The World Tried to Give Me Grey. I Answered With Color.
Ukrainian oil painter Mari Bloom on fleeing war with twenty dollars and a suitcase full of paints, the Between the Wars series, and why beauty is not decoration but an argument.
Painting Starts Where Words Stop
Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing.