Artists - The Art of Compassion Oracle

The artists who created the artwork for our oracle deck are listed below in alphabetical order. Click on their names to visit their website /social media pages.

Adriana Gasperi (USA)

Lion & Parrot

“I’m from Caracas, Venezuela, now based in Portland, Oregon United States. I am a graphic designer, illustrator, and fine artist. Painting is my passion, I mostly painted cats but lately, I have been painting all kinds of animals. I have been a fine artist since 1998 and my cat portraits are in several parts of the world.”

Alev Art (Sweden)

Eel & Octopus

An artist, singer, and writer from Caracas, Venezuela, Alev began drawing and painting at a very early age. She has always loved animals and very much enjoys sketching and painting them. After being vegetarian for many years, she finally became vegan and started creating art to help raise awareness about veganism, the animals, our health, and our planet. Alev has worked on many art and music projects over the years while living in her homeland, Venezuela, as well as in England, Sweden, and Spain, among other countries, which she has temporarily made her home. She recently became a published author with several illustrated stories and coloring books now available on Amazon.

Angela Smith Wagner (USA)

Chicken & Porcupine

Angela Smith Wagner is an animal activist and a vegan artist based in Portland, Maine. An independent graphic designer with a penchant for branding and identity, Angela bridges her design skills with activism, using her art to shed awareness on the plights of animals that are used for consumption, vivisection, and entertainment. She hopes that her work helps people see the connection between our actions and what that means for sentient beings – and how easily we can shift to life without exploiting animals. Angela is available for commissions.

“I just want my art to spread some joy in the world and maybe inspire as well, as far as me as an artist is concerned I have been drawing and painting all of my life. I haven’t had any professional training and in fact, went to university to study engineering and product design, when I tried to change to a fine art course I was told I was too commercial to do fine art, so I went home, cried and then got over it and did my own thing.”

Angela Tubb (UK)

Fox & Ladybird

Animalia Era (Catalonia)

Lizard, Owl & Starfish

Animalia Era was born in Barcelona and graduated in Art History. Since she was young has had two passions that have managed to bring together a few years ago: animals and art. Her work focuses on her concern for the extinction of species and animal cruelty. The titles of her works, written in Latin or Catalan, are ironic or suggestive messages through which she intends to make people question their beliefs, attitude, and actions towards animals, food, clothes, climate… because everything is related, it is a cause and effect. In the end, she hopes her ideas, based on true stories and so many cruel unknown facts about the everyday life of animals, is that people become aware and compassionate towards them.

Aoife McVeigh / AMCV Art (UK)

Peacock & Phoenix

Aoife McVeigh / AMCV art is a vegan, neurodivergent animal artist in Ireland (born in 2003). She uses gouache paint and coloured pencils to create fantasy animal artwork. She intends to portray the animal subject as ‘someone’ rather than ‘something’, and as curious creatures with individualism. She is passionate about incorporating animal rights into her art, hoping that it inspires positive change and reconnects people with the rest of the animal kingdom. Additionally, her art often focuses on what a vegan world might look like which helps her cope with vystopia and create her own magical worlds.

Atelier Chantal Kaufmann (Switzerland)

Seal

Chantal is an animal rights activist, artist, and graphic designer from Zurich, Switzerland. She visited the art academy in Lucerne where she concluded her studies with a degree in graphic design. When in early 2018 she read about the horrific realities of the dairy industry, she went from being vegetarian to vegan in an instant. Chantal became painfully aware that EVERY animal product is connected to suffering, pain, torment, and death. A short time thereafter she became active in animal rights and through that activism reconnected to her great passion, the art of painting. At the vigil with Zurich Animal Save in front of the slaughterhouse, she accompanies the delivered animals week after week and documents their last moments in life. Through her paintings, she can express these moments, her love for animals, and her hope for a more peaceful world and can thus give those animals a voice. With her animal portraits she would like to show how unique, individual and beautiful every single living being is. She wants to show how enriching and heart-filling it is when you open your heart to animals. Then you feel very quickly how similar they are to us. There is a personality in every animal and they want to live, just like us.

