Lily With Fox
My name is Diana Kirkpatrick. I have been an artist most of my life. My medium of choice is charcoal. I have an MFA from Vermont College and an undergraduate degree from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. I have done many workshops at the Art Students League and Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. It’s only been in the last two years I’ve been extensively working on my large-scale drawings. My work has been published in many magazines and art books such as Art Renewal Center, Strokes of Genius, and Portrait Society.
My technique involves meticulously sanding charcoal into 300-pound printmaking paper. Typically using a 40×30 format. I start by sanding a foundation of charcoal over the entire sheet of paper. I use 100-grade sandpaper. Next, I use Faber Castell pencils to start the drawing. This method is tedious and time-consuming, but I enjoy the process and how meditative it is. I also love the atmosphere charcoal creates with its dark and moody environments. I look for models who have the unique ability to transport the viewer into their inner worlds giving us just a glimpse of the emotions lying right below the surface.
Linc On Flute
Tom decided at a very early age to pursue some type of vocation in the field of visual arts. During elementary and high school, he took every art class that was offered and studied several books on drawing. In 1970 he received a BFA degree in Studio Arts from Loras College, Dubuque, IA, and in 1972 he did post-graduate study in Creative Photography at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
He worked as the Staff Artist for the Telegraph Herald Newspaper in Dubuque, IA, and as an Art Director for Associated Litho Printing Company in Minneapolis, MN. He has taught Adult Education classes in Drawing and has also been commissioned to do many portraits over the years.
Tom has been active at the Hopkins Center for the Arts and was instrumental in its creation in 1998. He was the President and one of the Charter Members of the Hopkin’s Area Arts Association, which was responsible for programming at the HCA during its first five years. He’s, also, exhibited at and been active as a member of several local arts organizations and galleries, including, The Minnetonka Center for the Arts, The Minnesota Artist’s Association, and The White Bear Lake Center for the Arts and Artistry Gallery, among others.
Tom has been living and creating his artwork in his home studio in Minnetonka, MN for 45 years. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally and he has won several awards in these exhibits, including First Place and Best of Show.
The subjects of my images are almost always people. I believe it’s those other souls we encounter during our lives that make it more interesting and enriched. I intend to capture some of the character and dignity that is a part of every person. We all have our individual hopes and dreams and we each find our own path to self-expression. It’s these personal aspects of our humanity that I try to convey with my art.
It could be said that I do portraits and that would be accurate. However, I try to create something more than a likeness. I try to show something about that individual’s personality, or perhaps capture a feeling of their situation at that particular moment in time. When I’m successful, the viewer is able to connect with the image in some way, without actually knowing the subject.
The purpose behind all of my images is to instill in the viewer a feeling that goes beyond the subject matter. My goal is to create something within the image that is universal and timeless.
Lining Up
In 1970 Tom received a BA degree in Studio Arts from Loras College, Dubuque IA and in 1972 received a MA degree in Creative Photography from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
He worked as the Staff Artist for the Telegraph Herald Newspaper in Dubuque IA and as an Art Director for Associate Litho Printing Company in Minneapolis, MN. He’s also taught Adult Education classes in drawing.
Tom is active as a member of several arts organizations and galleries including The Hopkins Center for the Arts, The Minnetonka Art Center, The Minnesota Artist’s Association, and The White Bear Center for the Arts and Artistry Gallery in Bloomington, MN.
Tom has been living and creating his artwork in his home/studio in Minnetonka, MN for 45 years. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally and he has won awards in many of these exhibits.
The subjects of my drawings are almost always people. I believe it’s those other souls we encounter during our lives that make them more interesting and enriched. I try to capture some of the character and dignity that is a part of every person. It’s these personal aspects of our humanity that I try to convey in my images.
It could be said that I do portraits and that would be accurate. However, I try to create something more than a likeness, to show something of that individual’s personality, or capture a feeling of their situation at that moment in time. When I’m successful, the viewer will be able to connect with the image in some way, without actually knowing the subject.
