Kingsley Otu

Kingsley Otu

Kingsley Otu is a visual artist with a passion for visual storytelling and an eye for capturing moments and lived experiences. Drawing inspiration from the vibrant colours, diverse cultures, and captivating landscapes of Nigeria, Kingsley’s work transcends boundaries...
Robert Walker – Interview

Robert Walker – Interview

Theartistrobert is the moniker of Robert Walker a Suffolk-based fine art painter best known for his ‘geo-figurative’ works and quirky still lifes. He mainly paints in oils enjoying it’s multiple technique uses and is currently experimenting in mixed...
Alf Field – Q&A

Alf Field – Q&A

Alf Field has been interested in Art and Photography since childhood.  Field is not particularly interested in making money or being commercial – he is just following his commitment to Art, and the environment. Field goes out regularly looking for images which...
Notton Gallery Opens This September

Notton Gallery Opens This September

NEW POP-UP GALLERY FOR MARYLEBONE Notton Gallery, on London’s Seymour Place, will open its doors on Thursday, September 7 with Hyperphantasia, an exhibition of new work by the Scottish abstract and figurative painter Jamie Gallagher. Hyperphantasia – a condition...
Jean-Michel Gathy Designs Hotel Janu

Jean-Michel Gathy Designs Hotel Janu

Jean-Michel Gathy has been appointed by Aman as the first designer to lead its new sister brand, Janu. The opening of its first hotel Janu Tokyo is set for Autumn 2023. The much anticipated ‘Modern Urban Village’, Azabudai Hills, is an 8.1-hectare visionary lifestyle...
Maite Baron – Q&A

Maite Baron – Q&A

Maite Baron is a Spanish-British artist based in London. Having begun her career in high-end fashion, followed by interior design, printmaking, and then self-development, her mixed media art reflects her childlike curiosity. Referencing Minimalism, Geometric...
Keith Grafton – Q&A

Keith Grafton – Q&A

Keith Grafton’s work takes an exploratory view of how environments impact our lives to the extent to which we are no longer aware. Particular subject matters and themes that interest him are :- people, cities, beaches and commodities as in brands. He likes to...
Joshua Akinwumi

Joshua Akinwumi

Evocative Creations Joshua Akinwumi is a visionary contemporary artist whose evocative creations invite viewers into a world of introspection and cultural exploration. Born with a deep passion for art, Joshua honed his skills through years of dedicated practice and...
The Maldives vs. Mauritius

The Maldives vs. Mauritius

How to pick your next holiday destination Choosing the perfect holiday destination can be a daunting task. With so many beautiful places to explore, it can be hard to decide where to visit next. Two destinations that often captivate travellers’ attention are the...
Veena Purchon – Q&A

Veena Purchon – Q&A

Veena Purchon was born in Walsall, West Midlands during the 1980s and now lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. She spent time living in France which in part has inspired her artistic journey. She is an impressionist and abstract expressionist painter who explores the...
Ebenezer Agboola – Profile

Ebenezer Agboola – Profile

Modern art frequently uses photography as a means of aesthetic expression that combines the photographic camera’s technological capabilities. Ebenezer Agboola was born and bred in Nigeria, where he lived before moving to the Uk. Agboola uses the camera as both a tool...
Shelley Dyer Gibbins

Shelley Dyer Gibbins

Living in Somerset and trained initially as a graphic designer, Shelley worked in London, Bristol and Bath for over 20 years. She’s now an artist and printmaker, mainly specialising in linocut printmaking as well as an artist in schools throughout the southwest of...
Gatsby Athens

Gatsby Athens

Gatsby Athens is a boutique, contemporary hotel which opened in autumn 2021 in the heart of Athens. The beautifully designed property consists of 33 rooms and suites, as well as an all-day restaurant, two bars, a detox gym, party spaces and a roof garden with fabulous...
Namrata Bhatter

Namrata Bhatter

Namrata Bhatter is a visual artist from India with a MA in Visual Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK and a BA in Graphic Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. An enthusiastic plantsman, her...
Agnes Gomori – Q&A

Agnes Gomori – Q&A

Agnes Gomori is a British-Hungarian multimedia artist based in London, UK.  She’s a channel for the higher realms, and her deep connection with the divine source, nature, and her ancestors inspires her visionary, intuitive art. Gomori is a multidisciplinary...
James Caley – Q&A

James Caley – Q&A

James Caley is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the fields of experimental poetry, music and painting. To date he has three published collections of poetry; CityBeating and Other Poems, 4 Steps From The Wire ( residing in the National Poetry Library ) and...
Marlene Jorge – Q&A

Marlene Jorge – Q&A

Marlene Jorge was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic in 1974, she is a neurodivergent, autodidact, a pop surrealist artist who addresses unconsciousness in its true nature. Jorge offers a unique version of liberated unconsciousness. Her style is best known for its...
Mark Brereton

Mark Brereton

Mark Brereton was born and raised in the ceramic city of Stoke-on-Trent, UK, in the late seventies.  He is a photographic artist that creates photo-illustrative artworks, with an abstract style. Brereton has a strong passion for dramatic visuals often inspired by...
Susie Hamilton – Q&A

Susie Hamilton – Q&A

Susie Hamilton studied painting at St Martins School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art in London (now Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London) before reading English Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her paintings are held in public and private...
Sani Resort Sustainability, Greece

Sani Resort Sustainability, Greece

Sani Resort is the first certified carbon-neutral resort in Greece since 2020 and was awarded World’s Leading Luxury Green Resort by World Travel Awards in 2022 for the fourth year in a row. Set in a majestic 1,000-acre ecological reserve with Blue-flagged sandy...
Gosha Karpowicz – Q&A

