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

Adrian James is a retired academic and freelance photographer with a wide range of photographic interests. Although he has been engaged with photography for over 60 years, it is only since his retirement that he has been able to dedicate significant time to creating the images he is most drawn to. He does not confine himself to a single genre; instead, his practice is guided by curiosity and observation. His work captures scenes and situations that catch his eye, often offeri

From the earliest cave paintings to contemporary canvases, the human figure has remained one of art’s most enduring subjects. It is through the body that we recognize ourselves, our histories, and our emotions; it is through gesture and form that artists across centuries have communicated the most universal of experiences—love, grief, longing, resilience, joy. Figurative art is not simply about representation; it is about reflection. It reminds us of our shared humanity while

Giel Louws was born in Zeeland, the Netherlands, in 1975. He studied at the Academies of Bruges, Belgium, and Kampen, The Netherlands. Since then, he has practiced his art as an independent artist. He made many national and some international exhibitions. He did residencies in Sweden and the Czech Republic. In his paintings, Giel Louws researches the medium of painting by exercising it, or deconstructing it, and then assembling it again. It is a combination of figurative and f

Serena Nassini is a multidisciplinary queer artist based in Leeds, UK. Working across visual arts, music, and community engagement, she has cultivated a diverse practice that transcends traditional boundaries between artistic disciplines. Nassini's conceptual artworks—spanning installations, drawings, paintings, mixed media, performance, soundscapes, and participatory projects—are grounded in intersectional feminist and ecological principles. Her practice invites viewers to e

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

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