Spotlight • Contemporary Art Magazine | 44

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Featured Artists

SERGEY PISKUNOV

PAUL LEE ART

JEANNETTE M REIN

SUSANNE AUINGER

OLUSEGUN AWOJOBI

ELISABETH BARD

ROBERT BARIBEAU

DOMINIKA BIAŁAS / CISZA I FARBA

BRIGITTE BIERI

BILL RAINEY

SYLVIANNE BLUM

ANITA BRACALENTE

SANDRA STEWART BROOKS

BOGUSŁAWA BRYSKA

KAREN BURNS

ANA CABRERA

BIRUTE CELIK

DEBBIE CHAMLATI

NIRA CHOREV

GEORG DOUGLAS

MERRILYN DUZY

PHILIPPE DWYER

ANTHONY EMERTON

KEITH FRANCIS

COCO GABRIEL

MARK GIBIAN

DARCIE GOLDBERG

MICHAEL IAN GOULDING

GABRIELLE HASENSTAB

ANDREW HEMINGWAY

AIDAN HICKEY

JEF HORVERS

DITA JACOBOVITZ

SUMIN JOO

VALERIA KADRA

HEIKE KARCHER

SANDY KAY

BARBARA KENNEALLY

NATALY KENNY

LINDA KOOPMAN

HEATHER KOSTRZEWA

BOGDAN KRAVCHENKO

KYUNGHEE LEE

SYRA LARKIN

XIAOPENG LIU

RONGRONG LUO

ROB MACINTOSH

GREGORY MALPHURS

NIKOLAY MARINOV

BARBARA MIERAU-KLEIN

JOKE MINNAAR

WILLIAM T. MOORE III

DOROTHEA NEY

DOROTA NOWAK

OLIVIA-PATRICIA O’NEAL

IRENA OCEPEK

STEFANO PARADISO

TINA PARE

LORRAINE PICHUGIN

JEAN JACQUES PORRET

DAVID POYANT

HARRY RANKIN

STEPHEN J RAUCH

MIGUEL RIBEIRO

BLAIR ROBBINS

NATALIA ROSE

PAMELA SAVAGE

RITA SCHOONMAKER

N BLAKE SEALS

LETTA SED

MARITA SETAS FERRO

MARVIN LYLE SHAFER

MARGI SMITH

FLO SNOOK

LEN SWEC

SYMONA COLINA

LEO VAN HULLEBUSCH

GARY WAGNER

RYE WATTS

WAYWORLD

PATRICK WEBB

SANDY WELCH

MAX WERNER

YIN CHING WU

Preface to Issue 44

In this 44th issue of Spotlight • Contemporary Art Magazine, I wanted to bring together artists whose work reflects the richness and diversity of contemporary art today. Across painting, sculpture, photography, textile art, digital media, and mixed media practices, the featured artists each bring a distinct voice, perspective, and visual language. Some works are quiet and contemplative, others bold and emotionally charged, yet all reveal a strong commitment to creativity, expression, and personal vision.

What continues to inspire me as a curator is the many ways artists transform experience into something visual, emotional, and lasting. Contemporary art allows space for beauty, vulnerability, memory, imagination, and reflection to exist together. In a world increasingly shaped by speed and distraction, art invites us to slow down, observe more carefully, and reconnect with deeper forms of thought and feeling.

This publication is dedicated to creating meaningful encounters between artists and readers while encouraging a greater appreciation for living with original art. Whether you are an experienced collector or simply discovering contemporary art for the first time, I hope these pages inspire curiosity, connection, and lasting engagement with the remarkable artists featured in this issue.

Myrina Tunberg Georgiou

Circle Foundation for the Arts®

A Message to Collectors

Collecting art is not simply about ownership or decoration. It is about living alongside ideas, emotions, and visions that continue to inspire over time. A meaningful collection reflects curiosity, identity, and personal connection. Whether beginning with a single piece or expanding an established collection, acquiring art is an investment in culture, creativity, and the enduring presence of human imagination. The most important collections are rarely built all at once. They evolve gradually, guided by instinct, emotion, and discovery.

The contemporary art world is filled with extraordinary artists creating ambitious and deeply personal work. Some are already internationally established, while others are only beginning to emerge. What matters most is finding work that moves you, challenges you, or stays in your mind long after you encounter it. Start slowly, trust your eye, and allow yourself to engage with art beyond trends or expectation. The right artwork does not merely fill a wall; it changes the way a space feels and the way a life is experienced. Go ahead, begin or enrich your collection now....

The next artwork that truly stays with you may also become the one you never forget!

Fragility and Perfection: The Hyperreal Worlds of Sergey Piskunov

White Mask XII

Oil on Canvas 120 × 160 cm

Sergey Piskunov belongs to a rare group of contemporary painters capable of transforming hyperrealism into something emotionally and psychologically transcendent. Born in Lysychansk, Ukraine in 1989, he first studied computer science before dedicating himself entirely to painting, eventually developing a technically astonishing practice rooted in traditional oil painting methods. Now working internationally after years in Kyiv, Piskunov has emerged as one of the most compelling young realist painters of his generation, combining rigorous discipline with remarkable conceptual sensitivity.

The featured work, ‘White Mask XII,’ demonstrates precisely why Piskunov’s paintings resonate so strongly. Built slowly with tiny brushes and extraordinary patience, every surface is rendered with astonishing precision: the cracked porcelain-like skin, delicate flowers, thorned branches, and soft transitions of flesh and light. The young woman’s enigmatic gaze holds the viewer in a state between attraction and unease. She appears simultaneously vulnerable and untouchable, beautiful yet burdened, almost saint-like beneath a crown that evokes both a halo and a wound. Hyperrealism here becomes psychological theater, where beauty, fragility, sacrifice, and the pressure of idealized femininity quietly converge.

What makes Piskunov exceptional is his understanding that realism alone is never enough. Many artists can imitate photography, but few possess the compositional intelligence and symbolic restraint visible in this artist’s practice. The muted palette and controlled light allow every element to carry emotional weight, transforming thorns, dried blossoms, and fractured surfaces into reflections on memory, sacrifice, transformation, and the quiet violence hidden beneath perfection.

