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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anouk Wolse’s paintings inhabit a space between landscape and psychology, where natural environments reflect emotional states and human presence. Through subtle color, composition, and ambiguous narratives, her work explores memory, tension, and our shifting relationship to nature.

Emi Avora’s practice bridges Greek heritage and life in Asia, weaving together interior spaces, still life, and landscape into layered compositions. Her paintings explore identity, mythology, and perception through color, scale, and symbolic encounters between objects and forms.

Shelly Thanner is a German contemporary artist whose meditative paintings explore the quiet spaces between inner and outer worlds. Through acrylics, natural pigments, and textured mediums, her Liminal Landscapes series invites viewers into moments of stillness, connection, and transformation.

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.

Bay Area artist Ali Hall paints landscapes that feel remembered rather than observed. Working in acrylic, her atmospheric compositions draw from California’s coastline to explore emotional healing, inner reflection, and the way place shapes memory. Through softened forms, intuitive mark-making, and gentle color transitions, Hall invites viewers into intimate moments of stillness and connection.

Sandra Attales’ botanical and landscape paintings capture the beauty of place and memory. Drawing from her childhood in the Florida Keys, her work explores identity, narrative, and the enduring romance of the natural world.