Artists

Formed as an architect but photographer by vocation, Daniel Rueda soon became one of the best storytellers of the moment. He began photographing the streets and buildings of his adopted city, Valencia, until imagination and creativity took possession of his gallery.

His aim, simply put, is to tell elegant yet joyful stories using a single frame, while speaking about the beauty of architecture trough his minimal approach.

Today there are many brands and agencies that dispute his eye for geometry and visual poetry.

Born to B free 1983, Israel.
Out of love for cinema, body art and aesthetics, I direct scenes which display stories that delight the eye.
Using precise composition, I convey a three-dimensional feeling in my photographs, that viewers wish to be part of and jump into.
Through ambient photography I wish to capture colorful situations, give them their well-deserved attention, be present in them, and feel at ease.
I print my works on fragile materials which over the years become rough and tell a romantic story.
My inspiration box is filled with self-search between the material world and the world of spirituality, experimenting with psychedelic substances, endless learning, and the perpetual desire for freedom…

Gregory Watin, originally from France, has been internationally recognized for his very unique “urban” style. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the USA for the last 15 years.

He takes a picture he uses as a sketch. He immerses himself of all things that give strength to this urban landscapes, he looks at these structures marked by time and gathers all these elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places.

Born in 1950, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Graduated from Vilnius University and Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Since 1991 lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Active in painting, graphics, small-scale sculpture.

Taught at BASIS School 1993-2014.

Taught painting and calligraphy at BASIS For Art and Culture 2015 – 2019.

Teaches at CAN New Artists’ Collegium.

Sharon Blu is a Tel Aviv based visual artist whose practice spans large-scale painting and clay sculpture. Since 2020, she has developed an intuitive, material-driven approach that combines painting, drawing, and three-dimensional elements. Working primarily on large canvases, her process integrates a wide range of materials including acrylic, oil, charcoal, watercolor, markers, and recycled organic components. Through this layered methodology, her works explore the relationship between material, memory, and the human figure.

Her work centers on the human body as an unstable and evolving site, positioned between the personal and social sides. Figureness in her practice is often fragmented, reconstructed, or mechanically echoed, creating tension between vulnerability and structure, softness and control.

Blu has exhibited  in Israel and internationally. Her exhibition history includes solo and group exhibitions at Danielle Peled Art Gallery (Michigan), ADC Fine Art Gallery (Cincinnati), 187 Contemporary Art Gallery and Soma gallery, as well as participation in Red Dot Miami (2022). She has also shown work in curated group exhibitions at Ben-Ami Gallery and in thematic exhibitions addressing social and cultural questions. Since 2020, her work has been consistently presented in gallery contexts in Israel and the United States.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (B.A) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Fordham University, New York. Alongside her artistic practice, this academic background informs a rigorous conceptual framework and a sustained engagement with issues of structure, ethics, and human systems.

Urban abstract expressionism artist Tommy Lennartsson draws on the visual culture of street and pop art when creating his original vibrant mixed-media artworks. He employs a mix of abstract and figurative elements that give nods to neo-expressionism, faux-naїf, pop, and geometric abstraction schools of art.

Lennartsson builds up his canvases with charcoal, acrylic, gouache, ink, and spray paint, and occasionally sews and stitches elements together to create striking scenes that ignite the viewer’s imagination.

Color interactions and the interplay of light and darkness are important to Lennartsson. The unique and playful compositions range from geometrical forms to figures, objects, and pop culture icons layered over fluid gestural expressions.

Because of his intuitive style, no two works are the same and each one explores something fresh and exciting.
“When I look at my paintings, I’m taken back to my childhood of endless doodling on my bedroom floor,” the artist describes.

His work has been featured in the Spanish arts and culture magazine Lamono and was selected as the cover art for the Spring 2019 issue of New England Review.

In 2020 he was  also published in the Saatchi Art Catalog as an featured artist. Lennartsson has exhibited extensively in both group and solo shows across the world, including the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and China.

1999-2001 Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem
2017 – 2023 Painting studies at the “hatahana-studio” in the masterclass program, with the artist David Nippo

2023- Teaches painting in a private studio in Herzliya

Specializes in the pastel medium in portrait, landscape and still life paintings

A variety of paintings were sold to collectors

Raul Tejada born in 1975 in the island of the Dominican Republic. At the age of 13 Raul
and his family migrated to the United State and called New York City their new home. As a kid
Raul loved reading comic books, and not only was he fascinated by the stories but also by the
incredible drawings and colors within the pages, then it was as a teenager seeing graffiti on the
trains and walls all over New York City that sparked his desire to become an artist. As a self
taught artist, Raul worked for many years as a muralist, but now turns his attention to work on
canvas and the fine arts.

Born in 1991, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Flora was exposed to the practice of art from a very young age. Her mother, also an artist, worked her
home studio establishing the ethos of creativity and artistic discipline in Castiglia’s person early.

The artist’s first works were interpretations of record covers and artistic designs developed for musicians.
Later she studied communication with an orientation in arts

In her works she mixes geometric aspects of nature and dreamlike.

¨Not everything has to be seen as it is. Encrypted information has to be decoded. Nothing is simple and
ephemeral nor literal. The information could be misleading, it is necessary to stop for a while to observe.
Meaning is underneath.¨

A journey through archetypes, visions and nightmares of childhood.

