Barrett Biggers finds therapy in creation. It is the only effective way for him to truly express his desires, dreams and emotions. He have been drawing and painting for fun as a hobby for most of his life but never seriously. Barrett's love of design, art and digital came from his father who worked in graphic design and publishing while his love of wildlife, ecology and plants stem came from his mother who was a Biology teacher. After college he began his career as a Wildlife Biologist but various circumstances led Barrett to really reflect on what he ‘‘loved” to do. That turned out to be a graphic artist.
Brian Hoang was born in Vietnam a few years after the war ended. Two years later, together with his parents they left the country and spent about 6 months in a refugee camp before relocating to Canada. When he was a young kid, his dad would often pose as action figures and draw them for him. Seeing how Brian was able to take a real-life object and turn it into a drawing was inspiring. Once he discovered comic books in grade 6, art became something Brian wanted to do for a living when he grew up.
Sharon Covert is a conceptual self-portrait artist and photography teacher/mentor. She teaches photographers to explore and process their emotions and life experiences through self-portraiture and self-expression. Sharon's goal is for artists to have a creative healing outlet and voice through art and self-exploration. She creates art inspired by Fairytales, Mythology, the Tarot, nature, and all things in the magical realm. You will find hints of these elements threaded throughout her artwork.
Nicomi Nix Turner is an artist living and working in Northern California. Working in both 2d and 3d sculptural forms, their work has been exhibited internationally along with permanent museum collections. Nicomi Nix Turner's works attempt to layer the perfection of nature into the folds of the imperfections of the self. Through drawing and sculpture, Turner’s works wade into themes of life, ritual, decay, birth– and the crumbling stage in which these events take place.
Mary MacGregor-Reid is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her life-long interest in Western Esotericism and ontology of the otherworldly inform her work, whether through moving image installation, photography or sculpture. She creates the costumes and props for her lens-based works as well as 3D sculpting her miniature objects. Mary explores symbolic expression in her work, particularly the occulted visual language of alchemy, which she has reimagined in her figurative artwork for the past 7 years.
Maysa Bogheiri is a self-taught watercolour painter with a passion for surrealism. Her artwork is primarily centred around female subjects, offering a unique journey of self-expression and introspection. Drawing inspiration from personal memories, feelings and the subconscious, Maysa’s creations exude both darkness and beauty. As an Iranian American artist, her paintings offer glimpses into the crossroad of her cultural background. Through her art, Maysa invites you to explore her inner world and discover your own meaning within her creations.
Debra Keirce works from the size of your palm to four feet tall. The true miniature pieces are less than 25 in sq and ⅙ life size or smaller. It is a genre that harkens back to the work of the scribes and European miniature portrait artists, and it intrigues me. Miniature work is so small and detailed that it invites the viewer to lean in, get closer, and experience the art with more intimacy.
Bob Doucette’s whimsical and highly saturated paintings come from the world of dreams. Sometimes bordering on surreal, his imagery is a product of a decade of theater work, puppetry and twenty-five years in the world of animation. As an animation director he was responsible for many well known animated children’s programs for PBS including, Chloe’s Closet, Dive Olly Dive and Clifford’s Puppy Days. He started in animation at Warner Bros. and was involved with many classics like Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. His independently animated films won him many prestigious awards and honors and his MFA thesis film Pink Triangle, the first animated film to depict the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis, is in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library.
E. E. Kono is a Los Angeles and Iowa-based artist. In her work, she explores the fluidity of culture and time. She employs a visual language that reflects her investigation into the connections between stories, symbols, and archetypes; across cultures and to the natural world. Her practice favours a slow, meditative process using natural materials chosen for their layered significance.
Italian painter and illustrator Rossella Paolini was born in Trieste, a city of sea and woods, and lives in the historic heart of the city between a medieval castle and a Roman forum. She draws from a very young age, loving the illustrations of storybooks and animated films by Walt Disney. Each of Rossella Paolini's works embodies a meaning and a story. Inspired by the fantastic, occult and mysterious world, she tries to infuse through her works the knowledge learned from studies, books, travels and cinema.
Patrizia Vignola is an award-winning fine artist who was born in NY and currently resides in Minnesota. She does not recall a time in her life when she was not desiring to make art.Patrizia earned her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, she uses her academic training and highly developed painting and drawing skills to draw the viewer into her conceptually symbolic and surreal work.
Carmit Haller is a visual communications designer, and the owner of Carmit Design Studio. For the past two decades she has been working as a lead graphic designer in the fields of consumer market, high-tech startups and luxury real estate. Her passion lies in poster design and typography. Carmit Haller is the recipient of worldwide prestigious awards such as Graphis and Rockport Publishing. Originally from Israel, Carmit holds a BA in Social Work from Tel Aviv University, and a BFA in New Media from The Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She currently resides in San Francisco, California.