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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.

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Matthew Borowick

New York-based photographer Matthew Borowick explores landscapes from the ground and above, using infrared photography to reveal textures, colors, and perspectives hidden from the human eye.

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Rosie Fitzgerrel

Rosie Fitzgerrel’s vibrant paintings examine the meeting point between humanity and nature, using intense color, graphic compositions, and naturalistic scenes to explore reverence, wonder, tension, and harmony.

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Cynthia Young

Cynthia Young creates atmospheric landscape paintings inspired by the quiet power of nature, capturing shifting light, subtle moods, and the deeply felt experience of being immersed in a moment.

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Leah Oates

Leah Oates’s Transitory Space series captures the movement of time, human traces, and shifting realities through the use of multiple exposures on film.

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Sarah Jane Tart

Meet artist Sarah Jane Tart, whose vivid colors and expressive brushwork transform coastal landscapes into dreamlike paintings filled with joy, nature, and a love of color.

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Chrys Roboras

Chrys Roboras creates evocative figurative paintings that merge realistic human forms with expansive, colorful semi-abstract landscapes. Her dreamlike works explore movement, memory, and emotion, inviting viewers into stories where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.

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Susan Schmidt

Susan Schmidt’s contemporary figurative paintings explore memory, nature, and personal transformation through layered surfaces, abstraction, and expressive mark-making. Drawing from experiences of loss and connection to the natural world, Schmidt’s work reflects the enduring relationship between place, emotion, and remembrance.

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Mya Kerner

Painter and writer Mya Kerner explores the rhythms of nature through expressive landscapes shaped by motherhood, stewardship, and lived experience. In this 10th Anniversary Book feature, she reflects on her artistic journey, career milestones, and the enduring connection between land and self.

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Laurén Gerig

Laurén Gerig is a visual artist based in Lansing, Michigan, whose abstract paintings translate moments of observation, memory, and stillness into intimate visual records. Through layered abstraction and calligraphic mark-making, Gerig explores the emotional relationships formed through daily encounters with the landscape.

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Jake McCauley

Pittsburgh-based artist Jake McCauley creates paintings rooted in mundane realism, exploring themes of observation, memory, place, and perception. Through cinematic compositions and recurring imagery of windows, his work examines how we experience the spaces between ourselves and the world around us.

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Brandon Clay Smith

Brandon Clay Smith creates deeply contemplative paintings informed by the landscape of the farm where he lives and works. Through plein air studies, studio explorations, and a focus on the cycles of life and decay, Smith transforms rural environments into poetic reflections on nature, time, and human experience.

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Jeff Dillon

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Jeff Dillon creates expressive landscape paintings that balance representation and abstraction. Drawing on observation, memory, and the Canadian landscape, his work explores movement, atmosphere, and the emotional resonance of place.

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Rossitza Todorova

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Rossitza Todorova creates paintings inspired by the desert's fleeting moments of light, atmosphere, and wonder. Her work reflects on memory, transformation, and the mystery of the natural world.

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Johanne Bossmann

Johanne Bossmann paints without brushes. Working exclusively with her hands, she spreads highly diluted acrylics across raw canvas until the pigment merges with the textile fibers in a process that is, as she puts it, irreversible and honest. The result is a series of ethereal, flowing horizons that function less as landscapes and more as invitations to breathe.

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Marketa Hopkins

Marketa Hopkins paints movement, patience, and the gradual passage of time into every brushstroke. In her studio she developed a signature technique that gives her large-scale acrylic works their distinctive visual rhythm, balancing the elegance of darker tones with the warmth and energy of her more luminous pieces.

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Rachel Kate Darling

When motherhood fragmented her studio time, Rachel Kate Darling found a new way in. Walking the pram along her local coastline, she turned to her iPad and discovered that two spare minutes between nappy changes was enough to capture an atmosphere. The result was the Peninsula collection, and a practice that now holds both digital and canvas work side by side.

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Rebecca Santry

Rebecca Santry paints the Pacific Northwest the way it feels from the inside. In her Soft Fascination series, layered brushstrokes and an earthy palette translate nature's quiet rhythms into a visual meditation, an invitation to slow down, breathe, and reconnect.

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Jennye Stubblefield

Jennye Stubblefield’s aerial landscape paintings explore the intersection of abstraction and realism through sweeping perspectives of nature. Working in oil, her practice reflects on the sublime, memory, and the emotional experience of viewing the earth from above.

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Allison McClay

Allison McClay’s paintings explore solitude, memory, and the fragile balance between humanity and the natural world. Working in layered acrylic on wood, her practice reflects on meditative states and landscapes shaped by beauty, crisis, and reflection.