Despite his relative youth, Piskunov paints with the authority of a far more established master. His work recalls the discipline of classical European painting while remaining unmistakably contemporary in its psychological ambiguity and cinematic atmosphere. In an era saturated with disposable imagery, his paintings insist on slowness, precision, and sustained looking. That combination of technical mastery, conceptual depth, and unmistakable visual identity is exceptionally rare, marking Sergey Piskunov as an artist with genuine historical potential.

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Carved Into Light

THE ORGANIC SCULPTURES OF JEANNETTE

M. REIN

Australian sculptor Jeannette M. Rein transforms indigenous timber into elegant organic forms that balance material presence with spiritual resonance.

Refining wood to remarkable delicacy, she reveals shifting relationships between light, energy, and structure, creating sculptures that feel both grounded in nature and quietly transcendent. Her work demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to material, form, and inner rhythm.

Holding an MFA (Research) from Federation University, Rein has exhibited internationally across the United States, Germany, Taiwan, and Canada, with works held in major collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Artbank Sydney.

Her sculptural language recalls the poetic restraint of artists such as Barbara Hepworth while remaining distinctly her own: contemplative, technically masterful, and deeply connected to the enduring vitality of the natural world.

— JEANNETTE M. REIN

Timber becomes animated through movement and breath-like rhythm rather than static solidity.

My work is a conversation with nature—shaped by rhythm, movement and the quiet intelligence of the material.” · 11 · Spotlight

Jeannette M Rein

Más Allá de la Resiliencia (Beyond Resilience)

Mexican artist Debbie Chamlati approaches painting with the precision of an artisan and the emotional sensitivity of a storyteller. Trained in Mexico, Italy, and the United States, she creates near-photographic works where texture, gesture, and atmosphere remain vividly alive. Her paintings balance technical mastery with emotional immediacy, turning realism into something deeply personal and psychologically charged.

DEBBIE CHAMLATI

www.elblogdedebbie.com

American artist Keith Francis combines conceptual precision with exceptional material mastery in works confronting environmental, political, and social realities. Known internationally for large-scale installations and sculptural interventions, he transforms industrial materials into shifting perceptual experiences. In ‘ #401,’ polished stainless steel fractures reflection and space itself, giving a dynamic visual dialogue shaped by movement and light.

KEITH FRANCIS

Adjacent Dimensions I Knitted Beads and Czech Seed Beads 13.5 × 24.5 in.

Anita Bracalente’s intricate beaded constructions reflect a multidisciplinary career spanning painting, stained glass, photography, fiber art, and research. The American artist transforms pattern into a language of transformation and instability, creating works that balance structure with organic movement. Her surfaces invite close attention through their remarkable density, precision, and tactile complexity.

ANITA BRACALENTE

Thousands of individually placed beads accumulate into shifting formations that evoke cellular structures, topographies, and organic systems. Anita’s slow, laborintensive process becomes inseparable from the meaning of the work itself, reflecting cycles of behavior, growth, and disruption found throughout both nature and human experience.

Mandevilla Sundaville Canvas or Giclée Print A3

Harry Rankin’s digital collages celebrate the visual and symbolic relationship between people and the natural world. Working from his own photography, the British artist combines drawn outlines, layered textures, and photographic elements to create portraits where flowers and plants become the emotional and visual focal point, overtaking the human figure with remarkable elegance and vitality.

HARRY RANKIN

www.plantportrait.art

Rather than treating nature as background, Harry places it at the center of identity itself. Human forms often appear as quiet silhouettes while richly detailed botanical elements bring color, movement, and atmosphere to the composition. His textured surfaces and carefully balanced layering give the works a contemporary softness that feels both visually immersive and conceptually thoughtful.

Awakening

Originally from Peru and now based in New York, Ana Cabrera brings together fine art, psychology, and contemporary tattoo culture in a practice shaped by identity, migration, and emotional memory. Her psychologically charged imagery combines symbolic figures, dreamlike fragments, and layered narratives, transforming personal experience into visually compelling compositions that feel both intimate and universally resonant.

ANA CABRERA

www.anacabreraartist.comabout

“My personal artistic practice is also deeply therapeutic. I use art as a way to process my own experiences, creating pieces rich in symbolism, dreams, and imagery from my subconscious. This process has supported me through some of the most difficult moments in my life, becoming a space for release, understanding, and transformation. This lived experience continues to inform and ground the way I hold space for others.”

After twenty-five years in the cosmetic industry, Sandy Welch channels the language of beauty, fashion, and glamour into vibrant contemporary paintings filled with color and personality. Her work celebrates joy, elegance, and femininity through adventurous palettes and energetic compositions that remain playful yet sophisticated. Whether inspired by lipstick tones or Manhattan interiors, the paintings radiate optimism and delight.

SANDY WELCH

https://sandywelch.com

Originally from South Africa and living in the United States, Rob MacIntosh captures the quiet poetry of landscape and daily life through painting. His work is shaped by memory, migration, and changing environments, translating light and texture into images that feel warm, grounded, and emotionally accessible. Ordinary moments become spaces of reflection and connection.

ROB MACINTOSH

For Olivia-Patricia O’Neal, painting begins with encounter rather than conclusion. Raised in Tennessee and now based in San Francisco, she studied at multiple institutions before earning her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, where figurative traditions deeply informed her practice. Her work remains open and interpretive, allowing emotion and meaning to emerge gradually through the viewer’s relationship with the image.

OLIVIA-PATRICIA O’NEAL

www.pterrelloneal.com

Born in northern China, Liu Xiaopeng received early artistic guidance from his father and graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. He has long devoted himself to realistic painting, focusing on portraits and wildlife art. Following the artistic philosophy of “Western techniques as the foundation, Eastern charm as the essence”, he combines Western realistic painting skills with Eastern aesthetic connotations. His portraits are vivid and expressive, and his wildlife works are exquisite and lifelike. Through pure visual expression, he conveys emotions and warmth, presenting the true beauty of life.

