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Arty Rat – Issue 5, September 2026

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Patricia De Jesus

Biography  Based in Vancouver, Canada, Patricia creates paintings inspired by natural landscapes and scenes of nature from her travels in the Pacific Northwest and her home in Southeast Asia. Her work moves away from realism, instead rendering landscapes from memory to explore the interplay between perception and imagination.By reconstructing landscapes through memory rather than direct […]

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Veronika Michalow

Biography  Veronika Michalow is a Germany-based visual artist whose work explores atmosphere, narrative and cinematic light. Working primarily in painting, she creates scenes ranging from urban and maritime subjects to nature, machines and darker narratives.Her artistic language combines atmospheric vintage realism with cinematic lighting, using light, depth and carefully constructed environments to create a sense […]

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Aylal Heydarova

Biography  Aylal Heydarova (b. 1990, Baku, Azerbaijan) is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span across a variety of artistic styles and creative techniques including pointillism, modernism and abstract.Strongly influenced by her family roots and the vibrant culture of Azerbaijan, Aylal began painting from a very young age in her father’s workshop and has since […]

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Tiffany Bolk

Biography  Tiffany Bolk (b.1975) is a Minnesota based artist who specializes in narrative photography. She has shown her photos in multiple states as well as out of the country and has won several awards for her work. She has an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and her BFA in photography […]

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Cynthia Zhang

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Painting as Encounter: Cynthia Zhang and the ABYSS Framework Cynthia Zhang (b. 1992, China) works between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, developing a painting practice that resists description as either purely abstract or purely figurative. Her canvases — Night Camellia, The Unseen Pulse, Between the Breaths of the Waves, Blue Jacaranda, SAMSARA […]

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Leonor Trindade Sousa

Biography  Leonor Trindade Sousa was born in Vagos, Aveiro, and grew up in Espinho, where she completed her secondary education in Arts at the Dr. Manoel Laranjeira High School. From an early age, intuition, curiosity, and artistic sensitivity awakened in her a deep connection with the universe of arts, especially painting. At the same time, […]

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Hazem Asif

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Hazem Asif, the Lahore-based illustrator and graphic designer behind the studio moniker worldofhazem, works in a register that sits somewhere between retro-futurist poster art and speculative urban cartography. Across the five pieces gathered here — Cyberlahore, Desi Alien Attack, New Doha, The Lost City of Kites, and Truck and the Beanstalk […]

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Cynthia Zhang

Biography Cynthia Zhang (b. 1992, China) is a contemporary abstract artist and writer living and working between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Her practice explores vitality, perception, nature, and transformation through painting.Working with atmospheric colour fields, fluid gestures, and layered material relationships, Zhang creates abstract spaces in which forms emerge, dissolve, and remain open to perception. […]

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Mary McCoy

Biography My Path becoming an artist is a testament to resilience and the rediscovery of a long-held passion. My early aptitude for art was met with discouragement; years flew. It was during the widespread lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic that Critchley found herself drawn back to her creative roots. A suggestion from an online carers’ […]

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Danielle Vibert

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Danielle Vibert works in clay the way a geologist reads a cliff face — attentive to strata, to the marks time and pressure leave behind. Across the body of work surveyed here, from wheel-thrown functional ware to freestanding sculptural forms, a consistent preoccupation emerges: the ceramic object as a small, handleable […]

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