Fowler is a graduate of Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art, Winchester School of Art, and Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. Currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University of Cumbria, Fowler completed his PhD in political aesthetics in 2022. For many years, Fowler taught painting to life-sentence prisoners in the Scottish prison system. He was born and raised in Portobello, Edinburgh, and currently lives in Cumbria. Fun & Games Too: A Canonical Penance

Seyda Alkin is a contemporary abstract artist whose work explores identity as a fluid, unsettled state shaped by transition, emotional displacement, and inner contradiction. Born in Turkey, lived in the Netherlands, and now based in the United Kingdom, her practice is informed by lived experiences of movement, shifting environments, and the psychological spaces that exist between certainty and doubt. Working primarily with spray paint, charcoal, and mixed media, Alkin creates

Water is never only water. It is memory and movement, origin and erasure, tenderness and force. It carries histories within its currents and mirrors the inner states of those who observe it. In Collect Art’s Special Edition, Volume 92, Water and Metaphors, we turn to water not simply as a subject, but as a language—one spoken fluently by painters across cultures, geographies, and generations. From the earliest cave paintings to contemporary abstraction, water has remained one

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

Nigel Waters’ work is a vibrant exploration of landscape and seascape, abstracted through the lens of Abstract Expressionism and Fauvism. Drawing inspiration from the ever-changing power of the sea and the shifting moods of weather, he seeks to capture not simply a place, but an experience—one that reveals itself differently with every return to the shoreline. Working on plein air, Nigel immerses himself fully in the environment, responding directly to the light, atmosphere,

Tracy Mackenna is a Scots-Italian artist, curator, scholar, and educator whose practice and research contribute to the development of contemporary visual arts practice and art education. Since the 1990s, she has received public and private funding and has been awarded numerous commissions, producing installations, site-specific projects, artist’s publications, workshops, and events. Her specialist areas include contemporary art practice, artistic research, art writing, collab

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

Peruvian-American artist trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lima and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where she earned a BFA in Illustration, graduating summa cum laude. Her practice focuses on inner states, quiet tensions, and subtle emotional atmospheres, often using water as a metaphorical space where memory, perception, and transformation quietly unfold.

In Igor Grechanyk’s sculptural practice, water appears not as a literal element, but as a state of being — fluid, reflective, and transformative. His works explore water as a metaphor for inner movement. In the sculptures Waterfall and Lake (from the Surreal Beauty cycle), water is not depicted as motion alone, but as a tension between stillness and flow. These forms suggest moments of suspension — when movement slows and becomes introspective, almost meditative. Here, the im

Nicola McEvoy is a transdisciplinary artist who works across mediums, including analogue /digital video, cameraless photography, textiles, and ceramics. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths. Her practice-based research, ‘Television Alchemy’, investigates the liquid materiality of CRT TV. Following the radical approach of chaos magicians, she is interested in how critical theory can inform a path of mysticism that aims to disrupt the hegemony of capital

Lewis’s work acts as a conduit between art and science. The supply of information from science fuels the production of visual material, which communicates the knowledge of a scientific endeavour. In short, Lewis’s work focuses on dealing with complex thoughts, ideas and facts within nature and science. Some explore those in which we seem to be overshadowed and overpowered in comparison by the vast distances, size or quantities. Others investigate moments of extreme power, cre

‘’At the age of 12, I was given a Kodak Instamatic and have been hooked on photography ever since. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I have lived by the sea all my life; the UK coastline has been an ongoing passion. I love how light and colour can interact with the landscape and sea, changing the mood entirely. I try to evoke a sense of place, a connection to my images, and each picture is unique like a fingerprint as the light, weather, seasons, and environmental conditio

Food is one of humanity’s first languages. Before writing, before architecture, before even ritualized image-making, there was the shared act of preparing, offering, and consuming nourishment. In Food Art, Collect Art’s Special Edition Volume 91, we return to this primal yet endlessly complex subject, inviting readers to consider food not merely as sustenance, but as symbol, memory, politics, pleasure, and performance. Across cultures and centuries, food has appeared in art a

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

Markos Kampanis was born in Athens in 1955. He studied painting in London. Mainly a painter, but has also worked with printmaking, book illustration, and church murals. He has done many one-man exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Greece and abroad. His work may be described as realistic, however, with many technical and stylistic variations. His great, almost fetishistic, interest in materials and techniques works alongside his academic interest in the his

Tom Dailey is a sculptor who loves texture and material. Born and raised in rural Vermont surrounded by chickens, goats, and town-wide yard sales, Tom finds that the materials he uses echo his upbringing. He plays with fur, feathers, corn, and paint to build forms that aren’t quite as they seem. Dailey is studying at the Maine College of Art & Design, graduating in May 2026 with a BFA in Sculpture. He has shown work in galleries across Portland, Maine, as well as presented hi

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

Aliaksandra Bautruk is a Swiss–Belarusian porcelain artist, born in Minsk in 1980. She works with overglaze porcelain painting, combining classical European traditions with contemporary and conceptual approaches. She studied in Saint Petersburg and Zurich. In recent years, her practice has focused on conceptual porcelain and research-based projects. She is the author of "Dirty Dishes", a project awarded the Grand Prix in the "Installation" category at the Art-Minsk Festival 2