XIAOPENG LIU

Garden Gossip 11 × 14 in.

Curiosity, experimentation, and emotional openness drive the multidisciplinary practice of American painter Sandra Stewart Brooks. Moving between abstraction and representation, she creates works rich in color, texture, and atmosphere, each carrying its own distinct personality. Influenced by photography, memory, and continual study, her paintings feel exploratory yet deeply personal. Brooks’ work reflects a genuine passion for learning, expression, and emotional connection.

SANDRA STEWART BROOKS

https://sandrastewartbrooks.com

Color comes first in the paintings of Dorota Nowak. Born in Poland and now based in Belgium, the artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw before developing an intuitive abstract practice rooted in accumulation, rhythm, and transformation. Her paintings unfold through repeated gestures and layered textures, balancing chaos and control with striking energy. Beneath their intensity lies a direct and uncomplicated beauty that gives the work its lasting presence.

DOROTA NOWAK

Influenced by a graphic design background, Austrian artist Susanne Auinger creates minimalist works defined by precision, clarity, and restraint. Architectural forms are reduced to essential lines, shadows, and carefully balanced color accents, producing compositions that feel both contemporary and timeless. The interplay between technical rigor and atmospheric subtlety gives the work a refined elegance, revealing Auinger’s thoughtful understanding of structure, perception, and spatial harmony.

SUSANNE AUINGER

www.susanneauinger.com

The Plight of the Green World Glazed Earthenware 58 × 23 × 43 cm

Environmental awareness and artistic experimentation intersect powerfully in the work of Nigerian artist Olusegun Awojobi. Moving fluidly between ceramics, sculpture, and painting, he addresses the fragility of natural ecosystems while celebrating the beauty of flora and fauna. His multidisciplinary approach results in vibrant, energetic works that carry both visual impact and social purpose. Awojobi’s practice reflects a genuine commitment to sustainability, coexistence, and creative innovation

OLUSEGUN AWOJOBI

www.olusegunawojobistudio.com

American photographer Elisabeth Bard creates atmospheric images that move beyond straightforward documentation into something more emotional and perceptual. Working with impressionistic softness and subtle abstraction, she captures landscapes and natural environments in ways that feel evocative, fleeting, and deeply personal rather than strictly descriptive.

ELISABETH BARD

https://elisabethbard.myportfolio.com

· Elisabeth Bard

These works, developed through an ongoing project at Bombay Hook Nature Preserve in Delaware, transform the landscape into a space of memory, sensation, and quiet reflection. Diffused light, muted contours, and ethereal textures give Elisabeth’s photographs a painterly quality, reminding us that photography can communicate not only what we see, but also what we feel.

Swiss abstract artist Brigitte Bieri approaches painting with energy, intuition, and a strong sensitivity to material. Through layered textures, dynamic color relationships, and shifting forms, she creates compositions that move between structure and spontaneity. Her paintings feel both expressive and balanced, inviting viewers into spaces where movement, reflection, and emotional intensity coexist naturally. www.bb-art.ch

BRIGITTE BIERI

Cisza i Farba

Between Form and Disintegration

Technical Pens on Paper 25 × 35 cm

Polish artist Dominika Białas, working under the name Cisza i Farba, creates psychologically charged portraits shaped by silence, memory, and emotional restraint. Using precise line, contrast, and subtle expression, she explores the fragile space between presence and disappearance. Her compositions unfold quietly, allowing traces of vulnerability and absence to surface with remarkable sensitivity and depth.

DOMINIKA BIAŁAS

American abstract painter Robert Baribeau creates dynamic, richly textured works rooted in the energy and movement of the natural world. Through expressive gestures and layered surfaces, he transforms landscape influences into visceral fields of color and motion. His long engagement with abstraction reveals a deep understanding of process and materiality, resulting in paintings that balance spontaneity with structural sophistication and emotional intensity.

ROBERT BARIBEAU

https://roberttbaribeau.com

New Zealand painter Bill Rainey distills the alpine landscapes of Aotearoa into calm, atmospheric compositions shaped by geometry, scale, and silence. Influenced by years spent travelling through remote mountain regions, his restrained palette and disciplined mark-making give the work a meditative clarity, while occasional human figures quietly reinforce our fragile relationship to landscape.

BILL RAINEY

The Secrets Keeper Sticker and Pastel Pencil 100 × 70 cm Sylvianne Blum ·

In Sylvianne Blum’s pastel portraits, the human face becomes a place of memory, resilience, and quiet revelation. The Franco-Mexican artist is drawn to subtle details such as wrinkles, scars, and fleeting expressions, using them to reveal a deeper form of beauty rooted in lived experience. Her work carries remarkable intimacy and sensitivity, encouraging viewers to look beyond appearance toward something profoundly personal and enduring.

SYLVIANNE BLUM

Instagram@sylvianneblum_art

American painter Karen Burns transforms worn objects and vintage artifacts into quietly compelling studies of time and memory. Rooted in representational painting yet guided by contemporary composition, her work brings renewed attention to overlooked details and surfaces shaped by use. What emerges is less nostalgia than a sensitive reflection on history, atmosphere, and presence.

KAREN BURNS

Polish artist Bogusława Bryska creates atmospheric landscapes shaped by memory, resilience, and emotional experience. Using palette knives, layered paint, and luminous color, she builds textured surfaces that shift between strength and softness. Light and shadow move fluidly through her compositions, giving the work a sense of perseverance, renewal, and emotional depth.

Calmer NowOil painting 61 x 81 cm Giclée Print on Canvas www.boguslawa-brysky.co.uk

BOGUSŁAWA BRYSKA

When Light Rests Oil painting 61 x 81 cm Giclée Print on

“My landscapes are emotive expressions captured through the fluidity of my mood and the nuances of my personal experiences. Each piece is a testament to the momentary interplay of light and shadow, expressed through a dynamic range of techniques to evoke memories encoded by color and light.”