Beth Lily Redwood (USA)

Donkey, Goat & Turkey

Vegan since 2005, Beth Lily Redwood is a photographer, graphic artist, writer, animal rights artivist, and vegan advocate. In everything she creates, Beth’s intention is to share the vision of a vegan world where every animal is respected, protected, and loved. Her specialty is photographing rescued farmed animals living in sanctuaries. Her work seeks to awaken a deep appreciation for the sacred soul, beauty, individuality, and consciousness of nonhuman animals. In addition to the Art of Compassion Project’s exhibits, Beth’s photography and/or graphic design has been featured in Vegan Life Magazine, The Dodo, The Animal Museum, Anderson Chase Gallery, The Artists’ Gallery, Percolator Artspace, Melanie Joy’s Beyond Carnism, Animal Liberation Victoria, Le Parisien, UPC’s Poultry Press, People, Raise Vegan, Compassionate Action, Veganuary, VFC (Vegan Fried Chicken), Our Hen House, Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott, activist Genesis Butler, ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, animal advocacy groups, several sanctuaries, and many others.

Beth Lynne Gregerson (USA)

Bat & Unicorn

Beth Lynne Gregerson is an artist from Willoughby, Ohio USA with an art gallery/studio in Fairport Harbor where she works to support her gallery kitty named Merle. She has been an illustrator for many years and also she has been a mural artist and graphic artist. Beth currently does commission artwork including animal portraits, home portraits, and boat portraits along with landscape paintings or paintings of your favorite location. Currently, Beth has been working on public art projects and is a vegan artist with the Art of Compassion Project. Beth enjoys many different mediums and styles of art and often people think her art is created by different artists due to the many styles she incorporates in her art. Animal portraits are her favorite subject, and she strives to capture their unique personalities and often shares stories and info about the animals with customers who purchase her art.

Bridget Irving (UK)

Zebra

“I am an animal advocate and artist-illustrator with a special interest in ecolinguistics and how that manifests within art. I am passionate about animals in visual communication. I am concerned with challenging negative stereotypes of animals and how we represent them in art and illustration. I am interested in how all representations impact our belief systems around animals. My work is centered on the animal experience – I try to understand what it is to be them rather than use them only to signify human emotions or to merely gaze upon them, but rather to be them, to feel what it must be like to be them and to try to show others that – that they are feeling beings, just as we are. I have an MA (Distinction) in Visual Communication (2021) and through academic study I have investigated illustration within a western society with regards to animals, stereotyping and the repetition of an ideology of anthropocentrism. I have come to see that what we think about animals is taught to us; culture teaches us about our society’s relationship with animals. We can change that, and it is my aim to challenge how we think and what we say about animals in art. I am driven to raise awareness about the suffering of animals under human dominance and to join the voices working toward changing, ending that for them.”

Brina (Italy)

Crocodile

“My real name is Sabrina, I was born in November 1993 in Sicily (Italy) and I still live in Sicily. I’m a self-taught painter and I started painting in 2013, as therapy for myself, during a period of depression, and I did it by transposing my emotion and my feelings on the faces of the women I painted. Then I did two or three exhibitions and I started making portraits on commission and so I realised that painting could become my real occupation and I started to sign my artworks as “Brina”. I became a vegan and animal right activist in 2017 and since then, as an animal ally, I started to paint animal portraits and animals together with humans, trying to communicate animals’ individuality, their right to be left in peace and free from human abuse and to be loved, and representing how simple and beautiful can be for us humans to have a peaceful relationship with them, respect and love them and be kind with them, instead exploit them.”

Dianne Schnieders (Canada)

Dog & Tasmanian Devil

“I have been involved with art and teaching most of my life. I am now retired with more time to paint, draw and have fun. A return to University for my BFA introduced me to animal ethics and a realization that other sentient beings deserve our care, consideration, and kindness. We all deserve to live in peace free from terror and pain. I now devote my art to educating others about this. Presently I live in British Columbia and share my home with two wonderful dogs, Nico and Morgan.”

D L Giles (Australia)

Coyote

“Art has always been a part of my life as has a deep respect and empathy for animals and our planet. I hope through my own art journey, to open the eyes and hearts of others to the beauty and the wonder of all the sentient beings with whom we share this wonderful planet.”

