★ Elvis In Jerusalem ★
I have been expressing my joy in art with paint, shapes, and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome prints over 35 years ago. Before Photoshop I found a way to express a new magical reality with the vivid, saturated, and unrealistic colors I painted into each individual photographic print.
For the past 30 years, I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 50 years. I paint, combine, and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic world!
My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy; Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA; LA County Natural History Museum, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs around the world. It has been in many magazines, book covers, two museum exhibition catalogs, and two books have been published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales. Over the last 15 years, I have had the honor of being asked to install my art in many wonderful public spaces, mainly at UCLA and UCSB, all on exhibit indefinitely!! I installed more than 70 large artworks at the UCLA Law Library and UCLA Anderson School of Management, including a 5’x10′ commission.
I installed an exhibit of my “Joy Rides” series printed on aluminum at the Car Museum in Oxnard, CA. I installed 20 new very large artworks printed on aluminum at the UCSB Graduate School of Education. In 2015 I created the First Vertical Art Gallery at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. I installed 15 more very large artworks at the UCLA Charles Young Graduate Library, in a huge first-floor study hall! I installed another 15 artworks in the UCSB English Dept building.
I had the inaugural solo exhibit at a new wonderful gallery at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden entitled “Jane Gottlieb Fantasy Gardens” in 2017. In 2018 I had a 4-month exhibition entitled “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France” at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum!
I just finished a 15’x15’ commission for the main entrance of the UCSB Library titled “Check It Out”! The UCSB Library has 20 large artworks of mine all over the library.
Vivid colors, altered perspectives, strong compositions, beautiful and unique images: this is my art. I welcome all to a contemporary Wonderland with strong theatrical effects, and classic compositions, enhanced with my trademark saturated colors!! As an artist all my life, I have been creating artworks with my lifetime collection of photographs taken traveling all over the world, and the magic of Photoshop. My art has been exhibited in galleries & museums across the US, Asia, and Europe, featured in numerous magazines, and books, and displayed in all the main international art expos. My art is collected in many public, and private collections, and museum collections.
★ Floral Reflections ★
I was born in Poughkeepsie, NY. I went to The Poughkeepsie Day School, The Millbrook School, Brandeis University, The School of Dental Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, and NY University School of Orthodontics. I Practiced on The Upper West Side of NY. Upon moving to California, I became a writer on award shows, a writer, a producer of events, and a home flipper. I come from an artistic family. My mother was a member of the Barrett House in Poughkeepsie, NY, and a member of The Summer Group in the Hudson Valley. My Dad was an Orthodontist and a Viola player. In the late 1990s, I began my adult art journey at The Beverly Hills Adult Education Center, where I studied figure sculpting. My background in Dentistry led me to 3-dimensional art form. From there, I moved on to The Brentwood Art Center in Santa Monica. Upon moving to the Coachella Valley, I studied at Jayne Behman’s Art Center. This is where I expanded from figure sculpting to watercolor. My watercolors were mostly inspired by high-fashion photographs of celebrities and models. This is where my love of bold, bright, joyous colors was born. I moved to NYC for 4 years and studied at The 92nd Street Y. When I returned to the Coachella Valley, I took one class with celebrated mosaic artist Jennifer Johnson. There, I created a unique style in just my first piece. I added a relief style dimension to my mosaics, which is rarely seen in the medium. My pieces are raised with dimension and movement created by adding depth and contrast. During the pandemic, I switched from glass to paper art. I have excelled in the paper and mixed media. The Paper art is done either in 2 dimensions or 3. Some of the works are raised off the surface and are then box-framed. I have been awarded ribbons for my work at The Off Track Gallery in Encinitas and the Carlsbad Oceanside Art League in Carlsbad Village. My work has also been featured at The Escondido Arts Partnership, Art on 30th Street, and currently I have a piece at The Visions Museum of Textile Art at Liberty Station. But then I evolved into yet another medium. I do Decoupage and Acrylic on canvas pieces now. This combines the use of Acrylic paints with collage, creating a mixed media with dimension. My works in this medium have been shown at the San Diego County Fair Fine Arts Show, Off Track Gallery, Art on 30th Street, The Vi at La Jolla Village Art Gallery, and have been featured in art publications. In addition to my love of creating for myself, I teach many crafting and art classes. They include: Holiday Craft projects, Paper Collage Classes, Gourd Painting, Handbag Design, Hand Painted Glass, Stenciling, Paper Flower Classes, Stained glass on glass design, Decoupage on glass and papier mache, and Acrylic and Decoupage classes.
