Artist by Country
Where an artist grows up shapes how they see the world, and that shows up in their work. This section groups WooArts profiles by region, African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern artists, so you can explore art through the lens of geography and culture instead of just style or medium. Some countries get their own dedicated page when there are enough artists to fill one; smaller groups are gathered into their wider region instead. Either way, the aim is the same: to make it easy to discover painters, sculptors, and photographers from a particular part of the world.
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Imran Khan | Artist by Country
Imran Khan is a Pakistani watercolorist born in 1988 in Peshawar whose light, expressive paintings draw on the landscapes and culture of Northern Pakistan. He has exhibited internationally and taught watercolor masterclasses abroad, including in Belarus as part of a cultural exchange program.
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Philip de László | Artist by Country
Philip de László was an Anglo-Hungarian painter born in Budapest in 1869, best known for portraits of European royalty including Queen Mary and King Edward VII. He became a British subject in 1914, and stories from his sittings, like reworking the queen’s hands to look more elegant, still follow his paintings today.
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Rukiye Garip | Artist by Country
Rukiye Garip is a contemporary Turkish artist based in Istanbul who blends traditional Turkish motifs, calligraphy, and folklore with modern painting and collage. Her work explores identity and cultural heritage through vibrant color and careful, meticulous detail.
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Olafur Eliasson | Artist by Country
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish Icelandic artist born in Copenhagen in 1967 known for large scale installations that use light, water, and mirrors to explore natural phenomena. His 2003 installation The Weather Project at Tate Modern was seen by around two million visitors.
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Boon Kwang | Artist by Country
Boon Kwang is a Thai artist known for watercolor and pastel work that weaves Thai cultural heritage and spirituality into soft, luminous landscapes and seascapes. His pieces balance fluid, transparent color with a quiet, dreamlike stillness.
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Franz Xaver Kosler | Artist by Country
Franz Xaver Kosler was an Austrian Orientalist painter born in Vienna in 1864, known for realistic portraits and genre scenes of Egyptian life after a formative 1886 trip to Egypt. He died in Sicily in 1905, and his work is now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Albert György | Artist by Country
Albert György is a Romanian born sculptor, raised in Transylvania’s Hungarian minority, whose bronze figures explore suffering and resilience. After years of hardship and isolation in Romania, he found artistic freedom in Switzerland, where he developed his own bronze alloy and richly colored patinas.
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Hamish Blakely | Artist by Country
Hamish Blakely is an Irish painter who grew up in a theatrical household that shaped his creative instincts from an early age. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art and Kingston University, and a portrait of his father marked the turning point when painting fully replaced drawing in his work.
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Ignat Ignatov | Artist by Country
Ignat Ignatov is a Bulgarian American painter born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo who trained at an art school in Tryavna before moving to the United States in 1997. Known for bold brushwork and glowing color influenced by Sargent and Sorolla, he has also painted shelter dogs to raise money for animal rescue.
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Victor Brauner | Artist by Country
Victor Brauner was a Romanian born surrealist painter born in Piatra Neamț in 1903 who joined André Breton’s circle in Paris in 1925. After losing his left eye in 1938, that image became a recurring motif in his dreamlike, myth infused paintings.
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TaiMeng Lim | Artist by Country
Tai-Meng Lim is a Malaysian artist born in 1976 who started painting at age ten and later worked in advertising before returning to fine art in 2011. His paintings reflect his own struggles and self-discovery, exploring transformation through experimentation with different methods and techniques.
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Rudolf Ernst | Artist by Country
Rudolf Ernst was an Austrian born French painter born in Vienna in 1854, celebrated for meticulously detailed Orientalist scenes of bazaars, harems, and religious ceremonies in North Africa and the Middle East. His vivid color and immersive atmosphere made him one of the movement’s most technically skilled painters until his death in 1932.
