Instructors

Raquel Cayuela is an artist from Barcelona, currently living and working in Haarlem since 2012, The Netherlands. Raquel creates abstract Art inspired by organic shapes and anything else that makes you want to touch and explore. Art deeply inspired by the transitoriness of nature, ocean and sky. Each piece has an harmony of colours and light, and the contrast of bright and dark tones to uplift the essence with colour, texture and movement. Art designed to make you feel inspired and happy.

Paulina Siniatkina is a visual artist, educator, and global health advocate based in Amsterdam. Her work explores collective trauma and social taboos through a blend of personal insight and research. Trained in monumental painting at the Surikov Art Institute (2013), she holds a Master’s in socially engaged art from ArtEZ (2023). With over a decade of teaching experience, Paulina combines academic depth with a socially conscious approach, inspiring students to create with confidence and purpose.

I am Italian living in Amsterdam. I have more than 20 year experience in the art world first as an artist, with exhibition in Madrid, London, Amsterdam and Den Haag, and then as a curator. The curator activities have intensified itself with the creation, 6 years ago of international workshops, lectures and art events. In January 2019 I have taken the decision to create st-Art in order to develop even more my passion in mentor shipping and curating young and contemporary artists.

Valeria is a Russian artist based in Amsterdam with a Master’s degree in Artistic Metalwork and Jewelry from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and competitions, and has led art masterclasses in Prague, specializing in watercolors and fine arts. She also works in the tattoo industry in Amsterdam, focusing on micro realism, graphic styles, and line work.

Leyli Rashidirauf (b. 1986, Tehran) is an Amsterdam-based visual artist and educator working across painting, printmaking, installation, mural, and performance. She holds an MA from ArtEZ University of the Arts (2023) and has exhibited in Iran and the Netherlands, with recent shows at Extrapool (Nijmegen), Kevnexpo (Eindhoven), and Blind Walls Gallery (Breda). Her public works include In the Storm (Breda, 2024) and We Are Here (Belfast, 2023), a mural on the Peace Wall. Teaching and socially engaged practice remain central to her work.