life has always existed within this charged quiet: a space where time slows, where meaning accumulates not through action but through arrangement, gesture, and light. In this special edition of Collect Art, we return to still life not as a historical genre, but as a living, shifting language—one that continues to absorb the urgencies, an

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