the flux review

Ishika Guha is a self-taught abstract artist with a strong focus on abstract expressionism. She lives in London, originally from Bangladesh. Guha is diverse in her choice of mediums. She allows her colour palettes to run free! Guha finds inspiration from real-life...

Ranjit Singh Sagoo, from Birmingham England, is a self-taught artist and photographer. Although he has always had an innate talent for drawing and an eye for composition, life chose a different career path for him. Now a GP Principal serving his local community, his...

Born in Chelsea in 1948, John Percy spent much of his childhood in Kent and began painting at 14. He was influenced by his father, a Northumberland coalminer who had become an animator during the Second World War, then a technical illustrator in the Admiralty. Though...

In January 2017 Lisa-Marie Price decided she had to make a change to help our planet so she went vegan. Her passion for this change has opened her eyes to a planet she didn’t know before; hidden away, a secret to be unearthed. Price wasn't prepared for how it would...

Ryan Dodd's photographs aim to explore the tension between open and closed spaces. The narratives that interest him concern the lives of outsiders and the spaces they occupy.  Dodd's background as a visual artist has formed his practice today. When he is drawing, Dodd...

Often in ceramics; cracks, pin-holed glazing, mixing of clay and patchy slips are seen as defects, but David William Sampson has created a body of work that enhances and celebrates these, each is still beautiful and valid in its own right. They have been made...

Aphra Shemza is a UK-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an...

‘Covid 19 hit the country before I could even graduate from university. Once home and with the job market looking bleak, I was still keen to keep my creative side going. I took to the garden shed to create new designs in different mediums. Throughout the summer of 2020, I used Alcohol inks to produce a range of designs, using various techniques and continued this into the festive season, adding silver and gold to bring some sparkle. Being an abstract designer, I love the bright colours and textures alcohol inks create. I took my design forward by producing cards and coasters to sell in my local area. Continuing to be creative during lockdown has helped my mental health and kept my passion for textiles alive. Going into 2021 is much the same as the year before. I wanted to focus and take this time to add new designs to my portfolio and getting my work recognised’. Francesca Gillett

Sharon Alviz was born in Barranquilla Colombia. She grew up near the ocean, so she can easily connect with spaces that represent expansion, geometric atmosphere, and nature. She studied advertising, yet photography became her true passion. Upon completing her career,...

Toby Messer is an artist living in Barnes, South West London. He draws on many influences when painting, including the unspoilt landscape and dark and untouched areas – real and imaginary – of Richmond Park.  On his artist journey, landscape hasn't always meant pure...

London based Simona Ruscheva graduated from Fine Art Painting in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She held her first solo show in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2018 and has also participated in various group shows across London, including Royal Institute of British Artists Annual...

Born and raised in the boroughs of East London, Matt Dwyer a self-taught mixed media artist has been taking paint to paper as far back as he can remember. His talent was recognised early at the tender age of 11. In later life going into his late teens he was in...

The main subject for Yaroslava Liseeva’s works is the Nature with its forces and energy. We live in the world where everything is inconstant and changing, moving and interconnecting. The life is very complicated and simple at the same time. There is always chaos and order.

Gary Nicolls is a technical artist with a camera rather than a photographer.  He sees the image in his mind then sets about taking all the images to create what he has visualised.  This takes Nicolls all over the world to get elements for each composition.  Deliberately, Nicolls art tells a story, whether it is a 6 image series or a 450 page trilogy. He is inspired by the way Caravaggio and Vermeer were able to focus the viewer on the subject of their art by the use of light.  This realisation completely changed the way he worked.  Dali made Nicholls realise that if you can imagine it, you can create it, you just need to learn how.

British artist Claire Milner was famously commissioned to create the Blue Marilyn portrait for Rihanna, but her personal body of work is made up of paintings inspired by her time spent in Africa and focusing on social and environmental issues. Mother and Child, alongside five additional works were acquired by CamFed, an organization helping fight poverty in Africa by educating and empowering girls. Milner’s artworks are held in a number of private collections, including Rihanna’s Blue Marilyn. The portrait has appeared on The Official Website of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe, and has been showcased by Swarovski. It was included in a special edition of Vogue Paris which was guest edited by Rihanna who featured the work in a profile of her favourite things. Milner’s portrait of Amy Winehouse appeared in an exhibition curated by the Amy Winehouse Foundation to mark what would have been the late singer’s 30th birthday.

As a British-born artist living in Gloucestershire Adele Riley is surrounded by some of the most natural and inspiring surroundings in the UK, well-placed to benefit from a huge variety of light, texture, and drama – perfect for inspiration.

Born in Sri Lanka into an artistic family, Kos Cos began drawing and painting at an early age. In the golden age of hand-drawn signage, his playground was his father’s agency workshop, where Cos studied and practised brush skills after school. In 1999, Cos moved to Hong Kong to work in the advertising and film industry.

Cam Linh Huynh is a French self-taught analogue photographer, who brings her lomo cameras everywhere. From the countries that she explores to Paris and its surroundings. Huynh likes to share her travel experiences through dreamy photographs: single shot or multi-exposure. No photoshop – just a blend of instinct and love. Huynh focuses on feminism as well as intersectionality issues. With her specific technique, she aims to shed another light on subjects and enhance the voices of minorities.