She wanted to be an artist but was afraid she wasn't talented enough — so she studied industrial design instead. Then she graduated, ignored the degree, and drew every spare hour until the work took over. Stefhany Lozano has been making bold, colourful, mysteriously joyful paintings ever since. With a solo show in Porto, a two-person show at the Leipzig art museum, and her first augmented reality project underway, she's just getting started.

Three years ago clay arrived. From that exact moment it felt as natural as breathing. Giorgia Piu — Rose de Nour — is a ceramicist based in Rome with strong Mediterranean roots, a background in painting and drawing, and an approach to clay that is completely her own: contemplative, instinctive, and deeply rooted in the earth. She and the matter. She and I.