6 Paintings That Made It to Our Heart List This Week

If you have ever wondered what it feels like to be surrounded by incredible art every single day that is just Tuesday for us at Arts to Hearts. Building a global community for artists means our world is one long, beautiful, unending stream of creativity. And we are not complaining even a little bit.

But here is the thing about seeing that much art you start to develop strong opinions. You start to notice the pieces that hit differently. The ones that make you stop mid-scroll and just sit with it for a moment. The ones you are still thinking about three days later while doing something completely unrelated.

Every week we take those pieces and we share them. No rankings, no sponsored content, no editorial agenda just the artworks we loved most this week and the artists behind them who we think deserve every bit of your attention. This is our heart list. And this is what is on it this week.

1. A Thousand Hills by Jessica Vollrath @jessicavollrathart

The first time we saw A Thousand Hills by Jessica Vollrath we sent it around the team without a single word. Four faces of the same woman, resting, overlapping, folded into a rolling golden landscape hair and hills and fabric all becoming one continuous, undulating thing.

The repetition is not decorative. It feels ancestral. Like memory, like lineage, like something that exists across time rather than within it. The colour alone is extraordinary that deep warm ochre against the rich browns of the skin, the way the landscape seems to grow out of the figures and the figures out of the landscape. You can look at this painting for a very long time and keep finding new things similarities, differences, shifts in expression, the way each face carries the same quiet weight but holds it differently.

Jessica is a Dallas-based artist with a BFA from Howard University and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from Texas Women’s University, whose richly expressive figure paintings explore spirituality, motherhood and familial history. She has shown at Art Basel Miami, the African American Museum of Dallas, Erin Cluley Gallery, and was named Best in Show for Painting at the Carrol Simms National Black Art Competition in 2025.

She is one of the most compelling painters working right now go follow her and see for yourself.

2. Polvere di stelle by Giulia Caliò @giulia_calio

There are paintings that unsettle you in the most beautiful way and Polvere di stelle by Giulia Caliò is exactly that. A face, split into four equal sections, each quadrant showing the eyes from a subtly different angle as if the same person is being seen all at once from multiple places, multiple moments, multiple versions of the same truth.

The deep midnight blues, the layered shadows, the way the face seems to both emerge from and dissolve into the darkness around it there is something almost cosmic about it, something that earns the title Stardust completely.

You keep looking because every time you do, you find something new. A shift in the gaze, a different weight to the shadows, a detail that was not there a moment ago. This is oil painting used as a tool for something far beyond representation it is introspection made visible.

Giulia is a Bologna-based illustrator and painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, influenced by the secessionist work of Klimt and Schiele, and it shows in the best possible way.

Give her a follow and see everything she has been making her world is one worth spending time in.

3. You Can Never Have Too Many Candies by Inessa Morozova @inessa050

Sometimes a painting tells an entire story without showing you a face — and You Can Never Have Too Many Candies by Inessa Morozova is exactly that. A small girl in a blue dress and red shoes, standing with her back to you, hands clasped behind her back, candies scattered across the floor around her feet.

That is all. And somehow it is everything. Is she in trouble? Is she just thinking? The painting holds both possibilities at once and that ambiguity is precisely what makes it so quietly brilliant.

The posture, the scattered sweets, the soft grey background it is warm and melancholy and a little funny all at the same time. Inessa is a Ukrainian-born oil painter based in Moscow, born in 1981 in Kherson, who has been painting since she could hold a pencil.

A member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia since 2008, her work spans childhood, domestic life, florals and animals always rooted in atmosphere, light, and the kind of emotional honesty that makes you feel like you have lived inside the scene yourself.

Her feed is full of this same warmth and soul, it is well worth a visit.

4. Dog with Champagne and Oysters by Matkavart @mamuka_matkavaart

We were not expecting to fall this hard for a painting of a dog with oysters and champagne — but here we are. This piece by Mamuka Matkava is pure charm from start to finish. A fluffy white dog, impossibly well-groomed, seated beside a tall champagne flute and a plate of fresh oysters against a warm rosy background looking directly at you with those big, soulful eyes as if to say yes, this is entirely normal.

The painting is funny and tender and technically gorgeous all at once, and that is a genuinely difficult combination to pull off. Mamuka himself describes it as trying to capture loyal eyes, a quiet soul, and a presence that says more than words ever could and honestly, he nailed it completely.

He is a Georgian artist whose oil paintings carry this wonderful warmth and lightness, and every piece on his page has that same quality joyful, considered, and impossible not to smile at.

See more of his work and give him a follow your feed will be significantly better for it.

5. Floral Threshold by Andrea Kassens @andreakassens

There is so much happening in this painting and yet somehow it feels like one single held breath Floral Threshold by Andrea Kassens is that kind of work. A figure stands at a doorway, back turned, flowers erupting from everywhere around her the room alive with pink blossoms, bold patterns, saturated colour and the whole scene sits somewhere between stepping into a dream and stepping out of one.

Everything is happening at once and yet it never feels chaotic it feels intentional, abundant, completely alive. Andrea is a German artist born in 1997, currently studying painting at the University of Osnabrück, whose work explores human strength, beauty and fragility with a particular focus on the female experience.

Inspired by film and pop culture, she uses paint to reflect, deconstruct and reimagine representations of femininity, friendship and the complexity of human emotion. She is still early in her career and already making work this strong. We are genuinely excited to see where she goes next.

Keep an eye on her follow her page and watch this one unfold.

6. School Lunch by Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt @ldweinblatt

Few paintings capture the electric energy of human connection quite like School Lunch 20 by Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt and this one had us completely absorbed from the first second. A group of young people mid-conversation, mid-laugh, mid-everything hands gesturing, eyes darting, the whole canvas buzzing with the kind of unscripted, unposed life that is almost impossible to paint.

And yet here it is, 40 by 60 inches of oil, captured with total conviction. Lisa is a New York-based figurative painter who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Queens College and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

Her School Lunch series is a pictorial essay of contemporary student life drawn entirely from direct observation, spending afternoons in the actual lunchrooms of high schools and college campuses, sketching real people in ten to twenty minute windows.

Everyone in her paintings is a real person, caught in a real moment. That commitment to truth is what makes this work so alive. She has exhibited in nine museum shows across the USA and received five national Artist-in-Residence scholarships. This is painting as a form of deep, genuine humanistic attention.

Find her work and follow her this is a practice worth knowing inside out.

Six paintings. Six artists. Six reasons we are genuinely so glad this is our job. We hope at least one of these stopped you the way it stopped us and if it did, go tell that artist. Not just a like. An actual comment. A share. Something that lets them know their work landed somewhere real. That is the whole point of what we are building here.

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