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Gemma Di Grazia

Gemma Di Grazia creates vibrant floral landscapes and food arrangements in oils and soft pastels, transforming carefully curated color palettes and layers of pigment into luminous, immersive works inspired by nature, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.

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Evi Antonio

Evi Antonio’s practice reveals the extraordinary within the overlooked. Combining her background in natural history illustration with digital painting and hand-finished techniques, she magnifies the intricate details of butterflies and other natural forms, inviting viewers to pause, look closely, and reconnect with the living world.

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Nikki Storer

South Shore Boston artist Nikki Storer creates paintings inspired by the ocean, coastal landscapes, and the gardens surrounding her home. Blending realism with abstract elements, expressive brushwork, layered color, texture, and 24K gold leaf capture the light, movement, beauty, and emotional connection found in the natural world.

Create! Magazine 9/29/26 Create! Magazine 9/29/26

Pamela A Beck

Pamela Beck works at the intersection of photography, abstraction, and conceptual inquiry, transforming familiar imagery into immersive compositions through light, color, space, and experimentation. Her FLOWER POWER and LAYERCAKE series explore transformation, perception, and the emotional resonance of visual experience.

Create! Magazine 9/25/26 Create! Magazine 9/25/26

Carmen Vranau

Carmen Vranau is a photographer whose botanical images move beyond documentation, using light and darkness to reveal the fragility, presence, and quiet transformation of flowers grown in her own garden. Discover her tactile, print-focused process on archival pigment paper.

Create! Magazine 9/24/26 Create! Magazine 9/24/26

Michele Aschenbrenner

Michele Aschenbrenner is a surface pattern designer turned painter whose "feel-good florals" balance vintage nostalgia with a fresh, contemporary feel. Discover her hard-edge gouache and acrylic paintings, made to bring warmth, comfort, and personality into everyday spaces.

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Ashley Hendrix

Ashley Hendrix is a painter, paint carver, and longtime art teacher who builds dozens of paint layers and carves back through them to reveal the hidden colors beneath. Explore her tactile, meditative process and her vibrant floral paintings made to bring comfort and joy into the home.

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Tasneem Arif

Tasneem Arif creates vibrant art inspired by flowers and the natural world. Her practice grew from a deeply personal journey, with art becoming a source of solace, beauty, joy, and optimism.

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Monica Henry

Monica Henry’s richly textured textile works explore colour as both a visual and tactile experience. Working with punch needle and wool, she creates immersive surfaces shaped by repetition, botanical forms, material, memory, and her family’s connection to Geelong’s wool industry.

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Jed Tamarkin

Jed Tamarkin uses high-resolution flatbed scanners to capture mushrooms, sunflowers, lichen-covered branches, and other natural subjects from the Catskills, creating highly detailed and immersive photographs that reflect on time, growth, decay, and the Hudson Valley watershed.

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Emma Bass

New Zealand artist Emma Bass creates luminous floral photographs that bridge fine art, nature, and wellbeing. Influenced by the Dutch Golden Age still-life tradition and informed by her background in nursing, her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and experience beauty as a meaningful form of care. Featured in Create! Magazine's 10th Anniversary Book, Bass shares how her practice has evolved through international collaborations, healthcare installations, and an ongoing exploration of art's restorative potential.

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Robyn Palescandolo

Robyn Palescandolo paints everyday objects as if they are treasures, because to her, they are. Her classical oil paintings combine precise realist detail with spontaneous brushwork, shaped by years of slow living in rural Italy and a belief that the world is filled with wonder most people walk past without stopping to see.

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Elen Bezhen

Elen Bezhen paints figures that exist in quiet dialogue with their surroundings. Trained in classical technique and contemporary art in Moscow and now based in France, she builds layered surfaces where stillness coexists with inner tension, and where invented botanical forms speak to fragility, transformation, and the blurred line between nature and the human.

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Chelsea Tikotsky

Chelsea Tikotsky paints the moments that are easiest to miss. Working with a palette knife in oil, she sculpts textured layers of light, color, and emotion into landscapes and botanicals that ask you to slow down and notice what is already there. Her work is a reminder that even in difficulty, there is always light on the horizon.

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Courtney Rae Balson

Courtney Rae Balson starts every painting outside. Her process moves from meditative field immersion and plein air drawing to layered studio work that captures a particular time and place that will never exist again in its current state. Her practice is both a response to habitat loss and a celebration of what remains.

Create! Magazine 4/30/26 Create! Magazine 4/30/26

Nicole Shannon

Nicole Shannon’s Rare Roses reconsiders how we define beauty, worth, and difference. Inspired by real roses with rare genetic abnormalities, the series challenges the tendency to equate variation with deficiency, offering instead a powerful visual argument for intrinsic value and dignity.

Create! Magazine 4/23/26 Create! Magazine 4/23/26

Ozlem Thompson

Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s work bridges the worlds of science and imagination, transforming botanical forms into expressive, dreamlike landscapes. Inspired by her upbringing in Istanbul and shaped by her life in London, her paintings invite viewers into colorful, emotionally rich environments rooted in nature, curiosity, and storytelling.

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Christina Voytko

Christina Voytko, a Northern California–based mixed-media artist, transforms cyanotypes, watercolor, and ink into luminous reflections on nature, folklore, and the subtle magic of everyday life. Her Winter Solstice series celebrates the quiet threshold of the season, inviting viewers to pause, notice, and reconnect with the enduring cycles of light and growth.

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Emma Mclaughlin

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.

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Ashley Snook

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.