Fistful Of Jello

Bryan Bromstrup is a self-taught artist who started oil painting in 2013 after suggestions from family artists going back four generations. He paints what he enjoys in life or whatever excites the artist inside him. Bryan continues to expand his artistic talents in oil painting and photography and other digital art concepts. Originally, from Beech Grove, IN he currently resides in Terre Haute IN.

Bryan’s art comes from life experiences. It might be from pop culture or from observing interesting things around him, but it definitely comes from music, travel and his love for the National Parks. “I’ve learned something new from every painting I have ever done. As I get older, I find the artist in me has come to the forefront, expanding the simple things I always did into pieces of art. When it comes to being creative, I look beyond the how to do it and enjoy the process of just letting the brush work its magic.” Bryan’s artwork rarely overlaps in representation as all have a distinct style so he likes to call his art style, “Bryanism”. You can find his art regularly on display throughout Indiana and online at galleries across the U.S.

Bright colors are a part of all of my work. What is art after all without expressing it in full technicolor? The piece I have chosen, Fistful of Jello, shines bright as an abstract should.

Fixing The Space

Lena Swan was born in 1980. The drawing ‌was her hobby since her childhood. She had three years of classes with the artist Larissa Weber and studied at the Children’s School of Arts in Sochi, Russia, with Lioudmila Pakhomova. ‌

She has a degree in Chemistry, a few scientific articles, and a 15-year career in Pharma Quality Assurance. At the same time, she designed schemes for kids’ knitwear for 10 years and crafted quilts as a hobby. In 2017-2018 Lena completed quilting courses in Saint Petersburg. ‌

Lena started her artistic practice with oil painting in 2019. ‌The majority of her artworks are modern cityscapes. Lena Swan’s works are mostly sold to friends and family.

Born on the Black sea coast in Sochi, a town of 101 nationalities, I feel on my salty skin how beautiful life is in all its diversity of perfect imperfections. My talent is to hear the beat in the sound of waves, to see a structure where others see noise, to catch the beauty of the elusive and unique moment, which will never come again, among the chaos of daily routine. I invite you to the space of my art where I celebrate the life that just goes on among our illusions.

My art is an ode to all those corners of our planet that are much more charming than any of the chic facades of our human ego. I am an artist and I saw modern life in all its colors, from a lab to an office, from the sparkles of the nightlife of a megapolis to the humbling simplicity of a hike in nature and to a peacefully rocking cradle. I traveled the world from Asia and the Middle East to North America, from Baltic countries to South Africa, and I met charming people and rituals, building connections and relationships which formed who I am like patterns on my patchwork quilts.

I take the past and traditions with dignity and gratitude while looking into the future bringing up two kids. My life led me to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where the tragic and majestic history is in the air and the culture as our heritage is all around us. I truly believe that the future will only be bright if humanity transcends ego boundaries and we unite together through culture and creativity to cherish the world and people. My mission is to manifest the diversity of this world in my paintings.

Flamenco Dancer

I was born and raised in NYC but mostly in The Bronx. I attended CCNY where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in The Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY in Purchase. I have had paintings in 8 live group shows at Jones Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, paintings at 3 live group shows in Arbor Gallery, Carmel, NY, paintings and photos in 4 live group shows at Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, NY. and 1 painting in a live group show at the Mahopac Public Library. Also, I have exhibited in many online shows. I have exhibited at HMVCGalleryNewYork virtually since its inception for over 2 years. A wonderful state-of-the-art gallery with outstanding artists! My poems have been published in magazines, books, and at HVMOCA. I performed some of my poems in April 2024 at HVMOCA with numerous other artists at Writing The Walls 2024. I self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 11 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY.

My work in fine arts has principally been in 2 classes of abstract paintings: oils and water-based paints. However, I have completed numerous works in drawing. I focus on color, texture, methodology of delivery, and composition. In composition, I am interested in positive space and negative space as well. I believe the painting/drawing is a manifestation of my emotional state of both conscious and unconscious feelings.

Flamingo

I attended Boston College and the University of Virginia Graduate School.

I lived in Larchmont New York my younger years with my late husband. I moved up the coast to Westport Connecticut. I studied photography at SILVERMINE ART GUILD, New Canaan, Connecticut for several years. I was a freelance photographer in my younger years. I had many clients who loved my work, especially Cape Cod and the islands. My photography was featured in Cape Cod magazine.

I took up art two years ago and I fell in love with it.

I work with pastels pencil ink watercolors oil and acrylics.

I work full of color strength and movement alongside an ethereal quality. I use traditional art combined with digital platforms, allowing for a creative sphere. I have been featured in many art gallery exhibitions worldwide. I have three books and I have been featured in many books and magazines in the art world. I have also won several international art awards.

