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Interview with Alexandrea Nicholas-Jennings

Alexandrea Nicholas-Jennings is a Classically Trained Portrait and Imaginative Artist from Niagara, living and working in Toronto, Canada.

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Marcos Rey: A Book That Reveals the World Behind His Paintings

Marcos Rey is a Spanish painter born in 1978. A self-taught artist, he has devoted more than fifteen years exclusively to painting, developing a distinctive visual language through constant practice, experimentation, and disciplined study. Working primarily from his studio in Arequipa, Peru, he has continuously refined both his technique and artistic vision, building a body of work that reflects an unwavering commitment to artistic excellence.

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Interview with Greg Rutkowski

Grzegorz (Greg) Rutkowski was born on June 26, 1988, in Zgorzelec, Poland. His passion for art began at a very young age. As a child, he spent countless hours creating simple drawings and comics inspired by pirates, superheroes, and the limitless worlds of his imagination.

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Jara Marzulli

Jara Marzulli was born in Bari, Italy, in 1977. From an early age, she was fascinated by the human figure and began exploring portraiture through pencil drawing and watercolor. She graduated from the Liceo Artistico di Bari and later completed her studies the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari with highest honors.

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Interview with Anikó Boda

This month’s issue is dedicated to Anikó Boda, an artist whose practice establishes a compelling dialogue between classical tradition, technical rigor, and contemporary visual inquiry.

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Brett Andrus

Brett Andrus is a Colorado-born figurative painter whose career has been shaped by discipline, resilience, and a deep commitment to the emotional power of painting. His work explores the human figure as a space for memory, vulnerability, transformation, and psychological tension.

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Halee Roth

Halee Roth’s work explores the relationship between the human figure, nature, light, and emotional experience.

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Dorielle Caimi

Dorielle Caimi (b. 1985) is an American oil painter living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned her BFA in Painting, graduating summa cum laude in 2010. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has received significant recognition within the field of contemporary figurative painting.

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Interview with Mónica Fernández

Mónica Fernández is featured in this edition of The Guide Artists with a body of work that is intense, symbolic, and deeply emotional. Her surreal universe explores human fragility, loneliness, fear, and the contradictions that shape our existence.

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Diego Lago

Diego Lago (Buenos Aires, 1981) is an Argentine- Spanish visual artist who lives and works in Vigo, Spain. At the age of eight, he moved to Galicia and settled in Santiago de Compostela, where he began his early artistic education and established his first connection with the visual arts.

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Interview with Hannah Yata

Hannah Yata stars on the cover of our Summer Specials with a vibrant image filled with color, light, and imagination. After 10 years, The Guide Artists continues to champion new visual languages and artists who transform nature, fantasy, and symbolism into works of extraordinary impact.

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Interview with Lisa Rickard

Lisa Rickard’s artistic practice is rooted in Imaginative Realism, a language in which the human figure becomes a symbolic vessel for expressing invisible realities. Her paintings often begin with abstract ideas developed through graphite drawing, before evolving into luminous compositions where light appears to move, breathe, and dance across the human form. Born in Philadelphia, Rickard discovered her fascination with the allegorical figure during her teenage years, when she began drawing regularly from a live nude model who was also a ballet dancer. This early experience shaped her sensitivity to movement, gesture, and the expressive potential of the body.

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Interview with Tomás Carlos Ortolani

Tomás Carlos Ortolani (born in 1992 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is a contemporary figurative painter whose work bridges realism, symbolism, and the unconscious. After studying illustration and later specializing in realistic oil painting while pursuing Visual Arts at the National University of Córdoba, he developed a distinctive artistic language defined by technical mastery and psychological depth.

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Interview with Luis Enrique Toledo

Luis E. Toledo invites us into a universe where memory, spirituality, and imagination converge. Through masterfully crafted compositions, he creates dreamlike narratives populated by luminous figures, symbolic elements, and mysterious atmospheres that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy.

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Interview with José Luis Ramírez

José Luis Ramírez (Durango, Mexico, 1981) is an artist trained at the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Crafts of the Juárez University of the State of Durango (EPEA-UJED). His practice has developed consistently over more than two decades, establishing a visual language deeply connected to the observation of the social environment, collective memory, and the cultural dynamics of his context.

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Interview with Eduardo Landa

Eduardo Landa approaches painting from a position that feels uncommon today: that of an artist who prefers the work to preserve its silence, its mystery, and its own authority. In his case, painting does not mean constructing a narrative around each image or explaining literally what should first emerge through the act of looking. His work moves in another direction, more restrained, more honest, and also more demanding: allowing the painting to sustain, by itself, everything it contains.

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Sculpture Covers Vault

Discover a curated archive of the most iconic and influential sculpture covers. This collection features artists such as Candice Angelini, Irina Shark, and Angela Mia De la Vega, highlighting expressive forms, contemporary aesthetics, and diverse approaches within today’s sculptural art. Designed to inspire and engage, this selection offers a focused insight into the visual language and emotional depth of contemporary sculpture.

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Interview with Ignacio Chávez

Ignacio de Jesús Chávez stands as one of the most solid and distinctive figures in contemporary Mexican painting. His career, marked by decades of international exhibitions in Mexico, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, and the United States, reflects a path built on technical rigor, conceptual research, and a profound understanding of visual language.

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Interview with Ioanna Stefou

Ioanna Stefou is an architect and painter currently based in Athens, Greece. Fascinated by painting from a very young age, she gradually developed a deep passion for realism and for the expressive power of the human figure. After working as an architect for more than a decade, painting became her primary focus, especially after 2014, when she attended a course at the New York Academy of Art.

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Interview with Raúl Campos

Raúl Campos Herrera (Querétaro, 1992) is a Mexican figurative painter whose work has steadily established itself as one of the most compelling voices within contemporary realism in Latin America. Rooted in a rigorous academic foundation, his practice is centered on the human figure as a primary vehicle for narrative and introspection, allowing him to investigate themes such as the human condition, psychological tension, and collective memory.

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