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Hiroshi Hayakawa – Exclusive Magazine Preview

Born in Japan, Hayakawa studied French Literature at Keio University before moving to the United States to pursue a career in the visual arts. He later earned degrees from Columbus College of Art and Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art, establishing an internationally recognized practice while teaching at CCAD.

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Inside the World of Hiroshi Hayakawa

The Guide Artists proudly presents a new collectible art book celebrating the extraordinary work of Hiroshi Hayakawa, featuring a carefully curated selection of artworks created between 2012 and 2026.

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Jara Marzulli

Retrospective art book by Jara Marzulli featuring works from 2004–2026. A visual journey through her artistic evolution and poetic universe.

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Kamila Gruszecka

Discover the new book on Kamila Gruszecka, featuring her contemporary figurative paintings exploring femininity, identity, and motherhood.

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THIERRY CARRIER

Thierry Carrier has built a deeply introspective body of work, defined by silence and an emotional tension that is difficult to fully name. His paintings place the viewer before solitary figures, suspended within bare landscapes, where gesture, gaze, and posture seem to contain a story that is never completely revealed.

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Yuriko Shirou

Yuriko Shirou is a Mexican contemporary illustrator known for her distinctive visual universe blending manga, American comics, and figurative art. This monograph by The Guide Artists presents a curated collection of her work from 2017 to the present.

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Daria Kropacheva

Discover the new Daria Kropacheva art book exploring realism, symbolism, and the human body through emotionally charged contemporary painting.

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Kimi Kuruhara

Discover Kimi Kuruhara, a captivating art book showcasing the delicate and emotionally resonant work of one of today's most distinctive contemporary Japanese figurative artists.

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Paco Martín

Paco Martín is a hyperrealist artist working primarily with colored pencils. Although his academic background lies in forestry engineering and mathematics, drawing has been a constant presence in his life since childhood, driven by a deep need to observe and interpret reality.

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Kevin Slaby - Curator´s Choice

Born in Nebraska in 1966, Kevin Slaby is an American realist figurative painter whose work explores the strength, beauty, and presence of women through imaginative and often surreal visual narratives. Combining technical precision with a refined sense of storytelling, he constructs paintings that merge realism and imagination, transforming carefully observed details into atmospheric compositions rich in symbolism and emotional depth.

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Anne-Stéphanie Le Roy García

Born in Almería in 1973 to a French father and a Spanish mother, Anne-Stéphanie Le Roy García, artistically known as Almeriane, has developed a deeply personal artistic path rooted in an early and intuitive connection with art. A self-taught painter educated between Spain and France, she began drawing at the age of three and soon found in portraiture a profound territory of expression, where the gaze becomes the emotional and spiritual center of the work.

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BENITO GARCÍA

Born in Mexico City in 1999, Benito García is an architect and visual artist whose work combines technical precision, poetic sensitivity, and symbolic depth. His artistic language, rooted in realism and magical realism, reveals a strong interest in atmosphere, memory, and the emotional resonance of images.

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MANUEL MARTÍ MORENO

Manuel Martí Moreno, born in Valencia in 1979, has developed a sculptural language where matter, emptiness, structure, and existential reflection converge with remarkable intensity. His work stands out for its ability to transform strong, resistant materials into forms that appear light, fragile, and almost suspended in time.

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MEGAN ELIZABETH READ

Megan (Mae) Elizabeth Read is an American figurative artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Largely self-taught, she began her artistic practice working in charcoal and pencil before transitioning to oil painting, which now serves as her primary medium. Her work ranges from intimate still lifes to large-scale figurative paintings, with a particular focus on the female form.

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Hiroshi Hayakawa

Originally from Japan and currently based in the United States, Hiroshi Hayakawa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans a wide range of media and techniques. His practice includes drawing, painting, kinetic sculpture, alternative photography, and paper-based works, forming a constantly evolving visual universe.

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International Figurative Drawing

The Guide Artists is proud to present a selection of outstanding figurative artists from around the world. Figurative art plays a vital role in documenting both individual and cultural narratives, offering insight into the human condition across time and place. From everyday life to complex emotional and social realities, figurative practice communicates through a universal visual language, reflecting the experiences, values, and challenges that define us.

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DANIELLE JON

Daniela Ion (b. 1996, Huesca, Spain), known professionally as Danielle Jon, develops a practice grounded in figurative drawing, where graphite on cotton paper becomes a vehicle for psychological and symbolic inquiry. Based in Zaragoza, her work explores identity, vulnerability, and the internal tensions of the body, approached as an emotional terrain in constant transformation.

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The Art of Landscape

In this section of The Guide Artists Magazine, we explore landscape as both subject and concept—highlighting contemporary interpretations alongside reimagined classical perspectives. Each feature reveals a distinct way of engaging with the natural environment, transforming terrain, atmosphere, and silence into intentional artistic composition.

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Antonio Cavagnaro - Between Emotion and Intuition: An Open Narrative

Antonio Cavagnaro, an Italian- Chilean painter, has built a career defined by coherence, technical discipline, and a profound commitment to the language of figurative painting. His work does not arise from improvisation or trends, but from a sustained dedication to observation, structure, and the permanence of the image as a space for reflection. Each stage of his journey has strengthened a solid artistic vision, where academic rigor coexists with a contemporary sensitivity that understands painting as a territory of resistance and contemplation.

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Danco Robert Duportai: Memory, Silence and Fragment

Duportai studied at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Eduardo Abela in San Antonio de los Baños before graduating from the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro in Havana. He began painting consciously at the age of ten, a moment he describes as the beginning of a compulsion rather than a choice.

Now living and working in Mexico, the young Cuban artist has developed a distinctive visual language through dreamlike oil paintings that merge classical technique with a contemporary sensibility. Rooted in academic realism, his work unfolds slowly, constructing scenes marked by introspection, silence, and a sustained narrative tension.

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