Gosha Karpowicz – Q&A

Gosha Karpowicz grew up observing changes of light and colour in the forests, meadows, sky and the sea in the land of Poland. Her father was a professor of agriculture and her mother was an art and art history teacher. Karpowicz first came to painting as a biologist,...
Leuchie Walled Garden

Leuchie Walled Garden

THE DALRYMPLES’ EXCLUSIVE MID-CENTURY ANCESTRAL HOME, NEWLY RESTORED AND AVAILABLE FOR HOLIDAY LET Leuchie Walled Garden is a sleek mid-Century, post-Bauhaus glasshouse, where Sir Hew Dalrymple, the current 11th Baronet and his siblings spent an idyllic childhood,...
Shumaiya Khan – Q&A

Shumaiya Khan – Q&A

Shumaiya Khan is a painter, writer and creative. Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire to an immigrant south Asian family, before moving to London to pursue higher education where she resides to this day. Khan comes from a design-led background, earning her degree in...
Skye Cormier – Q&A

Skye Cormier – Q&A

Skye Cormier is a self-taught artist who explores communication and self-expression through primarily the abstract as well as the representational. Predominantly utilizing acrylics, spray paint, and photography, they try to capture traditionally tabooed and othered...
Shane Wimbledon – Q&A

Shane Wimbledon – Q&A

Shane Wimbledon is an illustrator and fine artist, his art is based on human functions especially those of the mind and mental health, his practice is both emotional and scientific, autobiographical as well as informative to those in similar situations. The materials...
Ziesook You -Q&A

Ziesook You -Q&A

Ziesook You has been experimenting with a variety of genres such as photography, video, installation, and painting. She portrays her surroundings and daily life in a bold, unaffected video language. Her pieces include the video diary of her family using time flowing...
Akshita Gandhi – A Love Letter

Akshita Gandhi – A Love Letter

Akshita Gandhi (India, 1988) is a Mumbai-based photographer and multimedia artist. Gandhi manipulates her images by painting over them, working digitally with repetition and distortion, and collaging to study obscurity/perceptibility and construction/deconstruction,...
CJ Hendry – Epilogue

CJ Hendry – Epilogue

Cj Hendry (b.1988) is a New York-based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Globally renowned for her large-scale, photo-realistic drawings of consumer goods and immense, interactive exhibitions, she has developed a dedicated following through her unique blend...
Megan Sharkey – Q&A

Megan Sharkey – Q&A

Megan Sharkey’s work explores human experience expressed through textile making. She uses hand-stitch, paint and fabric manipulation, creating textile artworks from an intimate scale to larger installation works. Starkey works on a range of found, gathered and...
Kimberly J Randall – Place and Past

Kimberly J Randall – Place and Past

American-born artist, Kimberly J Randall uses colour and texture to portray a captivating sense of depth, movement and atmosphere in her latest collection of paintings, Lost Landscapes. By doing so her work embodies an ephemeral ambience and mood that references...
Ann Coomber – Q&A

Ann Coomber – Q&A

Brought up in the relative flatlands of Essex, Ann Coomber is a sculptor, now living and working in the remote, mountainous Scottish Highlands, near to the Isle of Skye. Self-taught, she came to creating sculpture late in life, after a career in administration. Ann...
Grete Hjorth-Johansen – Q&A

Grete Hjorth-Johansen – Q&A

Grete Hjorth-Johansen is a London based Norwegian photographer, working on both commissioned and fine art projects. Hjorth-Johansen’s artistic background stretches from mural painting to graphic design and later DJing for the biggest names and venues in dance music....
Linda Chapman – Q&A

Linda Chapman – Q&A

The work Linda Chapman creates is about capturing natural light when it is at its most playful and colourful by way of reflection and refraction, It emphasises so much that could barely be seen before. Chapman is very interested in architecture and believes that art...
Santorini’s best festivals / cultural events

Santorini’s best festivals / cultural events

When you think of Santorini, you might think of gorgeous whitewashed houses, sparkling blue seas and romantic moments as the sun sets. Well-known as a honeymoon destination, Santorini is often overlooked by other travellers who aren’t paired up. But this idyllic...
Stefania Boiano – Interview

Stefania Boiano – Interview

Stefania Boiano is an Italian landscape and seascape artist living and working in London since 2004. Boiano’s work is inspired by her travels and is about the experience of a landscape or a seascape. Rather than presenting a topographical reality, Boiano abstracts the...
Ashley Alexandra – Q&A

Ashley Alexandra – Q&A

Ashley Alexandra is an emerging abstract mixed media artist in Alberta, Canada. Alexandra is from a family of a wide variety of professional artistic talents. Caught up in decades of education and the professional career grind, the pandemic and the inception of...
Alice Palmer – Q&A

Alice Palmer – Q&A

Alice Palmer is a textile artist based in South Derbyshire. Most recently, Palmer has combined her love of textiles with painting, creating art where the painted line continues beyond the canvas, with draped viscose ribbon yarn. These works are inspired by the art of...
Kevin Gavaghan – Q&A

Kevin Gavaghan – Q&A

Kevin Gavaghan is a self-taught artist originally from North London and now works from his studio in Hertford. His paintings are collected internationally and he is known for his brooding and evocative figurative paintings dancing around the fringes of surrealism and...
Jack Savage – Q&A

Jack Savage – Q&A

Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and digital artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) – He was educated at Nottingham University, where he carries an MA in American Studies and Film. Winner of over 100 international professional photography awards -he...
Marcus Jake – Q&A

Marcus Jake – Q&A

Marcus Jake is a full-time abstract and mixed-media artist born in the UK. He is currently making his home in Victoria, BC, Canada. Jake was educated in Bristol, UK, where he studied and received his BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art and Certificate in Higher Education in...