Eleanor Mcinnes (UK)

Horse & Seahorse

“I’m an animal artist in the process of setting up my own art business. I work with rescue dogs and share my house with many rescue animals. I’ve been vegan for 8 years and aim to promote kindness to animals in everything I do.”

Emma Lord (UK)

Cat

Emma Lord is a writer and photographer living in Wiltshire, UK. Emma writes poetry and short stories, tending to focus on observations about the unusual sides of life. She is also working on her first novel, which has its roots in magical realism. As a photographer, Emma specialises in animals, nature, and creating fine art. Emma’s poetry was featured in the Swindon Wellbeing and Arts Festival 2019, and a selection of Emma’s writing can be found in the ‘Words To Live By 2020’ anthology. She has had poems published in The Trawler, Steel Jackdaw, and various Hedgehog Poetry collections. Her maiden short story publication was in the 2021 Farnham flash fiction winners’ collection. She also had a short story published in the Poetry on the Lake ‘Haunted’ anthology in 2021. Photographs from Emma’s animal welfare collection have been exhibited in Bristol, London, and Beijing. Emma splits her time between raising her young son, caring for the many rescue animals they share a home with, and writing and photographing. Emma’s personal projects use writing and photography to help raise awareness of various causes, all of them concerning subjects close to her heart. These include animal welfare, mental health, dementia, and parenting.

Ethical Comics (Sweden)

Hippo & Raccoon

Ethical Comics, or Mika, makes comics and draws illustrations on subjects that often divide people, in the hope of raising awareness and opening conversations about them. Those subjects include but are not limited to, veganism and animal exploitation, being childfree and antinatalist, feminism, racism, sexism, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

Fiona Halliday (Ireland)

Rat

Fiona grew up in Yorkshire, England. She studied Fine Art: Painting at the University of Huddersfield and continued a consistent painting practice until her late 20s. A 7-year art hiatus followed, where her life has been enriched by pursuing and reconnecting to other values including her love for mother Earth, environmentalism, mycology, and veganism. Fiona is now beginning to revive her visual art practice with a renewed sense of joy, wonder, whimsy, and a hope of creating art that inspires the same love and respect for animals and nature that she has. She now lives in Dublin, Ireland with her partner and cat.

Francisco Atencio (Argentina)

Capybara, Dolphin & Pangolin

Francisco Atencio lives in Mendoza, Argentina. By trade, he’s a computer engineer but an artist and philosopher at heart. His hobbies include studying, drawing, painting, reading, doing yoga, enjoying life, and learning from everything around him. He’s happily married to Leticia and has two beautiful children, Santiago and Sol.

Gemma Oatley (UK)

Snake

“Growing up, I had two main passions: animals and drawing. So as I got older, it made sense to combine the two. Now I love creating pictures of the amazing creatures that inhabit our world, capturing the wonderful diversity and beauty that our planet has to offer.”

Hannah Chavez (USA)

Cheetah & Orca

Hannah is a contemporary wildlife and figurative artist who is passionate about spreading compassion, raising consciousness, and helping create a kinder world for animals and the earth. She is deeply inspired by the magic of nature, the beauty and soulfulness of animals, and the incredible ability of the human imagination to inspire change. In her work, she loves to explore the idea of universal interconnectivity and enjoys blending realism and imagination to create paintings that evoke a sense of the freedom, love, and inner knowing that lies within each of us. She aims to use her art to help shift the way we view and treat animals, the earth, and each other – from seeing ourselves as separate to realizing that we are all interconnected.

Hannah Landesberger (Germany)

Hummingbird & Wolf

A Circus Runaway doing art and anything she likes.

Jade.MB_I Don’t Eat Grass (Italy)

Cow

Jade.MB is a freelance illustrator and fashion designer born in Udine, Italy, in 1985. She has a high school diploma in art painting and pictorial decoration and she graduated from IUAV University in Venice in Fashion Design. In 2013, she started the project I Don’t Eat Grass to talk about veganism and anti-speciesism through art. She uses illustration and painting to represent animals as individuals or to criticize human society and its contradictory relationship with animals. The purpose is to encourage people to finally start questioning their beliefs and habits, and art is a powerful means to make that happen.

