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

Shelby Shadwell

Shelby Shadwell creates large-scale drawings and paintings of non-traditional imagery, including black plastic trash bags, emergency blankets, and anthracite coal. Through meticulous, hyper-realistic rendering, his work explores contrasts between vulgarity and beauty, ephemerality and permanence, and low and high status in artistic subject matter.

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

Monica Shulman

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.

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

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.

Create! Magazine 5/6/26 Create! Magazine 5/6/26

Grada Snijder

Grada Snijder’s pastel portraits explore the subtle dynamics of human emotion and connection. With a delicate yet precise approach, her work captures the warmth, depth, and shared experiences that shape our interactions across cultures.

Create! Magazine 4/24/26 Create! Magazine 4/24/26

Bianca Paraschiv

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

Create! Magazine 4/24/26 Create! Magazine 4/24/26

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt’s SCHOOL LUNCH series captures the emotional and social dynamics of student life through direct observation and expressive figurative painting. Rooted in real moments and environments, her work reflects the complexities of human relationships, identity, and shared cultural experience.

Create! Magazine 1/15/26 Create! Magazine 1/15/26

Kate Hendrickson

Kate Hendrickson’s art intertwines faith, movement, and personal expression. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her recent series blends colored pencil drawings and pastel backgrounds to explore spirituality, joy, and the freedom to be fully seen, creating works that are both intimate and universally resonant.

Create! Magazine 4/24/25 Create! Magazine 4/24/25

Catherine LaPointe

Catherine LaPointe-Vollmer brings a deep reverence for nature to her soft pastel landscapes, highlighting the subtle patterns of light and shadow often overlooked in everyday scenes. Her impressionistic works, featured in the Land and Longing virtual exhibition, are rooted in the forests, rivers, and seasonal shifts of her native North Country. Through plein air sketches and intuitive composition, LaPointe-Vollmer reveals how the ordinary becomes extraordinary when viewed in just the right light.

Create! Magazine 4/22/25 Create! Magazine 4/22/25

Jennifer Cronin

Jennifer Cronin’s work reveals a unique perspective on the mundane, finding magic in the overlooked corners of everyday life. Her latest collection, supported by prestigious grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and Chicago DCASE, invites viewers to discover the extraordinary in ordinary moments. Delve into her artistic journey and how her paintings transform the mundane into something magical.

Create! Magazine 12/10/24 Create! Magazine 12/10/24

Pamella Diegor | Heart Archive

Discover the vibrant world of Pamella Diegor, a Filipina painter and sculptor known for her heart-shaped motifs and textured artworks. Working with plaster, clay, and acrylics, Pamella’s creations transform challenges into sources of positivity, inspiring warmth and connection. Explore her dreamscape, the Heart Archive, where hearts and colors celebrate goodness amidst modern struggles. Visit heartarchiveph.wixsite.com/artist.