We welcome applications from young and emerging artists from all over the world. Our goal is to support and highlight exceptional talent, providing a platform for artistic growth and visibility. We aim to equip artists with materials that enable them to reach their full potential. Below are the guidelines for applying and the criteria for acceptance.
Application Process
Eligibility:
- Applicants should be young or emerging artists.
- We are currently focusing on Oil Paint and Watercolour Artists.
Submission Requirements:
- Artist Statement: Provide a brief statement (300-500 words) describing your artistic practice, inspiration, and goals.
- Biography: A short bio (200-300 words) detailing your background, education, and any relevant experiences. Include your social media platforms showcasing your work.
- Submission Format: Please submit this content via the contact form found here.
Application Deadlines:
- Applications are reviewed quarterly. Please allow some time for us to get back to you.
Selection Criteria:
- Artistic Merit: The quality, originality, and creativity of the work will be the primary criteria.
- Alignment with Mission: Preference will be given to artists whose work and story align with our mission to uplift young and emerging artists.
- Potential for Growth: We seek artists who show promise and potential for future development and success in their careers.
- Diversity and Inclusion: We are committed to fostering a diverse art community and encourage applications from artists of various backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.
Reasons for Acceptance:
- Innovative Artworks: Exceptional skill, creativity, and originality in the submitted works.
- Compelling Narrative: A powerful and inspiring artist statement and biography that reflects passion and dedication.
- Alignment with Values: Artists who embody the values of diversity, inclusion, and artistic excellence that our programme promotes.
- Potential Impact: Demonstrated potential to benefit from and contribute to the art community through participation in the programme.
Notification and Next Steps:
- Accepted artists will be notified via email within 6-8 weeks of the submission.
- Selected artists will receive guidance and support, including opportunities for exhibitions, features on our website, and potential collaborations.
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We look forward to receiving your application and celebrating the incredible talent within our art community. For any questions or further information, please contact us here
Michael Harding Future Masters
Nina Rumiñska
Nina Rumiñska is a Polish-born painter based in Slane, County Meath. Trained in classical realism at the Florence Academy of Classical Art and at Chiaroscuro under Sergey Chubirko, her work is rooted in academic discipline and careful observation. Originally holding a BA in Japanese Studies from UMK Toruń, she now focuses fully on painting and teaching. She has exhibited at the RHA in Dublin and the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast, and was a finalist in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. In 2025, she founded Classical Art Studio in Slane, where she teaches traditional drawing and painting methods from her home studio.
Hanna Kozeletska
Hanna Kozeletska is a Ukrainian painter from Kryvyi Rih, now based in Chișinău, Moldova. Working primarily in oil, she explores colour, light, and figurative form through portraiture, landscape, and historical themes. Trained in Kharkiv and Kyiv, she combines academic discipline with a contemporary sensibility. Her award-winning work, including “Kyiv’s Source of Eternity,” reflects a focus on composition, tone, and the evolving relationship between people and their environment.
Godofredo Astudillo
Godofredo Astudillo, a Filipino American artist, paints to preserve what’s fading—memories of growing up in ’80s–’90s Los Angeles, shaped by loss, recovery, and resilience after brain surgeries. Self-taught, he works in oil to honor Southeast Asian faces rarely seen in museums, layering fragments of scent, sound, and color into intimate, dreamlike portraits. For him, painting is resistance, reconciliation, and a way to speak in his truest language.
Cornelia Maiwald
Cornelia Maiwald is an emerging artist creating vibrant oil and mixed media works that capture fleeting moods and moments. She blends traditional techniques with digital tools like AI to shape ideas and spark creativity. Often painting en plein air, she works quickly and expressively. With a background in media and studies under Adebanji Alade, she now teaches sketching and continues to explore her dynamic, intuitive approach to painting.
Website: www.cornelia-maiwald.de
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/
Julianne Guinee
Julianne Guinee is an Irish figurative oil painter whose work explores the cultural scripts still shaping women’s lives. Through layered, emotive scenes of women and children, she reveals the tension between beauty and unease, autonomy and expectation. Domestic objects become symbols of hidden labour and quiet rebellion. Represented by galleries across Ireland, she paints full-time in County Cork.
Instagram: @julianneguinee.art
Raquel Pantin
Raquel Pantin is a self-taught oil painter based in Florida, known for her bold use of color and her ability to blend surrealism and pop art into visually striking, thought-provoking works. Since beginning her painting journey in 2014, she has developed a style that invites viewers into imaginative worlds—spaces where reality bends and underrepresented voices take center stage.