Jessica Nicholson (USA)

Chinchilla & Pig

“I started drawing at a young age and for the longest time, I tried so hard to get the pictures perfect, as realistic as possible. I shied away from color until quite recently. I let go of perfectionism and everything has been an experiment since then. I don’t really know where I’m going with my art now but I do my best to put a lot of feeling into them.”

Jessica Rose Sheinbaum (USA)

Butterfly & earthworm

“I grew up in the Northeast (USA) but for the last 20 years have resided in the Pacific Northwest. For three years I lived in Finland and those years were some of the most creative and happy years of my life. My partner and I hope to permanently expatriate back to Europe one day. I spend my days gardening, making art, and caring for my 5 cats, one dog, and one rabbit. I am happiest when I have long stretches of unscheduled time and when around close friends and family. My favorite season is fall and I love rain storms.”

Jo Beckford (the Netherlands)

Sheep

Jo Beckford – artist, writer, and animal lover. A plant-based world is one she wants future generations to grow up in and if her art and words can contribute to that in any way, she will keep on painting and keep on writing.

Katharina Tinkl (UK)

Bison

Katharina Tinkl is a German-born illustration artist and jewellery maker. Through her lovingly crafted gemstone necklaces and bracelets, she introduces people to the magic of the crystal realm and helps them connect with their higher selves and live a life full of love and light. Katharina also designs bespoke pet portraits, art prints, and much more. All her creations are infused with her love for nature, animals, and the magic of our life on Earth.

Kit Jagoda (USA)

Frog

“I’m the co-founder of River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary. An art teacher in public schools since 1987. Animals and Art are interconnected for me. Through art I listen, express, reach out, and reach in. Art helps me communicate emotions, ideas, and things I don’t have words for. My feelings, ideas, and hopes for animals, especially those who suffer in this world, are expressed through visual means. I hope my art will help animals by opening hearts, and minds, impacting change.”

Laney Scott (UK)

Camel

“I’m a digital paint artist primarily focused on animal rights issues. I aim to highlight the individual so that the viewer can connect and understand their impact.”

Laura Aceto (USA)

Possum & Turtle

“I am an old crone, a self-taught artist, dedicated vegan for the animals. I use my art gift to give voice to the world’s precious animals, all of whom need defenders. I try to reach peoples’ hearts and make a lasting impression with my paintings…it’s the least I can do!”

Leigh Sanders (Catalonia)

Dragonfly

South African-born, Leigh emigrated to Costa Brava in 2001. She is the founder of the Art of Compassion Project, a passion project founded in 2015, shortly after she became vegan and discovered a way to promote veganism despite the limitations of a degenerative neurological disease. The idea for this oracle deck came from her love of all things spiritual and magical. Leigh is a mixed-media artist with a penchant for book-making and junk journals.

Libbi McBride (UK)

Lobster

Libbi spent much of her time during her fine art degree, at Falmouth University, making thoughtful concept art. Her most interesting works consisting of stitching fabric wombs into the sides of plastic milk bottles, casting bronze cow hobbles in the form of the ankles of leather boots, and finally churning butter from human breast milk. Since graduating she now runs a pottery studio in her home, the Isles of Scilly, where she sculpts beautiful sea life, including whales, seals, urchins, and starfish, regretfully all with a much more subtle undertone. The species of lobster was requested for this project as Libbi’s most proud activism moment was an 8 am trip to the beach to ‘steal’ three caught and elastic-bound lobsters from what the fishermen call a ‘carb’. this is a type of lobster pot that is inescapable, for the creatures who are not yet to be eaten but kept alive and fresh for another day.

Lisa Goldberg (USA)

Raven & Swan

Lisa Goldberg is an illustrator living in New York City. She is a passionate animal lover and frequently creates artwork with the intention to raise awareness of the suffering of animals and of how humans play a part in causing it. She works with both traditional and digital mediums and sometimes a combination of both.