My creative mind was established very young, from a childhood replete with illness. My imagination was my salvation from these very harsh beginnings 12 to 22.

This resource is represented in my art.

My art is an immersive experience a sense of independence freedom flight.

JKH art flows to the realm of the senses. I will take you there: without aiming presently or subjectively.

I fly with color, and certain undertones of reality: joy death sorrow sensuality

The stuff of life. Some have called it creative genius I call it survival 101 from tough beginnings.

I have had exhibitions in Paris, London, Greece, NYC, Zurich, Budapest, etc

I have three books out on Amazon: JOJO HUXFORD

And I have received several awards and been featured in several books and magazines.

Flamingo Dancer

Chanda Raj is an artist whose art is characterized by layers of depth and resonance, colorful lyricism, and a plethora of tactile surfaces. She was born in India, New Delhi. She has been in the US for 18 years and is currently residing in Dallas

I have an intuitive approach to creativity and, with a fusion of realism with abstraction, comes to fruition through an innate and harnessed use of color and composition and the deft use of acrylic paint.

Her painting depicts a romantic voyage to a place and time that will bring life to the commonplace. The art she creates is propelled by passion and is new-fangled. Picturesque landscapes, Mountains, birds and flowers, women with musical instruments, and dancers are bought to life with contrasting and harmonious colors and bold compositions.

The creative process is how ideas, art, or creative thinking come about. Contrary to popular belief, my creative process does have structure. It always begins by gathering inspiration and ultimately culminates with the finished product.

For me, art is a feeling, an expression that can easily transport you on mesmerizing visual journeys and deliver feelings of universal harmony that are felt and remembered for a long time.

Flannel Pajama Dreams

From way back in grade school my favorite part of the school day was art class. I was in my element when we were given the opportunity to paint on big sheets of paper with water-based paints and wear my father’s old shirt as a smock. Always drawing pictures for my friends and cousins for them to enjoy gave me great satisfaction. An extremely supportive sixth-grade art teacher was very encouraging and got some of my work entered into local art talent contests in suburban Chicago, which bolstered my good feelings about creating visual imagery. The love of strong colors beginning in this period has stayed with me my entire life.

College presented the life challenge of deciding what would provide ongoing satisfaction as an adult. Dabbling in languages and literature, religion, and philosophy broadened my horizons, but it was always an artistic expression that helped me feel my humanity and contact with the world. Painting, drawing, printmaking, and art history became my major. Graduate work in Art Education proved valuable in exposing me to other mediums such as pottery and jewelry making, but it is always painting that I go back to. Teaching did not ring the bell for me, and I spent time in the healthcare field and communications industry until I was able to go happily back to painting full time, where I am happiest creating highly colorful abstract spaces evoking fantasies, dreams, and emotions that hopefully bring engagement and some pleasure to the viewer, who always come to my work with their own life experience to overlay upon mine and hopefully find some communion.

Oil painting with strong primary color has always been of primary importance to me as a way to stay in touch with my inner child, who developed as part of a frequently moving family in the Chicago suburbs and Midwest farmlands. College presented the opportunity to focus on artistic expression, and I graduated with a B.A. in studio arts from Northwestern University with a minor in Art History. Pursuing life in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest as home, I then studied Art Education at the University of Oregon and was certified to teach in public education. I quickly realized I preferred making my own art to trying to inspire distracted youngsters to see the value of art.

I owned and operated a visual arts gallery in Portland, Oregon for two years in the early part of the century. The best part of this adventure was connecting with the 15 other artists who showed up at my gallery, but again it became apparent that I preferred focusing on my own work and closed that business. Currently, I am a member of the Clackamas County Arts Association in Oregon. This juried group exhibits in public spaces such as government buildings, libraries, hospitals, and schools.

I have also been accepted to exhibit online since 2021 with the Las Laguna Gallery in California, as well as Exhibizone through Biafrin.

My studio is my refuge and sustenance.

Fleurs Flottantes

I am the daughter of a small-town lawyer and an artist, and I have had the wonderful good fortune to be able to follow in both of their footsteps. I didn’t grow up making art and wanting to be an artist, but several years ago, the pull to make art became unrelenting. Grace Hartigan wrote, “I didn’t choose painting. It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.” Yes! Elizabeth Gilbert in the book Big Magic wrote about having a genius—a separate being that cannot be called up on demand. Unfortunately, my personal genius only visits on rare occasions, and otherwise, my art practice is a slog of experimentation. In 2022, I retired early and moved to the country, where I would have room to paint. I’d caught a fever, a feeling much like having a new love interest. Painting is almost all I think about. I go to bed many nights feeling confounded and disheartened. Other nights, I was walking on a cloud after a day in the studio. I never gave up on the thought that I could succeed as an artist because I’ve always been able to compensate for any lack of natural talent with a God-given boatload of determination. I recently and unexpectedly received a Best in Show award in a Cincinnati-area art competition, the first one I’ve entered!

