“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.”

Lentonia Monique is an artist who pulls from her study of drafting to create geometrical and symmetrical paintings. “I recalled how much I loved my days in drafting classes. Once I began using them solely for my A Fly Line creations at a much larger scale and felt...

Torsten’s portfolio is full of portrait painting. Using the German express to describe his initial feelings of portraiture, he says portrait painting “was always the king discipline” and too difficult for him to master.

Lara’s surrealist style of art came very naturally. She uses photography to escape reality rather than document it. “It started by defying gravity, photographing misplaced objects, changing the function of objects, or playing with proportions. All these techniques led to this surreal aspect.”