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.

Ghia Haddad bridges fine art, fiber traditions, and cultural research in her dynamic practice. Featured as an AQ Volume VI artist, her work reclaims marginalized histories and voices through embroidery, paint, and textile-based narratives that confront identity and social justice.

Saskia Thurner’s recent work shines a spotlight on bodies often overlooked, portraying older and fuller-bodied figures in swimwear with tenderness and dignity. Her paintings invite viewers to reconsider conventional beauty and embrace the quiet strength found in everyday moments. In AQ Volume VI, discover an artist whose journey through adversity fuels a deeply honest and intimate creative expression.

Meet Maddie Dunn, a California-based artist whose expressive oil paintings merge historical portraiture with contemporary reflections on identity and self-perception. In AQ Volume VI, Maddie discusses how her practice evolved through personal transformation and how her work invites viewers to question societal expectations and internal narratives.

Jin Liu’s paintings balance realism and the surreal, capturing in-between states inspired by dreams and hypnagogic visuals. In AQ Volume VI, she shares her creative process, influences, and the quiet persistence that fuels her distinctive work.

Debbie Lawson’s art reveals quiet magic through surreal sculptures that intertwine animals with historic textiles. Drawing from her Scottish heritage and fascination with domestic objects, her work invites viewers into theatrical narratives that challenge perception and celebrate material history. Explore her journey and recent projects featured in AQ Volume VI.

Discover the vibrant mixed media paintings of M.E. Leaver, a Davidson, North Carolina artist featured in AQ Volume VI. Her work explores the beauty that emerges from life’s chaos, using oil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic to create contemporary and abstract pieces meant to uplift and inspire viewers.

Alicia Staley Johnson’s work blends classical still life influence with modern photographic storytelling. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her richly textured images celebrate the quiet wonder in ordinary moments—highlighting the interplay of light, florals, and heirlooms crafted in her Midwest studio.

Isabel Paget’s multidisciplinary work examines the fragile boundaries between permanence and impermanence, inviting viewers to engage with the elasticity of reality. Her interactive sculptures, including the acclaimed Sands of Time, merge philosophy and science to explore how time and identity warp under pressure. Discover how Paget’s art opens new pathways for reflection on contemporary life’s unseen forces.

Romanian artist Silvana A. Manoliu channels the quiet magic of everyday nature through bold, modern impressionist paintings. Her handmade wooden panels and vibrant colorwork capture fleeting moments—like watering a garden or fresh snowfall—inviting viewers to slow down and reconnect with the beauty of transience.

Kirsten Geyer, known as KSTAN, creates oil paintings that blend precise realism with expressive abstraction, inspired by vintage photographs from the 1960s and 70s. Her work invites viewers to rediscover everyday beauty through color, atmosphere, and memory.

Greer Wilkins’ evocative Still Life Series reflects her journey from Nashville to Maine, using detailed realism and emotional tension to explore themes of home, memory, and belonging. Her work invites viewers into intimate, often uneasy conversations about identity and connection through richly layered compositions.

Meet Allison Clements, a painter whose colorful floral works are inspired by cherished personal moments and a deep-rooted belief in trusting the creative process. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her art invites viewers into joyful, light-filled spaces that celebrate beauty, memory, and experimentation.

Lisa River Schenkelberg’s ceramic work embodies a tactile dialogue between artist and material, weaving together motifs like spirals, root systems, and mycelial networks to symbolize life’s interdependent cycles. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her practice invites viewers to reflect on our deep connection with nature and each other.

Los Angeles-based painter Holly Boruck shares her Landscape Series in AQ Volume VI, where abstraction, rhythm, and color create dreamy, introspective worlds. Through her paintings, Boruck invites viewers into imagined environments that reflect on the human psyche, balance, and beauty found in imperfection.

In her acrylic paintings, Natalie Friedman captures the emotional atmosphere of domestic and liminal spaces using expressive light and color. Influenced by cubism, fauvism, and expressionism, her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the present moment. Featured in AQ Volume VI.

Discover the work of Rachel Dunn, a film photographer based in Pennsylvania, whose captivating images explore the interplay of architecture, light, and negative space. In AQ Volume 5, she shares her journey from high school portfolio to a passionate pursuit of analog photography, emphasizing the timeless quality of her art. With a focus on traditional techniques, Dunn challenges herself to experiment with different film stocks and camera angles, offering a fresh, nostalgic view of the world around her. Read on to learn more about Rachel's artistic practice and philosophy.

Marisa Macklin, a contemporary figurative painter featured in AQ Volume 5, brings her diverse background in musical theater and fine art to create vibrant, evocative works. Her latest series, Fashion, Fruit, and Fowl, merges the energy of fashion and farm life, offering a fresh perspective on modern portraiture. Dive into Macklin's journey from city streets to rural life and explore how her evolving environment shapes her art.