I have always had an interest and joy in creating. I went full in later in life, starting with figure sculpture. I enjoyed the process of working in three dimensions. There was much frustration with the firing process. I decided to join a coop studio where all kinds of mediums were available. To my surprise, watercolor became my next passion. I became most comfortable with color blocking and segmental approaches, where one section dried before proceeding to the next. I then went full force into stained glass mosaics. Often use a relief style to give dimension and depth to my pieces. When the pandemic hit, I was unable to go to the glass studio, so I transitioned into paper collage, mosaic, and paper/fiber art. All during this time, I was also teaching various paper and collage classes at senior residences, along with crafting projects. I moved on to acrylic and mixed media. Using acrylic and my interests in collage and paper/fiber work, by mix them together in decoupage form. I expanded my crafting skills and now teach a dozen crafting and art classes throughout the year at various locations and exhibit my work in multiple galleries in San Diego, Los Angeles, Rancho Mirage, and Encinitas.
Now I work in paper/fiber, acrylic, and decoupage and acrylic on canvas. I love creating and teaching, and sharing creativity.
★ Freestyle ★
Brigitte currently lives in Switzerland. She is a self-taught photographer inspired by her grandfather as a child; thus, she chose to bear his name as an artist to honour him. Travelling the globe with an analog camera in her twenties, she gained experience in landscape, travel, and street life photography. Nowadays, she is also experimenting with other approaches, like abstract and macro, and is shooting digital. Her work has been published in several art magazines. Two of which are special editions about her artwork at Docu Magazine. Her photography was exhibited physically and virtually in the UK, the USA, Italy, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and the West Indies. One of her main exhibitions was at Artexpo New York in April 2025 and at ArtBasel in June.
Her photography has been distinguished with several mentions.
She is also working on three projects, which will take several years. The aim is to publish a book.
I went down to the lakeshore, and youngsters were at play. Laughing, pushing each other in the water. When all of a sudden, he climbed onto a docking pillar and threw himself in the air. I was there and got the photograph.
I started with photography as a child. My grandfather used to take pictures and I was fascinated. To honour him my artist’s name is his, thus B.B. Burckhardt. I shot with film, color, bnw, spent hours in the dark room, took my camera with me while travelling around the globe in my twenties. After a life changing event photography came back into my life. I felt the need to create, the passion grew even stronger than before.
Nowadays I shoot almost daily, it feels like being back on the road. My interests are landscape and street life photography, subjects showcased here in my project. Landscape as moments of peace of mind, my eyes being amazed by the beauty of nature. Soothing my soul. Street life as moments of exhilaration, being ready at any minute to shoot a scene that caught my eye. A scene of life, of youth, of the ordinary, of joy (of despair sometimes). A scene I am drawn to by my emotions, thus mostly candid. My photographs tell a story, the point is to share it with the viewer.
★ Guests Gaze ★
Arlet Gomez, a contemporary painter from Cuba, knew from a very young age that art was her path, so with the support of her family she focused on studying art at all levels that her country offered. She first graduated from a painting academy, and then received a Degree in Fine Arts, [2009] from ISA, University of Arts in Cuba. Now a professional artist in Palm Beach, Florida, she is compelled by the need to express her desires for coexistence, freedom, longing for roots, and enlightenment of the human essence. With eight solo exhibitions and several group shows around the world, her artistic career began with large canvases of vibrant colors that mostly included the Braille system in their compositions. She seeks to transport painting as a technique to another dimension and turn it into an inclusive experience. Each piece is a direct reflection of her childhood memories, personal stories from her homeland, and her migration to Europe and America, thus translating feelings and longings into visual experiences. Gomez’s work explores the connection between human beings and nature and their spiritual threads, linking destiny with origins, apprehension with enlightenment. As she continues to evolve, she hopes that each stage of her art will be a contemplative invitation visualized in light of the freedom of contemporary art.
My artistic work is a search that attempts to investigate the diverse connections that interact in the human being, both physically and spiritually. My objective is to create a visible parallel of these connections recognizing that we are a reflection of the invisible, emotions, feelings, and what we have learned. It is precisely the sum of all this that is our essence as human beings. Throughout my life, the scenes I experienced in my childhood are recurrent in my unconscious, and sometimes I have wanted to go back and resume conversations, looks, and behaviors. This is why in my artwork, childhood is a platform to reveal these ideas of continuous exploration that involve our essence and our link with nature. My work is an ode to those moments of connection with beings and snapshots of time. In my work, the meaning of inclusion is celebrated, and each of my figurations strives to reflect this desire. My art aims to bring light and reflection to those who observe it, to function as a mirror of past experiences and lived emotions; and art that transcends from a contemplative to a reflective experience. Through each of my strokes, I aim to visually translate ideas of identity, freedom, and belonging without social and cultural veils, inviting viewers to delve into the intimacy of universal emotions and feelings that illuminate our being from the deepest depths.
