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Artist InterviewsAugust 2, 2025 Inside Kayla Mahaffey’s Art Where The Joy and Grit Live Side by Side In this interview, Kayla Mahaffey talks about growing up on Chicago’s South byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 30, 2025 When Photography Becomes a Ritual of Care and Presence | Rizlane In this interview, Rizlane shares how she turns photography into something rare byAfsheen Adnan9 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 28, 2025 The Quiet Stories Hidden in the Places We Live | Annique IJmker Annique IJmker talks about how her art starts with questions, conversations, and byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 26, 2025 How Crisis Became the Start of Something New | Benjamin MacGregor Benjamin MacGregor talks about how painting helped him rebuild after a byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 23, 2025 How Art Helped Supatporn Posoknistakul Say What She Never Could “I used to think growth had to be bold,” says Supatporn Posoknistakul byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 21, 2025 How Leigh Witherell Paints the Moments We Don’t Talk About Leigh Witherell invites us into the quieter moments of life—the ones that happen byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 19, 2025 What Art Taught Karen Sachs About Letting Go and Starting Over In this interview for the Arts to Hearts Project, Karen Sachs shares how byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 16, 2025 How Art Helped Artist Karen Johnston Stay Present, Open and Connected In this Arts to Hearts Project interview, Karen Johnston shares how painting byAfsheen Adnan 0 0 10 Shares 10 9 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 14, 2025 How Memory and Flowers Brought Angela Meijer Back to Herself In this Arts to Hearts Project interview, Angela Meijer shares how motherhood, byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 12, 2025 Edmundo Figueiredo on Slowing down, Noticing More and Finding Meaning in the Ordinary Photographer Edmundo Figueiredo Soares Junior talks about his lifelong byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 11, 2025 Why Our Art Star Ahmet Rüştü Doğan Believes the Best Work Comes With Time Painter Ahmet Rüştü Doğan talks about his early memories growing up in Izmir, byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 9, 2025 Francesca Pinoni on Finding Inspiration in Travel, Nature and Everyday moments In this interview for the Arts to Hearts Project, Francesca Pinoni talks about byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 7, 2025 How Monica Bergquist Finds Space to Create in the Middle of Daily Life In this interview for the Arts to Hearts Project, Montana-based painter Monica byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 5, 2025 How Mehriban Shamsadinskaya Turns Quiet Feelings into Paintings and Installations Mehriban Shamsadinskaya talks about her journey from drawing as a child in Baku byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsJuly 2, 2025 How Natalie Wu Moves Between Letting Things Happen and Making Things Work Natalie, a fluid artist and design student, talks about her journey through byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 28, 2025 Vanessa Onuk on Finding Meaning Between Precision and Blur In this interview for the Arts to Hearts Project, artist Vanessa Onuk shares how byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 25, 2025 What Art has Taught her About Holding On and Letting Go | Polina Pivak Polina Pivak shares how her art became a way to work through life’s hardest byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 23, 2025 When Curiosity Is the Only Map | Liz Perry In this Arts to Hearts Project interview, Vancouver-based artist Liz Perry byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 21, 2025 How Carla E. Reyes Learnt to Trust the Slow Work of Showing Up "Sometimes inspiration comes from the texture of a tree I pass in the park or byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 16, 2025 How Claire Juttet Finds Comfort in Nostalgia and Longing Through her Art “I’m drawn to painting the in-between moments—those quiet, emotional spaces we byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 14, 2025 Briheda Haylock on Creativity, Courage, and Purpose Briheda Haylock’s art doesn’t just sit on a wall—it speaks, confronts, and byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 13, 2025 How Our Art Star Alex Ruiz Found His Way by Helping Others Find Theirs In this interview with Alex Ruiz for the Arts to Hearts Project, we explore how byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 11, 2025 When Art Becomes a Safe Space for Women to Reignite Their Power| Kate Van Doren In this interview, artist and art therapist Kate Van Doren opens up about how byAfsheen Adnan9 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 9, 2025 How Painting Murals Helped Megan Najera Find Peace and Share It In this conversation, Fort Worth-based muralist Megan Najera shares how byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 7, 2025 When Broken Bones Become Maps of Healing and Identity| Abena Oyiwaa "I want my work to be a mirror—one that allows women to recognize themselves, byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 4, 2025 How Claudia Sistelli Weaves Nature and Dreams into Every Piece of Art "From drawing with oil pastels in a Roman classroom to creating surreal digital byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsJune 2, 2025 When Mosaic Art became a way to survive| Jacqueline Claudet-Mitterer “When I chose color even when all I could see was grey, something shifted byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 31, 2025 How Stitching Became a Meditative Practice for Susan Taylor Brown In this interview, Susan Taylor Brown shares how the transformation of her byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 26, 2025 How Nikki Conigliaro Combines Florals and Feminine Myths in Her Paintings “Each goddess I paint carries layers of meaning,” says Nikki Conigliaro byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 24, 2025 When Intuition Leads the Way in Art | Xinyue Tao In this interview, with the Arts to Hearts Project, London-based artist Xinyue byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 21, 2025 How Krista Voto’s Sculptures Help Us See the World Differently In this interview, Krista Voto shares her journey as an artist and educator, byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 20, 2025 How Art Star Nathalie Perler Turned Her Art into a Space for Healing and Transformation In this interview with Arts to Hearts Project, Swiss artist and Art Star byAfsheen Adnan9 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 19, 2025 How Pia Wessels Turns Second-Hand Fabrics into Wearable Art Pia Wessels’ art challenges the boundaries of fashion and textile design byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 17, 2025 The Rituals and Memories That Shape Alexa Wheeler’s Art “I’m finally creating from a place that’s honest, intuitive, and unafraid to byAfsheen Adnan9 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 16, 2025 Our Art Star Armando Cabba on Art, Survival, and Staying True to Yourself “Art isn't always poetic byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 14, 2025 How Artist Larissa Maxwell Bridges Story, Identity, and Landscape in her Art “I still feel her presence in the studio, where she would sit behind me, byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 8, 2025 How Color and Sound Fuel the Vision of Art Star Nicholas Stirling "Art is my life’s choice byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 5, 2025 A Peek into the Surreal, Emotion-Filled Creations of Our Art Star of the Month Jemsy Pradun “When boredom met sharpies during Covid, Jemsy Pradun unearthed a lifelong byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMay 5, 2025 Beauty lies in the details we almost miss | Sarah Means “I hope they just think,” says artist Sarah Means as she reflects on her quiet, byAfsheen Adnan 0 0 6 Shares 6 5 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 30, 2025 What Can Objects Do When They Stop Being Useful| Daeun Lim Ceramic artist Daeun reimagines the role of everyday objects, blending digital byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 23, 2025 How Artist Kiran Kumar Merges Creativity and Community In this inspiring interview, Kiran—a self-taught watercolor artist and full-time byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 19, 2025 Inside Christine Roychowdhury’s PaintingsThat Reveal Untold Stories of Women In this interview, Christine Roychowdhury talks about her art, which focuses on byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 14, 2025 How Edith Torres Turns Fragments of Light into Stunning Art In this interview, artist Edith Torres talks about how her art is inspired by byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 12, 2025 How to Discover Yourself in Art | Mické Buitendag “Art started as therapy, but it became something much bigger,” says Micke byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 9, 2025 How Martina Nevado Gives New Life to Recycled Materials with a Hispanic Flair “Art is about expression, and everyone expresses themselves in their own way,” byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 7, 2025 Inside Richelle Rich’s Ice Cream Stories and the Memories They Hold "I believe everything is political," says Richelle Rich byAfsheen Adnan8 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 5, 2025 Artist Konstantin Sterkhov on Mindfulness and the Ever-Evolving Art of Watrecolour "Water is formless, and creating the illusion of form on paper is a miracle," byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsApril 2, 2025 What inspires Beverley Devonish to tell stories of her Caribbean heritage Through her Art “My purpose is to create a legacy for myself and my family, having no regrets byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 31, 2025 How Ariel Li Uses Spatial Narratives to Make Sense of the World Ariel Li is a spatial artist who explores the emotional and historical layers byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 29, 2025 Annkathrin Immler on Turning Imagination into Inspiring Art “What if we allowed ourselves to