Joseph Bellofatto is a full-time artist currently residing in the suburbs of Raleigh, NC. He originally started his art career as an illustrator in the sci-fi/fantasy genre and then moved to creating fine art from his own ideas. His primary artistic interest lies in figurative work and portraits in the classical tradition that expresses a narrative, an aesthetic, or hopefully both. His mediums of choice are: oils, graphite, coloured pencils and ink.
Renée Tay is born 1960 in San Diego, California USA and currently living along the coast of Point Loma in San Diego. There is a heart hugging and tugging love that is the soul of Renée Tay Vintage Toy Assemblage Sculptures. Once loved and forgotten dolls and toys are given a new life to be treasured and adored again. This is the core of her work.
Vicki Todd is a memoir artist and sculptor. She hand-builds expressive female figures from clay, each imbued with a story to tell. Clay coils or slabs are the basis for Vicki’s sculptures. When forming a figure’s stance, she attempts to give each one her own voice and spirit through the body pose, hand and foot placement, a lifted finger or toe, and facial expression.
Laura Barth is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in the mountains of North Carolina, United States. Primary media include analog and experimental photography, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, and linocut prints. Laura currently exhibits her work at Calendula gallery in St. Paul and has had work awarded, published, and exhibited across the country.
Dawn Smith is an artist hailing from Detroit who is embarked on her creative journey as a tattooist, refining her craft from a tender age and cultivating a prosperous career spanning two decades. Dawn's art serves as a celebration of the divine feminine, manifesting in surrealistic and symbolic compositions. Often, her pieces incorporate disembodied parts of feminine figures intertwined with animals, skillfully subverting the male gaze while accentuating the profound connection between humanity and the natural world.
In 1998, Randy Gaul joined Industrial Light & Magic as a concept designer. Prior to joining ILM, he worked for seven years as a freelance storyboard and concept artist for such companies as Wild Brain, MTV and Disney.
Kristine and Colin Poole are figurative sculptors from the United States. Balancing classical inspiration with contemporary expressive realism, their work highlights the beauty and inherent narrative qualities of the human form. Developed on the timeless fundamentals of anatomy and attention to detail, their clay and bronze figurative sculptures feature diverse themes that open doors to conversation.
Since moving to Australia from the UK textile sculptor Robyn Lees-West has become fascinated by the colourful & noisy birds. She has always hoarded retro fabric. As a child she used to love visiting the Victorian Taxidermy Museum of William Potter & The Booth Museum in Brighton. Robyn has now combined all of these passions in her work. She sculpts faux taxidermy birds from reclaimed retro fabric, some of which hats! Recently Robyn has become obsessed with recreating the internal anatomy of birds as well.
Alessandra Maria was born in 1989 in Seattle Washington, and resides in the Hudson Valley, New York. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2012, and is represented by Galerie Fledermaus in Chicago.
Kate Van Doren explores human resiliency, connection, and the healing power of nature through realism paintings, drawings, and photography. Having worked as an art therapist in the mental health field for more than two decades, Kate offers a unique lens, cultivating connections with her inspirations to foster their stories about the human condition. She is deeply devoted to creating art that raises healing awareness in the lives of others.
Theo Polymorphos is a North American painter of imaginative realism, whose art explores the mysterious journey of the soul, exploring themes of ecstasy, initiation and metamorphosis. Taking a deeply personal approach, he builds on these themes with symbols and motifs from his own dreams, spiritual practices and natural environment. After a decade wandering the globe as a consultant, he rekindled his childhood love of drawing and painting and quickly became obsessed. The confidence gained from learning traditional drawing and painting methods unlocked the door to his imagination, catalysing a total reorientation in life. He recently completed a three year course in imaginative realism under Tenaya Sims at the Georgetown Atelier in Seattle, Washington. He currently resides in Central Florida where he continues to develop his portfolio.
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.