Birutė Celik’s transition from global aviation executive to contemporary abstract artist brings unusual depth and urgency to her practice. Working from her studio in Kaunas, Lithuania, she creates textured compositions driven by emotional intensity, release, and self-reclamation. Her paintings feel raw yet controlled, transforming pressure and exhaustion into expressive visual energy. The work resonates through its honesty, ambition, and unmistakable sense of personal reinvention.

BIRUTE CELIK

https://artistrybicel.com

Philippe Dwyer explores structure, texture, and materiality through an interdisciplinary practice shaped by close observation of the natural world. Working across macro and microscopic perspectives, he investigates unseen systems through layering, deconstruction, and unexpected material juxtapositions. His work reveals a refined balance between conceptual inquiry and tactile experimentation, transforming process itself into a form of discovery.

Raised between the United States and Israel, Nira Chorev creates luminous landscapes where observation, memory, and abstraction quietly converge. Beginning from her own photographs, the American-Israeli artist transforms spatial rhythms and shifting forms into fluid painterly compositions. Her internationally exhibited work balances clarity with openness, inviting contemplation through atmosphere, structure, and subtle movement.

NIRA CHOREV

https://nirachorev.wordpress.com

“As an artist, I feel a continuous urge to bring to life what I see, feel, and experience. The process I use to create my artworks usually begins from a photograph I took, which becomes the central motif, but is ultimately integrated into the overall painting.”

Southern California artist Merrilyn Duzy creates vivid paintings shaped by travel, memory, and the emotional force of nature. Working across landscape, portraiture, and cosmic imagery, she uses intense color and atmosphere to capture both beauty and instability. In works such as ‘Wildfire,’ animals gather beneath burning skies, turning climate anxiety into something deeply visual and emotionally immediate.

MERRILYN DUZY

www.merrilynduzy.com

Flowers are the central theme in the paintings of Georg Douglas. Born in Northern Ireland and based in Iceland, the artist combines strong color, shifting scale, and references to microscopic forms such as pollen grains and protein chains to create richly layered compositions. His paintings feel vibrant, energetic, and slightly disorienting, reflecting the complexity, beauty, and hidden structures found throughout the natural world.

Anthony Emerton’s abstractions are intended to be felt before they are interpreted. Working within the legacy of Modernist abstraction while pushing its language in new directions, the artist creates compositions designed to provoke direct visceral response rather than intellectual explanation. His paintings carry a bold immediacy and rhythmic force, allowing color, movement, and form to operate instinctively on the viewer.

ANTHONY EMERTON

Algebra Basica Mixed Media 1.75 × 1.35 m

Coco Gabriel is an Argentine visual artist based in Barcelona whose work develops within the field of material abstraction and the exploration of language as a boundary. Although his work is predominantly abstract, it carries a strong symbolic charge. His methodology is intuitive and ritualistic. There are no sketches or predetermined structures; he works from memory, emotion, and error. This is how forms emerge. A territory where form is not described, it simply appears.

COCO GABRIEL

www.cocogabriel.com

American sculptor Mark Gibian is known for lyrical forms that balance movement, structure, and organic rhythm through steel and mixed materials. Even his works on paper reflect this sculptural sensibility. In ‘Palmate,’ interwoven watercolor lines expand and overlap like living systems, revealing the same fluidity, balance, and spatial intelligence found throughout his larger sculptural practice.

MARK GIBIAN

Photograph Prints

For Darcie Goldberg, black and white photography becomes an act of patience, observation, and emotional clarity. Travelling extensively across the world, the American photographer waits carefully for shifts in light and atmosphere that reveal something deeper than documentation alone. Her devotion to available light and tonal contrast gives the images a contemplative quietness and striking visual depth.

DARCIE GOLDBERG

www.darciegoldberg.com

A favorite artist of the Circle Foundation for the Arts, Michael Ian Goulding has developed a photographic practice distinguished by atmosphere, emotional subtlety, and remarkable consistency. Across this seven-page presentation, his signature nude photographs reveal a refined balance between intimacy, mystery, and formal elegance. Soft light, restrained composition, and a dreamlike sense of stillness give the images a timeless and quietly seductive presence.

Photograph 11 × 14 in.

Goulding approaches photography with patience, precision, and deep sensitivity to mood, creating works that feel both contemplative and emotionally immersive. His photographs resist spectacle in favor of nuance, inviting viewers into poetic spaces shaped by shadow, gesture, and emotional resonance. The strength and consistency of his practice position him as a photographer of serious artistic depth and lasting collector appeal.

MICHAEL IAN GOULDING

www.gouldingphotography.com

The Spirit of Vigilance Oil on Birch Panel 24 × 48 in.

American artist and Circle Foundation member Gabrielle Hasenstab creates richly atmospheric murals, paintings, and relief sculptures that blur the boundary between storytelling and emotional experience. Drawing from mythology, nature, and classical imagination, her work feels immersive and deeply felt, inviting viewers into spaces charged with wonder, symbolism, and emotional intensity. Hasenstab brings a rare timelessness to contemporary art.

GABRIELLE HASENSTAB

https://ghasenstudio.com

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Dutch artist Jef Horvers creates sculptures inspired by the delicate elegance and structural intelligence of arthropods. Balancing fragility, tension, and movement with remarkable precision, his works feel simultaneously organic and engineered. Through refined forms and rhythmic balance, Horvers transforms natural systems into poetic explorations of metamorphosis, stability, and transformation.

JEF

Magritte Buys the Apple... Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 41 × 33 cm

Irish artist Aidan Hickey brings together painting, animation, literature, and storytelling through a practice shaped by decades of visual narrative experience. Influenced by surrealism and the legacy of René Magritte, his carefully constructed works balance technical precision with wit, symbolism, and conceptual depth, revealing an artist deeply attuned to imagination and psychological atmosphere.

AIDAN HICKEY

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Few contemporary artists maintain the sustained dedication and international presence found in Andrew Hemingway’s fifty-year career. With numerous solo exhibitions and participation in prestigious venues including TEFAF Maastricht, the RA Summer Exhibition, and major international fairs in New York and Basel, his work has earned recognition from collectors and institutions alike. Beyond the impressive résumé lies an artist whose long commitment to painting reflects discipline, consistency, and an enduring confidence in the power of visual expression.