I paint large-scale abstract works that have been described as bold, teeming with life, nuanced, and ineffable. My inspiration comes from my subconscious as I’m painting. When intuition fails me, I rely on trial and error. I try to leave exposed the footprint of my struggle and experimentation. I often leave areas of my work feeling unresolved because trying to “finish” a piece can wring the life out of it. The process of combining color, composition, value, and the expression of my artistic voice nourishes me like something essential. I aim to leave the evidence of the tension between my exuberance and my labor on the canvas to create something fresh. I try for something new every time, so I never know what I’m doing, which means that nothing comes easy. I aim to evoke a positive visceral feeling for the viewer, like a wonderful memory that is felt but stays just beyond the bounds of consciousness. What I strive for is art that is complex, emboldening, playful, and free.

Flicker

I have been making art for over 40 years. I earned my BA from the New School for Social Research, having studied at the Rhode Island School of Design for the first two years of college. I painted and exhibited full-time for over twenty years as I raised my sons. When they grew up and flew away, I needed a change, so I went back to graduate school to learn how to teach reading and writing. I earned my Master of Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education and my Doctor of Education from Northeastern University. From 2007-2021, I taught writing, advised, tutored, recruited, developed curricula, and directed a writing center in a variety of educational settings, including higher education, hospital workforce development programs, college transition programs, and ESOL and adult education programs in community-based organizations. The pandemic brought me back to making art reflecting my experience in nature.

My work reflects my close attention to the biota in my environment, wherever I am, and the seasonal trajectory of its life cycles: budding, blooming, fruiting, seeding, dying, renewal. I try to capture nature’s interconnected and recurring patterns. The natural world is our collective home, family, heritage, and future, yet humans have caused irreparable habitat, resource, and species loss. Native plant restoration, according to ecologist Douglas Tallamy, is “nature’s best hope” for creating biodiverse ecosystems that attract native pollinators and fauna. In Rewilding, my new painting series, I am painting (and planting) eastern New England native plants, and soon the pollinators they attract, one species at a time. Gradually, this collective body will reflect biodiversity, as my urban garden develops into a biodiverse native ecosystem.

In my quarantine project, Weird Season, in which I tried to photographically document my perceptual dissonance arising from the dichotomy between our indoor darkness, and the burgeoning life activity outdoors. In 2020, Spring growth felt fierce, brave, vulnerable, shocking, and inherently hopeful. I began Confluence in 2021, to allow my imagination to flow from there, conjuring thriving fantasy ecosystems in which flora and fauna interact with each other and the vibrant, entangled, buzzing, singing, swimming, flying, growing cadence of life.

I feel strongly about sharing my work. Because art can be so thought-provoking and soul-stirring, it should be a public resource, available to all in everyday settings, promoted in every social context, for everyone’s intellectual, creative, and spiritual lives–not reserved for the elite. Art can inspire insight, stir hearts, and stimulate freshness and hope. I hope my works will inspire viewers to visit and care for their own biomes.

Floating

“I was born in Los Angeles California and graduated from California State University of Northridge in Art in 1970. Shortly after graduation, I moved to Yosemite National Park. During this time I painted the natural beauty of Yosemite. I had a solo exhibit at the Yosemite Pioneer History Center giving sketching and natural history walks as well as demonstrating oil painting. I worked as a Naturalist for the National Park Service.
After three years I moved to the San Francisco Bay area in California where I now live. I worked as a staff artist for East Bay Regional Parks, creating graphy exhibits, designing and illustrating trail guides, and exhibiting my original artwork at the Tilden ory Gallery as well as other venues.  I married in 1978 and have three children within. I continued exhibiting my artwork, changing my medium to experiment with watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media. I became an art teacher, a career I thoroughly enjoyed. I continue to grow and experiment as an artist.”

I find flowers inspirational. Their variety of colors, forms, and detail are remarkable. When I paint flowers and closely observe the folds, fluidity, and delicacy of their petals, I am captivated by their perfection. I enjoy observing them as well as photographing them for future reference. In some ways, I find flowers magical, each is made perfect for a purpose, and each is a design of balance, symmetry, beautiful shadows, and illustrious highlights. They are a world of themselves, that I am allowed to partially enter when I paint. I enjoy interpreting flowers, sometimes with unusual colors trying to create artwork that represents their beauty and delicacy to me.