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.

Some forces shape human experience long before language begins to define them—belief, ritual, devotion, fear, transcendence. Religion and cult, though often separated by legitimacy or scale, share a common architecture: systems of meaning constructed around the unseen. They organize the intangible, give form to the invisible, and offer frameworks through which individuals attempt to understand their place within something larger than themselves. In this special edition of Col

Hector Hamilton was born in London and picked up printmaking later in the mid-2010s. Since then, his art style has evolved greatly, and he has been exhibited in five out of the six royal academies of arts in the UK and Ireland multiple times. His artwork focuses on science fiction, real life, and imaginary elements.

Evangelia Hamilton was born in Athens and practiced Architecture before moving to the UK to study economics. She picked art back up later in life, exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists and 3/6 Royal Academies of Arts in the UK and Ireland. Her focus is printmaking and drawing, inspired by the old masters and real life.

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