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Editorial – Issue 79
Before closing the year, we want to express our deepest gratitude. This 2025 allowed us to meet someone who has shown us respect, friendship, and mutual admiration. It has been a pleasure working alongside him on his book, his exhibition, and supporting his professional growth. We are speaking of Santi Pina, who features on one of our most meaningful covers of the year and embodies everything The Guide Artists represents: talent, dedication, and passion.
Exclusive Interview with Kikyz1313
In this interview, we featured kikyz1313, an artist who guided us toward discovering art from a completely different perspective. From our first encounter with her work, we felt an immediate connection to her visual universe—a world rich in detail, emotion, and narrative that invites viewers to slow down and look more closely.
Every Issue Reborn: Explore Our Archive . Issue 4
In this section, we will revisit our magazine’s archives, issue by issue, recalling the most memorable articles, interviews, photographs, and standout moments from each edition. It is a space to relive the history of our publication and to discover (or rediscover) content that defined an era.
Happy Holidays and Welcome 2026!
Happy Holidays and Welcome 2026. 10 Years of Art, Community, and International Vision. As we reach the end of the year, we would like to pause for a moment to look back with gratitude and look ahead with excitement. 2025 has been a year of consolidation, growth, and reflection, and 2026 will mark a historic milestone for us: 10 years of The Guide Artists.
The Emotion of Portraiture: Ioanna Stefou
Ioanna Stefou (born 1981 in Lamia, Greece) is a contemporary painter based in Athens. Her work focuses on the exploration of human nature, using painting as an intimate and direct form of communication capable of revealing emotional states, inner tensions, and profound psychological aspects of the human experience.
Kateryna Reznichenko: Exploring Human Duality in Contemporary Painting
Born in 1997 in Lviv, Ukraine, Kateryna Reznichenko is a contemporary artist whose practice centers on figurative painting. She currently lives and works in Seattle, United States. Her work reflects a deep interest in emotional states, human vulnerability, and the concept of duality—how opposing aspects of identity coexist within a single individual.
With a background rooted in classical training and monumental art, Reznichenko brings technical precision to works that remain intuitive and emotionally open-ended.
Exclusive Interview with Guillermo Lorca
In May 2017, The Guide Artists proudly featured Guillermo Lorca on the cover of Issue 3, including an exclusive and highly significant interview. In this in-depth conversation, Lorca shares his artistic journey, creative philosophy, and the vision that drives his work. This special feature stands as a milestone for the magazine, highlighting an artist whose story continues to inspire and shape contemporary art.
Every Issue Reborn: Explore Our Archive . Issue 3
In this section, we will revisit our magazine’s archives, issue by issue, recalling the most memorable articles, interviews, photographs, and standout moments from each edition. It is a space to relive the history of our publication and to discover (or rediscover) content that defined an era.
Editorial – Issue 78
Our cover embodies this perfectly: Marissa Oosterlee. Her art, intense, technical and profoundly human, reflects that search for truth that we value so deeply. Her portraits, often submerged in water, invite us to look beyond the surface. In every face she paints there is a calm that arrives after the storm, a reminder that beauty is not found in perfection but in the sincerity of the process.
In Conversation with Iryna Götz: Insights and Inspiration
Educated at the National University of Volhynia (2005–2010), where she earned a Master’s degree in Fine and Decorative Applied Arts, Iryna Götz has developed a distinctive figurative language rooted in emotion, memory, and psychological depth. Her work explores the subtle border between innocence and experience, often through the depiction of female figures imbued with a quiet intensity.
Every Issue Reborn: Explore Our Archive . Issue 2
In this section, we will revisit our magazine’s archives, issue by issue, recalling the most memorable articles, interviews, photographs, and standout moments from each edition. It is a space to relive the history of our publication and to discover (or rediscover) content that defined an era.
Exclusive Interview with Aof Smith. Issue 1
Discover the first exclusive interview in our magazine with Aof Smith. Explore his journey, inspiration, and vision in a conversation that marks the launch of our publication. Read the full interview and dive into Aof Smith's story.
Every Issue Reborn: Explore Our Archive . Issue 1
In this section, we will revisit our magazine’s archives, issue by issue, recalling the most memorable articles, interviews, photographs, and standout moments from each edition. It is a space to relive the history of our publication and to discover (or rediscover) content that defined an era.
Mythology and Creation: The Artistic Universe of Romulo Royo
Romulo Royo is a Spanish artist of international standing, with a unique and distinctive pictorial language inspired by and drawing on diverse global and historical references. His work intertwines classical mythology and cinematic fantasy with illustration and comics from the 1970s and 1980s, reinterpreted from a contemporary perspective.
The Guide Artists: Moving Toward Our 10th Anniversary in 2026
The year 2026 will mark a very special milestone for The Guide Artists: we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary—a decade dedicated to art, creativity, and an international community that has grown with us from the very beginning.
Interview with Anna Wypych
Internationally recognized for her career and numerous distinctions, her work is included in both public and private collections across Europe and the United States. From her studio in Gdynia, she continues to develop a body of work that merges traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary approach, redefining figurative realism for the twenty-first century.
Editorial – Issue 77
Each issue of The Guide Artists is the result of a commitment that goes far beyond publishing a magazine or a book. It reflects years of dedication, a sincere passion for figurative art, and a constant desire to offer artists a space that is dignified, transparent, and honest.
This month, however, invites us to reflect. Not on art itself, but on the attitudes that threaten its very essence: disrespect, envy, and the intent to damage what has been built with effort and love. It is disheartening to see that, in an environment that should be guided by sensitivity and mutual admiration, there are still those who choose to destroy rather than contribute.
Jared Guerra Mirabal
Jared Guerra Mirabal showed an interest in art from a young age and was self-taught until the age of 24, when he decided to devote himself to art full-time. He explored various techniques until he developed his academic skills, which are based on oil painting.He has exhibited internationally. Currently, he resides in Barcelona, Spain where he continues to develop his artistic style. Through his work, he subtly invites us to discover a deeper symbolic, philosophical, and emotional meaning of the world.
Interview with Joaquín Morales Molero
Through works that explore solitude, memory, and the silent dignity of everyday life, Joaquín Morales elevates drawing to its purest form of storytelling. His portraits, both rural and urban, reveal introspective characters and the passage of time, while his technique, rooted in charcoal and Conté pencil, creates a tactile realism that feels both immediate and timeless.
Joaquín Maximiliano Portraying some amount of human essence
For Joaquín Maximiliano Martínez, figurative art is more than a discipline; it is a lens through which to understand the world, an intense and intimate dialogue between reality and imagination. His fascination with the human being, captured through subtle gestures and delicate sensations, anchors his practice in a search for what he considers essential.