Most people who haven’t handled a DSLR camera up close often wonder why the photographer has to dial or turn something whenever they take a picture. It’s like they have to get a certain angle or zoom before they click the button that captures the scene for the picture. Sometimes, photographers...

The oil paintings of Tina Chirinashvili are firmly connected with her country’s culture. Georgia, bordering the Black Sea and on the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, has a rich and complicated history with periods under Persian and Russian rule. With famous Georgian painters in her...

France has considerably eased covid-measures, which means European visitors are now welcomed again with open arms. At this moment, everything France stands for is there to be enjoyed: sun, sea, nature, the terraces, and cuisine. And, of course, art. France is packed with art. The French Tourist...

The First World War centenary made Dutch illustrator Tim van Broekhuizen realise how little he and other people in The Netherlands today know about this important conflict. He decided to study the war years 1914-1918 and, as a visual arts teacher eager to pass on knowledge, is now completing an...

The passing of time and the inevitability of death have always featured large for the Dutch artist Mirjam Verschoor. In previous generations her family suffered tragic loss, and at a very young age she herself was so ill doctors did not expect her to survive. Later, illness hit again. But...

Kimberly Poppe’s photography is led by a contemplative approach to experiencing and seeing the world. Her refined, abstract compositions are based on visual openness and joy, with an instinctive attraction to colour, texture, light and coincidence. Influenced by her two decades of studying and...