ANDREW HEMINGWAY

https://andrewhemingway.co.uk

For Israeli painter Dita Jacobovitz, artmaking is rooted in uncertainty, intuition, and emotional honesty. Her work unfolds through instinct rather than control, allowing vulnerability and lived experience to guide the process. This openness gives her paintings their poetic intensity, transforming each work into a gradual act of discovery rather than predetermined resolution.

www.ditasart.com

Heike Karcher creates layered paintings where figures, symbols, and color interact in quiet tension. Exploring perception, humanity, and nature through a reduced visual language, her compositions invite slow, intuitive engagement. The work balances conceptual depth with emotional restraint, revealing complexity through subtlety rather than excess.

HEIKE KARCHER

www.atelier-karcher.de

A Circle Foundation member artist, Valeria Kadra creates powerful abstract works defined by calculated structure, rich texture, and confident brushwork. Working across oil, acrylic, and Chinese ink, she balances emotional sensitivity with formal control, building layered compositions that feel both intellectually grounded and instinctively alive. Her paintings reveal a mature and highly disciplined contemporary practice.

VALERIA KADRA

Instagram@valeriakadra

Visual development and background artist Sumin Joo creates immersive digital worlds where fantasy and everyday emotion quietly intersect. Through layered environments, cinematic color, and thoughtful composition, she builds scenes rich with atmosphere, narrative, and a strong sense of place. Her work combines imaginative worldbuilding with an exploration of the subtle moments that shape human experience through evocative visual storytelling and immersive environments.

Sandy Kay creates atmospheric paintings where inner and outer landscapes quietly merge.

Shaped by a career spanning design, theatre, teaching, and painting, the Canadian artist builds emotionally intuitive works rooted in rhythm, light, and transformation. Her lyrical compositions invite reflection, mindfulness, and a gentle sense of wonder. Beneath their softness lies a confident and deeply experienced painterly voice.

From Ireland, Barbara Kenneally works with glass as both material and memory. Inspired by the Beara Peninsula in West Cork and the 19th-century copper mines of Allihies, she uses transparency to suggest what lies above and below the surface. By casting with mining artifacts, Barbara gives local history a physical presence, turning landscape, childhood memory, and buried labor into luminous sculptural form.

Light, shadow, and color move with expressive warmth through the paintings of Nataly Kenny Rooted in London’s cultural vitality and shaped by her Armenian heritage, her work draws from Impressionism and abstraction to capture the shifting beauty of the world around her. Working primarily in oils while also exploring acrylics, gouache, and soft pastels, Kenny creates paintings that feel vibrant, atmospheric, and emotionally responsive to place.

NATALY KENNY

www.natalykennyfineart.com

Heather Kostrzewa gives plants the kind of attention usually reserved for portraiture. In watercolor, pen, and ink, she studies stems, leaves, light, and space with quiet precision, allowing each subject to feel specific and alive. Her botanical works are delicate without being fragile, honoring the small details through which nature reveals character.

www.heatherkostrzewa.com

Egmond, Vennewaterweg

Digital Photograph 30 × 40 cm

Linda Koopman is inspired by the cultivated landscapes of Holland, where centuries of human intervention have shaped the relationship between land, water, and agriculture. Her work reflects this layered cultural history through atmospheric compositions that evoke tulip fields, shifting skies, and the geometric rhythms of the Dutch countryside. Balancing observation with painterly freedom, Linda transforms familiar landscapes into vivid meditations on place, memory, and national identity.

LINDA KOOPMAN

Egmond, Meerweg

Digital Photograph 30 × 40 cm

“The cultural history of the Dutch landscape is largely shaped by humanity’s efforts to control excess water through the construction of dams, terps, polders, drainage canals, and additional dunes. Only a narrow strip of land behind the old dunes proved suitable for tulip cultivation, for which Holland has been renowned since the 16th century. These lands are still used today, although modern techniques have since been introduced.”

Growing Cumulus Clouds Acrylic on Canvas

In “Structure vs. Ether,” Bogdan Kravchenko transforms landscape into a contemplative study of atmosphere, perception, and spatial balance. Vertical forms anchor the composition while expansive skies dissolve outward into openness and light. His restrained visual language creates a sense of stillness that feels architectural yet deeply meditative, encouraging viewers to pause and reflect.

BOGDAN KRAVCHENKO

https://bokravchenko.com

There is something unmistakably graceful in the paintings of Syra Larkin. Working from Ireland’s west coast, she has developed a highly recognizable visual language where figuration drifts toward lyrical abstraction. Elongated forms, softened contours, and muted color harmonies create works that feel elegant, contemplative, and quietly feminine. Beneath their calm surface lie reflections on solitude, connection, memory, and emotional experience rendered with remarkable sensitivity.

SYRA LARKIN

Coincidental Inevitability25141-Void

South Korean artist Kyunghee Lee constructs layered visual worlds where beauty, anxiety, desire, and violence coexist in uneasy balance. Juxtaposing symbolic imagery such as Venus figures and fighter jets, she explores tensions between consciousness and the unconscious, tradition and contemporary instability. Her compositions feel simultaneously meditative and confrontational, combining intellectual complexity with striking visual intensity.

KYUNGHEE LEE

https://lkh.gallery25.co.kr

Coincidental Inevitability25131-Void Woodengraving, Muk Collage, Korean Paper 109 × 78.6 cm

Through a process of deconstruction and recombination, Kyunghee reinterprets traditional techniques within a contemporary psychological landscape. Ideas of causality and interdependence remain central to the work, allowing fragmented images and symbolic forms to interact in ways that feel emotionally charged, culturally layered, and deeply reflective of modern uncertainty.

