Author: Iris

Miguel Barros makes art that feels like a conversation with place—sometimes quiet, sometimes dreamlike, and often layered with a sense of longing. Born in Lisbon in 1962, he carries the influence of three distinct geographies: Portugal, Angola, and Canada. Each one has shaped the way he sees color, form, and the emotional undercurrent that runs through a landscape. When he moved from Angola to Calgary in 2014, he found himself surrounded by new skies, new seasons, and new rhythms. These changes didn’t replace what came before; instead, they blended into his work, creating a dialogue between past and present. Barros…

In a wide creative field filled with artists who make images, there are a few who do something more. They build stories, pull you into them, and hold you there without force. Kimberly McGuiness is one of those artists. Her work does not simply present a scene. It offers an entry point into a mental landscape where emotion and memory sit close to imagination. She works with a steady clarity, but her pieces feel open, like doors left unlatched on a quiet night. Kimberly brings a sense of wonder without leaning on theatrics. Instead, she threads her ideas through color,…

Vandorn Hinnant, born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1953, has built an artistic path shaped by curiosity, discipline, and a long study of the relationship between art, science, and spirit. His early years in Greensboro set the stage for a life spent asking big questions through visual form. He studied Art Design at North Carolina A & T State University, earning his BA, then continued at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he focused on sculpture. This mix of design structure and sculptural thinking continues to inform how he approaches every piece he creates. Over the years, Hinnant…

Ted Barr’s path into art began long before he ever picked up a brush. Born in Nevodar, Romania, close to the wide horizon of the Black Sea, he spent his early childhood watching life shift around him. At four years old, he moved with his family to Israel, a transition that carried him from one world into another. That early uprooting became the first chapter in a life shaped by movement—across borders, across ideas, and eventually across inner landscapes that reach far beyond geography. Barr’s art reflects this sense of searching. He doesn’t settle for the obvious or the familiar.…

Salwa Zeidan’s beginnings trace back to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a landscape known for its quiet stretches of land and deep sense of history. That environment gave her an early awareness of space, form, and the subtle ways surroundings shape perception. But it was her years of travel that broadened her artistic view. Moving through different countries, she collected impressions—how people think, how they create, how art shifts meaning across borders. These experiences became the groundwork for her creative voice. Her path eventually led her to Abu Dhabi. There, she opened a contemporary art gallery that reflects her belief in open…

Vandorn Hinnant was born in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and grew up in a landscape marked by open fields, steady rhythms, and the quiet details of Southern life. That environment taught him early to notice the small things—how shapes relate, how balance appears in nature, and how patterns often sit just beneath the surface of everyday experience. He later studied Art Design at North Carolina A&T State University, earning his BA, and continued his sculptural studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His training laid the groundwork, but curiosity is what carried him forward. Over the years,…

Born in 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Doug Caplan approaches photography as both a craft of seeing and an act of shaping. His first camera—a black-and-white Polaroid instant—was a gift from his parents when he was a teenager, and it became his first encounter with the magic of image-making. The hiss of the film, the faint chemical scent, the waiting for the picture to emerge—all of it lingered long after the moment passed. Yet, for many years, photography was more of a quiet fascination than a pursuit. It wasn’t until the early 1990s, after marriage, that Caplan rekindled his relationship…

Carolin Rechberg treats art as something alive—an ongoing exchange between presence, material, and motion. Born in Starnberg, Germany, she works across painting, ceramics, sculpture, sound, performance, poetry, installation, and photography with the ease of someone following intuition rather than discipline. Each form she touches becomes a continuation of her exploration into awareness. For Rechberg, art is not a product but a process—something that happens in the body before it reaches the canvas or clay. Her practice invites viewers to step into that space of attention, to sense how movement turns into stillness and how matter becomes thought. In her world,…

Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1964, Adamo Macri is a multimedia artist whose creative scope stretches beyond convention. A graduate of Dawson College, his studies in commercial art, graphic design, photography, art history, and fine arts gave him a foundation that seamlessly merges technique and intuition. Though sculpture anchors much of his artistic identity, his practice expands into photography, video, painting, and drawing—each medium an exploration of transformation, perception, and the fragile tension between illusion and truth. Macri’s work is not concerned with comfort or surface beauty; instead, it searches the interior landscapes of experience. His art feels like a…

In the wide expanse of art, few artists manage to transform feeling into form the way Kimberly McGuiness does. Her work is not merely painted—it’s breathed into existence, alive with quiet rhythm and emotional resonance. Each piece she creates feels like a story whispered in color, an intimate conversation between imagination and reflection. McGuiness paints from intuition, blending symbolism with a deep sensitivity to tone and space. Her art moves gently, balancing serenity and tension, silence and movement. There’s a meditative quality to her work, as if each brushstroke listens as much as it speaks. Within her compositions, beauty emerges…