COLLECT

ART

AUTUMN ISSUE

OCTOBER 2021 | ISSUE NO 1

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other artists.

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 Table of content

Edina Soós Tony Gregg

Emma Coyle Jing Qiu
Yuval Sasson Kseniia Antipina
Thiago Salas Vinvenzo Cohen
Anum Farooq FERRÓ
Subrata Kumer Katrin Savich
Frederick Sanders John Laurence
Maria Titan Larry Wolf
Rikardo Druškić Chichan Kwong
Ekaterina Kuzmina Vilma Leino
Chenglin Xue Sarah Fellner
Billie Mae Roxane Revon
Ondřej Vavrečka MAriska MA Veepilaikaliyamma
Evelin Juen Ciro Di Fiore
Ekaterina Kozlova Anna Esthete

Autumn Issue 2021

 Edina Soós
Edina is a Hungarian painter focusing on non-
figurative art. Her unfolding as a painter was
incubated by different intellectual paths like
meditation and the study of quantum physics.

Chance meetings - Acrylic on canvas,, ize 60x60

"In abstract painting, there is a challenge that attracts
me: to express not only emotions but also thoughts with
abstract forms. How can concepts or thoughts be
formulated without signs, signals, or recognizable
symbols? How much do we have to show from a shape
to evoke meaning in the recipient?
I believe non-figurative art is about a balance between
revealing and hiding. My ambition is to find this
sensitive, elusive point of balance during creation, which
on the other side provides the recipient with the feeling
of deeply touched or eventually the experience of
transcendence", Edina Soós.

Life is born - Acrylic on canvas, size 60x90

Shelter - Mixed media on canvas, size 70x50
 Subtle balance - Acrylic on canvas, size 80x60

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 Emma Coyle

Coyle has been working within art for over 20 years

and has been based in London since 2006. A
recipient of the International Art Market’s Gold List
award. ‘Top international contemporary artist of
today, ‘Recommended artist to invest in and to be
inspired by, with work acquired by Dame Janet
Wolfson de Botton.
 Her current series ’Linda’ and ‘Binary’ deal with embracing
and disrupting formal composition. For the first time in
2020, Coyle chose to paint mixed white backgrounds in
certain pieces, mixing colors is very important to each piece.
This work earned an online review in 2020 from Dab Art Co.
in Los Angeles and inclusion in their 2021 Artsy show. Also,
in 2021 a Distinguished Award from Canada’s ArtAscent
magazine and a Finalist Award from Los Angeles’ Art Show
International.

She has also

exhibited in NYC
charity events
alongside artists such
as Jeff Koons, Yoko
Ono, Ed Ruscha, Kiki
Smith, and renowned
composer Philip
Glass.

This year Coyle continues her work in

figurative art and abstraction. She has
also started working on woodblock
prints and after 16 years has now
returned to photography, focusing on
Polaroid and 120mm camera formats.
The work deals with ideas in capturing
and using negative space as a focal
point.
Yuval Sasson
 Life. Not art.
Putting it out there for you
to take a moment and
reflect.
Love doing what I do.

 Thiago
Salas
The work of the Brazilian artist and musician
Thiago Salas is oriented by the relation between
the material qualities of concrete objects and
the sound image of the environment in which
these objects are inserted.

Part of the series entitled "Sound Utensils".

kettle, lid, copper wires and connecting screws.
Size: (w) 22cm; (h) 68cm; (d) 18cm
 UT. SO. is a series of pieces built from the quest to connect
sound elements and materials through joints, using
threaded rods, screws, and audio cables. Started in 2012
the work counts on 10 pieces that mix processes of
sculpture and sound plastic; electronic automation devices
and multichannel composition. The developed poetry
seeks ways of composition and multisensory
fragmentation in a process that makes the indexes of the
sound elements of the material qualities of objects.
Porcelain, wood, steel, aluminum, among others, rub an
invisible space in a kind of ritual of things.

Part of the series entitled "Sound Utensils".

