Originally from Toronto, Elise Mendelle moved to London where she now lives with her husband, three children and dog. Initially painting as a way to relax and unwind, her artistry has over the years developed a great sense of identity and purpose.

Her emerging art career began at Artrooms in Rome where she was selected from over 900 applicants to take part in a dynamic exhibition. Since then, Interest in Elise’s work has continued to grow on a global scale with shows in Venice, New York, Madrid, Lisbon and London and her pieces continue to be acquired across the globe including Urban Cotton Interior Design Specialists in the Netherlands.

Her most sought for collection ‘The Power Of Connection’ celebrates the emotion behind our most cherished connections! From laughing with friends to sharing a loving moment, the paintings within this series add meaning, memory and a feeling of joy to one’s life.

Since she can remember, UK based artist Flavia Ingham has loved creating and has continued doing so all her life whether it be drawing, painting, collage, sewing or knitting. As the daughter of adventurous parents, Flavia moved a lot as a child, within Europe, Africa and here in the UK. As an adult she spent many years in Canada.

“This rather nomadic life has led me to South East London where I feel at home in its cultural mix. I think my painting and creative style is fed by my love of colour and shape and interest in the world. I expect the way I interpret things has been influenced by the places I have lived. My ideas and methods can be a bit quirky but I allow myself to go with it. It is so freeing and for me, that is what my creative process is about. Painting makes me happy and is a deep seated part of me. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t feel that way.” - Flavia Ingham

Megan Ward is a UK based Fine Arts Artist, with a Mixed Media Fine Art degree from the University of Westminster. Her study saw her pursue her desire to create pieces identifiable to her artistic style yet appealing to the masses. Having come from a background where art wasn’t the most accessible form of creativity, Megan found herself recreating what was around her, constantly capturing family members, magazine covers or whatever she could find. These experiences were what sparked her love for portraiture.

Megan is constantly working on pushing the boundaries of traditional portraiture by distorting the face while keeping it identifiable.

Inspired by artists such as Jenny Saville and Francis Bacon whose works are able to portray real and identifiable emotions through manipulation of face or body in a dramatic way yet still keeping it recognisable. Megan’s artistic process involves taking images a step from reality by either experimenting with textures, brushstrokes or using different mediums. Her recent focus on how colour can change and how a portrait is received, delves deeply into the psychology of colour. Whether she can use her works to provoke a reaction or capture attention are key components of Megan’s work.

Architect and Multidisciplinary Artist, Chidinma Yemisi Mordi, better known as Cyra, is influenced by her Nigerian heritage and passion for preserving through her artistry. Known for being adaptive when it comes to tackling challenges and concerns in the field of architecture, Cyra aims to achieve synergy of art and architecture by utilising diverse design technologies, traditional art methods, digital design applications and several other mediums while polishing her abilities in art and design.

As a mixed media artist, Cyra utilises acrylic paint, oil pastels, canvas, paper, newspapers, ink pens, and just about every other medium she can think of. Her enthusiasm towards sustainability and preservation of indigenous art and architecture transfers into a variety of creative skills within her artistry.

Born in 1990, Oluwadare Kolawole Samson artistically known as Olu Samson hails from Ondo State Nigeria.

As an artist, he excels in the use of colour configuration and the art of transforming geometric figure of painting by representing it in form of a realistic figure.

He explores the unlimited potential of chromatic and tonal scales, visual planes and volume within a two-dimensional framework. Viewing his dynamic and exuberant works of art is an exciting kinetic experience.

As a colour Field painter, Olu Samson loves painting with oil and acrylic mediums. His palette is innovative and complex as he mixes more than 25 different oil paints to create every colour in his painting.

In 2017, Olu Samson has participated in the renowned ADAPTSA exhibition held at The Polytechnic Ibadan and the Talentila Foundation Art Competition in India of which out of 873 participants across 53 countries, was awarded second place. As his artistry continues to transcend worldwide, Olu Samson’s messages transfuses opposing concepts as a way to inform and shift mentalities.

Fine art has been his passion since he was young. He loves working on his paintings and he was inspired by figure and by representing it in form of portraiture. He love many art styles, but realism is what he really love most . As a realism artist, his approach to a subject is to portray it as it appears in life, just as God created it.

However Olu Samson admires other art styles such as impressionism and abstract art. For example, Vincent Van Gogh and Picasso are among his favourite artists whose artistic styles reflect this. Closer to home, Nigerian artists of great influence on Samson’s works include, Oluwole Omofemi and Kehinde Wiley’s known floral background paintings.

For Olu Samson, painting with oils is a traditional form of art that many of the Old Masters used when making their masterpieces. His art uses unique symbolic hairstyles and a beautiful floral backgrounds to express the artistic cultural, material and social process, forming part of the unfolding African post colonial modernity.