Julia McGlew’s artwork transports viewers to a calmer, kinder world filled with fantasy, nature, and surreal imagery. Featured in the upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her paintings merge emotional depth with whimsical storytelling. Influenced by the overlooked beauty of animals and a vintage aesthetic, her work invites reflection, imagination, and escape into an ethereal, magical realm.

Jon Gernon transforms canvas into spaces of myth and imagination. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, his paintings and allegories encourage viewers to step into a world where narrative and imagination meet. Gernon’s work inspires audiences to create personal stories, making each encounter with his art a unique and participatory experience.

RMD’s photography transforms the ordinary into the mystical, capturing moments where spirit, presence, and intuition converge. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her work invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the unseen layers of life. Through soulful imagery, RMD offers a meditation on love, magic, and the interconnectedness of all things.

Multidisciplinary artist Aunia Kahn brings a vibrant, symbolic visual language to The Spirit World exhibition, weaving personal history, cultural influence, and mystical storytelling into layered compositions. Her work reflects a powerful journey of survival and renewal, offering viewers a transformative encounter with color, symbolism, and inner mythology.

Danish artist Lisbeth Thygesen brings shimmering layers of Nordic nature, magic, and mystical symbolism to her work, which is featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming virtual exhibition “The Spirit World.” Her paintings and sculptures bridge the physical and spiritual, inviting viewers into realms of myth, intuition, and quiet transformation. Learn more about her practice, background, and artistic vision in this featured profile.

Tomás Carlos Ortolani creates paintings that connect the viewer with worlds beyond perception, using symbolism, dreams, and personal narratives to explore the unconscious. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, his work blends technical mastery with deeply psychological and spiritual themes, offering a contemplative journey into the unseen.

Mehgann Maiellano’s work captures the delicate balance between humor and eeriness. Through photography and mixed media, she places ghostly figures in rural landscapes, inviting viewers to reflect on memory, solitude, and the uncanny in familiar places. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Maiellano’s art transforms ordinary settings into spaces of mystery, wonder, and quiet unease.

Lauren Davies blends photography, sculpture, and textiles to investigate the hidden histories and layered narratives of place. From abandoned Rust Belt factories to haunted mansions, her experimental works merge archival research with striking materiality and ironic perspective. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Davies’ art evokes the mystical, eerie, and uncanny while proposing new ways of seeing personal, cultural, and institutional histories.

Maya Sumile creates mystical work that bridges the tangible and intangible, blending self-portraiture, Gothic literature, and Romanticism to explore the human condition. Her paintings and environments evoke the uncanny while balancing dread and serenity. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Sumile’s work invites viewers to experience narratives that give form to silence, dreams, and enduring human stories.

Jacqueline Strano transforms garments and vintage imagery into vessels of memory, identity, and resistance. Through hand-stitched embroidery and mixed media, she merges past and present, revealing the threads that connect women’s lives across time. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Strano’s work invites viewers to explore the intimate dialogues between femininity, power, and ornamentation.

Anne Spalter, a pioneering visual artist in both traditional and digital media, presents immersive, symbolic landscapes in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition. Her work blends surrealism, science fiction, and archetypal imagery to explore the boundaries between the natural and the cosmic. Through her series Surrealist Landscapes and Future Landscapes, Spalter merges dreamlike geometry, luminous color, and algorithmic processes to create worlds where inner and outer realities converge. Featured internationally in major collections and publications, her practice invites viewers to encounter transformation, intuition, and the mythic dimensions of contemporary experience.

Emily Ezell, born in Monroe, Louisiana, creates apocalyptic and surrealist paintings that blend neon, mutated creatures, and corpse-like nymphs with historical references to the Old Masters. Featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, her work explores the uncanny, pop surrealism, and Southern Gothic themes, creating images that are simultaneously provocative, grotesque, and mesmerizing. As an educator and professional artist, Ezell continues to push the boundaries of narrative, technique, and the surreal, inviting viewers into worlds that challenge perceptions of beauty, desire, and decay.

Sophia Conroy Iglesias, a British-Spanish artist, creates intimate and psychologically charged works in oil, graphite, and hand-bound books. Featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, her art blends historical figuration with contemporary perspectives, exploring mythology, touch, memory, and the feminine experience. Each canvas is paired with a handwritten poem, extending her visual narratives into an interior world where presence, absence, and the spectral intertwine. Her work invites viewers to encounter bodies, gestures, and spaces that hover between reality and the unseen.

Amalia Romp, a New York native now based in Los Angeles, is a multidisciplinary artist and set designer whose work spans papier-mâché sculpture, avant-garde tableaux portraits, and immersive storytelling. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her art draws on surrealism, expressionism, circus motifs, and global cultures, creating fantastical worlds that invite viewers into her imaginative process. From brainstorming to building, photographing, and editing, Amalia handles every stage of creation herself, crafting deeply personal and visually striking works.

Somerset-based artist Estelle delves into the human psyche and the enigmatic depths of the subconscious through painting, illustration, digital art, and installations. Her work, featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, fuses darkness and surrealism, from ethereal landscapes shrouded in mist to haunting figures that seem to gaze into the soul. Each piece invites viewers to explore their innermost fears and desires while experiencing a hauntingly beautiful vision of reality intertwined with the fantastical.

Jessica Burke, who goes by J.B., is an award-winning artist and Associate Professor of Art based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her labor-intensive colored-pencil drawings use magical realism to explore memory, personal narratives, and the darker sides of human nature. JB’s work has been exhibited internationally, published in top art journals, and is held in private, public, and corporate collections. In this feature, learn more about her approach, inspirations, and the meticulous process behind her vibrant, thought-provoking art.

Explore the haunting, meticulous world of artist Kuang Chu, whose Red Balloon digital drawing series is included in “The Spirit World” exhibition. His work blends European engraving traditions with contemporary meditations on solitude, resilience, and the mystical. In this feature, learn more about the artist’s influences, symbolism, and the powerful imagery behind his signature red balloon.

Carolyn Hampton, artist, psychic medium, and entertainment attorney from Los Angeles, channels her spiritual gifts into deeply personal fine art. Her “Childhood Dreams & Memories” series, created in collaboration with her daughter, draws on visions, memories, and spirit encounters to explore trauma, intimacy, and symbolic meaning. Carolyn’s work has been exhibited worldwide, published in books, magazines, and album covers, and continues to expand into painting and her “Constructed Fairytales” photo series inspired by myth and folklore.

Jiaqi (Chi) Pan creates portraits that examine how identity is shaped by social dynamics, gender, race, and class. Her work balances intimacy and distance, turning collaboration with strangers into a reflective study of human interaction and perception.

Amelia Carley transforms found materials into vivid dioramas that become the foundation for her surreal landscapes. Her work examines ecological anxiety, memory, and the overlap of the natural and artificial, inviting viewers to consider humanity’s impact on the environment through imaginative, layered compositions