Lyubava Kroll

Lyubava Kroll’s work merges art, design, and sustainability to examine how material culture and consumption shape our world. Using surrealist-inspired imagery, repurposed materials, and layered visual techniques, she explores ecological disruption, seasonal transformation, and resilience. Winter Fractured invites viewers to see winter as an active, transitional state where vulnerability and recovery coexist, encouraging reflection on our relationship to nature and place.

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Christine A Beals

Christine Beals’ work invites viewers into a meditative space where color, form, and energy converge. Drawing on her background in antiques and furniture restoration, she transforms wood and thick acrylic into layered compositions that celebrate ancestry, nature, and intuition. Each piece offers a moment of grounding and quiet reflection, revealing beauty and meaning within complexity.

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Kerry Sherman

Kerry Sherman’s multimedia practice explores the intersection of mythology, Hermetic philosophy, symbolism, and the subconscious through dreamlike digital collages. Drawing from archival imagery and surrealist influences, Sherman creates visual compositions centered on transformation, healing, and psychological space.

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Shelly Thanner

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.

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Dawn Howell

Texas-based artist Dawn Howell creates luminous paintings that feel like a quiet moment of reflection. Inspired by nature, nostalgia, and emotional memory, her pastel-toned works weave together delicate textures, soft light, and symbolic motifs such as butterflies, moons, and wildflowers. After returning to painting following a life-changing spinal injury, Howell embraced an intuitive process guided by color, meditation, and spiritual connection. The result is a body of work that offers calm, hope, and a gentle reminder that beauty can still be found in life’s most tender moments.

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Julie Pelaez

Julie Pelaez transforms abstract painting into a tool for reflection and personal empowerment. Working in layered mixed media, her collections explore human experience, subconscious patterns, and emotional healing, inviting viewers to engage deeply with each piece. From intimate home installations to large-scale corporate commissions, her work bridges interior design, narrative, and symbolic abstraction.

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Andrew Traub

Los Angeles-based artist and chef Andrew Traub creates bold acrylic paintings that merge geometric forms, surreal landscapes, and food-inspired imagery. Through playful yet thought-provoking compositions, Traub explores how objects, symbols, and shared experiences shape cultural identity.

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Brenda Welty

Brenda Kay Welty is a fine art photographer whose layered photographic compositions explore memory, transformation, architecture, and emotional experience. Through double exposure, digital collage, and painterly techniques, Welty creates immersive images that exist between photography and imagination.

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Leo Rebolledo

Architect and oil pastel painter Leo Rebolledo creates meticulously rendered scenes where classical technique meets the uncanny. Drawing from subconscious impulses, symbolism, and magical realism, his work transforms familiar spaces into poetic, unsettling dream worlds. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Rebolledo’s paintings invite viewers to step beyond surface reality and explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions that quietly shape human experience.

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Sophia van der Bank aka MRS. HELICHRYSUM.

Meet Sophia, the creative force behind Mrs. H, whose paintings and illustrations blend whimsy, storytelling, and quiet rebellion. From her South African farm roots to Dubai’s vibrant inspiration, her work evokes emotion through recurring figures, text, and symbolic motifs. Explore her series There Should Be Room for Us Too and witness art that celebrates freedom, choice, and reflection.

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Andreea Alunei

Andreea Alunei’s work transforms grief, humor, and imagination into intimate, layered paintings. Drawing on the birth of her daughter, the loss of her mother, and a deep interest in personal mythology, her surreal imagery—halos, unicorns, and whimsical children—invites viewers to reflect on life, death, and the delicate balance in between.

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Sharon Harms

Nashville-based artist Sharon Harms made the leap from award-winning graphic designer to professional painter in 2020. Drawing from decades of experience in visual communication, her work explores narrative and emotion through a refined yet intuitive painting style. With selections in international exhibitions and features in top art magazines, Harms continues to prove it’s never too late to pursue your passion.

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Suzanna Scott

Suzanna Scott’s sculptural practice uses stitching, humor, and repetition to examine the complex relationship between the body and society. Through her “rage-stitching” process and body-inspired forms, Scott creates work that challenges viewers to reflect on autonomy, equality, and shared human experiences.

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Natalie Dunham

Natalie Dunham’s studio practice is grounded in process, precision, and a reverence for craftsmanship. Working primarily in three-dimensional material studies composed of accumulated geometric forms, Dunham draws inspiration from the gridded rural landscapes of her childhood in Lancaster, PA. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday.

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Steve Moors

Steve Moors, a British/American artist based in New York, blends photography, painting, and graphic design in his work. His hand-drawn large-format digital prints evoke a sense of organic artistry while addressing complex, contemporary themes. Drawing on his diverse career, Moors seeks to create images that provoke thought and stimulate the viewer's sense of self, presenting them with visual sutras for contemplation.

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Jack Laroux

Jack Laroux's vibrant paintings merge cubist abstraction with the visual language of stained glass, creating dynamic compositions filled with movement, color, and light. Drawing inspiration from travel, music, and personal heritage, his work invites viewers to explore layered narratives and shifting perspectives.

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Brian Jerome

Philadelphia-based artist Brian Jerome transforms personal experiences into powerful abstract works that explore memory, trauma, and resilience. Through painting and mixed media, he creates diaristic compositions that serve as both personal therapy and a broader invitation for discussion. His work, exhibited internationally, challenges viewers to engage with the complexities of human emotion and vulnerability.

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