FRANCESCA ARCIDIACO
Francesca Arcidiaco, born in Sicily but a long time resident in the U.K., has been a passionate artist all her life. Self-taught and naturally talented, she focused on watercolour and water-based art techniques in her teens and twenties. She graduated in Oriental History at Bologna University and has a Master Degree from SOAS (London). After a demanding career as a lobbyist in the financial sector, she moved to Japan in 2010.
Her discovery of Japanese art and culture reawakened her desire to paint and she practised Sumi-e and Nihonga for three+ years under the tutelage of professional artists. Her production of classic Japanese art in a variety of mediums was exhibited in Tokyo and attracted appreciation from Japanese art critics. She continues to paint in the classic Japanese styles and has received acclaim and commissions in recent years.
Her return to the UK in 2014 allowed Francesca the opportunity to hone Western painting techniques at accredited schools. She attended the Heatherley‘s School of Fine Art, West Dean College of Arts and advanced courses by professional artists.
Francesca’s artwork is heavily influenced by Japanese aesthetics and cultural principles. She says that the Japanese obsession with a realistic depiction of natural details has taught her to sharpen her perception and to see the subject in “super focus”. This results in paintings in which the essence of the subject portrayed shines clearly through in delicate realistic details. All her artwork is executed with original pigments and materials and is framed in Japan, by master artisans.
TANIA ISABEL BLOCK
Some life paths are not linear — in fact, I believe very few truly are.
My journey took me from studying business to founding my own event agency, which I successfully ran for twelve years. A professional reorientation led me through several coaching certifications, one-on-one coaching, and ultimately to the realization that my fulfillment lay elsewhere. Following my own creative impulses and inspired by the quote from Mary Ann Evans, “It is never too late to be what you might have been,” I began to pursue my artistic education and development more intensively.
In artistic exploration and the creative process, I find myself. I am now doing what I’ve always wanted to do — what has always defined me. This work brings me energy, inner peace, and self-expression, even if this path may not be the easiest or most financially rewarding. I’m interested in what lies beneath the surface — energy, emotions, movement, motivations, and showing oneself openly. In my paintings and sculptures, I try to capture these moments and energies. It’s about fleeting instants, a sense of a situation, a glimpse into the inner world.
My working style is often fast, as the moments themselves pass quickly. I’m drawn to the raw, rough, “unfinished” aspects — the edges and imperfections. Models in motion or in brief pauses. I focus on the everyday and yet extraordinary.
In my paintings, I enjoy working on large-format canvases using acrylics, egg tempera, and oil paints. I also work on different kinds of paper, creating mixed-media works using ink, watercolor, graphite, oil pastels, brush pens, and charcoal. Recycled paper and cardboard are materials I like to use for my sculptures, often combined with bark and branches. Bronze sculptures are created from wax sheets, and I also explore the many possibilities offered by clay and plaster.
*Palma, 1974
Visual artist, ceramist and musician.
Selected for the Noves Presències 2009 programme with a solo exhibition and catalogue at the Maneu Gallery, with works acquired by the Consell de Mallorca and Palmyra Sculpture Centre, and selected for the Gregorio Prieto Drawing Competition in the same year.
Co-founder of the Can Danús art space in Palma de Mallorca between 2008 and 2012. Since 2013, he has been living in London, where he produces ceramic, drawing and music works, with a solo exhibition at the Zetter Hotel in 2020 and group exhibitions at Spain NOW Festival, Thrown Gallery and Art in Clay Windsor, among others.
Recently, in 2024, thanks to a grant from the Arts Council, he participated in an artistic ceramics residency in Denmark and experimented with modelling and 3D printing processes applied to ceramics.
MANUEL CALVO
ISABEL CASTRO JUNG
I am a transdisciplinary artist who practices in performance, sculpture, film, photography and drawing.
My primary materials include textiles, ceramics and rubber, often integrating recycled garments and objects, my work investigates the meaning of conditions, interweaving narratives around migration, heritage and gender, and their influence on identity and sense of belonging.
My performative sculptures transform the wearer into hybrid beings within temporary shelters; for me, art is a transcendental and magical phenomenon; my actions are configured as transformative rituals, where the body and sculpture become vehicles for learning and experience, allowing me to address emotional, intellectual and spiritual questions.
JOAN CORTÉS
Of the sculptors working in the Balearic Islands, Joan Cortés (born in Pollença, Mallorca in 1964) is possibly the best known and also has one of the most distinctive sculptural languages.
