”Encounters with the raw materials usually take place on the streets. More than just abandoned, the objects bear scars of human violence, the blows of climate, and the nature of their own material”
Maria Paula Suárez works with coloured pencils and embroidery on paper, using careful, research-led processes to explore language, nature and the care life deserves.
Angélica Chavarro’s artistic practice is rooted in an exploration of the relationship between the body, mind, and spirit. Her work comes from a search for meaning and explores the connection between the physical and the unseen through spirituality.
‘If a work of art brings you happiness, develops a thought process in your mind, takes you places or transforms your vision of the world, you have reason enough to own it.‘
In the work of Rosana Escobar, the relationship between land and medium serves as both foundation and method. Her practice is deeply rooted in earth-born materials - such as fique, clay, plant fibers, and natural pigments - and the generational knowledge that sustains their use. Her striking art tells stories of a time slipping away, with each thread or knot holding ... Read More
María Cano (b. 1990, Bogotá, Colombia) is a contemporary visual artist and ceramicist whose practice treats clay as a living body and a cultural archive. Her research-led work bridges fine art with experimental heritage preservation, investigating the profound relationships between raw earth, landscape, and the communities that inhabit it.
Central to María's pr... Read More
Born in Bogotá and raised by the Mediterranean shores of Mallorca, Laura Mila is now based in London. She brings a deeply tactile, beautifully fresh energy to contemporary art. Her creative spirit is as fluid and vibrant as her background, and entirely unfiltered.
Step into her studio to find her fuelling up on an iced latte from her favourite Colombian coffeehou... Read More
Demi Overton is a Nottingham-based fine artist whose sculptural works on paper explore the quiet poetry of the landscape. Drawing inspiration from maps, aerial imagery and natural forms - mountains, canyons, deserts - she distills these into minimal, meditative compositions. Her process involves pinpricking, sewing, and painting. Demi invites viewers to slow down and... Read More
Angélica Chavarro's artistic practice is rooted in an exploration of the relationship between the body, mind, and spirit. Her work comes from a search for meaning and explores the connection between the physical and the unseen through spirituality.
Artist's Statement
The Art of the Spirit and the Spirit of Art
'My artistic work stems from an exploration of ... Read More
Ultra-contemporary artist Jerónimo Villa was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1990. Growing up with his sculptor father and fashion designer mother, Jerónimo was drawn to study music and continued the artistic lineage.
Jerónimo's early works were as experimental and raw as they are today. In the early days of his art he created sculptures from paper, and started ex... Read More
Every person moves through their own personal landscape shaped by place and experience. For Maria Paula Suárez, coloured pencils and embroidery are the constants she returns to for their accuracy, softness, and the way they echo her world view.
Born in Bogota, Colombia and based in Manhattan, NYC, Suárez spoke to us about her rigorous foundations, delicate artwo... Read More
For Danilo Rojas, painting begins in silence. His practice grows from meditation and breathing, unfolding like a ritual that connects body, mind, and nature. From this state, his canvases emerge as poetic explorations of life’s essential forces - water, growth, and renewal.
Rojas studied architecture at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, later completin... Read More
Tatiana Fetisova is a London-based Russian artist whose work explores the fragile beauty of the human experience through a distinctive approach she has coined as balloonized realism. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Fetisova transforms natural forms into luminous balloon art, with figures that appear both playful and profoundly delicate. Her paintings invite viewe... Read More
Louise Bird is a British figurative oil artist whose emotionally resonant portraits explore themes of identity, caregiving, and personal transformation. Working primarily in oil, her recent work turns inward. She uses the body, often her own, as a vessel to express complex emotional states.
Now based in Ilfracombe, Devon, Louise paints from the shifting ground of ... Read More
Danny Holmes-Adams is a British contemporary artist known for his luminous, expressive paintings that celebrate the human response to the beauty and unpredictability of nature and everyday life.
Born in March 1978, Danny developed his skills early in his family's signwriting business and later studied painting and drawing in Canterbury. Often seen painting outdoor... Read More
Tom Holland is a contemporary British artist whose practice is rooted in a lifelong engagement with the natural world. Drawing on a deep appreciation for colour, form, and structure, his paintings are informed by a process of observation and distillation—reducing visual experience to its essential elements. Through an interplay of line, shape, and tone, Holland’s... Read More
Mariana Gómez is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of contemporary art, feminism, and spirituality. She holds a degree in Art, specializing in painting, from the Universidad de los Andes, and a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Pratt Institute in New York.
Through a diverse range of artistic media - painting, sculpture, drawing, installatio... Read More
In collaboration with Milton, Patricia Christie Galleries has curated the show Howard Milton's London, where we share a glimpse into his contemporary take on the characters in around the capital. Vibrant lives to be lived and relished.
Howard Milton studied painting at the Hammersmith College of Art in London with the influential portrait painter, Ruskin Spear. Bu... Read More
Colombian Contemporary Neo-Figurative Artist
Maria Fernanda Cuartas is a Colombian contemporary artist based in Cali. She has lived and worked there for most of her life. A self-taught painter, she also trained with renowned artists Bernadino Labrada, Guillermo Ruiz, and Fernando Polo. With their guidance, she refined her craft and built a distinctive voice wi... Read More
Humaira Hussain, a Pakistani-Irish professional contemporary artist, was born in Pakistan in 1963 and later moved to Ireland to pursue her education. She graduated with honors and postgraduate degrees in Fine Arts and Migration Diaspora Cultural Studies from Punjab University and the University of Ireland, respectively. Currently residing between London and Dubai, sh... Read More
Henry Mejia Perafan, a native of the ancient cultural city of Popayan, Colombia, showed his innate disposition to the arts, especially painting, at an early age. He studied at the arts faculty of the University of Cauca, obtaining the title of Master in Visual Arts in the year 1995, where he shone for academic study and commitment to excellence.
His first exhibiti... Read More