Journey
Susan Guihan is a painter, printmaker, and photographer. Born and raised in New York. Susan’s work focuses on the landscape which has always been a major inspiration. She is inspired by the shadows and contrasting light that envelops nature which creates a mysterious and meditative mood that is alluring to her. Susan works mostly with the absence of color using expressive gestural mark-making. The work evokes the obscure and majestic beauty of nature’s energy.
Susan is currently retired from teaching the Fine Arts on Long Island. Susan Guihan’s work has been exhibited nationally and continues to exhibit her work.
My pieces are personal passages using the landscape as my inspiration. I have always been captivated by the play of light on form. The natural light dominates my interpretation of each motif. I am seduced by chiaroscuro lighting through my search for the quintessential landscape. I often take photos, create sketches from motifs throughout Long Island, or invent the piece through my vision. My main concern is with the light and atmosphere as I dramatically represent it with exaggerated contrast of light and shadow and other atmospheric effects. Often featured in my work is my attraction to the turbulent mood of ephemeral skies.
My influences are Anselm Kiefer with his monochromatic palette and strong voice represented in his work, Ansel Adams’ magnificent vision of nature, and Rembrandt with his great mastery and poetic etchings.
I mainly work with the absence of color, expressive gestural mark-making, and vast organic forms. The result of my work is to express the mysterious and majestic beauty of nature’s energy. Evoking feelings that are represented in the choice of creating solitary landscapes with no human presence. Many of my pieces are inwardly emotional and personal.
Journey
Subodh Maheshwari was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, North India, where she learned folk art and classical music. She passionately believes: “At the threshold of my life, my present is the window to the past and a key to the future”. She acquired her degrees and studied art at Agra University, California State University of Fullerton, and the University of California, Irvine. Subodh has won numerous awards, including the regional Fellowship Award at UCI in 1986, the Bharat Gaurav Award in India in 2015, and the 60 Masters Award in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She is also registered in Marquis “Who’s Who in America,” the standard in biographical information. Her paintings have also won awards in a variety of categories, including landscape, open, all women, nature, elements, seasons, and abstract.
Subodh is a diversified artist who enjoys telling stories through her artwork, whether it is through landscape, flowers, or abstract art. Her art is a fusion of Eastern symbolism and Western composition, influenced by 16th and 17th century Rajasthani and Mogul art, and accented by poetry, passages, and phrases in Hindi, Sanskrit, and English. She admires Georgia O’Keeffe for her floral influence and Frida Kahlo for her courage. Whether it is the serene beauty of nature, her spirituality, or the current political climate, she finds inspiration. Having a life shared between India and America, she sees the beautiful similarities, like love, which transcends all borders. Highly individual in her style, her works are described as emotional, mysterious, personal, spiritual, and humorous.
Journey Into Spring
Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer and chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas, USA). He received his formal training in digital media arts while a student at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, with additional instruction provided by offerings of the Maine Media Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and in several countries abroad.
Photography has been my passion since early childhood. My motivation is to discover and capture the beauty, even when it is not always readily self-evident, that surrounds us continuously in all areas of our everyday lives.
Journey Of Resilience
As a little girl growing up in Richmond, Virginia, I would watch my mother paint for hours. Her passion and talent sparked my own love for art at a young age, and I quickly began learning by her side. I later earned both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where I studied literature, art, and early childhood education. Being immersed in the creative culture at VCU helped me grow as an artist and connected me with Richmond’s vibrant fine arts community.
Before moving abroad in 2005, I was commissioned to paint several murals throughout the Richmond area. That same year, I relocated to Germany, where I had the incredible opportunity to explore some of the world’s most iconic art and cultural landmarks—including the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel, and the Van Gogh Museum. These experiences deeply influenced my artistic journey and expanded my appreciation for global art history. For over 25 years, I have worked as an elementary school teacher both in the U.S. and overseas, continuing to paint as a passionate hobby and personal outlet. My work draws from a lifetime of travel, education, and rich family heritage. Today, I’m an active member of several local art societies and a resident artist at Art Works in Richmond, Virginia. I showcase my art locally and internationally. I’ve recently become a certified art therapist and offer therapy activities within my art classes. I enjoy participating in community art events and have been honored with the People’s Choice First Place and Second Place awards between 2024 and 2025. I’ve been given the exciting opportunity to present several solo shows, which has been a personal milestone for me. I continue to seek challenges in the art world and hold tight to my greatest artistic influence, my late mother, Georgene Cole.
