Lucie is a Czech-born multidisciplinary artist based in London. Before finishing her master's degree in Print from the Royal College of Art, she graduated with first-class honours in Illustration and Visual Media from the University of the Arts London. She has shown in galleries across London, including Southwark Park Galleries and Copeland Gallery. In 2025 and 2026, she was shortlisted for Imprint for her works 'Labyrinth' and 'Motherboard'. Lucie’s multidisciplinary practice

John Barben is a contemporary photographer whose practice centres on crafting narrative-driven image series. With an acute attention to detail, his work explores themes of time, memory, and place—encouraging quiet reflection through carefully composed sequences. Based in Cheltenham, England, John's photography is gaining recognition through emerging exhibitions and self-published photobooks. Influenced by the likes of Greg Halpern, Todd Hido, Stephen Shore, and Gregory Crewdson

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

Kieran McLean was born in Oxford, England, in 1981. He studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England in Bristol from 2002 to 2005, including 3 months at the University of Barcelona. He has worked in a variety of occupations, including art teaching in Oxford and Milan, Italy, in addition to his artistic practice. He currently lives and works in Oxford.

Ekaterine Bulashvili’s creative journey cannot be confined within a single theme or narrative; it is a continuous, dynamic process of exploration, where each new exhibition represents a visual and philosophical experiment. The foundational education she received at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts—spanning painting, sculpture, and design (artistic wood and metal processing)—shaped her synthetic perception of material, space, and form. Built upon this synthesis, her primary a

Medea Imerlishvili was born in 1969 in Tbilisi, into a family of artists. In 1991, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Medea Imerlishvili is a multifaceted creative — an artist, journalist, blogger, and writer. For years (1993-2024), she has hosted radio programs exploring human rights, history, art, and literature. She is the author of two poetry collections, Farewell to Winter and The Whisper of Stones. In addition

Geraldine Leahy is a contemporary landscape artist with an interest in environmental concerns. She returned to education to study art with The Open College of the Arts, the distance-learning partner of The University for the Creative Arts (Farnham, England). A lifelong interest in landscape and the natural world informed her degree studies, and, in her final project, she focused on the damaging effects of coastal erosion on one of her local beaches. She has continued to engag

Although the cosmos has endless wonders that light up the night sky, there are sections where it seems to be empty. Most of the cosmos is populated by them. These are the ‘Voids’. Immense patches of near nothingness. Let’s zoom out a little from our galaxy; we zoom out to see our local group of galaxies; zoom out a little further, and we can see the Virgo Supercluster 100 million light years across in a sort of wall-like shape. Here we come to the edge of a true monster, the

Welcome to Collect Art, Seasonal Edition, Volume 126. With each new volume, we continue our journey of discovery, dialogue, and reflection through the voices and visions of artists from across the globe. This issue is no exception—gathering an inspiring constellation of international creators who generously open their studios, stories, and hearts to us. Their works remind us that art is not only a reflection of time but also a catalyst for transformation. In the pages that fo

It is the oldest movement we know. A river finding its way to the sea. A ray of pure energy crossing space. A stream of consciousness that carries a thought before it has a name. A brushstroke of paint that decides, in half a second, where a work will go. Everything moves. Nothing stays. Every movement flows toward a new or different condition, and that condition is what we call art. For this Special Edition, we invited artists to answer a single, open question: what does flo

Yunlin is an interdisciplinary artist and designer working across art, craft, and technology. Through textiles, 3D forms, and interactive systems, she explores how materials and technologies can become expressive, responsive, and engaging. Her work sits at the intersection of hand-craft tradition and emerging digital tools, and that investigates how familiar bodily gestures can be transformed into new forms of communication between the body and the digital world. LoopScroll I

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

MINA, also known as Wilhelmina Odoley Quaynor and formerly Wilhelmina Okpoti, is a Ghanaian-born British Contemporary Heritage Artist based in London, United Kingdom. MINA is the Founder and Creative Director of Mina's Art Space. MINA graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, in 1988 after attending Aburi Girls Secondary School. Shortly after graduating, she exhibited widely in Ghana and won first pri

Rie Suto was born in Japan, and moved to the UK in 1996. She studied arts in a variety of media, and chose ceramics as a special subject at Camberwell College of Arts. In 2008 she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art at Staffordshire University, joining the local contemporary artists group SoTArt. In 2014 Rie started working with a group of Etruria Artists. From 2022 She has been a regular contributor to Arts and Mind Gallery and Etruria Industrial Museum. In 2009 Rie

Michael Watz’s career in the Food and Beverage industry began over 50 years ago when he worked as a teenager in New England’s sophisticated restaurants. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in 1977, he immediately traveled to Los Angeles. With aspirations in his eyes, he naively interviewed at the city’s top restaurants and hotels, eventually securing a position as a Sous Chef at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This role provided Michael with an opportunity to fu

Maureen Shafer is an up-and-coming Canadian artist whose watercolour paintings reflect her love of colour. Within the past few years she's also started playing with creating texture in her paintings. Maureen has a very strong artistic vision which she likes to express in both her representational and non-representational paintings. One of the most important ways in which Maureen does the latter is by not making use of reference photos to create her artworks. She also loves to

“Currents of Becoming (2019 - 2026) explores flow as both a physical phenomenon and a broader principle of transformation. Beginning with water in motion — the turbulent Seine, falling water, spray and spreading ripples — the series gradually expands beyond the liquid element. Flow becomes thought, light, perception, time and material memory. Reflections turn water into luminous turbulence; condensation draws imagined deltas across glass; bubbles become a visual Flux of Thoug

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