Into The Wild: Maximalist patterns & lush inspirations

Sage Barnes (American, b. 1995) is an American contemporary painter whose work is characterized by urban street-art inspired portraits and still life paintings. Common motifs within his work include smiley faces, balloons, flowers, splattered paint, or colorful pixels. Sage works primarily with acrylic and spray paint on canvas and experiments with different mixed media elements such as artificial flowers, stucco and foam.

Lara Padilla (b. 1988) is a contemporary artist and painter based in Madrid, Spain. Beyond figuration, one finds fresh transitions to abstraction throughout her works, which are highlighted by vestiges of drawing and neo-expressionistic traces.

Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. Through her works, Fuchs showcases the transformative power of self- expression and human storytelling, offering viewers a captivating window into the depths of the human experience.

HelloMarine is a French printmaker and painter, a self-confessed lover and color and pattern, living in Brighton, UK. With a striking simplicity and well curated colour palette, her work is both bold and memorable. The unashamedly retro feel and satisfying economy of lines in her pieces make for a strong visual statement. Within her art practice Marine mainly redefines the idea of the "still life", offering an alternative and modern approach while blending figuration and abstraction.

Nicole Wittenberg is an American artist based in New York City. She is a curator, professor, writer, and painter. Wittenberg’s paintings reveal intimate, meditative scenes from her surrounding world. First exploring her chosen site through loose, pastel compositions rendered en plein air, Wittenberg captures the sensations of her subject matter, then reimagines them on canvas, where a single composition often undergoes a series of transformations.