Morrison Lans’ art reveals intimate emotional journeys through layered colored pencil, encaustic, and underpainting techniques. Highlighting themes of motherhood, transformation, and identity, her work invites viewers into a space where anatomy meets soul. Currently featured in the “Lightness of Being” virtual exhibition, Lans’ unique blend of figurative realism and abstraction offers a poetic meditation on the emotional body.

Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist Dana Major creates immersive light environments using studio-fabricated LEDs, repurposed glass, and raw materials. Her installations explore how perception constructs reality, encouraging slow, analog observation in a digital world. Major’s work is currently featured in Create! Magazine’s “Lightness of Being” virtual exhibition.

Shawna Miller’s layered, emotionally resonant paintings focus on the quiet, intimate connections between mother and child. Featured in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, her work invites viewers to reflect on the psychological nuance and beauty of maternal experience. Through bold underpaintings and cropped compositions, Miller offers a poignant glimpse into the colorful mess beneath even the most composed surfaces.

In The Beautiful Weight of Being, featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, Lara Alcantara Lansberg explores radical stillness through cinematic, fabric-shrouded figures set against vast landscapes. Known for her richly symbolic and emotionally resonant photography, Alcantara Lansberg’s work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and find power in presence.

With roots in children's book illustration and a passion for vibrant, observational painting, Wendy captures the quiet magic of northern New Jersey's scenery in her textured, light-filled works. Her dynamic compositions—featuring reflections, shadows, and glowing color—offer a sense of peace and presence that resonates with the theme of Create! Magazine's Lightness of Being virtual exhibition.

Nicolle Cure’s mixed-media abstract paintings delve into the delicate intersection of sound, emotion, and visual form, inspired by her personal journey with Ménière’s disease. Featured in the “Lightness of Being” exhibition, her work invites viewers into quiet moments of introspection and resilience, revealing beauty in stillness and transformation.

Chen Gao is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist whose work embraces ambiguity, sensory memory, and emotional presence. Featured in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, Gao’s practice spans photography, sound, performance, and tactile materials—inviting viewers into contemplative spaces where personal discovery and collective resonance quietly unfold.

Featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, this artist merges feminine forms with rich natural elements to explore themes of vulnerability, ecology, and transformation. Her work invites viewers into a contemplative space where the human and natural worlds seamlessly intertwine, reminding us of our shared responsibility to care for the Earth.

Eva Christensen’s watercolor paintings capture fleeting domestic moments and the deep connection between humans and their canine companions. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her Stay series uses narrative and light to explore love, loss, and the passage of time within Maritime settings.

Canadian artist Katie Rodgers creates dynamic acrylic paintings that blend abstract and representational styles. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her work captures the mood and memory of landscapes through bold colour, expressive texture, and imaginative interpretations of place.

Irina Forrester is a Russian-born British artist whose work spans still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Featured in AQ Volume VI, she brings together oils and mixed media techniques, capturing life with sincerity while exploring new artistic possibilities through color, texture, and form.

Ghia Haddad bridges fine art, fiber traditions, and cultural research in her dynamic practice. Featured as an AQ Volume VI artist, her work reclaims marginalized histories and voices through embroidery, paint, and textile-based narratives that confront identity and social justice.

Saskia Thurner’s recent work shines a spotlight on bodies often overlooked, portraying older and fuller-bodied figures in swimwear with tenderness and dignity. Her paintings invite viewers to reconsider conventional beauty and embrace the quiet strength found in everyday moments. In AQ Volume VI, discover an artist whose journey through adversity fuels a deeply honest and intimate creative expression.

Meet Maddie Dunn, a California-based artist whose expressive oil paintings merge historical portraiture with contemporary reflections on identity and self-perception. In AQ Volume VI, Maddie discusses how her practice evolved through personal transformation and how her work invites viewers to question societal expectations and internal narratives.

Jin Liu’s paintings balance realism and the surreal, capturing in-between states inspired by dreams and hypnagogic visuals. In AQ Volume VI, she shares her creative process, influences, and the quiet persistence that fuels her distinctive work.

Debbie Lawson’s art reveals quiet magic through surreal sculptures that intertwine animals with historic textiles. Drawing from her Scottish heritage and fascination with domestic objects, her work invites viewers into theatrical narratives that challenge perception and celebrate material history. Explore her journey and recent projects featured in AQ Volume VI.

Discover the vibrant mixed media paintings of M.E. Leaver, a Davidson, North Carolina artist featured in AQ Volume VI. Her work explores the beauty that emerges from life’s chaos, using oil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic to create contemporary and abstract pieces meant to uplift and inspire viewers.

Alicia Staley Johnson’s work blends classical still life influence with modern photographic storytelling. Featured in AQ Volume VI, her richly textured images celebrate the quiet wonder in ordinary moments—highlighting the interplay of light, florals, and heirlooms crafted in her Midwest studio.

Isabel Paget’s multidisciplinary work examines the fragile boundaries between permanence and impermanence, inviting viewers to engage with the elasticity of reality. Her interactive sculptures, including the acclaimed Sands of Time, merge philosophy and science to explore how time and identity warp under pressure. Discover how Paget’s art opens new pathways for reflection on contemporary life’s unseen forces.

Romanian artist Silvana A. Manoliu channels the quiet magic of everyday nature through bold, modern impressionist paintings. Her handmade wooden panels and vibrant colorwork capture fleeting moments—like watering a garden or fresh snowfall—inviting viewers to slow down and reconnect with the beauty of transience.