Lisette Rotman (USA)

Chameleon & Crab

“I’ve always loved creating and enjoy many forms of creative expression. I adore color and am fascinated by its infinite shades. Whether working with traditional or digital media, I enjoy mixing textures and styles. I often incorporate photographs and scans of textures into my digital artwork. I have a passion for creating fun, whimsical pieces of people and animals with big, strange eyes. Sometimes mysterious, sometimes joyful, I usually create the eyes first – to form a connection and bond with the character. I love animals and use some of my work to help raise awareness and funds for animal organizations. In 2014, I illustrated and designed a children’s book that was part of a series promoting dog adoption. In late 2015, after a long hiatus due to my graphic/web design career, I began dedicating much-needed time to my visual art again. I joined The Art of Compassion Project in 2017, an international collective art project involving vegan artists from all over the world. In late 2017, I opened an online shop of my whimsical art, apparel & gifts, where a portion of every purchase goes to help animals. I have been working as an artist and graphic & web designer for over 15 years in the NJ/NY area. I love watching movies, going to concerts, and eating nut cheeses and olives.”

Lynda Bell (New Zealand)

Bear & Koala

Lynda is a full-time painter and illustrator living in New Zealand. She is trained in fine arts, painting, teaching, and art therapy and brings all of this learning into her art practice. she strives to embed happiness and inspiration into each artwork and believes that joy and kindness can change the world. Her artwork is largely motivated by her love of animals and her desire to awaken kindness and compassion within her viewers. Within her paintings, stories unfold and viewers are taken into a world where animals are treated with respect and love; a world where anything is possible and stories are abundant. It is within this world that people may be reminded of the integral part of their self that forms their humanity: compassion, love, and a kinship with animals that we all felt as young children.

Maria Tiqwah (the Netherlands)

Dragon, Mouse & Squirrel

Vegan artist, Maria Tiqwah (1982) is self-taught and drew animals since she could hold a pencil. She loves animals and it gives her great joy to draw them as happy and free. With soft pastel chalk, oil paint, and watercolor she can create any world she wants, so why not paint the world she dreams of? A beautiful and peaceful world for all living beings. With her art, she hopes to give you a smile and show the world that every animal is an individual with a unique personality. Maria lives with her husband Raqib and their 4 cats Mini, Oezepoes, Lou Loup, and Dinah. These 3 paintings for the oracle deck are made with vegan oil paint (mainly Natural Earth Paint with walnut oil). The size is 10 x 15 cm (3.9 x 5.9 inch). You can buy original art from Maria Tiqwah. Her work is characterized by a sweet and cheerful atmosphere, an eye for detail, and sometimes visual jokes. Her fairytale art appeals to children of all ages.

Marzia Cavallo (Spain)

Duck, Falcon, Flamingo, Meerkat, & Scorpion

Marzia Cavallo has been a tattoo artist for 20 years, now she is almost retired and lives in the mountains caring for a beautiful apple orchard.

Mellissa Bushby (South Africa)

Giraffe, Moth, Puffin & Shark

Pen & ink and graphite artist, editor, vegan book author, writer, and lover of wild things.

Michelle Waters (USA)

Mountain Lion

Michelle Waters was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, into an artistic, progressive family. Her grandparents were social justice activists and artists who were big influences on her art and life. She has been making art since she was a small child and holds a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her art expresses concern for the loss of the natural world and human exploitation of animals and is influenced by her environmental and animal rights activism and volunteer work in wildlife rehabilitation and cat rescue. She donates proceeds from art sales to grassroots groups working for animals and the Earth. Michelle is represented by Cactus Gallery in Los Angeles and has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. She lives and paints in the redwood forest in Northern California with her husband and rescued cats, and their neighbors the deer, owls, coyotes, bobcats, squirrels, woodpeckers, hawks, jays, lizards, frogs, opossums, skunks, raccoons, foxes, mountain lions, and other creatures.

Naomi Joy Art (UK)

Hedgehog & Whale

Naomi Joy is a vegan animal Artist based in Wiltshire, England. She creates paintings and sculptures at home in her cosy studio which is also full of any wildlife she is rehabilitating such as injured bats. She is inspired by the animals she works with and fights for as an animal activist, the themes of her work often revolve around the animal agriculture industry, the badger cull, and fox hunting. Her work often highlights the beauty and personality of the animals and her goal is to change others’ perspectives to see someone rather than a product or pest.