In my work, I explore the transformative power of abstraction; how color, texture, and form can combine to create something far greater than their individual parts. I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, watching my mother paint. She taught me to paint what you know, and how you see and feel it. I add texture that pops off the canvas and tricks the eyes into feeling the bumpy tree trunk. I use my palette knife to paint just as much as my brushes. I had the great opportunity to live in Europe for several years and explore spectacular historical landmarks and museums such as the Louvre, the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijks Museum, the Uffizi Galleries, and many more. I consider myself a modern impressionist, utilizing vibrant colors and mixed media. Each painting begins with a variety of underpainting techniques, including alcohol ink, mixed media paper, texture, and sometimes oil pastels. After the underpainting sets, I finish my story with oils for a rich finishing layer of depth. The layers of texture invite viewers to see beyond the flat surface of a landscape or portrait. The gold woven into my paintings is a reminder of the beauty and magic found in unexpected places. My inspiration is driven by the colors of nature and the emotions of gratitude. I’d like to think each piece I create will give some warmth and brightness to whoever stands in front of it.
Journey To The West
Yoyo Hu is a Chinese-born sculptor and installation artist whose practice bridges ancient craftsmanship with emerging technologies such as 3D modeling, 3D printing, slip casting, and ceramic light-based installation. Her works construct a unique visual language that oscillates between “future relics” and “archaeologies of tomorrow,” questioning what traces of human existence will endure as technology reshapes our world at unprecedented speed.
Central to Hu’s artistic inquiry are the tensions between permanence and impermanence, tradition and innovation, memory and temporality. Her early work focused on figurative sculpture inspired by Chinese historical art and cultural narratives. Over time, she transitioned from representational forms to large-scale sculptural installations. Yet, the characters and symbolic imagery from her early practice continue to inhabit her new works in transformed ways. They live on as fragments, shadows, and metaphoric presences embedded within architectural, ceramic, and light-based structures.
Her work reflects profound meditations on homesickness, cultural identity, the search for meaning, and the erosion and reconstruction of memory. By merging the tactile history of ceramics with the precision of digital technologies, Hu creates immersive environments that invite viewers to contemplate humanity’s dialogue with time—its past, its future, and the uncertain terrain shaped by artificial intelligence and rapid technological evolution.
Hu’s installations often present themselves as poetic ruins or monuments of an imagined era, prompting viewers to consider a key question: When our present becomes the past, what will remain? And what does it mean to be human in a future defined by machines, data, and accelerating change?
My practice explores the shifting boundaries between permanence and disappearance, the handmade and the digital, the ancient and the speculative future. Trained in traditional sculptural ceramics yet deeply engaged with contemporary technologies, I build a language that merges clay, 3D modeling, casting, light, and architectural-scale installations. These hybrid forms allow me to examine what it means to be human in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, accelerated innovation, and rapidly transforming cultural memory.
Working with clay—a material whose history stretches across civilizations—grounds me in the physicality of touch, time, and labor. At the same time, digital processes enable me to fragment, distort, or reconfigure the human form, turning bodies into data, impressions, and evolving artifacts. Many of my works begin as virtual constructs before undergoing a long process of molding, firing, and reassembly, echoing how contemporary identities are first imagined, then materialized, and finally fossilized by the systems that shape us.
I am interested in the traces we leave behind: gestures, memories, failures of technology, and emotional residues. In Future Relics, I imagine the present as future archaeology—what might be excavated from the ruins of our hyper-digital age? What parts of us will survive when technology advances faster than our ability to comprehend its consequences?
My sculptures do not offer answers. Instead, they inhabit the tension between fragility and monumentality, between personal memory and collective evolution. I create to ask: When the world accelerates beyond the human, what remains undeniably human?
Journey: I Am Soteria
I am a visual artist, sculptor, author, illustrator and publisher. I was born and raised in Washington, DC, and I currently reside in Hillsborough, NC. I received my BFA in painting from Boston University and my MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona.
My artwork flows from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern, and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. This body of work is cold wax and oil on wood panels. The properties of cold wax fascinate me and keep me curious; how the underlying layers inform and alter the layers applied over them, how incising and scraping and glazing make more changes. I know I am wielding the palette knife and mixing the colors, but what happens on the panel is beyond my control. I’m learning how to be fine with the state of ‘not knowing’.
