Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...

Mendy Sylvain has always loved to draw. “I found it difficult to express my feelings otherwise, so for years I learned to draw as an autodidact at the same time as I was doing several studies,” he explains. After several years of drawing, visiting exhibitions and...

Matthew Smith remembers drawing dinosaurs, his favorite cartoons, and video game characters when he was young, being labeled as an “artist” growing up. “I was always creating,” he recalls. “When other kids had a hard time drawing something, I would be one of the other...

“Encouraged to pursue art by a supportive family and teachers who recognised my natural talent, I would often be found, pencil in hand spending hours drawing comic book characters or natural scenery,” says artist Harry Frost. He has been passionate about creating art...

Mirta Arbini, like many artists, discovered her interest in art as a child. She says she was one of those kids always drawing and painting imaginary friends and magical places. “Growing up, I kept painting, but I never had a formal education in art. I’m a historian.”...

From the beginning, Eva Hild had a curiosity of and interest in creative expression. Although she knew from the start that she was an artist, she says it did not happen immediately. “From my early years, I have been fascinated by body, shape, color, material,...

Stefanie Rocknak cannot remember a time when she was not interested in art. Her father was a high school art teacher until she was 6 years old, and began teaching her art at a young age. She can distinctly recall her father sculpting a head out of clay when she was 5...

Her materials of choice include newspaper, paper glue, tape, small modeling tools, and metal pieces for the base. Although she uses simple sculpting materials, each of Celine’s sculptures require at least one month to complete.

“I wanted to know what would putting in five years of study and work get me.”

But in the last years in this world, stress and pressure had gained the upper hand over artistic ambition; a personal fate then gave me the final push into a creative hole that at first seemed to be final.”