Former film prop maker Merlijn van de Sande now builds intricate miniature environments from glass, wood, and found materials, each one a window into a dreamlike place that feels both otherworldly and strangely familiar. In this interview, she...

Virus, the alter ego of London-based Italian artist Raffaella Bertolini, has marked the development of Punk Rococo, a series that brings together punk roots with a love of 18th-century portraiture, fashion, and rebellion.Where do you long to live...

Travis Lawrence works in one of the oldest visual languages there is: the hand-carved block, inked and pressed by hand, one impression at a time. His prints draw on medieval manuscript traditions, religious folk symbolism, and a self-taught...

Step into Chocotopia, and you're not just looking at a painting, you're visiting somewhere. It's the inner world Chiyoko Kana has been building for years, home to recurring characters like Yayoi-chan and rendered in candy-bright color. Her path...

Sabrina Shumaker doesn't paint until the conditions are right, coffee, full meals, and a WW2 documentary humming in the background, but once she settles in, the work pours out in late-night marathons. In this interview, she opens up about the...

Elizabeth Frank carves stories out of aspen wood she forages from the mountains, then brings them to life with acrylic and a love of vintage, found materials. Her work draws on folk art traditions and reads as playful at first glance, but stay with...

Tennyson Corley is a visual artist known for playful, ceramic still lifes that turn everyday objects into scenes brimming with color and personality. After years exploring painting, printmaking, and textiles, she found her creative home in clay, a...

The Art of Adapting by Elaine Nesbitt I realized that the initial reaction of artists was not working to change our predicament. The impact of AI on my artist peers was an immense distress. An incident of severe spinal injury left me bereft of...

They call themselves The Crimson Orchard now. Before that, they were two tattoo artists who happened to fall for each other and discovered, somewhere along the way, that their imaginations had already been circling the same myths for years. Below,...

Your paintings feel like they exist in their own world, surrounded by nature, emotional figurative energy, completely unbothered by the outside world. Where does that world live inside you, and how did you first find your way into it? I’ve always...

Lori Nelson has spent a lifetime proving that being an artist isn't about credentials—it's about showing up. From a dreamy child in small-town Colorado to a working artist in the Catskill Mountains, she's built her practice on daily commitment and...

Mike Egan spent years juggling college, mortuary school, and funeral directing while painting on the side. In 2005, he had a realization: what if he painted the way he used to make block prints? Bold, graphic, heavy linework. That single shift...