Joan Cortés is known for his impressive sculptures and installations. Cortés' works are characterised by abstraction and minimalism. He works with metal, wood and stone to create complex and expressive compositions. His use of organic and geometric forms and volumes is remarkable. He juxtaposes positive and negative spaces to create a dynamic tension. Cortés' works of art invite the viewer to make their own interpretations. His sculptures are characterised by great calm. His drawings play with curves and surfaces.
A description of his sculptural work:
The delicateness that is manifest not only in the treatment of the pieces that make up the work, but also in the way some of the forms have of embracing the others to create new forms and to make us feel the combined vibration; the fragility, as a characteristic, not so much physical, but of feelings; it gives a very particular feeling of accumulation, an accumulation that has nothing to do with Barroquism, but rather with maximum purification, the minimum amount of gestures, the essential elements.
It is the diversity that repetition can offer when the artist has a command over the codes of composition, and the lightness of that which appears to be weightless, of that which offers the sensation of separating itself from the earth and rising, as the things of the soul or the things that emerge from the soul rise, and going directly to it.
The white of practically all his works creates effects of light and shade that naturally contribute to a final modelling of the forms. It is the artist’s own poetry, a white poetry, subtle and captivating, that, from its diaphanous spirit, proffers a feeling of wellbeing, interior peace and a silence that never disturbs.
BJDAVID
I am delighted to be able to help Cats Protection Pollensa in their important work. I love cats and have enjoyed painting them over the years in many styles from hyper realistic to the whimsical.
A range of my paintings can be seen on my website. If you look thoroughly you will see a short video of my late studio cat Spluffy who came from Cats Protection London.
HELEN & COLIN DAVID
Helen David (* 1955, UK) lives and works in London.
• 1977-79 St Martin's School of Art, London
• 1974-77 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London
Helen David is a London-based visual artist, textile designer and founder of the ground-breaking design house English Eccentrics. Having established her earlier career in fashion-textiles, with her garments worn by the likes of Prince and Mick Jagger, she now works predominantly in fine art. Textiles remain Helen’s central medium, but taking a critical step back from producing clothing, she now interrogates the role of textiles in our social fabric.
Pincushions are transformed through scale and subject matter, from soft souvenirs into sites of social inquiry. One of these is in the current Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Large Scale "Rug Paintings" are another strand of her fine art textile work.
Colin David (* 1955, UK) lives and works in London.
• 2005 Royal College of Art, London, PEP
• 1974-77 Bedford College, University of London
• 1973 Atelier Beaux Arts, Paris
Working with his wife Helen David since 1987, Colin is a director of the ground-breaking design house, English Eccentrics.
A sense of place, history and ritual informs much of Colin’s work as a practicing artist, with his choice of often challenging materials and process reflecting the essence of each work. Public artworks include The Red Velvet Tree of Love, 2013, for the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum London -Christmas Tree project), and Catching Fire at the Fringe during the Folkestone Triennial in 2017.
CRISTHIAN DÍAZ URGELLES
I was born in Cuba and came to Pollença when I was only three years old. From a very early age I felt a special connection with drawing, a passion that seems to have been inherited, as my father, my uncle and my grandfather were painters. Although I did not grow up with them, this talent flowed naturally in me. I have always seen life as an animated story, and paper was my first stage to express it.
Over time, I perfected my technique, seeking not only to improve it, but to give it an authentic style of my own. Today, at the age of 31, I can say with certainty that art is not only a passion, but the purpose that gives meaning to my life.
GEA
* 1998, based in Vienna, Austria
Her interest in the living and organic is evident through mostly autonomous sculptures that become communicative counterparts to the human subject and body. The works speak of the artist‘s direct engagement with mostly reduced materials, which are shaped in a personal, often process-oriented manner. Her methods are only partially conventional, which is why the positioning within the tension between art, labour and craft seems to be constantly renegotiated.
PILAR GONZALEZ ARBOLEYA
She was born in Madrid and has lived in Pollença for more than 30 years.
In Madrid she attended the Escuela de Artes y Oficios where she took part in different workshops in painting and drawing techniques. In 1983 her work was selected for the Certamen de nuevos valores de la Fundación Claudio Coello, where she exhibited for the first time. She is a member of the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Palma where she attended the human figure drawing group and the group of watercolourists for 10 years. She is currently a member of the drawing group ‘Set moixes i un gat’ of the Pollença Club.