Joy
Audrey Brown is a California artist, born in Pennsylvania. Attended the University of Michigan, and degrees from California College of Art and San Francisco State University. She has taught art from 1988 to the present. Post-degree workshops include Florence Academy of Art, Italy, the Slade School, University of London, UK, CCA Atelier program, Paris, and Aix en Provence. Also, Atelier Sadie Valeri, San Francisco, Teresa Oaxaca, Scott Conary, San Francisco, Alyssa Monks, The Rome Art Workshops, Alex Kanevsky, Asilomar, CA, and David Shevlino, Sacramento, CA. Grants and Awards: East Bay Fine Arts Foundation Grant, National Institute for Humanities, Harvard. Featured in Scholastic Art Magazine, and Artists of the Bay Area ( Jen Tough Gallery ) she has had numerous one-person and group shows in the Bay Area. Recent Juried Shows include “Summer Feelings” at the HMVC Gallery, NY. “Connections” a group show in Berkeley, CA., the De Young Museum Online Open Call, San Francisco, Coastal Art Gallery shows “Kindred Spirits” and “Enduring Moments”, Frank Bette juried Plein Air Paint Out, and the Art Preservation Institute Group Show.
Recent Juried Art Shows
HVMC Gallery first place January 2024
Ashton Gallery, San Diego “ Blackout” 2023
Pop up Gallery, Berkeley CA 2022
Coastal Arts League “-Kindred Spirits” 2022
DeYoung Museum- “ Portraits On-Line” 2022
Coastal Arts League “Enduring Moments” 2022
Arts Preservation Institute 2021
Jen Tough Gallery – online juried show and book
“Artists of the Bay Area”2021
Benicia Plein Air Paint Out 2017
Frank Bette Plein Air Paint Out 2015
Red Oak Realty 2010 Italian Landscapes
Various small one-person and group shows
in California from 1985 to 2018
Workshops with International Artists
Alex Kanevsky – Carmel, CA
Alyssa Monks -Rome Art Workshops
Teresa Oaxaca – Sadie Valeri Atelier
Scott Conary – Sadie Valeri Atelier
Sadie Valeri, Sadie Valeri Atelier
Jura Bedic – Florence Academy of Art, Italy
Various small one-person and group shows around the Bay Area,
1985 to 2018
BFA California College of Arts
And SF Academy of Art University
This painting “Joy” started with a moment in my classroom. Students were taking turns modeling for each other when I brought out a bunny ears headband. Joy, the model’s actual name, said ” You just have to feel happy when you wear these bunny ears. No way can you feel sad “. I painted her with bunny ears, added textures, and a fragile little deer as a reminder of the anxiety and vulnerability of teens in a post-Covid world.
Joyful Light
Amelie Monira Egenolf is a talented German artist, born with a passion for painting that she has nurtured since childhood. In 2017, she began taking various art courses to hone her skills and by 2019, she had started her own art business. Since then, Amelie has held exhibitions all over the world, showcasing her exceptional artistry and unique perspective on life.
Amelie Monira Egenolf is proud to have had the opportunity to display her artwork in some of the world’s most renowned art institutions, such as the Louvre in Paris, as well as in major cities across Europe and beyond. Her love for painting and the happiness it brings to others is her driving force, her life elixir.
Living with her family in South Germany near Switzerland, Amelie Monira Egenolf’s journey as an internationally selling artist has taken her across different continents such as Asia, Europe, New Zealand, and South America. Each of these places has its unique beauty and culture, which has inspired her to learn from local artists and their techniques. Through this experience, Amelie Monira Egenolf has gained a unique perspective on the world, seeing its beauty and elegance through the eyes of locals, broadening her horizons and opening her heart.
“My name is Amelie Monira Egenolf. I grew up in south Germany in Asian gardens created by my family and lived in New Zealand, Mexico, Venezuela, and Berlin. Since a very young age, I’m painting and every piece of art is coming from my heart. With colorful shining colors and various art techniques, I want to express my deepest spiritual feelings on canvas.
Some of my themes are buddhas, water scenes, wild animals, florals, and abstract paintings with portraits. I love to express my foreign experiences from my travels in different ways and with my own unique style. Painting is a joyful, freeing, and meditative process for me. It is a means to express myself in colors, shapes, and textures that which cannot be conveyed through language alone.