The purpose behind my images is to instill in the viewer a feeling that goes beyond the subject matter, to something that is universal and/or timeless.
Lioness
Kaidy Lewis is an English artist from London and the greater surrounding areas. This is where she studied and worked. Trained in St Albans College of Art and Design, she was offered a place to study at the prestigious Chelsea College of Art, London. The artist is at home in the countryside. Outside and in solitude after immersion with people is where her ideas are consolidated.
Kaidy developed creativity courses to increase confidence and improve health, after developing a self-reflective painting style. These were taught alongside the artist’s own exhibitions. Kaidy felt inspired and still does, to share her art and therapy. Practiced and delivered for people adapting to change, chronic health conditions, and adults with learning difficulties. Kaidy began this practice sharing in 2006. She ran ‘Art at The Farm’ at Canterbury Oast Trust, Kent UK in 2012. In 2016 she moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kaidy joined the Orange County Art Guild in 2017 and led the Jury committee from 2020 – 2023. She has been an active member of the FRANK gallery since 2018.
Kaidy is now the art director of ‘ The Henry Roger’s Art Program’ at The Forest at Duke. Started in May 2020 to engage and enrich the lives of the elderly residents living in a healthcare setting.
The artist was selected and juried to sell art for the home – October 2023
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Latest Exhibitions
- FRANK gallery – featured artist show – Carrboro, N.C – August 2023
- Greenhill Center for NC Art – Winter Show – Dec – Feb 2023
- West End House Gallery, Smarden, Kent, UK- Dec 2022
- Horse and Buggy Press Gallery, Durham, NC Sep 2022
- Pilgrims Way Artist Show – Lenham, Kent, UK May 2022
- Society Women Artist, Juried exhibition, Mall Galleries, London – Sep 2021
- Block Gallery, Raleigh nc.gov, Municipal Building – Aug 2019
Born in 1970, Kaidy pursued a career as a specialist clinical development nurse, during which she began painting with intent. Kaidy works out of two studios located in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. The artist has refined a process of abstract expressionism whereby she brings to the canvas a feeling, a subject, or a current affair she experiences as making no sense.
The conversation with paint is a subjective, exploratory, and investigative type of self-therapy. Kaidy demonstrates this method at her art residency in ‘The Forest at Duke’, Durham. Her paintings are multi-layered and complex; they are a synthesis of inanimate objects and ambiguous figures, within aesthetics of beauty, color, rhythm, and design. This semi-abstract portrayal is an endeavor of the artist to deconstruct autobiographical chaos into some type of order, that provokes the subconscious in the viewer and makes a space for a connected dialogue. Hints of sexuality and social structures are embedded into the canvas in the hope that the conversation in paint quietens the ego and softens the noise of the world. A health regimen that can create confidence, and communities and provide evidence of nonduality and acceptance.
Working with fine acrylic paints on quality stretched canvas. The work is generated in large square, rectangular, and landscape format not exceeding 6 ft in dimension.
Lions Tail
Marjorie Moskowitz, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, holds a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in Painting and B.S in Business, from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been represented by galleries, in the Midwest, the East, and West Coasts. Her work has been widely collected and is part of many private and public collections. She currently lives in and maintains her studio in southern California.
Her current paintings focus on a moment in time, in nature when plants are at the peak of their reproductive cycle. They are fully asserting their seductive beauty/perfection/ splendor/ripeness. We observe blooming fields in their entirety. These paintings are the opposite of that configuration. Just as all matter is made up of atoms that contain electronically moving parts, the focus is on select blooms, and unusual perspectives, and often shows the importance of their smallest components.
Lipstick Kicks Cancer
Karen Safer is a photographic artist, writer, and poet with a musical bent who lives at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. As a native Angelino, she was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed to dominant California motifs: light, palm trees, the ocean, music, and vernacular architecture that helped define and influence her left-handed aesthetic. She was influenced by her dad (amateur calligrapher and photographer) who developed black & white photos in their back washroom/turned darkroom and by her mother’s love of history, language, and thirst for knowledge and travel.
