★ Bloom Of Fortune ★
Daria Divashchenko is a Ukrainian artist, holding a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Events Directing from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Furthering her passion for art, she pursued Contemporary Art at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Since 2013, art has been her full-time dedication.
Daria is celebrated for her mastery of painting techniques, skillfully portraying the delicate harmony between terrestrial flora and the enigmatic depths of aquatic fauna. Her work goes beyond the surface, exploring the subconscious and the intertwined connection between humanity and nature. Through her unique artistic process, she bridges the conscious and subconscious, grounding her vision in the concept that humans are inseparable from the living world around them.
Deeply personal, Daria’s art is a reflection of her own life experiences. Every situation she encounters leaves an imprint on her creative journey, shaping the narratives and emotions embedded in her work. This personal influence adds layers of depth, making each piece a unique exploration of her evolving identity.
Her style is rooted in realism, yet she transcends tradition by incorporating metal leaves into her work, which symbolize the fluidity and constant change inherent in life. These metallic elements reflect light and surroundings, allowing her pieces to evolve in different environments, mirroring the ever-changing world.
Daria’s artworks have garnered international recognition, finding homes in private collections across Ukraine, England, the USA, Australia, Singapore, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Thailand, Germany, and Greece. Her exhibitions span the globe, from prestigious galleries and art fairs to museum showcases. Notably, her works are also part of the collection at The Office of the President of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian artist works in the painting technique. She reveals the essence of natural themes in her artworks, addressing flora and fauna on land and underwater. She also works with images and associations of the deep subconscious and identity, getting to know her inner world and its interaction with the external one in the process. The human is an inseparable part of all life on Earth. These deep subconscious connections become ideas for the artist’s artworks. Daria works mostly in realism, perfectly conveying colors and shapes.
Her artistic practice is mostly characterized by the use of metal leaves, a symbol of variability and impermanence. Studies the ability of surfaces to reflect reality and reproduces this in her artworks.
Paintings are in private collections in many countries: Ukraine, Australia, Singapore, England, USA, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and Greece. Exhibits in different galleries and museums participate in Art Fairs. Artworks decorate The Office of the President of Ukraine.
★ Cellular 013 ★
Sophie LaBell received her BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in 2017. With a focus on design for social change, Sophie has designed for dozens of political candidates running for office. These projects have included brand identities, digital and print assets, and visual campaigns for political candidates and social causes across the United States.
Alongside her experience in design, Sophie has maintained a lifelong commitment to drawing and visual art. Coursework in anatomy, medical terminology, and public health expanded her understanding of the body and its complexities– insights that deeply inform her studio practice. She is actively engaged in arts organizations throughout New Jersey, where she is continuously evolving her work at the intersection of art, science, and personal narrative.
Recent Exhibits:
“Across The Line”, Studio Montclair, 3/15/24-4/19/24
“37th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, 4/6/24-4/30/24
Judge: Kelly Long– Senior Curatorial Assistant– Whitney Museum of American Art
“35 Under 35”, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts, 7/20/24-8/18/24
Judge: Ruba Katrib–Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs– MoMA PS1
“State of the Art 2024”, Studio Montclair, 7/12/24-8/17/24
“Art in the Park”, Bergen County Arts, 10/19/24; Honorable Mention
“Seasonal Color”. Art Alliance of Monmouth County, 2/1/25-2/26/25
Judge: Paul Ferney
“45th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Monmouth Museum, 3/2/25-4/13/25
Judge: Sangita Phadke + Jenn Hampton
“Cool + Hot”, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, 3/1/25-4/2/25
Judge: Belle Koblentz
“21st Annual Juried Art Show”, Belmar Arts Center, 5/5/25-6/7/25
Judge: Carla Valentino
“Emerging Bloom”, Khawam Gallery, 5/15/25-6/14/25
“New Drawings”, Kentler International Drawing Space, 6/14/25-7/20/25
Judge: Samantha Friedman, Curator of Drawings and Prints– MoMA New York
“Works on Paper 2025”, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts, 5/17/25-7/6/25
Judge: Samantha Friedman, Curator of Drawings and Prints– MoMA New York
“State of the Art 2025”, Studio Montclair, 6/27/25-7/25/25
“Absolutely Abstract 2025”, Philadelphia Sketch Club. 7/6/25-7/27/25
Judge: Kassem Amoudi, Second Place
“Capturing Life Beneath the Waves”, Belmar Arts Center, 7/14/25-9/6/25
“33rd Annual International Juried Exhibition”, Viridian Artists Gallery, 7/15/25-8/9/25
Judge: Christopher Heffernan– Gallery Director, Director’s Choice Award
