Ilaria Lais: was born in Italy in 1967, descending from a family of Florentine Renaissance painters. She studied illustration and turned to fine arts after moving to London in 1999. Her works have been included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the National Portrait Gallery BP Award and other UK prizes, and exhibited regularly in the U.S.A. and Europe. In the past decade she has reprised her printmaking practice, specialising in mezzotint. Her artist book Hortus is in the collection of the Getty Research Institute.

Samara Kupferberg: was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up immersed in the art and culture of New York City in the 80s and 90s. She holds a BFA in Fiber art from Maryland Institute College of Art and currently resides in Portland, Maine with her 11 year old and owns an eco–friendly children’s clothing and toy store. She primarily makes small mechanical pencil drawings but is also a weaver of tiny landscapes. She is the daughter of counterculture icon Tuli Kupferberg and is currently working on a documentary about her father. Follow along with the film’s progress on Instagram @tuli.tuli.tuli.thefilm.

Karen Jelenfy: is a painter, writer and educator who lives and works in her studio in Washington, Maine. Working across several mediums over more than 40 years, she has produced a large body of work that focuses on her immediate environment and the social “weather” (as she calls it). Her recent work is a personal response to the climate crisis.

Jeff Jacques: loves ink wells and broken brushes and a primitive simplicity in black and white, black on white, and white on black. Ink on paper, is a kind of currency, or current see. He starts drawing with no ideas in mind, titles arrive some time later when the ink has dried. He sees what he sees and you see what you see, how could it be otherwise?