The review written by Damían Ramis Caubet, for the presentation of Pilar Arboleya's exhibition in Calviá, points out: "Pilar Arboleya's work grows wrapped by a drawing that embraces without enclosing, by lines that have the passion of the free stroke, her landscapes are the essence of remembered colours. Everything in Pilar Arboleya's work moves to the rhythm of an extraordinary sense of balance and composition, with clean colours that invade everything".
At the moment she is exploring urban sketching in mixed media, gouache painting and collage, the works she is exhibiting are a sample of this.
COLOMA JAUME CAMPOMAR
Born in Mallorca, she attended primary school in Puerto de Pollensa at the Miguel Capllonch school and secondary school in Sant Francesc de Inca. In her final year, she took part in an exchange programme in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (USA) and Cork (Ireland).
From a very young age, she always loved drawing. Her paternal grandmother, Coloma Vidal Marc, and her uncle, Antonio Jaume Vidal, were the main influences behind this sensitivity. Being a great painter herself, a disciple of Tito Citadini, she encouraged her granddaughter's passion for art.
After studying abroad, Coloma moved to Barcelona where she studied illustration at La Escuela Massana. She finished her studies at the age of 22 and for four years worked as a sailing instructor in the summers and travelled/worked/volunteered in the winters. At the age of 25, she decided to restore the Pensión Bellavista, owned by her other grandmother, Juana Albertí.
Since then, with more stability, she has devoted herself body and soul to animal protection, participating in many projects and co-founding CAT PROTECTION POLLENSA in 2017. Today, her main occupations are caring for animals (mainly cats) and running Pensión Bellavista, but she always leaves room for drawing and illustration.
ANTONIO JAUME VIDAL
* 1946, Sa Pobla, Mallorca
Estudios en Academia Cisneros y en la Escola d´arts Aplicades y Oficis Artistics en Palma
1971-73
Primera exposición individual en la Sala de Cultura de Pollensa en 1972
1974
Exposición colectiva en Selva
Presentatión de cuatro obras en una nuestra de pintores mallorquines en La Lonja
Participa en el certamen International de Pintura de Pollensa
1975
Exposición individual en Galerias Norai, Pollensa
Participa en el II certamen de Pintura de la caja de Ahorros en La Lonja
1976
Exposición individual en el Centro de Expositores de Inca dentro del Ciclo de Arte no figurativo
1977
Exposición individual en Bennassar Galeria
1980 y 1982
Exposición individual en Galeria Bearn, Palma
1982
Colectiva nou pintors de Pollensa, avui
Exposición en el centro cultural de Mancor del Valle
Participa el el 2° Premio Nacional de pintura en pequeno formato en El Ferrol
1983
Exposición en Biniali
1984
Exposición en Galeria Bearn
Exposición en Ses Fragates, Son Servera
1985
Exposición en S´URO, Cala Ratjada
1986
Exposición en Galeria Bearn
Exposición en Casal de Cultura, Museu de Soller
1987
Aportación de una obra al Museu de Porreres
1988
Exposición colectiva „Galeria Cunium“, Inca
1990, 91, 92, 93
Exposiciónes en Galeria Cittadini, Puerto Pollensa
1991
Exposición en Galeria Bearn
1994
Exposición en Galeria Cunium, Inca
1997
Colectiva XX mostra dÁrts Plasiques, Sa Pobla
Colectiva Festes del Carme, Galeria Cittadini
1998
Exposición colectiva, „Hostal Bahia“
1999
Exposición en Form+Design, Berlin
2001
Participa en el Premio Internacional del paisaje Padrese, en Padru, Cerdenia
2004
Exposición individual en el centro cultural de Marquartstein, Alemania
2006
Retrospectiva S´Esbos, Pollensa
MARTA FORMES
I started doing photography, not by natural gift, I didn't know that I wanted to dedicate part of my life to this art. It was a CAUSALITY.
My psychologist at that time was also a photographer. In our sessions I kept looking at the beautiful B/W photographs she had on display in the room, sometimes I spent more time looking at them than talking about the subject. This was at a stage in life where my health made me take a detour and that's where we met. She found me.
I believe that for that reason the human-emotional part always has to be present in my sessions.
At each stage of my life I have been accompanied by a type of photography; when I was younger, crazy portraits in decadent places and outside the canons of society (revolutionary era), when I became a mother I connected with my maternal side so my images were full of maternity processes, from pregnancy to childhood. As an adult I began my process of self-knowledge, a process that lasts a lifetime going through many phases. What moves me are emotions, stories, creating awareness and making oneself and others feel that we are polishing diamonds. With this came the synergies that make me feel that I belong and that together we do beautiful work.
