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Kimberley Kermode

Kimberley Kermode creates fragmented figurative paintings that explore cultural mosaic, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by migration and memory. Through vibrant palettes and layered compositions, Kermode examines how personal histories and cultural backgrounds continue to influence the way we understand belonging.

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Jody Hewgill

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

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Gordon Leverton

Self-taught artist Gordon Leverton transforms architecture, city streets, and everyday environments into bold contemporary paintings defined by striking geometry, vibrant colour, and atmospheric shadows. Through his travels and international residencies, Leverton continues exploring how place, memory, and visual storytelling connect us to the world around us.

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Johanne Bossmann

Johanne Bossmann paints without brushes. Working exclusively with her hands, she spreads highly diluted acrylics across raw canvas until the pigment merges with the textile fibers in a process that is, as she puts it, irreversible and honest. The result is a series of ethereal, flowing horizons that function less as landscapes and more as invitations to breathe.

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Marketa Hopkins

Marketa Hopkins paints movement, patience, and the gradual passage of time into every brushstroke. In her studio she developed a signature technique that gives her large-scale acrylic works their distinctive visual rhythm, balancing the elegance of darker tones with the warmth and energy of her more luminous pieces.

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Winibey Lopez

Winibey López’s expressive figurative paintings center on feminine identity, emotion, and vulnerability through bold color and layered compositions. Her work transforms portraiture into a vivid exploration of resilience, presence, and emotional truth in contemporary life.

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Alexandra Niculescu

Alexandra Niculescu’s large-scale paintings merge abstract expressionism with Rococo influences to explore the body as a site of memory and transformation. Her work channels gesture, emotion, and lived experience into a visual language of resilience, healing, and feminine strength.

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Sofía Cristina Jiménez

Sofía Cristina Jiménez’s work blends magical realism and surrealism to explore emotion, nature, and the relationship between humans and the animal world. Through painting and poetic visual language, her practice invites reflection on perception, tenderness, and contemporary existence.

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Allison McClay

Allison McClay’s paintings explore solitude, memory, and the fragile balance between humanity and the natural world. Working in layered acrylic on wood, her practice reflects on meditative states and landscapes shaped by beauty, crisis, and reflection.

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Bianca Paraschiv

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

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Ozlem Thompson

Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s work bridges the worlds of science and imagination, transforming botanical forms into expressive, dreamlike landscapes. Inspired by her upbringing in Istanbul and shaped by her life in London, her paintings invite viewers into colorful, emotionally rich environments rooted in nature, curiosity, and storytelling.

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Yula Bulanov

Yula Bulanov, known as Ulien, works intuitively with acrylic on canvas to explore the meeting point between inner and outer worlds. Her meditative paintings balance light and shadow, stillness and renewal, offering viewers a contemplative space to reflect on transformation, harmony, and the subtle language of the soul.

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Christine A Beals

Christine Beals’ work invites viewers into a meditative space where color, form, and energy converge. Drawing on her background in antiques and furniture restoration, she transforms wood and thick acrylic into layered compositions that celebrate ancestry, nature, and intuition. Each piece offers a moment of grounding and quiet reflection, revealing beauty and meaning within complexity.

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Hyun Jung Ji

Seoul-based contemporary painter Hyun Jung Ji creates evocative works that explore the invisible emotional threads shaping memory and human connection. Through braided forms, flowing hair, and recurring motifs such as cranes, serpents, and flowers, her Threadscape series weaves together inner landscapes that feel both dreamlike and deeply personal. Her paintings invite viewers to reflect on quiet emotional bonds and the delicate truths that exist beneath the surface of everyday life.

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Shelly Thanner

Shelly Thanner is a German contemporary artist whose meditative paintings explore the quiet spaces between inner and outer worlds. Through acrylics, natural pigments, and textured mediums, her Liminal Landscapes series invites viewers into moments of stillness, connection, and transformation.

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