Cecelia Wilken transforms personal trauma, chronic illness, and fascination with the macabre into evocative traditional artwork. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her pieces explore death, decay, and the fragile beauty of human vulnerability, offering viewers a tender yet striking reflection on life and resilience.

Morgan Humphrey blends oil paint and pastel to explore memory, identity, and the ripple of girlhood into adulthood. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work transforms cowboy archetypes, self-portraits, and intimate vignettes into layered, expressive paintings that balance humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.

Kate Hendrickson’s art intertwines faith, movement, and personal expression. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her recent series blends colored pencil drawings and pastel backgrounds to explore spirituality, joy, and the freedom to be fully seen, creating works that are both intimate and universally resonant.

Meghan Murray turns found family snapshots into evocative oil paintings, exploring mid-century American suburbia, memory, and cultural clichés. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work examines the tension between personal storytelling and collective identity, transforming ephemeral photographs into enduring, thought-provoking art.

Alexis McKeown’s studio photography challenges viewers to confront the intimate conflicts behind everyday experiences. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her FIGURING series combines self-portraiture, still life, and classical lighting techniques with humor and vulnerability, inviting dialogue around food, identity, and personal reflection.

Kristin M. Steinke creates mixed media art rooted in joy, color, and allyship. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends vibrant aesthetics with intentional messaging, exploring inclusivity, empowerment, and emotional resilience while inviting viewers to experience beauty and justice side by side.

Christina Klein reimagines quilts as immersive, light-filled structures in her series The Quiet Hours. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends patterns in nature with traditional textiles, inviting viewers to experience color, texture, and space in a wholly unique, interactive way.

Trish Mitchell’s oil paintings transform overlooked moments in nature into meditative still lifes. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work celebrates the hush of shadow, the curve of a petal, and the interplay of light and presence, offering viewers a space for reflection and soulful connection.

Lois Pluskey’s art blends realism and painterly techniques to capture moments full of emotion, narrative, and whimsy. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work ranges from playful depictions of toys to reflections on everyday life, offering viewers a personal and evocative visual experience.

Anja WŸlfing’s portraits focus on presence over identity, using muted tones and soft abstractions to evoke quiet introspection. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work offers viewers a space to pause, reflect, and experience emotion through stillness, restraint, and subtle detail.

Barbara Drobot’s work transforms the human body into a vessel of emotion. Using layered oil textures, marks, and abrasions, her paintings capture subtle states of feeling and stillness, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the present moment. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her art explores silence, movement, and the inner rhythm of human experience.

Katherine McMahon’s latest series reimagines neon signs as vibrant, two-dimensional paintings that capture the seductive glow and cultural weight of urban life. Exploring themes of nostalgia, consumerism, and hauntology, her work reflects on how objects shift from everyday signage to cultural artifacts while challenging viewers to consider the traces of lost futures embedded in contemporary visual culture.

An AQ Volume VII Artist, Beth Shadur is known for a prolific career spanning international exhibitions, large-scale public murals, and influential residencies. Her work weaves watercolor, mapping, and landscape into poetic reflections on place, history, and human connection.

Sandra Keja Planken’s practice bridges art, ecology, and emotion. Working with textiles, glass, and spatial design, her sculptural installations explore impermanence, sensory experience, and our relationship with nature. Featured in AQ Volume VII, her work extends beyond the gallery, transforming discarded materials into living artworks that invite coral growth, reflection, and renewal.

In AQ Volume VII, artist Heidi Keith presents ink-based works that explore the body as a shifting, porous form shaped by time, environment, and lived experience. Through flowing marks and dissolving figures, her paintings reflect cycles of transformation, vulnerability, and collective connection, offering a meditative reflection on becoming rather than being.

Featured in AQ Volume VII, Jennifer Warren brings playfulness and wit to contemporary painting through vibrant color, mixed media, and textile elements. Drawing inspiration from everyday observations, interiors, and organic textures, her work transforms the familiar into thoughtful, imaginative compositions that reflect the nuances of human experience.

In AQ Volume 7, Airco Caravan presents a striking body of work that blends humor, activism, and historical reckoning. Using spray cans and cast resin objects as symbols of resistance, her work challenges systems of power while imagining what it might mean to literally erase injustice. From guerrilla interventions to deeply researched historical narratives, Caravan’s practice invites viewers to reconsider the past and envision a more conscious future.

Eva Christensen’s watercolor paintings capture fleeting domestic moments and the deep connection between humans and their canine companions. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her Stay series uses narrative and light to explore love, loss, and the passage of time within Maritime settings.

Canadian artist Katie Rodgers creates dynamic acrylic paintings that blend abstract and representational styles. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her work captures the mood and memory of landscapes through bold colour, expressive texture, and imaginative interpretations of place.

Irina Forrester is a Russian-born British artist whose work spans still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Featured in AQ Volume VI, she brings together oils and mixed media techniques, capturing life with sincerity while exploring new artistic possibilities through color, texture, and form.