Thanks to photography, it is another tool to be able to see with other eyes what our own eyes do not see.
ALBERTO LAGO GONZALEZ
Born in Manzanillo, Cuba in 1983, Alberto graduated from La Academia de Artes Plasticas de Holguin.
He further studied at the Institute Superior de Arte.
Early recognition of his work led to many paintings being exhibited in galleries in Cuba. Here he exposed his tremendous talent in using florescent acrylic paint, with his paintings centring around his reinterpretation of psychedelic art, which dwells in the frontier of abstraction and figuration.
In 2019, Alberto landed on the island of Mallorca and was instantly struck by the islands beauty, it’s forever changing light patterns, both on the landscape, sea and in the sky.
Such was the impact, Alberto knew he was here to capture these images and using his magnificently rich and realistic oils on canvas technique, soon embarked on doing so.
Over the last 4 years Alberto has established himself with a demanding international clientele, hungry to see and buy his next painting. Much is the demand, that it has led him now producing a varied portfolio of prints, puzzles and more.
Alberto’s work is now being seen as an investment for the future as his fame grows. His ambition is to be recognised in Mallorca as yet another famous painter from abroad, ranking alongside those other great painters who make up Mallorca’s fine art history.
Alberto also has his own home gallery in Port de Pollença where viewings can be made by appointment. There is also a permanent exhibition of his work on display at Modesto Restaurant in Cala san Vicente, for those who book ahead and get to see it as part of their colourful menu.
PETER KALKHOF
Born in 1933 in Germany, Peter Kalkhof studied painting at the School of Arts and Crafts, Braunschweig and the Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart followed by time spent in London at the Slade School of Art and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 1960’s. In 1963 he settled in London and from 1964 (through to 1999) he taught Fine Art at Reading University. Kalkhof lived and worked in London for many years and was active internationally – with working residencies in California, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico.
During this period he increasingly came into contact with C20th avant-garde art movements which had a profound effect on him and which he formulated into the basis of his art; “Colour & Space”.
Rooted not only in the northern-romantic tradition (one of his favourite paintings was “Monk by the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich) he was also deeply influenced by the transcendental abstractions of artists like Malevich, Kandinsky and Rothko, which expanded and questioned his classic-modernist training.
From an early age, Kalkhof's interest was stimulated by all things colourful in nature or in man-made objects. His use of formal elements of straight and curved line and painted colour fields in grids, circles and squares, have been distinctive pictorial features in his work over the last 59 years and although his compositions are abstract, his forms have been drawn from his experience and observations of the real world.
Kalkhof constantly references our attention to historically resonant, well-established notions of forms and primary colours in art which have existed in many cultures and periods historically. Kalkhof expresses a particular interest and curiosity in the art of ancient and modern cultures outside Europe, especially the Orient. These cultures and in particular their use of geometry in their image making, filter into his work through his use of colour and form.
His work merges a clear, constructive visual language with a precise and atmospheric exploration of colour, light and space. Part of his estate is currently held by the family and is being managed in collaboration with the Peter Kalkhof Foundation and the Bakerhouse Gallery in Graz.
”Annely Juda Fine Art” (https://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/) first showed Peter Kalkhof in 1970, the first of some ten solo exhibitions of his work over a period spanning five decades. Throughout his career he also had other exhibitions in the UK and frequently with galleries in Germany including solo, group and curated shows in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf. Kalkhof’s works have been widely collected by public galleries and museums including; the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Contemporary Art Society, Reading Museum and Art Gallery in the UK and the Landesmuseum Oldenburg in Germany and the European Parliament, Strasbourg.
Peter Kalkhof died in 2014, aged 81.
Greg Mason is a modern figurative painter creating atmospheric works that are visually and technically striking whilst holding a deeper narrative.
A graduate of Saint Martins School of Art in London and a member of the prestigious Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Greg has featured on SKY TV and exhibited extensively around the world.
Based in his studio gallery in Pollenca, Mallorca, Greg's work captures the unique light of the Balearic Islands in all their majestic beauty - from the majestic Tramuntana Mountains to the pine-covered beaches and historic towns with their old world churches, plazas and tapas bars that are uniquely Spain.
GREG MASON
Born in Pollença in 1963.
From 1981 to 1986, she studied design and decoration at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma de Mallorca.
Since then, although she studied for a higher degree in Dental Hygiene, she has never stopped making ceramics, which remain her passion to this day.
