Mark Youd lives and works in an old farmhouse near Glasgow. He trained as a draughtsman and, following a successful career as a designer and technical illustrator, Mark developed his personal artistic practice; exploring psychology through portraiture.  

My paintings begin in silence and shadow. In the quiet of my studio I often feel a presence – an ancient voice or a child’s laugh – that begins to paint itself through me. I sit with a canvas and let my hand move, guided by instinct: a shape appears, a creature stirs, a moon or mountain takes form…

His compositions exist on the border between dreams and nightmares, drawing on the visual language of cosmic horror and the Weird. Using a variety of found imagery and vintage ephemera, he constructs warped visions that feel at once familiar and alien, like fragments of half-remembered films seen long ago.

There is always work to be done. There is always space for progression in feminist art history. Equality is not a full stop; as art historians and researchers as well as practitioners, whilst looking ahead, we must also look backwards and interrogate the notion of ‘the archive’. What is missing? What has been lost?

Olivier J.L.W. is a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work inhabits the liminal space between the physical and the metaphysical. Born in Western Europe in the early 1980s and now based in the south of France, his practice merges painting, sound, and experimental media into a singular, immersive vision…

Mothers•Memories•Magick•Mahabote is a digital photo collage series exploring how Burmese astrology, generational trauma, Southeast Asian mythology & magick shapes memories…

In my dream, I am both chasing and being chased by a symbol of idyllic male, presented in the form of androgenous David Bowie. Shirtless, of course – his ivory skin exudes a hot, paranormal glow…

It escapes me. The first time I saw the face of Alice Prin… but I remember the feeling it gave me. It was a feeling that remains with me to this day. She had evoked something in me…

Devolish Woman, a Dark Art Photographer, crafts haunting self-portraits that dive into the macabre. Each image reveals unsettling beauty, inviting viewers to confront their darkest fears and emotional distress…

Josephine Close is a high priestess of art. Magic embodies every brush stroke. Her work is a ritual, a talisman, a prayer. She is a visual artist whose primary focus is works on paper…

Val Telberg (born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim) was a Russian-born American artist best known for his surrealist photomontages. His interest in experimental photography and film led him to study in New York and he had his first exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1948…

Textually and visually brilliant - the film has the unique ability to reach into the darkness only to pull out love and hope.  It is a sensory plunge into emotional waters. It opens up the idea of how we take certain things for granted like falling in love, drinking a good cup of coffee, and seeing the beautiful colours around us…

Through trance, ceremony, divination, journeying and guided mark-making, Gabrielle bridges experiences and encounters with the Unseen into luminous maps…

Based on Anaïs Nin's essay The Artist as a Magician (found in her book A Woman Speaks, edited by Evelyn Hinz), the following text aims to create a dialogue between the past and the present, to bring light into the magic realm…