Fryer, pedestal, microphone, motor, electronics.
Size: (w) 130cm; (h) 180cm; (d) 90cm
The work was exposed in August of 2018 in the
headquarters of the publishing house Leviatã
and recently gained a new format. The artist
Thiago Salas begins here a partnership with the
designer and video maker Iago Matti for the
creation of an "album" with a collection of 5
videos produced on these materials.

Part of the series entitled "Sound Utensils".

fryer, speaker, screws and electronics
Size: (w) 86cm; (h) 76cm; (d) 48cm
 Part of the series entitled "Sound Utensils".
Baking pan, wooden spoon, tray cover, screws, copper wires, electronics
Size: (w) 66cm; (h) 78cm; (d) 28cm

Photos by Iago Mati

THIAGO SALAS
www.thiagosalas.com
Anum Farooq

www.anumfarooq.com
 Anum Farooq is an autodidactic artist. Anum is
fond of the creative links between the Sciences
and the Arts. Anum’s art relates to exploring,
dreaming, and discovering the world around us,
educating ourselves with inner insights
enlightened with natural perspectives. The
mediums utilized are a mix of acrylic, oils, and
gouache in fluid movements, to enable a holistic
art experience. The insight between nature, faith,
and humanity is a lifelong discovery. Our
perceptions of the natural world and our role
within it, are interesting concepts to explore.
 Subrata
Kumer
'Through my artworks, I have shown the human mental
distress after COVID-19. Going back to nature as a way to get
rid of this and Starting life in a new way by establishing a
relationship with nature. COVID-19 has disrupted normal
human life in recent times. COVID-19 is a curse for many. For
example, many of my classmates and friends returned to
the country during COVID-19 and are now unable to return
to China. It seems to them that time has stopped. As a result
of COVID-19, people's ability to think and see has rotted
away. We have to go back to the roots where human
civilization had a close relationship with nature and protect
nature. We have to live not by fighting with nature but by
establishing a close relationship with it. Let's start a new life
create a new world', Subrata Kumer.
Refromation of Existence
Frederick Sanders
Frederick Sanders is an artist whose work meanders
through sound, film, graphic design, installation, and, most
recently, virtual worlds.

www.burgageproject.com
 In the wake of Covid-19, Sanders found himself isolated in
the far North East of England - existing vicariously between
the brooding landscape of Northumberland and the digital
realms of the Internet. His hyper-cyber-organic reality led
to a rabbit hole of spatial, social, and historical creative
exploration that led to his most recent work ‘Burgage’ - a
web-based multiplayer virtual world that uses data from
Google Maps and NASA to simulate the area of Alnmouth,
Northumberland, UK.
How might the pandemic offer new forms of artistic
expression, exhibition, and discussion? Far older than
Parliament or the monarchy, ‘Burgage Rights’ is an ancient
British law that still gives the villagers of Alnmouth,
Northumberland, UK, the right to use and care for the land
in the area - sharing in its production and putting it back
into natural restoration, giving to local charities, and
organizing local events.

Instagram: @burgage_
@fredsanders.creative
 Maria Titan

Sitting with Ruth: A4 mixed media on Acid-free professional watercolour paper

IG @mariatitanartist
 Maria Titan, a full-time artist living in Cyprus. She studied
Fine Art at the University of the Witwatersrand in South
Africa. Maria's work primarily in pastel, acrylic, pen, and
pencil... usually on paper. Subjects vary but she tends to
paint people, animals, plants, and food.

Surprise!: A4 mixed media on Acid-free professional watercolour paper

 Rikardo Druškić
Rikardo Druškić was born in 1990. in Zagreb and
has spent all his adult life living in Sarajevo. His
interest in art began during his high school years
with the main focus on illustration and digital art.
Rikardo uses a combination of art techniques such
as painting, street art, drawing, and digital art.

www.rikardodruskic.com
'My art is my guide in my search for the meaning of life and
the truth that drives me along this path. I look at life
through art and art through life. I create intuitively, often
without any preconceived plan.

Love, fear, spirituality, empathy are the basic drivers of my

creative process.

I express myself daily, and my work is always the result of

my introspection, which takes place on both conscious and
subconscious levels.'

