Interviews

In black-and-white and recently also in bright colours, the characteristic figures and restricted sceneries of Thom's works are well known to every visitor of FuturMaestri. He is otherwise keen on presenting his artwork to the public at every possible occasion because he knows well that they reveal their true nature when viewed from face to face. Find out more about his activities and works in this interview! (Portrait photo by Arantxa Llopart)

The calm natural surroundings of the countryside near Tallinn provide an inspiring background for the emotional and physical wanderings of Kadri. Although she is a curious observer of every sort of things and people, her experiences do not occur directly in her artwork but filtered and processed until they take shape. In this interview Kadri also talks about her studies and her dreams concerning her future.

The creatures in Amir's masterful graphic works present the countless ways in which the bad characteristics and troubles of the human race can occur. While he learns a lot from old masters like Rembrandt and Gustave DorĂŠ as well as from other artists not only in technical questions but also in approach, his ideas and figures are completely his own. They seem to come from his personal universe in which our flaws and defections are interpreted with a sympathetic humour. Amir recently returned to watercolours, too, and he also began to practice digital painting - although his themes remain similar, the colours add a completely different appearance to them. In this interview Amir also speaks about his experiences in art life and his ideas about his later career.

Soimán is a self-taught artist with a strong affection towards any sort of crafts besides painting and drawing. She started to paint at age fifteen but already by then she had gained practice in a variety of handicrafts, like knitting, crocheting, sewing and wood carving. She is also experimenting with mixed techniques, making illustrations and creating jewelry. Being able to process tough experiences through these activities provides her finally with calmness and inner peace. Concerning her paintings, she is mostly engaged in expressive portraits refined with a bit of Surrealism, usually composed into rather confined frameworks. Soimán's earliest paintings show a close relationship to Egon Schiele's works although she had not known this artist at that time yet. Even today the impact of the Viennese Art Nouveau can be recognized in her works.