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.

Working at the intersection of myth, personal narrative, and psychological space, Colleen Francis Smith creates richly hued oil paintings that challenge inherited ideas of femininity. Her dreamlike gardens and forests become sites of transformation, tension, and escape, where figures merge with plant life and reality bends. Featured in the Spirit Worldexhibition, Smith’s work invites viewers into liminal environments that reflect the spiritual, political, and emotional complexities embedded in the feminine psyche.

Mariel Andrade is a Brazilian American contemporary painter whose work explores duality, illusion, and psychological tension through myth-infused imagery and playful paradox. Using saturated and pastel palettes, her paintings blur the line between one reality and another, inviting viewers to question perception and uncover hidden emotional narratives. Her work is featured in The Spirit World virtual exhibition, which examines the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny.

Matthew Carver’s work invites viewers into alternate realities, where time travel, ghostly encounters, and cyberpunk landscapes intertwine with spiritual and mystical themes. Featured in The Spirit World virtual exhibition, Carver’s paintings and graphic novels explore how stories, myths, and belief shape our understanding of the unseen.

Jessica C Fisher, a New York City-based painter, channels her emotional experiences into oil paintings that explore memory, darkness, and the human spirit. Her Blasphemous Saints series confronts themes of violence, complicity, and vulnerability, creating intimate narratives that invite reflection. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her work bridges reality and imagination, revealing the unseen in hauntingly beautiful ways.

Isabelle Heldenfels’ work bridges the delicate line between remembrance and imagination, presence and absence. Through whimsical, nostalgic compositions drawn from family photo albums and domestic artifacts, she creates dreamlike paintings where the living and the dead quietly converge. Her pieces will be featured in “The Spirit World”, a virtual exhibition exploring the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny—from meditations on the unseen to encounters with ghosts, myth, and the paranormal.

Sarah Penina’s work inhabits the magical space between art and illustration, blending whimsy, vivid color, and playful ghostly figures to explore themes of childhood, escapism, and emotional introspection. Included in the upcoming “The Spirit World” exhibition, her paintings offer a tender meditation on memory, imagination, and the unseen threads that shape our inner worlds.

Carl Grauer’s latest series, Natural Thresholds, invites viewers into a contemplative space where the natural and spiritual worlds intersect. Through oil paintings framed in circular portals, Grauer navigates themes of loss, transformation, and hope, capturing moments that move from sorrow to solace. His work is featured in Spirit World, an exhibition exploring the mystical, eerie, and unseen.

Working under the name Glass Bambi, British artist Claire Dockray creates luminous, dreamlike paintings shaped by memory, fragility, and emotional resilience. Blending Pop Art, realism, and surrealism, her work draws from mid-century imagery, cinematic lighting, and personal narrative to explore longing, identity, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Her work is featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World virtual exhibition, which examines the spiritual, mystical, and uncanny through contemporary art.

Chris Nelson’s paintings contemplate mortality, ritual, and the quiet resistance of working by hand in a digitally saturated world. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, his oil paintings blend classical techniques with surreal undertones, using skulls and symbolic objects to reflect on both literal death and the modern loss of human ritual. Nelson’s work invites viewers to slow down and consider what is lost when creative processes become automated.

Julia McGlew’s artwork transports viewers to a calmer, kinder world filled with fantasy, nature, and surreal imagery. Featured in the upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her paintings merge emotional depth with whimsical storytelling. Influenced by the overlooked beauty of animals and a vintage aesthetic, her work invites reflection, imagination, and escape into an ethereal, magical realm.

Jon Gernon transforms canvas into spaces of myth and imagination. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, his paintings and allegories encourage viewers to step into a world where narrative and imagination meet. Gernon’s work inspires audiences to create personal stories, making each encounter with his art a unique and participatory experience.

RMD’s photography transforms the ordinary into the mystical, capturing moments where spirit, presence, and intuition converge. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her work invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the unseen layers of life. Through soulful imagery, RMD offers a meditation on love, magic, and the interconnectedness of all things.

Multidisciplinary artist Aunia Kahn brings a vibrant, symbolic visual language to The Spirit World exhibition, weaving personal history, cultural influence, and mystical storytelling into layered compositions. Her work reflects a powerful journey of survival and renewal, offering viewers a transformative encounter with color, symbolism, and inner mythology.

Danish artist Lisbeth Thygesen brings shimmering layers of Nordic nature, magic, and mystical symbolism to her work, which is featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming virtual exhibition “The Spirit World.” Her paintings and sculptures bridge the physical and spiritual, inviting viewers into realms of myth, intuition, and quiet transformation. Learn more about her practice, background, and artistic vision in this featured profile.

Tomás Carlos Ortolani creates paintings that connect the viewer with worlds beyond perception, using symbolism, dreams, and personal narratives to explore the unconscious. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, his work blends technical mastery with deeply psychological and spiritual themes, offering a contemplative journey into the unseen.

Mehgann Maiellano’s work captures the delicate balance between humor and eeriness. Through photography and mixed media, she places ghostly figures in rural landscapes, inviting viewers to reflect on memory, solitude, and the uncanny in familiar places. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Maiellano’s art transforms ordinary settings into spaces of mystery, wonder, and quiet unease.

Lauren Davies blends photography, sculpture, and textiles to investigate the hidden histories and layered narratives of place. From abandoned Rust Belt factories to haunted mansions, her experimental works merge archival research with striking materiality and ironic perspective. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Davies’ art evokes the mystical, eerie, and uncanny while proposing new ways of seeing personal, cultural, and institutional histories.

Maya Sumile creates mystical work that bridges the tangible and intangible, blending self-portraiture, Gothic literature, and Romanticism to explore the human condition. Her paintings and environments evoke the uncanny while balancing dread and serenity. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Sumile’s work invites viewers to experience narratives that give form to silence, dreams, and enduring human stories.

Jacqueline Strano transforms garments and vintage imagery into vessels of memory, identity, and resistance. Through hand-stitched embroidery and mixed media, she merges past and present, revealing the threads that connect women’s lives across time. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Strano’s work invites viewers to explore the intimate dialogues between femininity, power, and ornamentation.