“40 Under 40”, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts, 7/19/25-8/10/25
Judge: Jennie Goldstein–Jennifer Rubio, Associate Curator of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art
“September Members Show”, Art Alliance Of Monmouth County; 9/6/25-9/30/25
“Pint Size 3”, Transmission Gallery, 9/18/25-11/1/25
“2025 Juried Exhibition”, Hunterdon Art Museum, 9/21/25-1/11/26
Judge: Donna Gustafson– Chief Curator at the American Federation of Arts
“33rd Annual Open Juried Show”, Guild of Creative Art, 9/20/25-10/29/25
Judges: Nancy Ori + Elisa Elorza, Barbara Shieldkret Award for Mixed Media
“12th Annual Fall Juried Show”, Loft Artists Association, 9/27/25-10/26/25
Judge: Mark Macrides
“Natural Settings Juried Show”, Art Alliance Of Monmouth County; 10/4/25-10/28/25
“Art Comes Alive 2025”, ADC Fine Art, 11/15/25-01/15/26
Sophie LaBell is an abstract artist who utilizes acrylic, marker, and pen to create vibrant paintings and drawings. Minimalist in nature, but maximalist in her work, Sophie creates detailed lines and shapes that bleed off the edges of her works on paper. Vibrant neon palettes create a visual vibration, suggesting microscopic change and movement. Her process is intuitive– no sketching or planning– each mark responding to the one before it, growing like cells dividing: unpredictable, interconnected, and alive. After being diagnosed with Chronic Lyme disease in 2022, Sophie became fascinated with the unseen anatomy of the body: mast cells, spike proteins, and the tangled architecture of nerves. Sophie’s work is grounded in both personal experience and biological curiosity. Her drawings and paintings transform this hidden biology into color, rhythm, and energy, stemming from the belief that what exists inside us
can be made visual.
★ Denied ★
Born in San Francisco and spending his adolescence in Seattle, Gard earned undergraduate degrees in art, art history, and sculpture in the Pacific Northwest. His sculpture reflected the sublime grey upon grey, majestic landscape through the lens of minimalism.
Gard earned an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Moving to Washington, D.C. Gard worked with the International Sculpture Center and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since 2014 Gard’s artwork has become personal, solemn, and introspective.
He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Washington State, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Gard has taught courses in studio art and art history for colleges and Universities in the Pacific Northwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. Currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, Gard is a faculty member at York College of Pennsylvania and lectures on Visual Culture, Art Theory, and Street Art.
Working with the physicality of various media in a relationship to the viewer and the space taps into intellectual and primitive relationships to self and objects. As I work out ideas on paper in advance of actualizing my sculptures the process becomes three dimensional. Some may call them collages, or mixed media assemblages, however to my mind they are drawings that sometimes become wall sculptures. For the past ten years, I have been on an introspective journey in search of the common truths of human existence, mythology, and philosophy.
★ 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 into 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, and 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.
★ Gold At Daybreak ★
I’m a fine art photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the foot of Pikes Peak, where the landscape shifts constantly — from mountains to desert, from high country to prairie, from forests to rolling hills. That variety continues to shape and inspire my work.
I was born in western Montana, so a connection to the natural world has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I grew up among artists, musicians, and writers, though photography ultimately became my own way into the creative world.
Much of my work is made outdoors, and I use post-processing to extend what I see, allowing each photograph to move between observation and interpretation. Some photographs remain grounded in place, while others become more impressionistic or transformative.
My work has been shown in local, national, and international competitions and exhibitions, and has appeared in magazines, newsletters, galleries, and other publications. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share these images and the places that continue to inspire them.
My photographs explore the subtle variations where tone, texture, and light carry the image. I am interested in the way color can hold atmosphere, memory, and feeling without needing to announce itself. Working with found details from landscapes and overlooked objects, I look for moments when a single color begins to shift — through weathering, reflection, shadow, or surface. A rusted edge, a faded wall, or a soft wash of early light can suggest depth, time, and presence. My process is observational and restrained. I begin with what is visible, then use composition and post-processing to refine mood and emphasize subtle differences rather than transform the scene. What remains is a photograph shaped less by description than by resonance.
★ 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.