Her work often pays homage to people of coloUr and explores themes of identity, femininity, and cultural legacy. Through vibrant, dreamlike imagery, she asks viewers to question what it would feel like to live in the worlds she creates.
TikTok, Instagram & Youtube: @artbyraquelp
Simon Ronnie
Simon Ronnie, from Castlethorpe near Milton Keynes, is a self-taught artist who developed his skills by copying Old Master drawings and working from life. In 2021, inspired by the birth of his daughter Florence, he taught himself to paint using similar techniques. His work is displayed at Woburn Art Gallery and Art Unlimited Gallery, where he was a finalist for the Art Unlimited International Artist 2024. His style uses chiaroscuro and a limited palette, often with subtle religious undertones.
Júlia Gibert Badia
Júlia Gibert Badia’s work draws from romanticism and symbolism, exploring the hidden beauty within tenebrism and natural mysticism. Through painting, pastel, and photography, she examines the relationship between light and form, expressing her imagination through figuration. Born in Spain in 2000, Júlia explored graphic design, advertising, and audiovisual fields, but painting remains her true passion. Her work blends realism with abstract elements, continuing her journey of artistic discovery.
Liam McGee
Liam McGee is a painter working primarily in large-scale oil painting, with a practice centred on intense, high-chroma colour. Throughout his studies, he has increasingly relied on Michael Harding paints, valuing their exceptional brightness, depth, and pigment quality as essential to achieving the vivid surfaces and colour intensity that define his work. Due to the scale of his paintings, materials are used extensively throughout the development of each piece.
Alex Bird
Alex Bird is an emerging Fine Artist from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. She completed a BA in Fine & Applied Arts, developing a material-led painting practice shaped by observation and experimentation. Growing up and continuing to live in South Yorkshire informs her sensitivity to place, atmosphere & environment. In 2025, her work was selected for Gallery Town, a public art initiative in Rotherham town centre marking first exhibition and reinforcing focus on accessible, site-responsive practice
Lewis Dimmick
Raised in Ashington, a former mining town in North East England, Lewis Dimmick is a plein air oil painter working directly from life—on streets, coasts, parks, and busy festival sites. His work focuses on people and movement, capturing scenes as they shift in real time. Influenced by a working-class tradition, he keeps his practice open and accessible, often painting in public, sharing progress, and running sessions for new and young artists.
Jodi Biggs
London-born artist Jodi’s practice draws on the city’s archetypes, spaces, and the poetry of the everyday. Working in oil paint and rusted steel, Jodi blends gestural mark-making, muted palettes, and archival photography to explore archetypal figures, memory, and myth. From large-scale florals to welded metal bouquets and intimate figurative works, the art merges personal narratives with cultural fragments, creating timeless worlds between figuration and abstraction.
Makenzy Beard
Makenzy Beard is a 16-year-old artist whose painting journey began during the lockdown with her mother’s old paints. In just two years, she has gained international acclaim, selling her work globally and exhibiting at prestigious venues like the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show. Makenzy also held a sellout solo exhibition. Her vibrant and expressive oil and acrylic paintings have captivated audiences worldwide, showcasing her unique talent and passion for art.
Lara Sayegh
Iss Mueller
Izabella Mueller is a Polish watercolour artist whose work primarily features delicate and intricate designs. She has a strong passion for creating detailed watercolour illustrations, often inspired by nature and whimsical themes. Over the years, Mueller has honed her skills and developed a unique style that is both vibrant and serene. She now uses Michael Harding watercolours for her artworks, which allows her to achieve rich, luminous colours and intricate details. Mueller continues to captivate audiences with her beautiful and expressive paintings.
Hamish Fleming
Hamish Fleming is an Adelaide-based painter whose work blends traditional classical realism with contemporary subject matter. Influenced by both historical painters and modern realists like Hopper and Freud, his practice focuses on realism’s blunt and unfiltered portrayal of life. Drawing inspiration from the workshop techniques of old masters, Fleming creates 75% of his paints from raw pigments and works solely from life, without digital aids or reference photos. His art invites viewers to appreciate the raw, inherent qualities of his subjects, presenting them as they are, not as they should be.
Isabel Couceiro
Isabel Couceiro da Costa Newman (b. 2002) is a Portuguese-American figurative oil painter based in Boston, MA. Her work, blending traditional and contemporary styles, explores themes of intimacy and connection. Currently pursuing a BFA at Boston University, she was the Overall Winner at the 2023 Visual Art Open UK & International Awards and has collaborated with Warner Music Group. Her paintings, exhibited internationally, invite viewers to experience beauty through moments of vulnerability and emotional depth.