Forest Rogers, daughter of two painters, received an MFA in Costume Design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Forest has an eclectic history. She has painted nine-foot angels in a cathedral dome, and sculpted creatures that may dwell in your toybox. Creating education toys, she collaborated with palaeontologists on dinosaur prototypes, and with aquariums on sea life and poison dart frog models. In recent years she has focused entirely on her own art, exploring mythology, fairy and folktale, and the surreal.
Sarah Lee was born in San Francisco, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. She is a self-taught sculptor, and most of the skills – welding, bondo, resin, fiberglass, and auto body painting - were learned from mechanics and body men working at her father’s auto body shop. She occupies a small room on the first floor of the auto body shop, which was originally a storage space and eventually became her studio.
Jason Mowry grew up between the local art museum and comic book shops, combining the rhythms of each walking the line between formal art and the fantastic space. Jason has paintings exhibited Nationwide as well as internationally in many fine galleries. Jason calls Ohio home, where he keeps a studio and teaches at a local art college. Jason's work blends expressive figurative, archetypal insights, personal narratives, and illustrative techniques to engage a human story.
Hannah Tjia, born in Southern California in 2001, is a painter and draughtswoman who combines figurative studio painting with illustration and decorative design, inspired by her love of folklore and fairytales. Her work explores otherworldly creatures and motifs representative of her imagination and perception of reality.
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.
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.
Kristen Eisenbraun is an oil painter living in the mountains of North Carolina. Her world revolves around art and nature; to her the two are intertwined. She has been creating art for as long as she can remember. After pursuing other avenues while journeying through life such as ranch hand and car mechanic, Kristen always returned to her art.
Amy Kollar Anderson creates surreal narrative paintings inspired by natural forms, the decorative arts and her love of animals. Her work has been shown internationally and featured in the publication, Imagine the Imagination: New Visions of Surrealism. Anderson was awarded three of the ReImagining Works commissions for the Dayton Metro Library in 2014-17, a commission for the Miami Valley Hospital and the Woodbourne Centerville Library in 2018 and a Culture Works MCACD Artist Opportunity Grant in 2018 & 2020.
Bob Coonts has been associated with galleries in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon. He enjoys pushing the boundaries in art. Bob is colorist and contemporary artist. He loves experimenting and presenting his work in a different way. He can paint representational and naturalistic but choose a different approach, especially with colour. For example, Bob might do a painting or drawing of a frog or grasshopper and use a lot of colour and put them on wheels. Why, well why not? Just to give it, the subject, a different perspective.
Rachel Ivanyi is an award-winning contemporary nature artist, illustrator, and art educator. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of California, Davis, and a Graduate Certification in Natural Science Illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, her art lives in the hope that people look closer, feel deeper, and make positive changes in their lives and in the lives of others. Her work has been featured in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions, with many of her paintings appearing throughout the U.S. and internationally, as part of permanent museum collections, and in numerous private collections.
Born (1994) and raised on Chicago’s Southside, Kayla Mahaffey grew up learning to appreciate the charm and soul of her city. The world around her showed how beauty still coexists between the grittiness of our society and how the line between whimsy and reality blurs from time to time.
J L King was raised in a large family with a strong reverence for the arts. Watching her father’s performances on stage, and accompanying her mother to her art classes at San Francisco’s City College are some of J L’s earliest exposures to the art world which left long lasting impressions. As J L pursued a career in health and science while raising a family, she maintained her creative practice in different mediums before committing her focus to oil painting. Primarily self-taught, sharp-focus detail is a lifelong endeavor that she pursue to this day. J L King currently practises art from her studio in the SOMA neighbourhood of San Francisco, California.