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.

Pittsburgh-based artist Jake McCauley creates paintings rooted in mundane realism, exploring themes of observation, memory, place, and perception. Through cinematic compositions and recurring imagery of windows, his work examines how we experience the spaces between ourselves and the world around us.

German conceptual artist VON ALLIN transforms complex emotions into striking minimalist works that invite viewers to reflect on grief, love, identity, and the universal experiences that connect us. Through projects such as The Tears Project, her art becomes a catalyst for conversation and empathy.

Brooklyn-based artist Chris Weller creates striking hyperrealistic charcoal drawings that capture New York City's iconic architecture while exploring themes of climate change, belonging, and the delicate balance between nature and urban life.

Portuguese painter Filipe Assuncao creates expressive figurative paintings that transform people, emotions, and imagined creatures into richly colored visual narratives. Through a balance of careful planning and spontaneous gesture, each work becomes its own immersive universe.

Anthony Vega creates layered contemporary paintings that investigate language, culture, and perception. Rooted in philosophy and personal history, his work invites viewers to slow down, question familiar narratives, and consider how meaning is formed through images and shared experience.

Katty Huertas creates richly detailed figurative paintings that merge magical realism with folklore, mythology, and personal history. Drawing from her Colombian heritage and immigration journey, her imaginative worlds invite viewers to experience stories where identity, memory, and landscape intertwine.

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.

Sarah Creasman Barnett creates bold, saturated figurative paintings that explore beauty as agency, visibility, and the relationship between appearance and narrative. Based in Dallas, her acrylic and mixed media works combine personal storytelling with layered marks and unexpected moments of collaboration.

Young Shin is a collage artist whose paper-based works examine the delicate balance between control and release. Drawing from her background in fashion and postwar abstraction, Shin transforms paper through folding, tearing, layering, and compression to create immersive compositions that explore structure, tension, and the unexpected possibilities of material.

Michela Sorrentino’s multidisciplinary practice blends painting, printmaking, collage, and drawing to explore the relationship between materials, mark-making, and personal experience. From her farm studio on the west coast of Canada, she creates intuitive abstract works shaped by nature, curiosity, and a lifelong connection to creativity.

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.

Collage artist and writer Andrea Lewicki shares how cutting, rearranging, and embracing the unexpected has shaped both her artistic practice and her global creative community. In this interview, she reflects on finding belonging through art, the growth of the Special Agent Collage Collective, and the joy of making space for the wonderfully off-kilter.

Tel Aviv-based artist Orit Fuchs creates bold, contemporary works across sculpture, painting, photography, typography, and mixed media. Through her exploration of the female figure, Fuchs examines emotion, identity, vulnerability, and the complexities of modern life. Her direct and intentional visual language has earned international recognition, with exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Asia and works held in private collections worldwide.

New Zealand artist Emma Bass creates luminous floral photographs that bridge fine art, nature, and wellbeing. Influenced by the Dutch Golden Age still-life tradition and informed by her background in nursing, her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and experience beauty as a meaningful form of care. Featured in Create! Magazine's 10th Anniversary Book, Bass shares how her practice has evolved through international collaborations, healthcare installations, and an ongoing exploration of art's restorative potential.

Spanish-American artist Augustina Droze creates immersive fantasy worlds inspired by her decade living and working in Beijing, China. Through porcelain animal protagonists and a fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics, Droze explores identity, cultural exchange, fragility, and strength. Her internationally exhibited practice invites viewers into a surreal space of beauty, wonder, and escape.

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.

Jazlyne Sabree is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, land, and the persistence of African diasporic histories. Through immersive installations, collage, and material exploration, Sabree creates powerful visual narratives that honor lineage, resilience, and the stories embedded within the spaces we inhabit.

Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist Damon “Creative Lou” Brown creates powerful works rooted in community, cultural memory, and storytelling. Through painting, illustration, murals, mosaics, and public art, Brown transforms shared experiences and histories into enduring visual narratives that connect people to place and one another.

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.