Interview with Tero Porthan 1. Please tell us something about your background and your art journey so far. I’ve been drawing and painting my whole life. When I was very young, I remember waking up from a dream and immediately grabbing a paper or going to a canvas and painting the dream. Darker themes have always fascinated me: punk rock and underground comics of the 70’s, heavy metal with its imagery and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the eternal battle between light an

Interview with Ishtal 1. Please tell us something about your background and your art journey so far. Painting is my natural medium of expression. At present, I divide my artistic focus between two paths: an original series dedicated to the desert and an intensive study of the traditional art of Tezhip. The concept of the desert series emerged from the clash of two extreme realities—the dynamic metropolis and the absolute vastness of the desert. The city imposes a relentless p

Interview with Amber DeSilva 1. Please tell us something about your background and your art journey so far. I was taught to see the world through the eyes of my artistic mother and poetic father. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s in the Napa Valley, I was surrounded by artists, writers, and philosophers. Watercolor was a favorite medium of mine in high school, then I turned to acting and, many years later, returned to visual art during COVID quarantine. I deliberately avoided