hope more? byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 26, 2025 Inside Hwa Seo’s Creative Journey Where Text and Art Become One “For me, art and language go hand in hand,” says Hwa Seo byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 23, 2025 How Creativity has Helped our Art Star Mandi Heal and Find Strength "Art isn’t just about making something beautiful—it’s about finding strength and byAfsheen Adnan12 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 19, 2025 How Natasha Navasardian is helping brands find their voice In this interview, graphic designer Natasha Navasardian shares how her passion byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 17, 2025 Inside the Surreal Paintings of Rachel South and their Deep Connection to Mental Health In this interview, artist Rachel South discusses her journey from a young byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 15, 2025 The Connection Between Art, Body and the Universe | Yadi Liu "Art is more than just colors and shapes—it’s about energy, movement, and byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 12, 2025 How Ellis King is Exposing the Realities of Modern Womanhood “Art became my way of making sense of the world,” Ellis shares byAfsheen Adnan 0 0 6 Shares 6 9 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 10, 2025 The Art of Feeling Seen and Understood | Leigh Witherell Excerpt: “In every brushstroke, I try to capture the raw, unspoken moments that byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 8, 2025 Inside Rikke Line Andreasen’s Journey as a Color Optimist Painting the World Around Her Danish artist Rikke Line Andreasen blends city life, nature, and emotions into byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 7, 2025 How our Art Star Meghna Rao from India is Creating Stories with her Art Meghna Rao, February's Art Star of the Month, opens up about her journey as a byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 5, 2025 Re-imagining The Feminist Narratives Through Visual Storytelling | Panita S. "History is often told from a male-centered perspective, but what happens to the byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 3, 2025 How Emily Jackson Turns Small Details into Bold, Expressive Paintings “I don’t discount anything at all,” says Jackson byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsMarch 1, 2025 How I Found My Creative Voice | Srishti Dass In this interview, artist Srishti Dass reflects on her journey from New Delhi to byAfsheen Adnan 0 0 7 Shares 7 7 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 26, 2025 How Mia Nel Turns Sugar into a Powerful Expression of Art and Identity Mia’s journey from Africa to Hong Kong led her to an unexpected creative byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 24, 2025 Inside Lilia Daniela’s World of Ephemeral Art and the Beauty of Impermanence Lilia Daniela’s art is here one moment and gone the next byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 22, 2025 How Art Became My Voice from self-doubt to self-expression | Nathalie Duflos “I used to fill my home with sticky notes of inspiring quotes to remind myself byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 19, 2025 How Rumi Tominaga Turns Discarded Materials into Meaningful Art "Art has taught me to let go," says Rumi Tominaga byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 17, 2025 Ekaterina Stolyarova on Choosing Nature-Friendly Materials in Art "Art isn’t just about creating—it’s about making a difference byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 15, 2025 Mya Legazpi’s Art Journey and Finding Purpose Through Creativity In this interview, Mya Legazpi shares her journey of accepting her uniqueness byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 12, 2025 How Paulina Constancia Weaves Whimsy and Wisdom in Her Art Paulina Constancia creates art that is full of color, warmth, and stories byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 8, 2025 How Margarita Kunizheva Creates Timeless Art Inspired by Japanese Byobu Screens Margarita Kunizheva creates art inspired by the serene beauty of Japanese Byobu byAfsheen Adnan4 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 5, 2025 How Art Helped Marianne Hall Heal and Find Meaning in Life’s Transitions Artist Marianne Hall talks about how her grief, personal history, and byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 3, 2025 How Ancient and Modern Ideas Come Together in Kethevane Cellard’s Art "Art helps us navigate the complexities of identity, relationships, and the byAfsheen Adnan6 minute read
Artist InterviewsFebruary 1, 2025 How Elise Klinkert Finds Meaning in the Quiet Moments through her Paintings Elise Klinkert creates art inspired by her love for nature and her emotional byAfsheen Adnan5 minute read
Artist InterviewsJanuary 29, 2025 Inside the Heart of a Mother and What it Means to Care| Emma Rytoft Emma Rytoft’s art turns everyday moments into something extraordinary byAfsheen Adnan7 minute read
Artist InterviewsJanuary 20, 2025 Abigail Corman on Turning Stained Glass into Living Art Abigail creates stained glass sculptures that feel alive byAfsheen Adnan3 minute read
