Author: Iris

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…

Julian Jollon, an American artist, works at the intersection of life, myth, and spirit. Trained in Fine Arts, Photography, and Painting, his creative path was once interrupted by a long silence—a fifteen-year period shaped by illness and recovery. Following a liver transplant and a career in Hospital Epidemiology, Jollon eventually found his way back to art. Yet the return was not simply a continuation of his earlier practice; it was a renewal born from survival. His art now moves between the physical and the spiritual, translating what he calls “borrowed light” into image and form. Through his work, he explores…

Bea Last, a Scottish artist rooted in the wild beauty of her surroundings, works where sculpture meets drawing. Her practice revolves around transformation—she reclaims discarded, repurposed, and found materials, shaping them into what she calls sculptural drawing. In her studio, remnants of the world—bamboo, cloth, wire, fragments of waste—become vessels of meaning. Her work is not about decoration; it is about truth. Through abstraction and physical labor, Last examines how people endure conflict, displacement, and ecological collapse. Her art is less a comfort and more a reckoning—inviting reflection on fragility, repair, and the quiet strength required to rebuild what has been broken.…

Eliora Bousquet, a French-listed abstract painter and illustrator, creates at the edge of the visible and the infinite. Born in Angoulême, France, in 1970, she began painting in 2009 and has since devoted her practice to exploring emotion through color, rhythm, and light. Her work unfolds like a quiet dialogue between nature and the cosmos—a meeting point of air and water, dream and matter. Each canvas feels alive, vibrating with the unseen connection between what we know and what lies beyond. For Eliora, art is not imitation but translation—a way to express how creation itself breathes through us all. Cosmosis:…

Born in 1973 in Graz, Austria, Gerhard Petzl has spent more than three decades exploring how art and everyday life can intertwine. Dividing his time between Vevey, Switzerland, and Kalsdorf/Graz, Austria, he works across a wide range of materials—from bronze and wood to chocolate and recycled fragments. What unites them is not the medium, but his curiosity about transformation. Petzl’s creative path is less about producing an object than about tracing a process—how something used, forgotten, or fragile can find new meaning. For him, life and art are inseparable; cooking, collecting, and creating all belong to the same rhythm of attention and…

Helena Kotnik, educated at Barcelona University and the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, approaches art as a dialogue between feeling and form. Her paintings—often called “psychological human landscapes”—reach beyond surface impressions to uncover what moves beneath thought and emotion. With her vivid yet deceptively unguarded style, she captures the tension between chaos and calm, humor and fragility. Each mark feels intuitive, as if shaped by quiet reflection. Influenced by artists from many eras, Kotnik turns the canvas into a mirror—one that reflects the strange balance between connection and solitude that defines modern life. Her art is not an attempt…

For William Schaaf, art has never been about ornament. It’s a form of reflection—a way to process, to heal, and to remain in conversation with the unseen. At 80, he still works daily in his studio, coaxing horses out of bronze, clay, and canvas as he has for more than sixty years. The horse isn’t just his subject; it’s his symbol, his vocabulary. Each one he creates carries echoes of endurance and spirit, bridging the material and the mystical. Schaaf’s work is deeply influenced by the Zuni and Navajo traditions, where small fetishes of animals were carved not to decorate,…