ANTONIA MARIA MORADO
SILVIA NASKA GROPP
Silvia Naska Gropp (born in Milan 1966) is a multidisciplinary and multi‑passionate artist and writer. Her work, deeply influenced by the rich symbolism of tarot, explores dream‑like landscapes and archetypal imagery.
Drawing on her passion for psychology and mythology, Silvia weaves surreal narratives that blend introspective symbolism with mythic resonance. Her art has been exhibited in Milan, Barcelona, and Mexico City, and she has participated in several group exhibitions in Pollensa, where she currently resides
OSKAR RAHE
Searching for balance in the unbalanceable chaos
Shaped by the wild and pure landscapes of Sweden’s archipelagos and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the guidance of Florian Pumhösl, Oskar Rahe’s practice is rooted in a dynamic process of curiosity and intuitive engagement.
Each work emerges from a process that is as much about discovery as it is about creation. Rather than imposing predetermined outcomes, everything begins with an impulse; capturing what is of interest at present.
The cleavages of wooden pieces are carefully executed, but can never be fully controlled. The process itself becomes a dialogue between intention and coincidence and the sculpture captures this a specific moment in endless time. This moment is settled between order and chaos, between stability and fragility searching for balance.
SYLVIA REITZEMA
Sylvia’s artistic practice is rooted in a deep personal inquiry into landscape, explored through drawing, experimentation, and painting both en plein air and within her studio. Her work seeks to capture the essence of place – not only its physical terrain, but its meditative and energetic presence. Drawing serves as both a foundation and a language through which she investigates the metaphysical layers of time and geography.
Working directly on location, she creates observational studies that evolve in the studio into richly layered compositions. Her process fuses instinctive mark – making with intentional material layering, using a diverse range of media –from inks, watercolours, and digital tools to oils and mixed media on canvas. These works aim to evoke sensory and emotional responses, offering immersive portals into both external and internal landscapes.
Alongside her studio practice, Sylvia has exhibited and sold work privately and internationally. Her accolades include the Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Scholarship to South Korea, the Sculpture Award for the City of Groningen (Netherlands), and a prize at “Producing Censorship” at the Invisible Dog Art Center in New York. She currently has work on view at Art Nou 277 in Barcelona and at Il Giardino restaurant in the heart of Pollensa Old Town.
With over 25 years of experience in arts education which includes Kingston College and Kingston University, Sylvia is the founder of Mallorca Art School in Palma and serves as Head of OCAD Centres, delivering academic art and design education globally. Her pedagogy emphasises experimentation and conceptual growth, empowering learners to develop work that challenges conventions and expands their artistic language.
FLORIANE SCALA
I am Floriane Scala, I was born in the south of France.
Since my childhood drawing and painting were my oxygen. They allowed me to express my feelings and my emotions, like a filter through which the world is seen. An infinite world, a unique, sensitive and subtle space that nourishes and inspires my work daily.
I consider myself a self-taught artist, although at the age of 28 I had the good fortune after a long stay in Scotland to study for 2 years the fine arts. This first academic step allowed me to meet many artists and also to grow not only artistically but also personally in the art world. I dedicate myself mainly to express in all its forms the human being, as if it were a way to link and unite the one with the other to feel understood and heard, something that I see natural but often misunderstood in a rational society.
I think I am an artist in natural search of the emotional path of the human being, it is what makes me happy, looking at the world with a succession of questions that I translate with lines, colors, stains, movements without prejudice and with freedom.
ANDREA SCHOMBURG
Andrea Schomburg (*1958, Wuppertal, Germany) is a German abstract painter living in Berlin who has also been working in Mallorca for many years. She enjoys to work in the secluded natural environment at the foot of the Tramantura mountains.
Her work has been presented in Galleries and Museums in Europa, the United States, Russia and Japan.
The theme of her paintings, who are based on nature, are the recurring formations, basic patterns and structures, that “reflect a fundamental and universal principle of order".
Her fascination for the Tramantura mountains, their archaic radiance and strength, continues to draw her to work on Mallorca. She sees these mountains as “pure form” – their dimensions, shapes, the constantly changing light, the play of colors – and shows us her view on them in “abstract portraits”.
“The absolute beauty of these mountains conveys to us a deep knowledge of nature, one the writer and painter Etel Adnan has called "the perfect intelligence of the universe"."
MAGDALENA SEGUÍ CERDÀ
Magdalena Seguí is a local artist. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and having completed doctorate courses combining subjects from architecture, philosophy and art.
