Zhana Viel is an artist who spent her youth exploring nature and freely discovering the great outdoors. As a teenager, she studied photography and design with the American photographer Giovanni who catalyzed her outgoing passion for art making. She has numerous private collections in the UK, Europe, the United States and Australia. Viel's artworks have been used on the covers of books, CD albums and Vernon Proms Classical music festival visuals. At the present moment, she lives in London, UK. where she studies Psychology and uses art therapy techniques to create some of her most beautiful, expressive and thrilling visual art.

Bankside Hotel x Contemporary Collective are thrilled to welcome contemporary artist Corinne Natel to the Art Yard Studio as their next Artist in Residence. Specialising in abstract mixed media and painting, with a focus on the investigation of form space, and texture, Corinne’s theme whilst in residency will be ‘Now Everything’s Vivid’. During her time in the studio, Corinne will create a series of abstract paintings further investigating the relationship between colour and form, specifically examining the relationship with negative space in a painting and how colours work with one another to create a sense of energy and language in themselves.

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