 Ekaterina Kuzmina
Ekaterina Kuzmina is a painter from Russia. Member of the
Union of Russian Artists, member of the Eurasian Art Union,
a permanent participant in exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Her artworks are in private collections in Russia, Italy, China.
The favorite direction for Ekaterina, in painting, is symbolism.
It seems to her, that some of the most important things are
easier to express through images than through words
because everyone can see something of their own ...

Unfinished blues of regrets- Tempera, canvas, size 80x120

 IG @katlovepaint

Lighthouse ballad - Hope or wind of change

Oil on canvas, Oil on canvas,
size 70x50 size 60x80

Seasons - Oil on canvas, size 60x100

 Chenglin Xue
Do we really have a memory? Do Memories
represent our own imagination? After we get over
the short travel of our life, what can we leave
behind? I pursuit the answer by placing a pinhole
camera on the top of the car during my journey…

www.xuechenglin.com
Xue Chenglin currently lives and works in Beijing and New
York. Xue was educated at the China Central Academy of
Fine Arts and Alfred university, department of electronic
integrated art. He has participated in exhibitions at
Werkstatt Grazy Gallery, Vienna; Robert C. Turner Gallery;
and CAFA art museum, Beijing among others. Xue’s work
uses Arduino, processing, Max Msp, and other interactive
software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking,
and other media. His work explores the nature of video
and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between
people and nature, attempting to harness interactive
media to explore an invisible reality.
Perhaps Everything is Just Gone
 Billie Mae

Billie Mae is a collage artist from Brooklyn, NY.

They like to incorporate surrealist ideas and abstract thoughts into

their work, as well as pop culture references that are often not
readily apparent to the viewer.
These are a series of pieces Billie made during a period of rapid
growth. He often likes to touch on issues that are important to him,
such as climate change, capitalism, and the fear-mongering but
authoritative figures used against the public on a daily basis.

www.foundwork.art/artists/billielawson
IG @phrenectomy
Myth & Mutation, 2021, 11x9 in, collage
New Growth, 2021, 11x9 in, collage
Candlelight, 2021, 11x9 in, collage
Ondřej Vavrečka

A door for a cannibalistic ritual, 170 x 120 cm

 Ondřej is an artist, filmmaker, musician, scholar, and
teacher. Based in programming then changed into
humanities, namely philosophy and linguistics. Then
studied film school, where graduated on new media
department. Ondřej also finished his Ph.D. degree. As an
artist, started with experimental writing combining text and
images. Then, moved into the moving image and electronic
media area and is now rooted in more present and
material forms of art: performance and handmade images
objects. Ondřej is exhibiting in collective and solo
exhibitions, currently having two in Prague, Czech
Republic. Artistic and experimental films were shown both
in-country and abroad. They were honored with prizes.
''We see that crucial for human beings is the
material presence, that became extremely, money-
like precious. And with which goods are we trading
using this type of „currency“? Our most numerous
and biggest product is in the trash. It is the
foundation of our economy, that turns almost
everything into the trash. My works connect the two
areas. They are made from garbage material by a
long handmade process. Everything present. They
are filled with an aura of a question (that is
sometimes humorous sometimes deep) of
contemporary spirituality. They are searching for
both interior and exterior path to be taken by
humankind.'' Ondřej Vavrečka

www,ondrejvavrecka.cz
Collages made from the trash from the bottles of alcohol.
Collages made from the trash from the bottles of alcohol.
 Evelin
Juen
'Art allows me to
express my feelings, my
philosophical thoughts,
my love for the wonders
of nature, and my
destiny to bring
sensitive, positive, and
beautiful input into the
world. Art is more than
an obsession, art is my
life. It is important for
me to create a poetic
and mystic atmosphere
in my artworks, not
everything of the story I
tell in my pictures is
visible, it is always a
secret in it and includes
the wish, that the
beholder gets involved
deeper, by the feeling
and thoughts, that I try
to deliver in my
´pictured poems´.''
Evelin Juen

www.evelinjuen.at
 Dancing with the ghosts

Secret tale one Angel of mine

 Ekaterina Kozlova
Ekaterina Kozlova is a photographer, an artist, and
psychologist by education. She has been doing photography
since 2010, and since 2018 constantly studying photography
and contemporary art. Her work has always been associated
with the visual arts. For the last few years, She has been
doing contemporary art fashion photography with elements
of provocation.

