Growing up in the Peruvian Andes, I used to ride my grandfather’s horses. That love never left me. I enjoy portraying them but more than a picture a feeling of a long-time memory. 

As a self-taught artist, my genuine admiration …

I have a love of the natural world - of God’s creation – and through my art, no matter which medium, I strive to transport the viewer into an appreciation of our one-of-a-kind planets’ beauty. And I will confess to …

The look and feel of handmade pottery have always been a joy to me. I’d ask myself, “What mysterious magic has been used to create this beautiful creation in my hand?” Finding out that I too could devise my own …

I was the quintessential art kid growing up, mostly early on, obsessed with illustrative artists and trying to emulate the likes of Frank Frazzetta, Kevin Long, and Dave McKean amongst many others. I probably spent more time doodling and sketching …

I enjoy sitting in my studio and letting the inspiration flow without a clear direction.
Sometimes I spend weeks working on a piece knowing it’s not quite finished, but I persist until I
know it is completed. I love color …

Paints, brushes and canvas were toys to help me experiment and grow and to help express myself. My
inspiration derives from nature, life events and the environment around me. My goal is to produce a thought-provoking piece that makes a …

My inspiration is the intersection between art and function. For the most part, I enjoy making simpler pieces on the pottery wheel, like bowls and cups. My favorite part is glazing. I love to see how glazes interact with one …

I am a mixed media artist that is always exploring and playing with multiple mediums and developing techniques of my own. My latest series “Chi” is exploring the life force and the flow of energy. I use bright, bold colors …

I have been painting and drawling most of my life. Art helps me to both escape and cope with life. While I enjoy painting with acrylics and pastels, I find watercolors the most enjoyable.

I generally use intense colors. I …

I am a Spartanburg based artist. My creative work includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, and songwriting. I am a self-taught artist with interests in many styles of expression. My work has been displayed in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Atlanta, Columbia, …

Practicing art teaches me about life. It reminds me to be playful, creative and fun. It teaches me to be and focused in the moment, momentarily shutting out every-thing except my hands and the clay. It teaches me to be …

I am a painter amongst many things. I am inspired by love, life, spirituality, and blackness. My art is centered around self expression. I believe that every color communicates a feeling, an idea, and triggers an emotional response. Art is …

Hanging on the walls and hidden in the corners of our homes are the photographs and works of those who came before us. These seemingly mundane and irrelevant objects are the indexical records of family and human history.

Accumulating visually …

Growing up in England my mother would take me for walks across the local fields and tell me about all of the wild flowers, birds, insects, and wild life we would chance upon. I marveled at the wonders that might …

My interest in art began at an early age when I would doodle cartoon characters on my schoolwork in class and at home on my parents’ walls. They soon bought me my first art supplies to keep their walls clean …

From an early age, as far back as I can remember, I’ve drawn and painted. In school, when the other kids were running and playing, I would find something, anything to draw on. Art has been a lifelong obsession; it …

Hi, I'm Jarfly! But you can call me Hannah if you please. As a digital artist, I specialize in character design and illustration. Although most of my art is digital art these days, I also enjoy experimenting with all kinds …

I am Alyssa Jenkins, a young, aspiring artist. Throughout my life I have always been in love with art
and being creative. However, the true passion for me came when my father past. He was the inspiration that started my …

I have been a Graphics Communication Professional and Communication Designer for over 25 years – on two different continents and in two different languages. My work has included all aspects of graphics communication, photography, design and creative concept. Photography is …

Color, texture, and random shapes form my world. They spill over into my art. I paint with acrylics on textured canvases and calked wood. My tools are brushes, palette knives, an array of texture gadgets, and even my fingers. My …

The inspiration for my photography comes from my desire to share my views of my travels and of the natural world. Whether this takes form as a snow covered mountain, a tropical island or a bird in flight, the theme …

Being a digital artist, when the World Wide Web emerged, I was instantly captivated by the creative potential it offered. I was fortunate enough to be mentored in the art of computer programming and learned how to code by hand. …

Fused Glass is a passion that I have had now for the past 10 years and started with working in stained glass.