King of the Forest No. 10 Ink on Paper and Photoshop 40 × 80 cm

Cross-cultural experience gives Rongrong Luo’s work a rare emotional breadth. Seeking to touch something at the soul level, she explores shared human experiences that transcend the boundaries of Eastern and Western cultures. Through experiments in graphic narration, her work becomes a bridge between personal memory and universal feeling. The result is thoughtful, sincere, and deeply concerned with the emotional language that connects people across difference.

RONGRONG LUO

www.luorongrong.com

Barbara Mierau-Klein transforms photography into richly layered digital art filled with color, and imaginative depth. This German-born artist based in Portland, Oregon, draws from decades of landscape and nature photography, reworking cityscapes and seascapes into vibrant compositions shaped by texture, mood, and creative layering. Her internationally exhibited and awarded images reveal how digital processes can expand the emotional life of photography. www.barbaramierauklein.com

BARBARA MIERAU-KLEIN

Gregory Malphurs creates emotionally charged figurative paintings that merge technical precision with psychological intensity. His compositions often move between realism and abstraction, using distortion, gesture, and layered surfaces to explore vulnerability, identity, and human presence. The work feels immediate and deeply personal, balancing painterly energy with careful structural control.

GREGORY MALPHURS

https://gregorymalphurs.shop

“I paint to disrupt certainty. I don’t give you answers—I deliberately obscure them. I build tension on purpose, giving you just enough to recognize something, but not enough to settle into certainty. I’m not interested in approval. I’m interested in your reaction.”

· 78 · Spotlight 44 · Nikolay Marinov

Nikolay Marinov’s paintings are driven by a joyful search for life, light, and natural beauty. Through expressive drawing and painterly transformation, he studies nature, people, and form, filtering them through a personal visual language full of energy and feeling. His work values positivity without becoming simplistic, offering images that celebrate vitality, movement, and the emotional power of color and light. https://nikolay-marinov.com

NIKOLAY MARINOV

Dorothea Ney’s abstract paintings map inner journeys through soft color, symbolic fragments, and delicate emotional traces. Working in acrylic and oil on canvas or wood, she builds pastel-toned compositions where blocks of color, written words, boats, flowers, moons, and small hearts become markers of memory and feeling. Her “Journey” series evokes fragility, peace, and beauty, creating a gentle visual language of reflection and harmony.

The Sun has Just Set Oil on Canvas 90 × 110 cm

Bold color, clean geometry, and carefully balanced space define the paintings of Dutch artist Joke Minnaar. Working with luminous yellows, saturated blues, soft pastels, and rhythmic linear forms, she creates abstract compositions that feel both playful and controlled. Her paintings reduce landscape, movement, and atmosphere into essential visual elements, giving color itself an almost architectural presence.

JOKE MINNAAR

https://jokeminnaar.nl

There is a striking clarity in Joke’s work. Geometric structures, floating lines, and open color fields interact with calm precision, yet the paintings never feel cold or rigid. Instead, they carry a sense of lightness and visual harmony, inviting the eye to move slowly across the surface and settle into rhythm, balance, and quiet joy.

American sculptor and Circle Foundation member artist, William T. Moore III creates hand-carved laminated wood sculptures that merge abstraction, craftsmanship, and spiritual reflection with remarkable elegance. Influenced by ancient stelae, flight, architecture, and modernist sculpture, his work recalls the lyrical balance of artists such as Constantin Brâncuși and Barbara Hepworth while maintaining a distinctly personal visual language rooted in rhythm and uplift.

WILLIAM T. MOORE III

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Trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University, with apprenticeships under prominent Cleveland artists, William has developed a sculptural practice marked by precision, warmth, and quiet monumentality. His forms feel simultaneously ancient and contemporary, grounded in woodworking tradition yet elevated through abstraction, movement, and contemplative beauty.

Be Water! Said the Fairy Soft Pastel on Paper 50 × 70 cm

Storytelling becomes ritual in the layered, poetic worlds of Irena Ocepek. Her work uses folklore, imagination, and narrative to confront silence and reveal the fragile architectures of belief. Moving between the observable and the inner realm, she creates liminal spaces where subconscious experience and symbolic imagery meet. The result is mysterious, emotionally resonant, and rich with quiet psychological depth.

IRENA OCEPEK

www.irenaocepek.com

Australian artist Lorraine Pichugin creates quietly luminous still lifes that transform ordinary objects into meditations on balance, light, and emotional calm. Working primarily in oil, she demonstrates exceptional control of atmosphere, shadow, and tonal harmony, allowing even the simplest arrangements to feel intimate and deeply contemplative. Her refined realism and sensitivity to light reveal an artist committed to stillness, beauty, and the emotional resonance of everyday life.

LORRAINE PICHUGIN

https://lorrainepichugin.com

Tina Pare paints without forcing a fixed destination. Color, texture, and balance guide the process intuitively, allowing each work to unfold through response and adjustment rather than rigid planning. This openness gives her paintings freshness and immediacy, while layered surfaces and shifting relationships between forms invite personal interpretation and emotional connection. https://tinapare.com

TINA PARE

Italian photographer Stefano Paradiso brings cinematic sensitivity and remarkable restraint to analog black-and-white photography. Through subtraction, darkroom experimentation, and hand-coated Washi paper, he creates tactile images filled with stillness and atmosphere. Rather than documenting reality directly, Paradiso evokes memory, time, and the hidden emotional life embedded within objects and spaces.

STEFANO PARADISO

https://stefanoparadiso.com

Where the Light Begins

David Poyant transforms embroidery into vivid contemporary storytelling, using thread to build emotional narratives rich in texture and memory. Inspired by nature, imagination, and his coastal New England roots, his work bridges traditional craft with a fresh artistic sensibility. Each stitch becomes both mark and gesture, creating scenes that invite reflection and close looking. Poyant’s practice honors the intimacy of handwork while expanding embroidery into a compelling visual language.

DAVID POYANT

https://poyantpaintings.com

International sculptor and Circle Foundation member artist Jean-Jacques Porret has developed a refined and unmistakable sculptural language shaped by decades of mastery in bronze. Balancing abstraction with organic movement, his works reveal exceptional sensitivity to rhythm, volume, and spatial harmony. Rooted in the traditions of modern European sculpture while remaining distinctly contemporary, Porret’s practice carries both elegance and technical authority.