''It is important for me to show the beauty of a person

precisely through his body, but at the same time, I use
bodies not as a sexual object, but as an art object and
simply as an object. It is also important for me to
destigmatize various manifestations (for example, I
have a project aimed at destigmatizing menstruation)
and expand the concept of the norm, which is rather
narrow in Russian society. I am a feminist and body-
positive person, it is important for me to support the
LGBTQ+ community and show a healthy expression of
sexuality in my art. I don't think of the body as a
“commodity” in the marketing market. We can be
anything, our inalienable right is to be whom we want
and who we are comfortable with. In my works, I
explore the boundaries of modern reality and help
people accept themselves,'' Ekaterina Kozlova.

IG @asynion_photo
 Tony Gregg
Rhode Island based abstract expressionist
painter Tony Gregg utilizes external and internal
inspirational sources to build and create
connections between infinite points.
Broad sweeping color motions
and the fluidity of the medium,
drip techniques, and palette
knife scrapings and smears
combine with broad gestures to
allow for chance happenings on
the canvas. The goal is to
capture the chaos, emotion,
energy, and inherent beauty that
life experience stirs in all of us
when viewing it.

IG @ SpiralOutArt
 "Scatterbrain" - Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 16 x 20 Inches

"unTethered" - Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 24 x 24 Inches

 Jing Qiu
Jing Qiu is a visual artist who lives and works in
Guangdong, China.

His works involve media such as video,

photography, sculpture, painting, and
installation.

The fault of thought No.11 The Fault of Thought No.13

Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas
Size 60x50 cm Size 80x80 cm
 Hunger
Installation works
80×40×40 cm
Kseniia Antipina

IG @germenevtika
 Kseniia Antipina is a Russian artist based in Berlin.

In her works, Kseniia tells the audience about the emotions,

feelings, and complexes that any person may experience. The
importance of this topic lies in the fact that it is normal to
experience different emotions; it does not make a person bad or
wrong. It is normal to feel scared, it is normal to feel not at ease,
and it is also normal to experience joy without a particular
reason.

Humans percept
other humans'
emotions first of all
through facial
expressions.
Therefore in these
photos, faces are
intentionally hidden.
With this, Kseniia
moves the attention
away from faces, and
instead, viewers are
expected to
experience the visual
image as a whole.
Thus, viewers are first
of all confronted with
their own feelings that
these artworks invoke
in them.
 Vincenzo Cohen

"Reinterpreting myths through human experience, fighting

injustice, breaking the silence, shooting down the barriers of
diversity by erecting the breastplate of inner force, elevating
himself from the delirium of creation for not to die in the
darkness of forgetfulness... The power of creation lies in its
message because art can be a means to combat violence. Art is
an expression of nature and its potency..."

Vincenzo Cohen is an Italian classically trained nature painter

and photographer.

Polyhedric artist, his eclectic production is the result of a

continuous process of historical-scientific research
addressed to the representation of cultural content with a
social and naturalistic background.

www.vincenzocohen.com
Take the flight
Vincenzo is involved in wildlife conservation and
he travels through Africa and the Middle East to
get inspiration for his art production. His work
consists of reworking life and travel experiences
through an expressionist language, by means of
photography, or through the combination of
both artistic techniques.
Nothern Sahara
 FERRÓ
“I believe that my art is a reflection of my way of seeing
life, it is a rebellion in general and in particular a refusal
to be an adult and to be able to remain in childhood.
My creations reflect another rebellion that is the visual
one, the one that everyone observes, the opposing
shapes, the mixture of all colors, the drastic changes
from straight lines to curves, from triangles to squares,
etc. without a perfect or logical visual language "

 Ferró has been painting abstracts since the

childhood times when in an act of rebellion, he
decided to do what he really wanted. Ferró likes
abstract expressionism as it defines what he
wants from life and what it gives to him. Painting
with a lot of colors he rebels and he refuses what
the passage of time pushes him, that push to
stop being what he was born, a child.

