Sarah Akinterinwa always felt like an artist. As an adult, Sarah continued to pursue art as a hobby, then in the spring of 2020, amidst a pandemic and having recently been made redundant, she created the comic 'Oyin and Kojo’. Two months later, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine discovered her work and asked her to become a contributor.

Secondary school teacher and philologist by day, Seigar’s passion for documenting his travels and love of pop culture led to him studying photography and cinema and television. His work, inspired by and reminiscent of photographer Martin Parr, has gained international recognition and is, deservedly, continuing to gain even more. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.

If you haven’t come across them yet, you really need to check out the eye-popping, colourful and stylistic illustrations from Leeds-based Colley Creations. Conceived by two creative sisters during lock down, they have turned their innate creativity into a business, and now you can buy prints of their work or commission your very own creations.

Gabriella Jeans is an upcoming visual and performance artist, entwining her art practise with mysticism and esoteric philosophy. After graduating from Newcastle University in 2018 and spending time creating abroad, she is currently working on both commissions and personal work from her home in North West London.

We recently caught up with Wingkei, who is an emerging digital artist based in South London with a love for storytelling through abstract shapes and witty text. Her accessible, on-trend, clever and aesthetically striking artwork always has much deeper layers to peel away, exploring beauty in women of all colours and identities, and is largely influenced by her personal stories and difficulties as an East Asian female living in the UK.

Emily Carrington-Ball is a London based artist specialising in shibari art, creating sensual art that explores sexuality and gender through the beauty of shibari bondage. . We talk to Emily about how she has amalgamated her love for shibari and the kink scene with her talent as a visual artist to create a niche career making and selling beautiful art work, both off the shelf and commissions, what exactly shibari is (and isn’t), setting up a business in lock down, and how the curious can discover more about shibari.

Rosie Caley has a huge amount of strings to her bow. Rosie paints; taking on fine art commissions and creating murals as well as working as a painter and decorator. Additionally Rosie works in textiles, and builds geodesic domes. She talked to us recently about how she has used her skills to move from a 60-hour week office-based career in engineering, to fulfilling her dream of working for herself as an artist and maker, and also how the pandemic has affected her work.