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Ashley Hendrix

Ashley Hendrix is a painter, paint carver, and longtime art teacher who builds dozens of paint layers and carves back through them to reveal the hidden colors beneath. Explore her tactile, meditative process and her vibrant floral paintings made to bring comfort and joy into the home.

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Ashley Perez

Ashley Perez is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina ceramic artist who handbuilds abstract, organic works that balance quiet minimalism with bold color and texture. Discover how clay became her grounding medium and how her pieces shape the energy of a space.

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Courtney Kenny Porto

Courtney Kenny Porto is a multidisciplinary artist based in Omaha, Nebraska, known for vibrant color palettes and uplifting subject matter. Her work explores nostalgia, femininity, and the beauty in everyday life

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Reuben Cheatem

After a stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis at 42, Reuben Cheatem began a collection of artwork documenting his treatment, recovery, and renewed outlook on vulnerability and experimentation. Discover the story behind his healing-green painting Clutch.

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Umbreen Hasan

Minnesota-based artist Umbreen Hasan creates luminous abstract works inspired by nature, shifting landscapes, light, and memory. Working with alcohol inks, encaustics, and cold wax, her practice explores healing, contemplation, and emotional resonance through color and movement.

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Matthew Borowick

New York-based photographer Matthew Borowick explores landscapes from the ground and above, using infrared photography to reveal textures, colors, and perspectives hidden from the human eye.

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Tasneem Arif

Tasneem Arif creates vibrant art inspired by flowers and the natural world. Her practice grew from a deeply personal journey, with art becoming a source of solace, beauty, joy, and optimism.

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Carolyn Sweeney

Carolyn Sweeney’s practice explores the relationship between color, place, and the natural world. Working with botanical and mineral colors, handmade pigments, folded paper, and pastels, she creates works rooted in material, memory, and the ecosystems of Oregon.

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Monica Henry

Monica Henry’s richly textured textile works explore colour as both a visual and tactile experience. Working with punch needle and wool, she creates immersive surfaces shaped by repetition, botanical forms, material, memory, and her family’s connection to Geelong’s wool industry.

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Rachel Grace Borntrager

Rachel Grace Borntrager creates abstract paintings rooted in memory, physiological awareness, and lived experience, using her Soma-Line Method™ to transform the body’s sensations into a visual language of line and color.

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Rosie Fitzgerrel

Rosie Fitzgerrel’s vibrant paintings examine the meeting point between humanity and nature, using intense color, graphic compositions, and naturalistic scenes to explore reverence, wonder, tension, and harmony.

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Cynthia Young

Cynthia Young creates atmospheric landscape paintings inspired by the quiet power of nature, capturing shifting light, subtle moods, and the deeply felt experience of being immersed in a moment.

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Jed Tamarkin

Jed Tamarkin uses high-resolution flatbed scanners to capture mushrooms, sunflowers, lichen-covered branches, and other natural subjects from the Catskills, creating highly detailed and immersive photographs that reflect on time, growth, decay, and the Hudson Valley watershed.

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Leah Oates

Leah Oates’s Transitory Space series captures the movement of time, human traces, and shifting realities through the use of multiple exposures on film.

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Sarah Jane Tart

Meet artist Sarah Jane Tart, whose vivid colors and expressive brushwork transform coastal landscapes into dreamlike paintings filled with joy, nature, and a love of color.

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Claire Godbee

Based between Birmingham, Alabama and New York City, Claire Godbee creates symbolic figurative paintings that examine transformation, identity, and the relationship between destruction and renewal. Through mythology, landscape, and contemporary womanhood, her work explores the emotional complexities of becoming and regeneration.

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Kimberley Kermode

Kimberley Kermode creates fragmented figurative paintings that explore cultural mosaic, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by migration and memory. Through vibrant palettes and layered compositions, Kermode examines how personal histories and cultural backgrounds continue to influence the way we understand belonging.

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Lola Fischer

Lola Fischer is a painter and graphic artist whose lifelong creative practice is rooted in abstract forms, intense colors, and expressive compositions. From international exhibitions including the Beijing Biennial and Venice Biennale contexts to her feature in Create! Magazine’s The Magic Issue, Fischer’s work explores humanity, imagination, and the healing potential of art.

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Rajab Sayed

Rajab Ali Sayed is a Filipino/Pakistani visual artist, educator, and chef based in Los Angeles, California. Through painting, Sayed explores storytelling, intimacy, memory, and the relationship between human experience and the sensory world around us.

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Alexandria Deters

Alexandria Deters creates research-driven works that investigate the construction of memory, belief, and visibility through photography, embroidery, video, and installation. By transforming archival materials and personal imagery, Deters explores how stories are preserved, obscured, and reinterpreted over time.