www.ferrocrearte.com
 KATRIN SAVICH
''I'm fascinated by psychology and I'm very
interested in watching after myself, people, and all
the processes that occur around me. I like to analyze
and understand the cause-and-effect relationships.
Through my paintings, I can tell about my
experiences, observations, and consciousness. The
main theme of the paintings: a person stays in
constant recognition of herself and others. The
endpoint does not exist, there is a constant path of
recognition/searching. Following this path, the
person discovers new facets of herself, learns to
accept them, to coexist with them, and also
develops relationships with others. The better we
know ourselves, the more ecologically we interact
with other people,'' Katrin.

Addiction - Mixed media, oil, knitting, marker on canvas, diptych, size 92x40


Bizarre - Mixed media, oil, marker on canvas, size 40x50

Opium - Mixed media, oil, embroidery, beads, marker on canvas,
Size 40x50
Imperfection - Mixed media, oil, knitting, marker on canvas, size 40x50

@katrinsavich
John Laurence

www.johnlaurencetextiles.com
 John Laurence was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in
1983. In his work, he playfully borrows elements from
wallpaper and fabric design to create indulgent textile
collages. Seeking to manipulate and deconstruct patterns in
innovative and colorful ways, he brings together preexisting
fabric designs and embellishes pieces indulgently with
beads, buttons, sequins, diamantes, and other materials. He
deploys fabric like paint, embellishes beyond the constraints
of gilded frames, and hand-stitches pattern over pattern.
This recontextualizing of upholstery fabrics with
contemporary materials produces a vast number of design
possibilities, which John explores with a Fauvist sensibility
and a penchant for extravagance.
Midnight in the Emperor's Garden | 27 x 24 cm | Mixed media
Before Art & Money | 29 x 25 cm | Mixed media
LARRY WOLF
 His vibrant, colorful, and textured artwork, collected under
the umbrella "A Brush with the Law," attempts to convey
the intensity of emotion and wealth of experience that
Larry has gained through a lifetime of rich and expansive
interactions with the world and the fascinating people who
live in it.
''My work utilizes an
intriguing and unique
process whereby I push
acrylic paint through the
back of a silkscreen
canvas. Traditionally,
silkscreens are used for
making prints on paper
or T-shirts or any number
of materials, but then the
screens are washed and
reused.

For me, the silkscreen

becomes a permanent
host for one-of-a-kind
artwork. The process
results in strikingly vibrant
abstract compositions,
layered in eye-catching
shapes and textures,''
Larry Wolf.
Larry Wolf was born, raised, and still living in
Los Angeles, California, Larry Wolf has spent
more than 45 years as a criminal defense
attorney.
Over the past decade and a half, he has slowly and
methodically transitioned his hobby, painting, into a
successful second career as an abstract artist

www.abrushwiththelaw.com
 Chichan Kwong
Chichan Kwong is a visual artist whose
multidisciplinary practice uses binaries,
contraries, and preconceived notions
embedded within the contemporary culture to
create artworks in various formats, for example,
writing, painting, performance, installation,
video, and sculpture.

www.chichankwong.com
 ''I make dumb art with a clear ambiguity. In The
Interpretation of Culture, Clifford Geertz wrote,
“anthropologists don't study villages, they study in
villages.” To me, art is not about communicating an
idea but sharing an experience. Sharing is based on a
personal taste, an idiosyncratic understanding of
the world. Instead of providing smart educational
art, I create situations that suspend logic and evoke
an unfamiliarity that provides a space for self-
reflection. I believe to be human is to navigate
through interpretations and misinterpretations in
life. Nonetheless, individuals who are continually
making analogies, creating references from what
they know to what they don't, will approximate the
truth. My responsibility as an artist is to describe my
experience and share it as a gentle reminder that we
do see the world through our tinted lens,'' Chichan
Kwong.
 Vilma Leino
Vilma Leino is a Finnish-born, Berlin-based photographer.
She has been using photography as a medium since 2015.
Her work focuses on self-portraiture. As a photographer,
director, model, and stylist, she creates multiple characters
to reflect inner feelings, solitude, and womanhood. Her
work experiments with strong color schemes, composition,
and the human body. It is a one-woman show, where
being in control and the fear of losing it are in constant
dialogue. The story is balancing between beauty and
horror, forming a story about personal growth, where fears
are forming into strength.
 ''For me self-portraiture is freedom. As the person
behind and in front of the camera, I am in control of
every aspect and that makes me feel liberated.
When I’m creating my artwork, the camera is an ally
who doesn’t judge. It gives me space to get to know
myself through art and experiment with my body,
mind, and feelings. Working with playful
compositions and strong color schemes is a way for
me to lighten up darker subjects. In my work, I mix
quirky details with pastel shades, to create an
atmosphere where comedy and horror can meet
each other. My portraits are visual stories that give
the viewer many possible endings. They are stories
from inside of the household, where daily life turns
peculiar and the person we are is in the main
spotlight as the one we should learn to love and take
care of,'' Vilma Leino