After various training in theater, singing and dance, she begins her artistic career that she will develop in the visual and performing arts. She receives various awards such as the Ciutat de Palma de Mallorca and the acquisition of a sculpture for the University of Barcelona Collection. She participates in Theater Festivals, acts as president and participant in the Cor de Pollença, rhapsodist in poetic performances, host in socio-cultural radio programs, …
In the following years, she developed her career as a teacher both in private academies (La Akademia 2007/10) and in public institutes and schools in the island (Col.legi Monti-sion 2006, Col.legi Joan Mas 2008), .… specializing in supporting adolescents and the development of their talents.
It is from 2014 when she begins to specialize in issues related to women, especially in regard to the visibility and empowerment of the female world. She is the co-creator of the Feminine in Manifestation company, which brings the feminine vision closer to the business world, founder and president of the women's association "Dones per la Feina" and collaborator in projects in defense of women's rights.
Since the beginning of 2019 she has been an active part of ALLBarcelona Chapter and after the Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry-WICCI Spain, assuming the position of vice president during 2020. She has participated as a speaker in various talks, including the WEF Latin America event 2020 and WEF Iberoamerica 2020.
In recent years she has been working on sociocultural projects, combining art and support for education and social awareness. She is now working on the development of a project called “El Mapa de l´amor de Pollença”.
NATALIA SUCHOWOLAK
Natalia Suchowolak is an abstract painter coming from the vibrant Silesian region of Poland, now based in Mallorca. Natalia’s work blends architectural precision with intuitive artistic expression. Her degree in architecture has shaped her unique perspective on form, structure, and space. Over time, this foundation has evolved into a deeper exploration of emotion, movement, and colour, as she embraces painting as both personal expression and a transformative practice.
Her journey through diverse cultures and environments — from Poland to New Zealand and now Mallorca — has further enriched her artistic vision, allowing her to draw inspiration from varied landscapes and experiences. From the organic rhythms of New Zealand’s natural environment to the Mediterranean's vibrant hues, her art reflects a constant dialogue between her surroundings and her inner world. Through the lens of abstraction, she invites the viewer to experience emotion as a concrete, raw force – where colour, texture, and form converge to create powerful, layered compositions.
Natalia's work has been showcased in galleries and private collections across Poland, Mallorca, and New Zealand, where her pieces have brightened spaces with their vivid energy and dynamic forms.
ERIC TRAVERSE
As a child, I copied comic strips, illustrated my recitations...
then around the age of 15, in the 1970s, I drew poulbots on T-shirts, portraits of rock stars on combat jackets... charcoal, red chalk, ink, oils, gouache...
For over forty years, I was in the art wilderness... professional obligations. And then... Mallorca!!! Retirement, my wonderful encounters at the very Solo Dibuix in Pollenca. Then the desire returned, the passion drives me again.
Today, the painter fades away; his painting must exist, live, move you, seduce you...
TSEN-WAYE TAY
Born in Singapore, Tsen-Waye Tay has worked as a news reporter, editor and features producer in print, radio and television mediums. She’s also pursued a wish to make the world a more equitable place with roles in corporate social responsibility and ethical trade. Her job at a nonprofit media organisation united her passion for storytelling and its power to make a difference.
In 2022, Waye co-founded Jom, a weekly online general interest magazine about Singapore.
In her own time, Waye feeds her fascination for the forgotten and the transient from behind the camera; observing the breathing and the built, searching for stolen glances and textured quietude.
A series of her black and white images was published in 2013, in a solo project, Hong Kong. In 2017, she held her first exhibition, “In Solitude We Trust”, at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain. In 2019, an exhibition was held at the Alliance Française de Singapour in conjunction with the publishing of “Sightlines”, a series of poems by Marc Nair mapped onto a collection of Waye’s monochromatic images. The poems allow the reader/viewer a sideways glance at moments that are written with and against the image.
BERND WEIS
I discovered my love of photography at school - in the photo lab there, to be precise.
It was incredibly exciting to watch a picture slowly develop from nothing, and it was always a special surprise (or disappointment) to see the result of a shoot hours or days later.
With digital photography and digital image processing, much of this magic has been lost, but one thing hasn't changed for me:
My constant search for motifs that have a strong graphic component. I am fascinated by the shapes, patterns and lines that are inherent in a motif. I want to make them visible through light and reduce them to the essentials. Regardless of whether I have people, animals, landscapes, buildings or specific objects in front of my lens.
The ‘Artist for Cats’ project is particularly close to my heart because not only am I a huge fan of cats, big and small, but I also greatly appreciate the work of Cat Protection Pollensa and therefore support this association photographically whenever necessary.