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Marcin G. Otapowicz

Marcin G. Otapowicz, born in 1978 in Białystok, Poland, is a multifaceted and compelling figure: an artist, inventor, entrepreneur, and sculptor.

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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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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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Nicole Bruce

Nicole Bruce is a sculptor who explores the human condition through clay, creating conceptually charged and deeply emotive works that invite viewers to reflect on existence and the complexity of the human soul.

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Julia Eichbauer

Julia Eichbauer (b. 1986) was born and raised in a small Austrian village near the Czech border. After completing high school, she devoted herself to languages and literature, studying Romance languages at the University of Graz.

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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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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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Maudie Brady

Maudie Brady is an established mid-career sculptor whose distinctive artistic voice is rooted in the classical tradition while remaining deeply connected to contemporary approaches to portraiture and the human figure.

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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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Eric Vanel

Eric Vanel seeks to touch the soul. His vivid figurative sculptures, defined by powerful and expressive attitudes, tell stories that provoke emotion, raise questions, and take us on a journey between reality and imaginary worlds. The artist’s favorite themes are the strength and intensity of the feminine, as well as the personification of the wild world and its instinctive energy.

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Francesca Dalla Benetta

She was born in Florence, Italy, on a hot summer day. Her childhood was shaped by her grandmother, who took her to museums throughout the city and told her wonderful stories about the lives of the great Renaissance artists. When she was not with her, she spent long afternoons drawing, painting, or making small sculptures.

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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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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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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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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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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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Editorial – Issue 91

In this June issue, we are especially pleased to present new talent defined by freshness, elegance, and, above all, sensitivity. We believe art reveals itself most powerfully when it is allowed to exist in its most honest state, when its presence feels both immediate and enduring. It is through that sensitivity that we are able to appreciate new visual languages, refined approaches, and emerging perspectives that continue to shape both the professional and emerging spheres of art. Over the years, our community has brought together outstanding artists whose work reflects a remarkable range of expression and technical ability, from deeply intimate works to pieces of extraordinary presence and material strength. Each new edition becomes, for us, another opportunity to continue that dialogue between mastery, discovery, and artistic evolution.

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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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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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Editorial – Issue 90

At The Guide Artists, we believe that art deserves serious, carefully curated, and visually powerful spaces where it can be presented with the dignity it deserves. For this reason, this catalogue has been conceived as an editorial and commercial platform designed not only to showcase artworks, but also to bring them closer to the international art market through a refined, professional, and carefully structured publication.

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