Creativity has accompanied Der Poeck since childhood. When he was ten years old, his mother introduced him to drawing, planting the first seeds of a lifelong artistic journey. Although he developed an early love for line and form, his exploration of color came much later. His father’s enthusiasm for oil painting during the 1990s quietly influenced his perspective, even though he eventually stepped away from painting to devote his time to work and raising a family. Years later, those early memories inspired Der Poeck to begin painting in 2010. As a self-taught artist, he gradually shaped his own artistic voice…
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Born in East London, United Kingdom, Sara Twomey is a self-taught painter whose practice has developed through independent exploration and a deep curiosity about the visual possibilities of abstraction. Free from conventional academic methods, she has cultivated a personal approach that focuses on geometry, balance, movement, and the relationships between space, light, and surface. Rather than representing familiar landscapes or figures, Twomey creates paintings that encourage contemplation through carefully arranged forms and subtle visual interactions. Her compositions are built from lines, shapes, and layered structures that shift as the viewer moves, creating an experience that feels both dynamic and reflective.…
Born in Siena, Italy, Luciano Caggianello has built a creative practice that moves comfortably between art and design, drawing on decades of experience across advertising, illustration, graphic design, industrial design, and automotive design. This broad professional background has shaped a visual approach that values both precision and thoughtful inquiry, allowing technical skill to support ideas rather than overshadow them. Alongside his design career, Caggianello steadily cultivated an independent artistic practice focused on exploring identity, memory, perception, and the complexities of human experience. His works have been exhibited throughout Italy and internationally, reflecting an ongoing commitment to investigating how visual forms…
Some stories arrive with an unexpected coincidence. In this case, it began with a message from someone named Peter Parker. Given the subject matter, the name immediately caught our attention. Whether it is his real name or simply a remarkable coincidence, we’ll leave that mystery unsolved. Still, it was hard not to wonder if New York’s most famous web-slinger had decided to take an interest in the art world. While Peter Parker is not the artist featured here, he is an important part of the story. As a supporter of Pete “PG” Garcia and his work, he helps introduce these…
Born in Lisbon in 1962, Miguel Barros has built an artistic practice shaped by travel, cultural diversity, and a lasting interest in the environment. As a citizen of Portugal, Canada, and Angola, he brings a broad perspective to his work, informed by experiences across different regions of the world. His move to Calgary, Alberta, in 2014 provided a fresh setting for creative exploration and personal growth. With formal training in Architecture and Design from IADE Lisbon, completed in 1984, Barros blends technical knowledge with artistic curiosity, creating paintings that unite structure, observation, and imagination. We are pleased to welcome Miguel…
Born in 1950, Huang YI Min grew up during a time when China was undergoing immense political and social transformation. Those years left a lasting impression on the way she experiences both the world and her artistic practice. For Huang, painting has never been limited to recording what is visible. Instead, it becomes a place where personal memory, historical atmosphere, emotion, and imagination coexist. The environments she moved through in her early life, along with the cultural tensions surrounding her generation, continue to shape the emotional language of her work. Rather than separating reality from fantasy, Huang allows the two to merge…
The name Peter Parker never enters quietly. It carries with it a long history tied to comic culture, a built-in narrative, and a familiarity that immediately draws attention. When a body of work is received under that name, it naturally sparked a question. Is it an actual identity, or is it a deliberate reference? In the end, that question becomes less important. What carries weight is the role the name points to. Here, Peter Parker is not the artist creating the paintings. He stands just outside the center, in a position that often remains unnoticed. His role is grounded in…
Kodi Beverlin’s work feels like a quiet storm. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t try to overwhelm. Instead, it pulls you into a space where beauty, chaos, pain, and hope sit together, refusing to separate, refusing to simplify life into something neat and comfortable. Living and working between Iowa and New Mexico, Beverlin carries with her two very different landscapes—one rooted in grounded stillness, the other in vast, open expanses. That duality shows up in her art. There is movement, but also stillness. There is turbulence, but also calm. There is fracture, yet a powerful sense of connection. Her creative journey…
Victoria Ascanio’s story begins in Spain, where she was born and raised, surrounded by a culture that carries deep artistic history, layered traditions, and a persistent sense of poetry in everyday life. That early grounding would stay with her, even as her path took her beyond Spain’s borders. She studied Fine Arts at Madrid University, building a technical foundation while also shaping a view of art as something deeply rooted in human sensitivity. Later, she moved to England and continued her creative pursuit at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, where she focused on printmaking. Her commitment to the medium…
Kristina Ahmas is an artist who worked for decades inside the heart of cultural institutions before turning fully toward her studio. Her life has unfolded between scholarship and paint, research and intuition, theory and practice. Today, she paints full time, moving confidently through abstraction using a subtle palette and a deep respect for light. Her work feels like a natural continuation of everything she has studied, lived, and observed: the history of art, the language of museums, human emotion, and the silent stories held within everyday objects. Her background sets her apart. Kristina holds an MA in art history, and…