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Damon Brown

Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist Damon “Creative Lou” Brown creates powerful works rooted in community, cultural memory, and storytelling. Through painting, illustration, murals, mosaics, and public art, Brown transforms shared experiences and histories into enduring visual narratives that connect people to place and one another.

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Gordon Leverton

Self-taught artist Gordon Leverton transforms architecture, city streets, and everyday environments into bold contemporary paintings defined by striking geometry, vibrant colour, and atmospheric shadows. Through his travels and international residencies, Leverton continues exploring how place, memory, and visual storytelling connect us to the world around us.

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Sona Lee

Sona Lee paints the space between familiar and unsettling. Her surrealist compositions gather fragments of memory and dream into single pictorial spaces where domestic calm sits alongside subtle distortion, and where stability and fracture exist at the same time. Influenced by Minimalism and the aesthetic of emptiness in traditional Korean painting, she uses what is absent as carefully as what is present.

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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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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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Suzanne V Paddock

Suzanne V Paddock paints what happens when nine cats and a dog share a house. Her figurative oil paintings capture the situational awareness, quiet negotiations, and everyday moments of her pet community with honesty and humor. It started during the pandemic, and it has not stopped since.

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Ofra Ohana

Ofra Ohana paints the sink full of dishes, the laundry piling up, the child eating dinner, and somewhere among the flowerpots, a leopard stalking an antelope. Her domestic scenes hold both the quiet banality of home and the wild inner landscapes that surface within it. This is painting shaped by displacement, motherhood, and an unwavering commitment to finding the essence of the ordinary.

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Samir Rakhmanov

Samir Rakhmanov paints between realism and abstraction, not as opposing languages but as overlapping conditions of the same surface. Whether working from a landscape, still life, or figure, his goal is always the same: to construct an image that feels inevitable rather than merely descriptive.

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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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