JEAN JACQUES PORRET

https://jjporret.com

Porret’s flowing bronze forms possess a tactile intelligence that recalls the lyrical sculptural philosophies of artists such as Jean Arp and Henry Moore, yet his visual language remains entirely his own. Surfaces curve, stretch, and unfold with remarkable fluidity, transforming solid material into gestures that feel alive, sensual, and suspended in motion.

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Exhibited internationally and recognized for his command of lostwax bronze casting, Porret continues to affirm sculpture’s enduring ability to communicate through form alone. His works invite slow contemplation, rewarding viewers through balance, restraint, and the quiet power of beautifully resolved structure.

American photographer Stephen J. Rauch creates contemplative images shaped by memory, atmosphere, and human presence. His quiet visual language moves beyond documentation, using light, place, and subtle emotional tension to create moments of reflection and connection. Rauch’s work demonstrates a refined sensitivity to composition and mood, inviting viewers into deeply personal yet universally resonant experiences.

Beaten Up Woman Photograph 60 × 60 cm

Portuguese artist, physician, and author Miguel Ribeiro approaches photography with unusual psychological depth and ethical sensitivity. Drawing from decades of medical experience, his images confront vulnerability, trauma, and the fragile reality of the human body without sensationalism. Works such as “Beaten up Woman” carry the emotional gravity of lived testimony, revealing an artist committed to honesty, human dignity, and the power of visual witness.

MIGUEL RIBEIRO

https://miguelribeiro.net

For Natalia Rose, painting begins with hope, intention, and the willingness to let the work become something unexpected. Her process brings together materials, light, color, and idea until a composition finds its own form of communication. This openness gives her paintings a living quality, where intuition and control meet in delicate balance. Her work feels sincere, searching, and attentive to the moment when visual elements finally come together.

NATALIA ROSE

Pamela Savage’s black-and-white photography finds quiet emotional intensity in stillness, absence, and everyday observation. Drawn to cinematic light and subtle human atmosphere, she creates restrained yet evocative images where interiors, gestures, and fleeting moments carry understated narrative depth. Her photographs invite contemplation rather than explanation, allowing mood and memory to emerge slowly.

PAMELA SAVAGE

For Blair Robbins, art is inseparable from motion and transformation. Working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media, the Osage artist explores the ways landscapes, people, light, and emotion constantly shift and evolve. Her background in cinematography remains deeply present through the work’s visual rhythm and sensitivity to atmosphere, character, and fleeting moments. Whether shaping wire or building expressive layers of color, Robbins approaches art as a living process rooted in memory, movement, and connection.

BLAIR ROBBINS

www.blairrobbins.com

Rita Schoonmaker’s recent work breaks down linear and spatial forms through movement, color, and texture. Her compositions draw viewers into contemplative engagement, inviting them to search for new relationships between color fields and spatial rhythms. Rather than offering fixed structure, the work opens into shifting visual interplay. Schoonmaker’s practice feels thoughtful, exploratory, and grounded in the pleasure of seeing form transform.

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Aladdin 2026 Remix Mixed Media 36 × 36 in.

N Blake Seals builds contemporary digital and mixed media works from structure, repetition, contrast, and tension. His compositions feel controlled yet unstable, transforming familiar forms into self-contained visual systems. Rather than illustrating narrative, the work creates meaning through balance, disruption, and spatial relationships. The result is sharp, disciplined, and visually intelligent, offering abstraction as a language of systems under pressure.

N BLAKE SEALS

www.blakemakesart.com

Polish photographer Letta Sed approaches fine art photography with both scientific curiosity and emotional intuition. Trained in chemistry before studying photography and graphic design in Warsaw, she transforms fragments of nature and industrial environments into abstract visual experiences. Her introspective images feel experimental yet poetic, revealing atmosphere through texture, ambiguity, and observation.

Portuguese artist Marita Setas Ferro brings together textiles, sculpture, fashion, and artisanal craft in a practice rooted in tactility, intimacy, and sensory experience. Working with thread and soft materials, she creates sculptural forms that invite physical and emotional connection. Internationally exhibited from Seoul to Venice, London, Dubai, and New York, Marita has developed a distinctive contemporary language where material, body, and memory quietly intertwine.

MARITA SETAS FERRO

www.setasferro.com

After two decades as a goldsmith, Chicago-based sculptor Marvin Lyle Shafer developed a distinctive artistic language through anodized aluminum mobiles alive with movement, color, and organic rhythm. For nearly four decades, his suspended forms have balanced precision with playfulness, earning international recognition including consecutive Best of Show awards and the 2026 International Renoir Prize.

MARVIN LYLE SHAFER

American abstract painter Margi Smith creates layered, emotionally charged compositions where gesture, color, and texture operate as forms of inner dialogue. Her paintings balance spontaneity with sensitivity, allowing marks and translucent layers to emerge through intuition and physical expression. With a refined sense of color and atmospheric space, Smith transforms abstraction into a deeply personal visual language that feels both energetic and contemplative. www.margismithartworks.com

MARGI SMITH

British coastal painter Flo Snook transforms coastal observations into luminous acrylic paintings shaped by sensitivity, resilience, and lived experience. Following brain surgery, drawing by the sea became both refuge and recovery, deeply informing the emotional atmosphere of her work. Her paintings balance fragility with quiet strength, capturing the restorative beauty, light, and calm of the British coastline with remarkable sincerity.

FLO SNOOK

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LEN SWEC

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Italian visual artist Symona Colina creates poetic works shaped by perspective, silence, and emotional resonance. Her accompanying text for “The Wall” transforms the image into something philosophical and atmospheric, where division becomes both physical structure and existential metaphor. Through sparse language and symbolic imagery, Colina’s work inhabits a space between visual art and poetic meditation, inviting contemplation rather than explanation. www.symonacolina.info

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For Gary Wagner, the landscape is both studio and returning companion. Working primarily in black and white, he revisits coastlines and natural environments repeatedly, allowing shifting seasons and light to reveal something new each time. By reducing scenes to their essential tones and structures, Wagner creates photographs that feel meditative, atmospheric, and deeply personal. His work transforms familiar landscapes into spaces of reflection and emotional connection.

