Eventually, I started on a series of bears that were quite abstracted, wherein I tried to paint extreme color contrast and less realism. This completely hooked me, and today I find that while I still focus on landscapes, I paint as many or more wildlife pieces.
Featured Artist Ken Nwadiogbu
My goal for my art is to move completely from trying to make a space beautiful to using it to become a strong activist against the wrongs of my society and the world as a whole.
Featured Artist Marina Kim
Collaboration with portrait clients is an essential part of the creative process and the one I enjoy the most. It gives me an opportunity to get to know another human being and invariably to come to love and appreciate them.
Featured Artist Rachel Favelle
My art explores the multifaceted nature of people; their darkness and lightness, their ability to face adversity and succeed.
Featured Artist Silke Cliatt
In my heart, I believe, I am an embellisher more than a quilter. My quilts are carriers for passionately executed embroidery and appliqué.
Featured Artist Elke Daemmrich
In this sense, I translate cultures and visual worlds. I am an artist who celebrates nature and the world as an aesthetically fragile but indestructible martyrdom.
Featured Artist Monica Coyne
My work is an experiment in altering my own perception of what a bar of steel represents.
Featured Artist Juliana Coles
Based on my experience as an artist living a life subject to seizure, I developed and taught “Visual Journaling,” a process that combines journal writing with art making in a book for self-dialogue. I have been teaching this process around the world since 1992.
Featured Artist Clea Witte
I specialize in equine art—it’s the heart and soul of my work. Seldom do I paint anything else but horses, both commissions and paintings that are up for sale.
Featured Artist Trevor Keen
I am drawn particularly to people and animals for my subject matter and my sketchbooks are full of faces and figures, both cartoony and realistic.
Featured Artist Susan Hurwitch
Artist Susan Hurwitch creates whimsical and colorful mixed media paintings and collages featuring animal and nature subjects.
Featured Artist Mishel Schwartz
Canadian artist Mishel Schwartz’s alcohol ink paintings are sensually rich with color, movement and form.
Featured Artist Nikkie Markle
Artist Nikkie Markle expresses a deep appreciation for the environment and her love of nature through bright and joyful paintings.
Featured Artist Katia Bulbenko
Artist Katia Bulbenko creates intriguing mixed media assemblages using a variety of techniques that blur the line between painting and sculpture.