Early on, she was greatly influenced by movies, music, books, plays, history, and art from the ancient Babylonians to Vermeer to Atget and Cindy Sherman. She has a master’s degree in art, and a career in design and architecture, exhibited in 12 solo shows, 300+ international galleries, museums, and magazines including London, Rome, Glasgow, Budapest, Athens, Prague, Paris, Barcelona, Sao Paulo and from California to New York, winning 240+ Talent, Merit and Honorable Mention Awards and represented in private collections. She is a self-described “romantic soul” with intellectual cravings and a lover of Jazz, Rock & Roll (the background soundtrack of her youth), basketball, and baseball.
She is listed in Who’s Who of Professional Women 2023 and honored with First Prizes for ABSTRACT and ARCHITECTURE photography in the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Black and White Spider Awards, and in LA ART SHOW 2024.
She was fortunate to begin a life of travel as a pre-teen that shaped her love of the exotic, paired with an eye for the formal, accidental, and “unusual” while subliminally seeking the beauty that jiggled the lens/frame of her eye. She has experienced and photographed in over 230 countries/territories of the earth.
“A photographer has the whole world big or small to capture.” – kjs
Influences: I am a student of art, architecture, history, literature, film, and music. I have been heavily influenced by so many sources but here I’ve chosen to highlight art and photography influences from Hopper to Cartier-Bresson and from Atget to Cindy Sherman. So many influences on life from cities to nature to music and art. I love color and all its vibrance while I venerate black and white. I embrace all the many influences that have touched my art and my life deeply.
Liquid Crystal
Working with Interior Designers, Developers, and Architects doing paintings for their buildings in lobbies, and Set Decorators who have my work shown on movies and television. Another area I work in is Corporate art and commissioned works.
An “Escape Artist” is one who creates abstracts from a purely aesthetic viewpoint thoughtfully guiding attention to any subject with beauty and artistic flair. Inspired by a range of subjects from man-made architecture and structures to all natural objects and scenes. A style of art that includes geometric shapes, and lines or can be free-flowing organic. Simplistic in a format inspired by colors, textures, and subject matter to stir the imagination. My Art should stir a person’s imagination taking them on their own unique journey and story.
Lisbon I
Ailene Vrana MacDougall is a Toronto-born mixed-media abstract artist currently based in Innisfil, Ontario, Canada. Her work is deeply influenced by travel, urban environments, and the emotional imprint that place leaves behind. Drawing from a background that blends creativity, structure, and lived experience, Ailene creates vibrant, layered compositions that invite viewers to feel movement, memory, and joy.
Before fully embracing her life as an artist, Ailene spent decades in a corporate career that demanded precision, logic, and strategy. That contrast now fuels her creative practice, where spontaneity and intuition take the lead. Her work often reflects this balance — structured compositions softened by expressive mark-making, textured surfaces, and rich, analogous colour palettes.
Travel is central to Ailene’s process. Rather than documenting places literally, she captures fragments — photographs of walls, tiles, cobblestones, signage, architectural details, and fleeting street moments. These collected images become collage elements embedded within painted layers, transforming real locations into abstracted emotional landscapes.
Her Lisbon Series is inspired by the city’s warmth, history, and visual rhythm — sun-washed facades, intricate tilework, narrow streets, and the layered passage of time. Through mixed media, she distills the spirit of the city into vibrant compositions that evoke nostalgia, movement, and connection rather than representation.
Ailene’s work has been exhibited in juried shows and galleries in Canada and the United States. She describes her practice as creating vibrant art for the vibrant soul — art that uplifts, energizes, and invites viewers to reconnect with their own experiences of place, travel, and memory.
My work explores the emotional experience of place — how travel, memory, and movement shape the way we feel rather than what we see. I am drawn to cities, textures, and transitions, capturing the energy of a location through colour, layering, and mark-making rather than literal representation.