Belgian artist Leo Van Hullebusch has devoted decades to drawing and painting from life while cultivating a deep fascination with surrealism and imaginative transformation. Trained in both painting and restoration techniques, he works across charcoal, Chinese ink, pastel, watercolor, oil, and acrylic with exceptional technical fluency, reflecting a lifelong dedication to traditional craftsmanship and visual discipline.

LEO VAN HULLEBUSCH

Leo’s paintings balance academic precision with poetic imagination, creating richly layered worlds where realism quietly dissolves into dream and symbolism. Beyond his own studio practice, Van Hullebusch has remained deeply committed to artistic education and mentorship, further reinforcing his respected position within the Belgian art community. His distinctive visual language, mastery of draftsmanship, and enduring commitment to figurative art make his work especially compelling for serious contemporary collectors.

Pacific Northwest artist Rye Watts creates surreal oil paintings that blur the boundaries between the human figure, nature, and psychological space. Drawing from personal memory, environmental anxiety, and questions of identity, she constructs haunting visual worlds where branches grow through skin, moth wings become garments, and faces dissolve into organic transformation. The paintings feel intimate yet uncanny, suspended somewhere between dream and myth.

RYE WATTS

https://ryewatts.com

What makes Watts’ work especially compelling is the balance between technical refinement and symbolic openness. Her handling of light, fabric, skin, and texture gives the paintings an almost cinematic clarity, while the imagery resists fixed interpretation. Rather than illustrating a narrative directly, Watts creates emotionally charged spaces where vulnerability, metamorphosis, beauty, and unease quietly coexist.

Patrick Webb’s “Falling Figure” paintings confront tragedy, intolerance, and public indifference through the story of Armenian lovers Tigran and Arsen. Referencing a contemporary Romeo and Juliet narrative, the series transforms personal loss into a broader reflection on homophobia and collective apathy. Webb approaches difficult subject matter with emotional gravity and visual restraint, creating works that remain deeply human while carrying urgent social resonance.

PATRICK WEBB

http://patrick-webb.com

Art becomes a means of self-understanding and human connection in the work of Wayworld

Drawing from experiences as a psychiatrist, powerlifter, and daughter of Korean immigrants, the artist combines psychology, philosophy, childhood memory, and contemporary storytelling into expressive visual worlds. Working across both digital and traditional media, the practice feels emotionally intelligent, personal, and remarkably multidimensional.

Max Werner’s canvases are marked by expansive landscapes and a heightened sense of scale. Often set beneath vast, dominant skies, his compositions place small human or animal figures within open terrain, emphasizing distance, quiet tension, and atmosphere. Light becomes a structuring force, guiding narrative subtly through space, where solitude, movement, and visual pause carry the weight of the scene.

MAX WERNER

www.maxwernerart.com

“In my work, I use quite a wide range of ideas. The common thread between them is that the images I paint always tell a story. Often triggered by simple observations of my immediate surroundings, I enjoy the challenge of creating unusual compositions and capturing the diversity of light in the various places I travel to. For obvious reasons, living in the vast expanses of Wyoming, landscapes form an important part of my work.”

Hong Kong artist Yin Ching Wu brings together painting, poetry, and literary sensibility in works inspired by Chinese verse, moonlight, and falling flower petals. A former university lecturer in creative writing, she creates watercolor and acrylic paintings infused with quiet lyricism and reflective atmosphere. Her compositions feel delicate yet emotionally expansive, allowing color, gesture, and empty space to breathe together with remarkable elegance.

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Wu’s paintings unfold with great restraint, but never emptiness. Whether through drifting washes of color or darker, more meditative abstractions, she captures fleeting emotional states suspended between memory and dream. The work invites slow contemplation, revealing an artist deeply attuned to rhythm, silence, and the poetic possibilities of image-making.

Paul Lee Geometry,

Grace, and the Light

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Paul Lee’s paintings occupy a compelling space where contemporary visual language and Christian theology quietly converge. A Korean American artist and pastor, Lee returned to painting after years of spiritual formation, developing his ongoing “Light of Life” series as a meditation on grace, healing, faith, and divine presence. Rather than illustrating belief directly, he constructs luminous symbolic worlds where realism and abstraction coexist with remarkable balance and sincerity.

The featured paintings reveal the sophistication of Lee’s visual language. Lambs, hummingbirds, butterflies, flowers, fruit, nails, and droplets appear suspended within sharply constructed geometric spaces saturated in electric pinks, oranges, violets, and blues. At first encounter, the compositions feel radiant and visually seductive, almost pop-like in their clarity and color. Yet beneath this immaculate surface lies something quieter and more contemplative. The lamb, traditionally associated with innocence, sacrifice, and spiritual redemption, becomes central to a larger meditation on vulnerability, protection, and grace. Transparent architectural structures suggest both containment and transcendence, while light itself functions almost as a spiritual force moving through the image.

What makes Lee’s work especially distinctive is its ability to communicate faith without heaviness or didacticism. The paintings remain open, visually generous, and emotionally accessible even while carrying deep theological resonance. Precision coexists with tenderness. Hyperreal surfaces dissolve into metaphysical space. Every object feels symbolically charged, yet nothing is overstated. The work rewards sustained looking, gradually revealing connections between beauty, suffering, transformation, and hope.

There is also a rare sense of sincerity in Lee’s practice that gives the paintings their lasting emotional force. In a contemporary art landscape often driven by irony or detachment, his work embraces restoration, peace, and spiritual reflection without apology. The result is a body of paintings that feels visually striking yet deeply grounded in human longing and faith. Paul Lee has developed a genuinely unique vision, one capable of translating spiritual experience into contemporary visual form with remarkable clarity, elegance, and conviction.