★ Hi Ho Silver ★
Suzie Seerey-Lester is an International Award-Winning Wildlife Artist. She has painted all over the world, including Europe, Africa, South America, and of course in the US. She is known for her depiction of old structures and birds. Recently she has been painting large animals like snow leopards, cougars, and wolves. Her unique style has things like petroglyphs hidden in rocks, baby cougars in the shadows, or unique items hidden for the viewer to discover. Suzie will only paint subjects that she has seen in the wild. Her paintings are in major museums all over the world, including The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in Florida, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, in Wisconsin, and the National Wildlife Museum in Jackson Hole, WY. Every painting has her and her husband’s initials (J+S) hidden somewhere.
Suzie was the first woman scuba diving Instructor Trainer in the US, during the early 1970s. She trained President Ford’s Secret Service Agents, FBI, and other law enforcement agents to perform “certain skills”, and later joined the CIA to train their operatives. She later worked for several large corporations like Xerox, Marriott, and DHL, before moving to Florida. She is licensed by the state of Florida to handle the endangered and threatened sea turtles that nest on local beaches. Suzie has been on turtle patrol since 2000. Some believe she is a real mermaid.
Suzie Seerey-Lester is an international award-winning wildlife artist. She is known for her remarkable barns and birds, and of course large animals.
Find a barn and you will see Suzie crawling all around it. She loves the light that filters through the slats in the barns, a perfect location for a barn owl, or a child’s dream.
Hi Ho Silver is one of Suzie’s favorite paintings. A light-filled barn draws your attention to the hay-filled stable, with a child’s hobby horse, tied to the wall. Growing up Suzie loved her hobby horse, riding with Roy Rogers and Dale Evens while watching them on black and white TV.
This is every cowboy’s dream. The perfect ride, the flawless barn, and the impeccable friend. Six shooters are optional.
In creating the light-streaked hay on the floor, and the sunlit wood, Suzie will use as many as 25 layers of transparent colors to create depth and glow. With all her paintings she has hidden her husband and her initials (J+S) somewhere on the image. Can you find them?
Suzie has traveled all over the world to paint amazing subjects. She will only paint animals she has seen in the wild. Her sensational paintings inspire a second look, then another. Discover her fabulous paintings now.
Acquiring a Seerey-Lester is like collecting a piece of Magic.
★ Home ★
Caryn Coville holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.
She is a featured artist in several art publications and is a contributing artist in the book Masterful Color: Vibrant Colored Pencil Paintings Layer by Layer by Arlene Steinberg.
Caryn is a ‘CPSA’ and a five-year merit ‘CPX’ Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, a UKCPSO Signature Member of the UK Colour Pencil Society, an Elected Member of the American Artists Professional League, a Juried Member of the International Guild of Realism, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and the National Art League.
Her award-winning work has been shown in solo gallery exhibits and she has participated in numerous national and international juried shows and group exhibitions including the Salmagundi Club’s Annual Painting, Sculpture & Graphics Exhibitions; The Colored Pencil Society of America’s International Exhibitions; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Exhibitions; AAPL Grand National Exhibits; and the Sumi-e Society of America’s Annual Juried Exhibitions. Her work is in corporate and private collections throughout the United States and Canada.
My work is inspired by my love of nature, travel, and the beauty I find in everyday objects. Primarily a colored pencil artist, I have enjoyed extending my artistry into other mediums. For the past several years I have explored East Asian brush painting. I like the contrast between the very slow process of creating a colored pencil painting layer upon layer and the spontaneity of brush painting where I try to convey the essence of a subject by using minimal strokes of ink and watercolor. My latest journey has been into the world of alcohol ink painting.
★ In The Sun ★
Kimberly Overton grew up along the Malibu coast. Coastal scenes emerge as a strong voice in her artistic expression. As a child, Kimberly won first prize in the Save the Santa Monica Bay art contest creating a collage of a girl fishing for a bottle from a boat, using scraps of painted paper, real sand, and a doll bottle. Kimberly still likes to combine art forms.
