Linda Kosciewicz’s work explores female identity, emotion and transience through constructed worlds, self-representation and performance.

Having graduated from Norwich School of Art in 2010, Lucy Morrison has pursued a passion for painting, working professionally in oils, based in Yorkshire.

Robyn Saurine’s art is influenced by experiences and travels in the Australian Outback, Asia and Italy. She explores the world of texture, portraiture, stylised drawing, colour and collage.

Carolina Amaya is a visual artist from Colombia. She works with mixed media materials such as textiles, photography, oil and acrylic, exploring the subject of dreams, intuition and other ways of life.

European born but raised in South Africa, Kirsten Mumford left her home to forge a life as an expatriate, travelling the globe and applying her unique, nomadic perspective to her photographic practice.

Osamu Jinguji was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1962. The photographer originally worked as an actor and model. Following many career changes, he settled on black and white street photography.

Larry Woodmann’s cinematic photographs encompass roadside documentary of America, and his impressions of life on the streets of Milan, his permanent home. We speak with the photographer.

Lauren Matsumoto is a Brooklyn-based painter who explores how we relate to the natural world through her hybrid form of painting, drawing, and vintage collage, incorporating ephemera into her art.

Madrid-based Vietnamese fine art photographer Viet Ha Tran captures ephemeral moments of female emotion, and is influenced by Asian culture, classical painting, poetry and philosophy.

American artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinctly digital style, which results in his unconventional, boldly abstract imagery.

Dagmar Dost-Nolden is a painter, sculptor and performer based in Cologne. She is fascinated by different forms of energy, which is the main subject of her radically subjective and individual art.

Si Gross makes collectable Pop Art based on people featured in headline news stories. It is a world full of truth and lies that he captures with a combination of sincere and satirical illustrations.

Hormazd Narielwalla uses bespoke Savile Row tailoring patterns, and their antiquarian and contemporary trade counterparts, to create artworks exploring the body in abstract form.

Artist Bernadetta Tajs, who completed her arts education in Krakow, Poland, explores the light hearted side of life, using her own imagination as a starting point for her painting and sculptures.

Photographer Lukasz Snopkiewicz plays with the possibilities of black and white digital imagery to depict the reflective qualities of water, revealing both its creative and destructive capabilities.

David Lee is an artistic polymath. Alongside Turner-esque cloud formations, Lee covers all the bases of the human imagination, rejecting boundaries of conventional artistic licence.

Karen Thomas, a British artist based in France, creates dynamic, painterly depictions of pop culture icons such as Mickey Mouse, which are characterised by their thick, quick brush strokes.

Barrie Dale believes that the natural world represents a largely untapped source of artistic interest. He sees no barriers or even distinctions between the Arts and the Sciences.

Creator Peter “Snopix” Higgins had no idea he’d still be creating in 2015. Having no formal training just the desire to create, he has gone on an almost 40 year adventure leaving him rich in works of art.

With the gamble of life all around, it seems strange that so few artists major in the subject. Step forward Loz Taylor, who, as a gambler of 30 years, is well equipped to conjure up images based on the theme.