Spanish-American artist Augustina Droze creates immersive fantasy worlds inspired by her decade living and working in Beijing, China. Through porcelain animal protagonists and a fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics, Droze explores identity, cultural exchange, fragility, and strength. Her internationally exhibited practice invites viewers into a surreal space of beauty, wonder, and escape.

Based in Devonport, New Zealand, Jenni Stringleman creates expressive figurative paintings celebrating feminine confidence, friendship, and the beauty of everyday moments. Through bold color, textured surfaces, and rhythmic compositions, her work explores joy, resilience, and the complexities of the human experience.

Jazlyne Sabree is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, land, and the persistence of African diasporic histories. Through immersive installations, collage, and material exploration, Sabree creates powerful visual narratives that honor lineage, resilience, and the stories embedded within the spaces we inhabit.

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.

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.

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, Resh Ramrattan creates luminous abstract paintings built through thousands of individual marks, encouraging viewers to slow down, reflect, and engage with the passage of time.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Anna Wallace creates intimate watercolor works centered on the human hand, exploring memory, loss, and personal reinvention.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Jade Jwa’s oil paintings explore emotional distance, migration, and psychological ambiguity through quiet, atmospheric figurative scenes.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Georgina Gray creates vibrant acrylic paintings inspired by Singapore’s wildlife and urban landscapes, blending nature, travel, and playful imagination.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Allie Sutherland creates subconscious dreamscapes rooted in mythology, architecture, and surrealist automatism, exploring the space between structure and intuition.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Anna Sobkowiak is a figurative painter whose work explores female portraiture, narrative structure, and evolving perception through colour and light.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Gina Gwen Palacios uses painting and mixed media to explore Mexican American identity, family history, and cultural memory. Her work reflects on belonging, displacement, and inherited narratives across generations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.