Neta Simkovich (USA)

Elephant

Neta Simkovich, a vegan activist since 2001, grew up in Israel. Three years later, at the age of 20, she moved to The US where she explored her undeniable connection to art along with her unstoppable passion for animal rights. She studied Fine Arts at South Lake Tahoe Community College in California for many years, while gaining further experience in hands-on art in various mediums. Neta keeps actively participating in exhibitions, experimenting in both 2D and 3D mediums, she had won numerous awards, as well as a Tahoe Art League scholarship that included a membership to the league. Neta’s current artwork includes live art and commissioned pieces, and she hopes to keep helping as many animals on the way with her work.

Nicola McLean (Scotland)

Ant & Scarab Beetle

“I’m a Northern Irish artist currently living and creating in the far north of Scotland. I paint in a contemporary, colourful style, with acrylic paint my preferred medium because of its versatility and vibrancy, although I have also recently started to create digital art in a more illustrative style. Artistic inspiration comes from every direction in life – animals, the natural world, the manmade and urban landscapes all pique my interest. I am particularly intrigued by the abstract patterns that emerge naturally in every subject, such as those formed in nature – the details in an animal’s fur, blades of grass, leaves, light playing on water, and even the patterns created within the built environment, particularly from a bird-eye perspective. Although I am not solely an animal artist, as someone who is passionate about animals they do feature in many of my paintings. I am proud to be part of The Art of Compassion, a worldwide collaboration of vegan artists, who use our artwork to raise awareness and funds for various charities that advocate a vegan lifestyle for the sake of the animals and the planet we share with them.”

Pascale Salmon (France)

Rhino & Sloth

An activist for animal rights, Pascale’s paintings are an invitation to reflect, to change our view of all animals that are exploited, who suffer, and are killed without necessity. Every living being deserves to live in peace and freedom. It is a matter of justice and evolution. Her artwork proposes to awaken our consciences, to adopt a responsible anti-speciest attitude, and take the path of veganism, for a better world for animals, humans, and the planet!

Pete Metcalfe (UK)

Crow

“I was born and raised in Bristol, UK, and spent most of my formative years drawing and painting with my grandfather. Having fallen out of love with fine art and painting in my mid-to-late teens, however, I’ve only really picked it all back up as of 2021. Working mostly digitally at the moment, I’m hoping to move back into paints while keeping my hand in digital art too. I currently work in the vegan events world and in Graphic Design, and both skateboard and film skateboarding in my spare time too. I’ve been vegan for 9/10 years now and was vegetarian for 4 or so years before that.”

Renata Wright (Australia)

Spider & Robin

Renata is a watercolourist from Western Australia. She regularly teaches watercolour painting classes, sharing her enthusiasm and knowledge with over fifty students per week. She also has a special interest in the spider world and has grown a lovely fan base of fellow spider enthusiasts from all over the globe. Renata aims is to show everyone how important ALL creatures are to us, even those who are not as loved as the more conventional creatures…

Renata Z Filep (UK)

Jellyfish & Skunk

“I am very compassionate about animals and our environment; I believe that it is important to live in harmony with nature and all earthlings; also to value them. We are part of nature; and harmony is often identified as a human value accord in actions, relationships, and feelings. Our impact on the environment is huge. We are overpopulated, we pollute, we are burning fossil fuels, and we destroy forests. This has triggered climate change, poor air quality, undrinkable water, soil erosion, and the extinction of many species. We are responsible for the damage that has been done, and so we should be held accountable for protecting the Earth and all beings on it. With my art I want to raise awareness and encourage people to be environmentally more conscious; to reduce the destruction of the eco-systems. It is a moral duty for humans to protect the environment, for us, for future generations, and for all living beings. I feel that with the knowledge of how a plant-based lifestyle has a positive effect, not only on the animals but the environment and our body and mind; I must try to attract people’s attention through my work. I believe that art has always had the power to raise awareness and get people’s attention to the problems in our society. My goal is to inspire others to be compassionate and enjoy living side by side with earthlings and to appreciate life in general, all kinds of life, not only human’s life; to encourage people to think about their own situation and question themselves. I believe that being kind and having more empathy toward non-human animals and the environment, and expanding our moral thinking to other beings, would truly manifest high principles and would make everyone a better person.”

