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Michela Sorrentino

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.

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Orit Fuchs

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.

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Emma Bass

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.

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Augustina Droze

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.

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Jenni Stringleman

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.

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Damon Brown

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.

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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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Sona Lee

Sona Lee paints the space between familiar and unsettling. Her surrealist compositions gather fragments of memory and dream into single pictorial spaces where domestic calm sits alongside subtle distortion, and where stability and fracture exist at the same time. Influenced by Minimalism and the aesthetic of emptiness in traditional Korean painting, she uses what is absent as carefully as what is present.

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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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