Kimberly studied psychology and civil engineering in college and was lucky enough to take an oil painting class from San Francisco Bay Area artist Frank Lobdell. It was through his teaching style, that she found freedom of expression. With the simple words, “keep painting”, and very little critique, Lobdell’s influence has kept her painting and creating art for many years. Kimberly loves colors, light, texture, layers, and impressions. She uses acrylic paint, oil pastels, natural objects, and photography. When Kimberly expresses herself through art, it usually evolves into multiple layers.
Kimberly has participated in a variety of art shows and exhibits over the years from California to New York.
My eclectic style uses vibrant colors, light contrast, texture variations, and layers, often sometimes natural or reused objects as collage elements. I also use photography to capture multiple large paintings and inclusion of shadows and other features. My art captures a feeling at a moment in time, usually in a natural environment, often including elements such as the sky and ocean. I generally paint with acrylic on large canvas or boards in an outside environment.
My most recent theme “Dreams of a Girl” captures the dreams of any girl, any age, anywhere in the world, and of any background. I hope to inspire others to always dream and never give up as I have taught myself to do.
★ Josephine ★
Francesca is a self-taught portrait artist living and working in the wild, inspiring hills of Topanga, California. Originally from Mexico City, she studied architecture and graphic design, where her love of structure met a passion for expressive form.
Her work centers on large-scale portraits in watercolor, ink, and acrylic. These are intimate explorations of power, wisdom, and the complexity of being human. drawn to fearlessness in people, Francesca seeks to reveal what lies beneath the surface: lived experience, quiet strength, vulnerability, and truth.
Each portrait becomes a space of connection. Her subjects are not just sitters; they are companions in a shared process of storytelling, reflection, and recognition.
Painting is Francesca’s practice of stillness and belief. through it, she honors the richness of aging, the resilience of the body, and the presence of soul. Her work reflects a reverence for the past and a vision for a future charged with honesty, depth, and resilience.
The Fire Keepers
In ancient civilizations, it was often women—especially elderly women—who served as the fire keepers. They were more than tenders of flame; they were cultural figures who embodied the transformative power of fire. As guardians of warmth, memory, and wisdom, they held space for community, continuity, and change. This exhibition reclaims that reverence. It insists that aging is not retreat, but expansion. Not decline, but revolution. With each passing year, we grow deeper into our power. With every line, we become more beautiful.
The Fire Keepers is a visual ode to the sacred strength and enduring beauty of women—women who wear their age not as a burden, but as a badge of radical evolution. In a culture obsessed with youth and denial, these portraits stand in defiance. They are declarations. They are testaments. Acrylic brush to canvas becomes memory to muscle—telling stories of lives lived boldly and resiliently. Each woman portrayed carries the marks of time: lines etched by laughter and loss, softness shaped by battles fought and boundaries drawn. This work is not about turning back the clock or freezing time. It is about moving forward—eyes wide open, spirits unyielding. To walk forward with strength, we must walk toward their wisdom. To shape the future, we must honor their presence.
Beauty is aging. Power is aging.
Let’s make wisdom powerful.
Let’s make aging visible.
Let’s honor their fire.
★ Looks Like It Sounds Good ★
Andrew Chalfen is a visual artist and musician living and working in Philadelphia. He just completed a two-person show entitled “Synesthesia” at the National Building in Philadelphia. A 2021 solo show of recent work was featured at the Abington Art Center. 2020 was full of awards and his first showing at a museum, the Delaware Contemporary. In 2019 many of his pieces were featured at Inliquid’s “Hatch” group show and at the Magic Garden’s two-person show “Patterns of Obsession, both in Philadelphia.” He is the winner of the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Mid-Atlantic Regional for 2018 and his piece “Vibration Lands” was displayed at SCOPE Miami during the Art Basel/Art Miami fair.
I am a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. I work mainly in acrylics but increasingly incorporate mixed media and three-dimensional elements into my pieces. I am fascinated by patterns, and how they ripple, radiate, refract, bloom, interact, and cluster. My works allude to aerial views, cartography, architectural renderings, musical notation, urban-like densities, and other natural and man-made patterns.
My process mirrors that of my songwriting and music arranging, involving the repetition of a small selection of formal elements, subtle variation, the timbre of the color palate, rhythm, and randomization strategies.
More recent abstract geometric pieces, including painted sculptures, explore themes of nostalgia, anxiety, climate change, play, musicality, fragility, physical and psychic fragmentation, and allusions to impenetrable data, all reflective of, and perhaps counter to, accelerating planetary chaos.