www.vilmaleino.com
 Sarah Fellner
Sarah Fellner is a photographer from Vienna, Austria. Due
to her mother, a painter, she started to get in touch with
art at an early age. In the beginning, she photographed
surroundings and friends in a playful way. Over time Sarah
became more attentive and looked for the "human"
moments that we encounter in everyday life.
She took some classes on analog photography as well as
development and printing.
''In my series, I’ve focused on various body types. It
has something to do with body positivity, the fact
that we are all human beings no matter what. Being
naked makes us vulnerable and shows more of our
personality than clothes could ever do,'' Sarah.
 Roxane Revon
Roxane Revon is a multi-disciplinary artist working
on "planthroposcene" concepts. She grew up in
the South of France and earned a master's degree
in philosophy from La Sorbonne University in Paris
before moving to New York a decade ago where
she started her artistic career and continued her
education at Yale and Stanford.

She is now an award-winning director and an

artist in residence at the LMCC Art Center on
Governors Island.

www.roxanerevon.com
 MAriska MA
Veepilaikaliyamma
Eco-spiritual Earth-Nature
Goddess Art

www.maecoart.com
 ''The Earth- and Nature-Goddesses, especially the
Neem Tree Goddesses, are my great inspirations for
my artworks. Indeed, we paint together.
Each painting invites a magical visual meditation
adventure of transformation and healing. Further, my
artworks are also a visualization of a world where
everybody respects, honors, and venerates the
Earth- and Nature-Goddesses, Mother Earth and
Nature – the source of all life. For my artworks, I only
use self-made natural colors and as a varnish self-
made organic beeswax varnish,'' Mariska
Ciro Di Fiore
IG @stefano3510
 Ciro Di Fiore (Daniel) is a mixed media artist
hyperrealist, conceptual, fashion, and Italian
emergent fashion designer and with him, the
fashion goes in the art and in the music, and in
every creative and cultural sphere and in every
sector, but it is not the usual meeting between
these types of creativity with contaminations
neither an exchange between them and nor a
simple combination.
 Ciro Di Fiore has the pseudonym of Daniel, his creative
journey began from “First Alternative Winter” of Rimini in
Italy in 2007 Daniel has exhibited his stylistic paintings with
his fashion samples because he is also an emerging stylist.
Since December 2015 shows his artistic/stylistic works in
Museums, galleries, fairs in Italy and abroad as Europe and
America and the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and
China, and during an exhibition, he had the definition of “
artistic fashion designer.
 Anna Esthete
« I love noticing the beauty and aesthetics in every
detail, and my creativity allows me to share my view of
the world with others. This is why I have chosen the
artist pseudonym 'Anna Esthete'. Through my paintings
I am able to communicate with the viewer, beginning a
dialogue through comprehensible, vivid images
reflecting the complexity of certain aspects that need
to be understood. A key element of my work is the use
of metaphoric artistic visual representations. The main
theme of my paintings comprises concepts relating to
humans and how they interact with society, human
adaptability, and building sustainable relationships
with others as with oneself. » Anna Esthete, an artist from
Kyiv, Ukraine.

IG @anna_esthete
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