Chad Lubertowicz, MFA, creates oil paintings that explore the quiet rituals of everyday life. Airports, subways, and train stations become stages for private reflection, rendered with vivid color and abstracted realism. Each piece invites viewers to pause and consider the beauty and isolation of human experience.

Kirsti Smith transforms personal emotion into tactile ceramic works that invite both touch and reflection. Inspired by family, spirituality, and the cycles of life, her pieces blur the line between fine art and functional objects, creating an intimate experience for the viewer.

Yana Tymoshenko’s work blends realism and imagination, using vivid colors and photorealistic subjects with a unique abstract twist. Drawing from her experiences across multiple cities and her fascination with the human mind, her art explores emotion, thought, and the eccentricities of life in ways that are both playful and profound.

Raoul Korzuschek’s paintings blur the line between abstraction and the human form, capturing the impermanence of life through textured layers, overpainting, and subtle erasure. In his series Pentiment, he elevates hidden traces beneath the surface, creating “anti-monuments” that celebrate transience, reflection, and the depth of fleeting moments.

Emma Mclaughlin, a contemporary painter based in Miami, transforms her weekly walks into a vibrant exploration of emotion, memory, and introspection. Her Neon Nature Trail series uses square canvases and dynamic color shifts to create modular, reflective landscapes that invite viewers to trace their own inner journeys.

Jenny Carrillo’s ongoing series, Reflections, invites viewers into a journey of healing and self-discovery. Through still life photography, traditional in-camera methods, and carefully crafted compositions, she captures the rawness of trauma, the beauty of transformation, and the quiet power of stillness. Each limited edition print serves as both art and reflection, connecting deeply to personal and universal experiences of resilience.

Kuan-Hsuan Lu’s digital illustrations blend personal storytelling with symbolic imagery. Using flowers, hands, and containers, she reflects on resilience, growth, and hope in challenging times. Her work invites viewers to connect with their own journeys while witnessing the delicate balance between fragility and strength.

Troy Dugas transforms fabric and fiber into immersive collages that bridge folk traditions, animal symbolism, and contemporary art. His work invites viewers into tactile, meditative worlds where strength, vulnerability, and connection converge. Represented by Arthur Roger Gallery, Dugas continues to explore texture, narrative, and self-discovery through fiber-based forms.

Leisa Rich is a Canadian experimental artist whose work pushes the boundaries of fiber art, sculpture, and interactive design. Using techniques like embroidery, weaving, tufting, 3D printing, and laser engraving, she transforms everyday and recycled materials into wall-hung artworks, wearable sculptures, and sensory environments. Rich’s practice invites audiences to engage through touch while exploring memory, childhood, and the tension between stability and change. Her work has been collected by major institutions including Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Carrie Cantwell transforms everyday stories into visually engaging illustrations that resonate across film, TV, and print. From set design to award-nominated graphic work, her creative journey blends narrative, color, and design into bold, memorable visuals.

Cozy Soga, a multidisciplinary artist from Tokyo, turns two-dimensional canvases into immersive visual poems. Blending myth, technology, and human emotion, Soga’s concept-driven oil paintings challenge perceptions of identity while inviting viewers to explore rebirth, transformation, and poetic narratives through the lens of contemporary figurative art.

Julie Pelaez transforms abstract painting into a tool for reflection and personal empowerment. Working in layered mixed media, her collections explore human experience, subconscious patterns, and emotional healing, inviting viewers to engage deeply with each piece. From intimate home installations to large-scale corporate commissions, her work bridges interior design, narrative, and symbolic abstraction.

Yian Lee’s work invites viewers to pause and reflect on the idea of belonging. A self-taught painter from Taiwan, Lee blends abstract geometry, meditative processes, and layered forms to explore subconscious landscapes and inner states that resist fixed meaning. Her paintings act as a gentle meditation on self, memory, and the spaces where belonging emerges from within.

Based in Tkaronto, Dr. Ashley Snook is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator whose practice centers on drawing, sculpture, and immersive installation. Grounded in scientific research and ritual practices, her work explores cycles of growth, decay, and renewal, inviting audiences to reflect on interdependence, ecological responsibility, and our place within more-than-human networks of life.

Rooted in a lifelong immersion in art and design, Anelia Torres creates multidisciplinary work that bridges digital illustration, surface pattern design, and jewelry. Drawing inspiration from Los Angeles, memory, and imagined spaces, her practice moves fluidly between abstract and representational forms to communicate emotion beyond words.

Working under the name HandmadeHome, contemporary artist Svetlana creates surreal fantasy sculptures that feel as though they’ve emerged from hidden magical realms. Combining polymer clay with naturally grown crystals, her mixed media works explore the threshold between energy and matter, nature and imagination, resulting in otherworldly beings rich with texture, symbolism, and quiet wonder.

Sam Wilde, a British multidisciplinary artist, creates award-winning works that blur the line between fine art and surface design. Using illustration, oil painting, animation, sculpture, and large-scale installations, he builds immersive worlds influenced by his synesthesia and love for evolutionary biology. His work has been exhibited globally, from London to China and Japan, redefining how we experience color, pattern, and creativity.

Gosia Karski paints surreal worlds where reality meets emotion, exploring the feelings we hide, disguise, and rarely admit. Using acrylics and oils, her work transforms everyday human experiences into symbolic landscapes, inviting viewers to reflect on emotions, fears, and the stories we carry within.

Illustrator Genre Sun creates immersive, detail-rich scenes that reward slow looking and repeated viewing. Recently named a Category Winner at the 2025 World Illustration Awards, Sun reflects on a practice shaped by patience, playfulness, and extended creative cycles that allow imagery to unfold over time.

Working in oil paint, Emma Hapner creates figurative worlds saturated in vivid pinks, drawing on the visual language of classical antiquity while exploring the layered dualities of womanhood. Her paintings celebrate softness and strength as inseparable forces, offering an intimate reflection on identity, femininity, and selfhood through a contemporary perspective.