Revers Lab (Italy)

Salmon & Warthog

“I’ve been painting ever since I can remember. I attended art schools then I graduated in theatrical scenography, but my biggest passion is painting. After some years as a vegetarian, during my studies at the “Rome Academy of Art”, I found out the horrors of the dairy industry so I became a vegan. I didn’t know that my art would take a completely new path. I started painting anti-speciesist messages that soon put me in touch with the Italian vegan community. I am an activist and an artist, I combine my ideals with my passion, finding my way in artivism. Currently, I work as an illustrator, and painter and I make various handicrafts, even starting from recycled materials. Revers Lab Art talks about animals, their suffering, and the sick conditions of society, but also about dreams… dreaming a better world, showing at times “the other side of the coin”, just re-thinking a simple world!”

Sally Rumball (South Africa)

Hyena, Gorilla & Monkey

Sally Rumball was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa. After several career changes, she returned to university in 2008 to pursue her passion for Fine Art. In 2011 she received her National Diploma Visual Art (cum laude) from the University of Johannesburg. Rumball has participated in many group exhibitions and art competitions – including the Sasol New Signatures Awards in 2012; a solo exhibition at StateOfTheArt Gallery in Cape Town in 2016, a 2-person exhibition with Matthew Ellwood at Halifax Gallery in Parkhurst in 2017; and a 3-person exhibition with Amber-Jade Geldenhuys and Eduard Bruwer at Assemblage Gallery in Braamfontein in 2018. Over many years, Rumball’s work has explored the history of human/animal relationships, the damage excessive consumerism is inflicting on nature, and memories of childhood and loss. Besides her art-making work, she has assisted in all areas of running a gallery.

Samantha Lee (South Africa)

Deer, Penguin & Rabbit

Samantha Lee – based in South Africa, is primarily a water-colourist she focuses her work on the lesser-known animals; ‘the little thousand’. All the little details that we so often overlook that desperately need our attention, she is inspired by the ebb and flow of the natural world by paying tribute to the tragic nature of the relationships between humans and animals. She rehabilitates and rescues rabbits, and is very much a crazy bunny lady passionate about animal rights and sustainable ethical living.

Susan Steenhuis (the Netherlands)

Kangaroo, Tiger & Polar Bear

“I’m Susan Steenhuis, an artist from the Netherlands. Together with my dog and husband, I live in Eindhoven. I spend my days painting, philosophizing about life, and soaking up nature. With my art, I express my love for all living beings, animals in particular.”

Troy Fox (UK)

Eagle

Troy is a disabled artist living in the UK who has had to turn to art as both a form of dealing with lifelong illness but also as a way to connect with others and help animals. He has been passionate about animal rights from a very young age and decided that going vegan was the only way to align his actions with his ethics. After facing many restrictions due to worsening health, he has had to adapt and experiment with new mediums which his health would allow, meaning discovering new art mediums that he never had an interest in before but has found ways to continue making art and being able to bring awareness to animal rights through that. He makes fibre art sculptures to donate to sanctuaries to sell and wants to continue using art to help animals.

Verna Poppy (UK)

Bee & Ostrich

Verna Poppy is a vegan, East Midlands-based, freelance artist creating bold & colourful paintings, patterns, and prints to encourage people to see animals in a different light and treat them with kindness.

Yaeko Kurimata (Japan)

Beaver & Crane

Yaeko creates artwork using all kinds of scales, materials, and techniques; such as large paintings, murals, acrylics, plasters, glass gilding, wirework, and dyeing. In particular, the depth and complexity of colours are the core of her expression, while also essential to incorporate people’s hearts and thoughts, movements of the world, and find the value in gentle and warm art expression. With a wide range of experience as a commission artist for companies and brands, Yaeko has realized a wide variety of project sizes as well as domestic and international collaborations. Since 2010, Yaeko has been active as a faculty instructor of environmental painting in the healing arts of the Department of Art and Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design, asking what she can contribute to society through art. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design in 1984, and from the Space Design Department at FIDM Los Angeles in 1990. Yaeko established Faux Arts Design Inc. in 2000 and lives and works in Tokyo