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.

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.

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.

Italian multimedia artist Giulia Aim explores perception, nature, and contemporary visual culture through painting and mixed media. Her Slices of Life - The Time of Nature series transforms fruits and vegetables through enlarged scale, vibrant colour, and meticulous observation, inviting viewers to rediscover the beauty and vitality of familiar forms.

New York-based artist Monica Shulman creates richly layered abstract paintings that explore memory, nature, identity, and self-reflection. Through gestural mark-making, oil, oil stick, and pastel, her work translates lived experience into color, texture, and rhythm.

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.

Minnesota-based artist Umbreen Hasan creates luminous abstract works inspired by nature, shifting landscapes, light, and memory. Working with alcohol inks, encaustics, and cold wax, her practice explores healing, contemplation, and emotional resonance through color and movement.

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.

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.

Carolyn Sweeney’s practice explores the relationship between color, place, and the natural world. Working with botanical and mineral colors, handmade pigments, folded paper, and pastels, she creates works rooted in material, memory, and the ecosystems of Oregon.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nick Pedersen is a contemporary artist whose elaborate photorealistic works examine environmental issues through photography, digital collage, and printmaking. Exploring themes of beautiful decay, nature’s reclamation, and the impact of humanity on the natural world, Pedersen creates surreal narratives that question the legacy we leave behind.

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.

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.

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

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.