Attracted by the most hidden parts of human nature, it descends in its depths in search of the original figures. Emanuele Tozzoli lives his art as a deep path of openness and knowledge, investigating the subtle nature of artistic composition.

With an instinctive and visceral workflow, it lets loose what comes from the unconscious, using a recurring symbology. Each work is the result of a primitive flow where the painting becomes the materialization of a dreamlike and extravagant interior world.

Emanuele Tozzoli elaborates a unique working method that summarizes all the experiences gained in the artistic and working field.

In his paintings he uses an instinctive and visceral worklfow, through which he creates a deep connection between his inner part and the present moment.

Tozzoli lives his art as a deep path of openness and knowledge, in which each painting becomes the materialization of an introspective, dreamlike and extravagant world.

He uses a recurring symbology characteristic of his style that recalls the original forms of childhood.

Aliya lives and works in Munich, Germany. In 2011 she graduated from the Art Academy in Lviv, Ukraine, with a master’s degree.

She slowly discovered abstract and linear art for herself, after she became a mother and this preference for abstraction in her art is increasing ever since. This evolution in her work is rooted in Aliyas belief that even life is easier to understand in an abstract manor. Meaning that one’s thinking process should consist of successfully omitting any irrelevant details and therefore moving on to the core of something more general and simple.

With the desire to put her feelings onto the canvas she transforms the invisible to something visible and tangible. This artistic progress has helped her to finally free herself from her academic work.

Aliya works mainly on traditional media such as canvases and paper for her paintings and drawings.

With her diverse mix of genres from minimalist still lifes to portraits and figurative art, she offers her audience a wide range of contemporary subjects.

On the one hand her artistic work is influenced by academic teaching and on the other hand by the real every day life with her two children. In addition, there are influences from different cultures of our globalized society.

Aliya classifies her favorite motifs into three categories: “PEOPLE”, “PLACES”, “THINGS”. So, the current works are mainly about people, places of living and furnishings – from table scenes with vases to fashion and accessories from everyday life.

The focus of her current works are naive shapes and natural colors. She works with dynamic brushstrokes as well as with calm color surfaces. By combining earth tones and intense contrasts, she takes her audience into a modern world of color.

The “completion” of a work comes in different steps. Some works are created quickly, some take time, are edited several times, supplemented or even painted over partially. It depends a lot on Aliya’s emotional mood and condition. A fresh eye or a refreshed look to the work often provides clarity on adjustments. Techniques used: Acrylic and oil pastel pencils on canvas.

The most important sources of inspiration for her works are trends and movements in modern art from the beginning of the 20th century until today, but especially the real, naive world of her children.

American Artist Shilo Ratner received her degree in design in 2000 from Curry College in Milton, MA.
She furthered her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as well as at Massachusetts College of Art.

Her pursuit of a career in the arts brought her out west to San Francisco where she earned her MFA in painting from the Academy of Art University in 2006.

Ratner’s life long pursuit has been for a deeper understanding of truths in spiritual
traditions and the common thread that unites humanity.

After earning her MFA, she traveled internationally with intention, intrigued by the symbols and practices of many religions. During her travels she visited Buddhist and Hindu temples in Malaysia and
Indonesia.

In a rural village in Brazil, she had a powerful shift in consciousness that continues to inspire her studio practice. These significant experiences have influenced her work, embracing various spiritual and cultural experiences through a visual language.

In 2009, Ratner was recognized with an award juried by Bay Area Figurative artist William Theophilus Brown in a San Francisco based exhibition. In, 2016 she was once again presented with an award at the “The 105th Exhibition”, Mystic Museum of Art by Jurors Darby Cardonsky and Will Lustenader in Connecticut.

In 2017, Ratner’s work was again awarded at the“116th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”, New Haven Paint and Clay Club by Juror Richard Klein. Ratner’s work has been exhibited in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Mystic Museum of Art and The Slater Memorial Museum. Ratner’s work can be found in myriad of private art collections in the United States and abroad. Shilo Ratner currently lives in New Haven, CT

In 2022, Sally Dunbar completed her degree in print-media and drawing from the Australian National University. Subsequently, she relocated back to Canberra, Australia, where she currently resides and works.
During her time in Japan, Sally was captivated by Japanese Woodblock Prints and Wagara, which focus on utilizing design and pattern in printmaking. She draws inspiration from the use of repeated motifs to create structure, rhythm, and order in her own work. Sally seamlessly intertwines human stories with these foundational elements by exploring everyday human interactions and scenes.

Sarah Svetlana is a Los Angeles based artist who, as a painter, explores the fragmentation of the subject in an ongoing search for home.

An agency model, turned art model, Sarah Svetlana used her body as the first medium in her initial search for identity and self-expression—her upbringing in the irreconcilable cultures of Soviet Belarus and Immigrant America, has drawn and painted roadmaps between two worlds.

Her paintings do not only suggest hectic movement, but the stillness locked in each gesture of that movement.

Her work is “rooted somewhere between the insanity of Kandinsky and the line-certainty of the early 20th century Futurists.” Each painting is a piece to the complex topography that defines both her identity and her work.

Through the narratives created by a methodical application of color, she delivers an invocation of home— spectral and surreal, but familiar too.