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.

Rajab Ali Sayed is a Filipino/Pakistani visual artist, educator, and chef based in Los Angeles, California. Through painting, Sayed explores storytelling, intimacy, memory, and the relationship between human experience and the sensory world around us.

Zienna Brunsted Stewart creates expressive oil paintings that move between highly rendered realism and playful abstraction. Inspired by the figure, photography, and art history, her work explores intuition, experimentation, and the possibilities of a more spontaneous creative process.

Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Nuno Serrão creates work that exists between poetic narrative and raw minimalism. Through cinematic compositions and an unconventional approach to portraiture, he explores ambiguity, human experience, and the quiet beauty found at the intersection of nature and humanity.

Based in Devonport, New Zealand, Jenni Stringleman creates expressive figurative paintings celebrating feminine confidence, friendship, and the beauty of everyday moments. Through bold color, textured surfaces, and rhythmic compositions, her work explores joy, resilience, and the complexities of the human experience.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Jade Jwa’s oil paintings explore emotional distance, migration, and psychological ambiguity through quiet, atmospheric figurative scenes.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Anna Sobkowiak is a figurative painter whose work explores female portraiture, narrative structure, and evolving perception through colour and light.

Suzanne V Paddock paints what happens when nine cats and a dog share a house. Her figurative oil paintings capture the situational awareness, quiet negotiations, and everyday moments of her pet community with honesty and humor. It started during the pandemic, and it has not stopped since.

Award-winning artist and author Carolyn Schlam creates figurative works that balance representation with emotional depth and compassion. Working across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, her practice explores storytelling, spirituality, and the expressive possibilities of form and pattern.

Atlanta-based artist Lauren Lane creates luminous oil paintings that reflect themes of faith, identity, and emotional resilience. Through vibrant color and expressive portraiture, her work celebrates hope, transformation, and the quiet beauty of becoming.

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.

Grada Snijder’s pastel portraits explore the subtle dynamics of human emotion and connection. With a delicate yet precise approach, her work captures the warmth, depth, and shared experiences that shape our interactions across cultures.

Catarina Diaz’s work unfolds through richly layered compositions that merge memory, dream, and inherited history. Working in collage, oil painting, and mixed media, she explores feminine identity, transformation, and cultural displacement through a visually opulent and emotionally resonant practice.

Cassie Rae Bledsoe’s work examines the fragile boundary between body and mind through raw, expressive imagery shaped by lived experience of chronic pain. Influenced by Francis Bacon and Frida Kahlo, the artist transforms internal states into visceral visual language that confronts vulnerability and perception.

Lauren Browning’s figurative paintings invite viewers into moments of stillness and connection, where subtle expressions and hidden tones reveal the essence of her subjects. Through a slow and intentional process, she captures not just likeness, but the emotional presence that defines each individual.

Anja WŸlfing’s portraits focus on presence over identity, using muted tones and soft abstractions to evoke quiet introspection. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work offers viewers a space to pause, reflect, and experience emotion through stillness, restraint, and subtle detail.

Jiaqi (Chi) Pan creates portraits that examine how identity is shaped by social dynamics, gender, race, and class. Her work balances intimacy and distance, turning collaboration with strangers into a reflective study of human interaction and perception.

Kurt Stimmeder (b. 1972, Bad Leonfelden, Austria) creates oil paintings and lithographs that balance technical precision with emotional depth. Now based in Linz, his practice explores memory, immediacy, and the unspoken language of the human body. Exhibited internationally from New York to Tokyo, his work reflects on the human condition with layered narratives that are both profound and quietly suggestive.

In the Lightness of Being exhibition, Mary Porterfield presents intimate, life-sized drawings reflecting her mother’s care for her father during his battle with Parkinsonism. Layered and translucent, her work captures both the weight of loss and the quiet resilience of love, inviting viewers to witness transformation and reflection through her deeply personal lens.

Kateryna Reznichenko’s paintings invite viewers into a space between clarity and collapse, blending realism with expressive gestures. Featured in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, her work reflects themes of transformation, resistance, and the delicate interplay of intention and chance.