The Portraitists

A conversation with Steve Cannon, an Irish figurative artist practicing in Galway, Ireland. Cannon’s work remained steadily focused on human portraiture. Cannon captures his subjects with prying atte…

A conversation with Zboik Czajkowski, a Polish figurative artist that practices between the cities of Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. Czajkowski is a prominent figure in the street art and graffi…

A conversation with Wylee Risso, a figurative painter currently practicing in Portland, OR. Risso’s body of work spans an eclectic assortment of subjects - images untethered by audience-focused themi…

A conversation with Rustam Hasanov, a Russian-American figurative artist currently practicing in Atlanta, GA. Hasanov is a multidisciplinary artist with a career in animation and character design. In…

A conversation with Roxy Peroxyde, a figurative artist practicing in Montreal, Canada. Peroxyde is best known for her vivid contemporary interpretations of classic paintings which she describes to be…

A conversation with James Zamora, a Texan figurative painter currently practicing in Savanna, GA. Zamora is known for his realist still life paintings that span subjects from traditional floral arran…

A conversation with Gina Altadonna, a figurative artist currently practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Altadonna is a multidisciplinary artist, known for her vibrant watercolor and oil paintings. Altadonn…

A conversation with Amy Erickson, an Oklahoman figurative painter practicing in Seattle, Washington. Erickson's work spans media from oil paint, to colored pencil, to collage. Her deep and lifelong a…

A conversation with Jerry Weiss, a figurative painter and author, raised in Miami, Florida, currently practicing in Connecticut, and teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Weiss has spent h…

A conversation with Tom Mead, a figurative painter practicing in Essex, England. Mead's work explores "the visuals and ideology from childhood including toys, naïvely constructed environments, ambigu…

A conversation with Jon Hingston, an English figurative painter currently practicing in New York City, New York. Hingston paints landscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits - adapting to the seas…

A conversation with Kirsten Valentine, a figurative painter currently practicing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Valentine utilizes found vintage photography as references - peering into the moments o…

A conversation with Daria Troshkina, a Russian figurative painter practicing in Berlin, Germany. Troshkina recently approached oil painting from a background in tattoo art and its greater general cul…

A conversation with Juliano Mazzuchini, a Brazilian figurative painter currently practicing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mazzuchini, with an extensive background in theater, translates the full-body k…

A conversation with David Shevlino, a figurative painter currently practicing in Raleigh, North Carolina. Shevlino, with a foundation of classical appreciation and traditional technique, liberated by…

A conversation with Shannon Purcell, a portrait artist practicing in Austin, Texas. Purcell seeks to create ‘talismanic’, concrete works that have substantial presents. His work explores self-portrai…

A conversation with Roni Taharlev, a figurative painter practicing in Jaffa, Israel. Taharlev's work nods to the aesthetics of classical European painting, while exploring themes such as the objectif…

A conversation with Bobby Leash, a figurative, manga-inspired painter. Leash practices in proximity to Bangkok, Thailand. Leash's work is inspired by the visual grammar he absored as a young comic en…