Michael Edwards, known as Lingua, is a pen-and-ink artist celebrated for his large-scale, intricately detailed portraits. Featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, his work transforms fine lines and abstract strokes into expressive faces and human figures. Using cold-pressed paper, vibrant gel pens, and glitter accents, Lingua creates compositions that invite viewers to explore every nuance, discovering depth, color, and emotion in every piece.

Michael Potts, a photographer based in Arizona, presents his minimalist and evocative work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Focusing on water, light, and introspective moments, Potts’ images explore renewal, healing, and the journey toward discovering one’s true self. His work invites viewers to witness the transformation from darkness to light and reflect on their own paths of emergence and growth.

Nerea Azanza, a Spanish visual artist based in Paris, presents her innovative abstract figurative work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Combining mixed media on paper, wood, linen, and eco-friendly textiles, Azanza transforms small portraits into expansive installations that explore motion, spatial patterns, and the interconnectedness of life. Her art reflects a deep engagement with transformation, resilience, and the dynamic flow of the world.

Kate Street, a Southsea-based artist, curator, and lecturer, explores the complexity of the female body through collage, sculpture, and installation. Featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, her work challenges embedded ideologies within visual culture, using found imagery and material tensions to disrupt traditional narratives. With recurring motifs of figuration, landscape, craft, and erotica, Street invites viewers to reconsider femininity as a site of both vulnerability and power.

Melbourne-based artist Khue Nguyen presents deeply personal and poetic works in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Spanning lyrical abstraction and explorations of diaspora, his paintings investigate the human form, the emotional language of movement, and the layered narratives of identity and memory. Nguyen’s practice bridges personal experience with collective history, inviting viewers to engage with themes of belonging, transformation, and resilience.

Aidamaris Román’s work, showcased in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, melds realism and surrealism through luminous oil portraits. Her evocative paintings, rich with neon glows and layered transparencies, explore themes of identity, memory, and the delicate space between reality and imagination.

Heidi Mortensen’s work, featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, explores the fragile boundary between constraint and liberation through intricate mixed media sculptures. Using cast resin, glass, and organic elements, her pieces evoke the transformative process of letting go, inviting viewers to reflect on their own moments of transcendence and freedom.

Featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, Canadian artist Vikki Drummond transforms nostalgia, whimsy, and philosophical inquiry into playful yet thought-provoking portraiture. Her work blends 1970s-inspired shapes, signature distortion, and layered narratives to explore the boundaries between seen and unseen, real and imagined, inviting viewers into a world where beauty and absurdity coexist.

Featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, multidisciplinary artist Nataliia Center creates intimate, mysterious works in photography, video, and oil painting. Her pieces explore the unspoken—charged gestures, tactile details, and the space between bodies—inviting viewers to step in and complete the story through their own sensations.

Karen Chang, an expressive artist based in the Pacific Northwest, transforms personal resilience into vibrant, surreal compositions that balance chaos and calm. Combining palette knife techniques, luminous color, and emotive brushwork, her paintings invite viewers to uncover hidden magic and connect with the extraordinary within.

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.