With my own spiritual focus in my work, I love to express myself with mixed media and create art with real and surreal elements. In my expressive paintings, I use acrylic- and oil paints, oil pastels, different kind of inks and markers, and gold leaf and spray paint. Expressive bright colors dominate the overall picture.“
Joyful Noise
MJ Okawa is an artist whose work transcends cultural boundaries, blending the ancient traditions of Japanese silk painting with the bold, innovative spirit of Western design. Born into a culturally rich environment in Mountain View, California, MJ’s artistic journey has been profoundly influenced by her Japanese heritage and her experiences growing up in the diverse artistic community of the Bay Area.
From a young age, MJ was drawn to the intricate beauty of Japanese silk painting, a craft that requires both patience and precision. Under the tutelage of master artists in Berkeley, California, she mastered the traditional techniques that have become the foundation of her work. These techniques, characterized by the use of metallic gutta outlines, vibrant jewel tones, and delicate silk textures, are deeply rooted in the cultural artistry of Japan and have been a constant in her artistic evolution.
Yet, MJ’s work is not confined to tradition. As an artist living in the modern world, she has embraced the influences of Western design, infusing her silk paintings with a contemporary edge that reflects her unique perspective. This fusion of East and West is at the heart of her artistic identity, allowing her to create works that are both culturally significant and visually compelling.
A defining element of MJ’s work is her “mother palette,” a collection of colors that serve as the emotional and visual core of her art. These colors, drawn from the natural beauty of Japan and the bold designs of the West, are woven into each piece, creating a narrative that is both personal and universal. Through this palette, MJ explores the complexities of cultural identity, using color to convey the emotions and experiences that define her as an artist.
Throughout her career, MJ has exhibited her work in galleries and art shows across the United States, including notable venues such as TEN TEN Gallery (NYC), Portland on the Park (Phoenix), D’ART Gallery (Denver), Intersect Arts Gallery (St. Louis), ART Santa Fe and galleries in Denver and Georgia. Her work has been recognized for its innovative approach to traditional techniques, as well as its ability to convey deep emotional resonance through visual storytelling.
In addition to her artistic practice, MJ is a dedicated educator with over two decades of experience teaching visual and performing arts. Her passion for art extends beyond the canvas, as she actively engages in community art projects and educational initiatives, believing in the power of art to inspire and connect people across cultures.
MJ currently resides in Chandler, Arizona, where she continues to create art that reflects her dual heritage and her commitment to authenticity. Her work is a testament to the beauty of cultural fusion, offering viewers a glimpse into the intricate tapestry of her life and the world around her.
My art is a living testament to the seamless blend of Eastern tradition and Western innovation. Rooted in the time-honored Japanese art of silk painting, my work is a celebration of cultural fusion, where the ancient meets the contemporary, creating a visual dialogue that resonates with authenticity and depth.
The foundation of my artistry lies in the meticulous techniques passed down through generations of Japanese silk painters. This craft, known for its precision and grace, requires a deep understanding of the materials and a respect for the process. The delicate application of metallic gutta outlines, the layering of rich, saturated jewel tones, and the careful manipulation of silk to create texture are all hallmarks of this tradition that I have embraced and made my own.
However, my work is not bound by tradition alone. As an artist who navigates both Eastern and Western worlds, I have infused my silk paintings with a contemporary sensibility that reflects the dynamic nature of modern life. This fusion is most evident in my design approach, where traditional techniques are reimagined through the lens of Western aesthetics. The result is a body of work that is both timeless and relevant, paying homage to the past while speaking to the present.
Central to my creative process is what I call my “mother palette”—a unique collection of colors that I return to time and again. These hues, inspired by the vibrant landscapes of Japan and the bold designs of Western art, form the emotional core of my work. They are the colors of my memories, my experiences, and my heritage, woven together to tell a story that is uniquely mine.
In this series, I explore the interplay between cultural identity and personal expression. Each piece is a reflection of my journey, an exploration of the duality that defines me as an artist. The metallic outlines serve as a symbol of strength and continuity, while the fluidity of the silk represents the ever-changing nature of life. Together, they create a harmonious balance, a visual representation of the East meets the West.
My work is more than just an aesthetic endeavor; it is an exploration of self, an expression of authenticity that invites viewers to engage with their own sense of identity. In a world that often demands conformity, I strive to create art that celebrates individuality, honors tradition, and embraces the beauty of cultural diversity.