When I moved from Western New York I needed something to keep me busy while I found a …

James Baldwin once said, “All art is a kind of confession”. These acrylic paintings are mine. They are things I saw or emotions I shared, all put on canvas as my declaration to loving life’s moments. The simplest sights can …

The passion of creating my jewelry literally happened by accident ten years ago, when a friend asked me to take a class at one of the local hobby shops.

The momentum ignited to learn as much as I could from …

The bright colors and abstract, bold shapes featured in my paintings have been described to me as ironic, given that the conceptual content of my artwork tends to be on the dark side. This juxtaposition mirrors the way that humans …

In this series of paintings, Spirit of Place, I explore the idea of land, memory, and connection through expressive, abstracted landscapes. A majority of the works focus on tree-like imagery, conveying mood through the use of expressive lines (created by …

Like the carefree days of youth, when one goes outside to play in evolving weather with changing skies: so Plein Air painting is for me. Those days seemed endless and unrecorded, these are finite, described by a canvas, but are …

The depths of our shadows are the source of our light.

I am a self taught artist. Painting is more than just creating art for me, it's therapy. I paint mostly from intuition, it allows me to release emotions to …

I first became acquainted with pottery eight years ago through courses at SAM. Over these years, my love and passion for working with clay has grown and developed far beyond a casual hobby.

As an engineer, I have always enjoyed …

My photographic interests are eclectic and opportunistic. Inspired by the world around me I photograph anything from an abstract of a single leaf to a scenic vista to an industrial landscape.

Over the years my style has evolved from a …

As I view the world around me, I see everything as moving lines. The crossing, intersecting, and lyrical flow of the lines form the basis of my work. I rarely draw from real life. I use my impressions of life …

My appreciation for art started at a very young age.  My oldest brother painted, and it fascinated me.  At age eight, I entered a drawing contest.  Although my drawing was the top choice, I was too young to receive the …

Like a foggy morning spent exploring nature, my work aims to bring mystery, contemplation, and quiet delight with an elusive simplicity that offers both serenity and a portal of curiosity.  My art explores the play between abstraction and realism, and …

My work includes art pottery, decorative ceramic wall art, and photographic images. My inspiration comes from the world around us and reflects my love of history and God’s great gift of nature.

Much of my ceramic work uses the American …

My preferred Art is music, specifically singing. The special charm of my voice lies in its flexibility and complexity. I sing pieces that require an opera-like Falsetto as well as pop Songs and heavy Rock and Metal bits. I pursue …

I have always found inspiration in religious art and imagery. I would go to Catholic churches with my friend in Pennsylvania and always found the churches to be beautiful, ornate, and peaceful. While in Pennsylvania I was around the Amish …

Art is a way for me to express my emotions and thoughts about my relationships with others, nature, life and death, the universe, and current events. I pull from personal experiences to create colorful, usually flower-filled, artworks that use strong …

As a painter in oils, I consider myself representational in style. While not terribly imaginative in my execution, I do like to push the bounds of what I realistically see. Many of my works are the product of ramblings in …

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” – Viktor E. Frankl

 I am fascinated with the contradiction between our human craving for meaning and the …

My art is my diary. It is a journey, a constant ongoing process that is ever changing and evolving. I work with whatever medium strikes my fancy at the given time. My work is as neurotic and eclectic as I …

I make utilitarian pottery. I love that I can make beautiful, functional, everyday objects that are a pleasure to use. Most of my work is designed to be used with food: dinnerware, servingware, and bakeware. It is a joy to …

I’m always carving new designs to impress in the clay. I’ve carved some of my favorite Artists’ work: Monet, Van Gogh, Alphonse Mucha, Georgia O’Keefe and Maxfield Parrish – the sky is the limit. The clay I use is a …

My art is a celebration of the transient beauty of this marvelous world. Through my camera lens, I find the extraordinary in everyday life and document what I see to preserve its essence in time.  My photography is a form …

I am a Traveler, a person that wants to see it all. I love nothing more than to experience the end of the day with sunset cruising! I look to capture the interesting, the unexplored and feel the silence as …

My artistic journey began 35 years ago, when I began woodturning as a hobby.  Inspired by the beauty of the woods in Wisconsin where I lived, I enjoyed sourcing exotic hardwoods and experimenting with various grains, textures, and finishes.  Through …