The Lisbon Series emerged from my time spent walking the city — noticing weathered walls, patterned tiles, sunlit facades, and the quiet poetry of everyday details. I photograph these moments not as finished images, but as raw material. Back in the studio, they are cut, layered, obscured, and integrated into mixed-media compositions that echo the way memory works — fragmented, emotional, and constantly shifting.
Each piece begins intuitively. I build layers using acrylics, inks, collage, and textured mediums, allowing colours to interact and push against one another. I favour analogous palettes — blues, greens, teals, warm pinks, and soft neutrals — to create a sense of harmony and movement. Collaged imagery emerges and recedes, inviting the viewer to look closer and discover traces of place within abstraction.
While my work is rooted in specific locations, it is not about documenting travel. Instead, it reflects how a place felt — the warmth of light, the rhythm of streets, the sense of history layered beneath modern life. Viewers often connect the work to their own travels, memories, or imagined journeys.
Ultimately, my goal is to create art that brings energy and joy into everyday spaces. I want my work to feel uplifting, immersive, and emotionally resonant — a visual invitation to pause, remember, and feel. This is art shaped by movement, curiosity, and the belief that colour and texture can carry us somewhere meaningful.
Listen
In 2020 at 65 it had been decades since I made a body of art. Since then, I’ve been honored with 3 first place awards in photography. The University of Delaware, gave me a one woman show. My work has been seen from coast to coast including several times through the HMVC Gallery in NY and Las LaGuna Gallery in CA. Pictorem based out of Montreal, Canada, has me as a featured artist. Two books presented me. Nobis II and Emerald Coast Review.
The photographs I create are abstractions in fluidity, rich in joy, color, pattern and curiosity. I’ve been printing on aluminum.
I grew up in the Mid-Atlantic and later spent much of my young adult life in New England. For the past 28 years the Deep South has been home. I have a Masters in Social Work and worked as a social worker and a realtor. In the South I married and raised a daughter. I also helped plant the seed that grew into the Mississippi Children’s Museum and worked at 2 art museums as a docent for 17 years.
As my images find their way into various exhibits, lives, homes, and businesses, I hope feelings of joy and peace nourish viewers.
I create photos as peaceful, playful, healing stimuli by drawing upon different objects and melding them into a unified whole. While working I often think about how our country needs to heal and find unity. Part of my process is setting up compositions and visually weaving together beautiful glass, flowing fabric, and sometimes surprise elements with vibrant colors and patterns into integrated fluid formations. I then photograph tightly cropped, in close proximity to my setup. I intend to transcend and transform objects into images that visually excite while calming the soul.
A lifelong passion for art and artists influenced my work. I nod to feminist artist Miriam Schapiro, a leader in the Pattern and Decoration Movement. She frequently celebrated the invisible women designers of fabrics within her work, in both painting and printing, creating what she called Femages. (feminist collages). Having lived much of my life by the shore, I have always loved the play of light in watery reflections. In turn, I am drawn to artists that capture light. The glass sculptures of Stephen Rolfe Powell delight me by turning solids into liquids and back to flowing forms of solid in a graceful play of movement, pattern, and light. The last of many admired artists I will mention is Georgia O’Keeffe, who believed in the value of coming in close to a subject to find her feelings toward what she was looking at and abstract her rendering of it in her personalized language of expression. I also seek to have personalized language by transcending the absolute and having a visceral impact on the viewer.
In these unsettling times of polarization, and social, political, and environmental strife, I’m transforming light, pattern, and color into a visual oasis. I seek to make abstract images that embrace the value of joy, rich with fluidity and kindness. As an artist and former therapist, I invite the viewer in.
Each of my images can be ordered in small jewel-like prints or large dynamic pieces. I have been printing on ChromaLuxe, a high-definition aluminum, and on white Dibond aluminum panels framed or unframed. My website is; https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Lisa.Joy.Newcomb