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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Flo

Flo is a British visual artist working primarily with pencil and charcoal.

Using photographic references, she creates hyperrealistic drawings built through precision, patience, and close observation. Her art examines how value is assigned to objects, looking at the role of cultural context, authorship, and perception in shaping what people admire or revere.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Wendy

Wendy creates figurative paintings centered on the body and floral symbolism.

Her featured pieces show female figures intertwined with flowers, scars, and plant-like forms. Through dark silhouettes, saturated reds and blues, and direct symbolic text, the paintings examine how pain, beauty, and strength can exist within the same image.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Tahrook

Tahrook, also known as Tah, is a Washington, DC based multidimensional creative born in Olongapo City, Philippines.

Her practice spans tattooing, painting, photography, and music curation, with work shaped by spirituality, urban culture, and personal transformation. Her paintings move from realist foundations into expressive figuration, using the body, fragmented faces, and textured surfaces to examine softness and emotional release.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Sofie Thorhauge

Sofie Thorhauge creates geometric acrylic paintings that balance intuition with meticulous calculation.

Her featured works use beach houses, dunes, open skies, and sharp architectural forms to study space, orientation, and perspective. Through simplified coastal scenes and precise blocks of color, Sofie uses the canvas to express a clarity that sits beyond verbal language.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Tony Okoye

Tony Okoye is a Nigerian visual artist whose 3-dimensional mixed media practice reimagines the canvas as a sculpted surface.

Before applying paint, he builds raised forms and textured reliefs that give each piece physical depth. His portraits combine acrylic painting, sculptural structure, and figure-based composition, treating the canvas as both image and object.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Astrid

Astrid creates mixed media and acrylic works centered on female portraiture, gaze, and human-animal forms.

Her featured pieces use layered paper, expressive drawing, muted washes, and textured surfaces to build faces that feel fragmented but intentional. Across portraits, animal details, and eye studies, Astrid’s work examines presence through mark-making, surface, and psychological expression.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Hansawani Saini

Hansawani is a mixed media artist working across acrylics, oils, journals, and embroidery.

Her embroidery series uses thread, hand stitching, and surface detail to explore a slower form of image-making. Each piece shows her interest in material process, color, and the shift from painted surfaces to sewn composition.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | T.F. Burke

Run from none and ignored by some, T.F. Burke writes from the edge of rejection, fear, and inner resistance.

His poetry moves through loss, isolation, and the burden of being unseen, using short lines and hard pauses to give emotional exhaustion a direct form. The writing holds both vulnerability and defiance, turning pain into a statement of survival.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | NeReid

NeReid creates sculptural pieces inspired by nature, female energy, and surrealism.

Her featured works use air-dry clay, modeling paste, acrylic, and varnish to form oceanic figures and small surreal objects. Shell shapes, fish forms, pearls, and soft pastel surfaces give the pieces a dreamlike aquatic character.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | Craig Tiengane

Craig Tiengane is a fine artist working across abstract and realism painting, drawing, and graphite pencil.

His featured works show stylized faces, profile figures, saturated backgrounds, and patterned details across clothing, jewelry, and headwear. Using sharp silhouettes and strong blocks of color, Craig’s paintings place identity, presence, and visual rhythm at the center of the image.

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