Shape I’m In
Sue is a multi or mixed-media artist, with a passion for textiles and stitching but also loves to add paint and many different mediums, using them separately too. Sue has been more involved in the textile side of art for the last 18 years now, completing City & Guilds Cert 2 in design. Exhibiting around the world with several pieces at a time and being the recipient of awards in Australia and overseas. My work has been on/in magazines and in numerous books with articles and stories behind the artworks. With two solo exhibitions the last one being in between lockdowns in 2020.
In the future, Sue will continue to delve into mixed media more so, but always involving textiles as it seem to be the favorite. Exploring the ‘What if?’ to see how it ends up. Sue wants to introduce, open minds to textiles in our Art world as well as to be accepted as one of the great mediums alongside oils, pastels, etc.
My artwork, “Shape I’m In”, is all about celebrating diversity and self-expression using textiles. Picture a dark-skinned girl in a riot of colors and different shapes that come together to create her unique identity. I wanted to capture the many sides of her personality, experiences, and cultural background, so I used a mix of shapes to represent each aspect. It’s like a puzzle where all the pieces fit together to showcase the beauty and complexity of who she is.
The colored hand-dyed fabrics I used add depth to the artwork, making it even more engaging. I hope this piece sparks conversations about embracing our individuality, celebrating our differences, and finding unity in our shared human experience.
“Shape I’m In” is a vibrant and fun tapestry of colors and shapes that invites you to appreciate the beauty of diversity and the power of self-expression.
Shapes Of A City
Amy L. Harris, is a watercolor artist who grew up in Seattle, active since 1995. Amy participated in group gallery art exhibitions, Seattle street fairs, and solo café showings in the Pacific Northwest region. She served in a residency at Vermont Studio Center (2010). Amy was a participating artist at Building C in the Seattle Ballard neighborhood from 2002-2017. She relocated to New York City in 2017, participated in Pelham’s “Caffé Ammi” showing, in 2018; received many private commissions since her residence in NY state. Most recently her work has been exhibited by:
2022 NorthStar WaterMedia
2022 National Juried Exhibition, “Cowboy”
2021 Baltimore Watercolor Society
2021 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition
*Received “People’s Choice Award” for Shapes of the City
2021 NorthStar WaterMedia
2021 National Juried Exhibition
*Received “Third Place” for “Blue and Yellow #1”
2021 Rhode Island Watercolor Society August 2021 (juried) “Near and Far”
The physical surroundings of my environment have an effect on the art that I make. As a resident of New York City, I now live amongst this wild and wondrous pool of activity, providing endless stimulation for my imagination. Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, as a young artist my ideas were full of inspiration from the natural beauty around me. My art pieces are created with watercolor, gouache, watercolor pastel, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper. Textures are developed using a variety of watercolor mediums, acrylic paste, and ink. The shapes, lines, and spaces originate from objects and life forms in my surroundings. Objects and creatures in nature add inspiration to the textures I create. Specific colors and palette choices emphasize emotion and mood. My present life in the city combined with where I come from creates a platform that I draw upon that manifests into ideas on the page as I paint and draw.
Shapes Patterns
Born and raised in Baltimore, Derrick’s passion for Photography started when he was in high school but he took it more seriously in college when he enrolled in a digital photography class it open his eyes to photography even more, and haven’t looked back since. He purchased his first camera during that time period and later started using his iPod as another camera source to take pictures just because it’s easy, convenient, and with the increase of technology with camera usage. There are no limitations to being creative.
They say art imitates life, I have a great eye for capturing my surroundings, and my photos imitate my surroundings. What I capture at the moment, I bring it to life. The photos I capture are symbolic and metaphorical because they represent the essence of life.
Most of what I capture is objects and things because they are just as important as people are when it comes to photographing subjects. There are no limitations on what I don’t capture. It’s not about where you create your art, it’s about the art you create. Create What Can Be Manifest”.
Shattered
Carla Fairchild is a self-taught artist from the Tampa Bay Area. Her passion is abstract/mixed media because it allows her to express herself and her pain with no boundaries. Carla’s inspiration comes from her journey with a rare chronic illness, called CRPS or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Carla uses mostly acrylic paints but will use spray paints, along with recycled materials. She uses brushes, and a mix of different objects to use as her tools. Having a health challenge pushes her to persevere. Carla’s illness inspires her but painting rescues her.
Painting and manipulating materials on the floor is where I prefer to paint. It allows me to express myself and it releases my emotions. As I sink into a deep escape, I become more connected with the canvas. The pieces fall into place. I may not know what the end result will be, as long as it speaks.
She And Me
Sheryl Ann Noday offers life-changing channeling, healing sessions, and storytelling art. She is an educator, vibrational healer, and creates a passionate art practice, focusing on bold, striking, colorful paintings featuring narratives. “Life as it Is and Life as Imagined.” Her channeling of Spiritual Beings has been known to transcend people’s lives, bringing them to a state of peace, balance, and higher versions of themselves. The love and compassion shared by Sheryl encourage others to live a life of passion rather than fear. She has produced and directed the first film of its kind, “The Voices of Crystal Skull Consciousness”, a short film. Her work has been featured nationally and abroad. My work embodies my truth, my soul, and everlasting beauty found here on our planet. I believe in working on what you love and bringing love into the world.
I am a magical realism painter with a focus on figures, hybrids, whimsical, and the metaphysical. I explore dreams, meditations, and the cosmos. My studio, I have come to understand, is a work in progress, sort of like a provocative daydream. I seek to discover the soul and spirit of what I am engaged with, making visual commentary in the now moment. In my work as a channel/healer, I often experience people in the most intense times of their lives, both in pain and joy. I have learned to draw upon this, creating narratives reflecting personal growth in my paintings. I am interested in the complexity of mysticism, spirituality, healing, and otherworldly explorations. I share stories about my personal life experiences, which can remind me that my work is a visual diary.
Rather than subscribe to a particular icon, subject, ideology, or style, I prefer not to be limited. I start with large brushes, allowing for a free-form “gliding” over the canvas. In that way, it’s easy to feel that my process is like an open-eye meditation. I point my brush in the direction to capture the essence, the soul of my subjects. Perhaps to give the viewer a sense of connection, a sense of timelessness, to enter the art and be part of it. I like to think of what I do as outrageous, spontaneous play with the Unseen, to make the Seen. I am in constant dialogue with the muse to discover what’s next, to listen. In that way, my work feels less controlled.
I am inspired by Guillermo Lorca, Odd Nerdrum, and John William Waterhouse, who seek to tell stories within their art. And finally, I am forever inspired by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot.
She Is A Dancer In The Woods
Andrea Hellman, Ed.D., is an associate professor of English at Missouri State University. She studied studio art at the School of the Worcester Art Museum with masters of painting and printmaking like Tom Lewis, Sally Bishop, and Ella Delyanis. She holds a doctorate in Language, Literacy, and Cultural Studies from Boston University. She is best known for her publications in TESOL and directs a National Professional Development grant project called Show Me Multiliteracy (multiliteracy.net).
Andrea is a prolific fine artist, who maintains an online gallery of her works. Her preferred medium is digital painting although she has worked in oil painting, watercolor, etching, collage, mixed media, and photography. Accolades for Andrea’s art in 2023 include two Gold Awards and a Bronze Award from the J. Mane Gallery, a Second Place Award and an Honorable Mention from the Ten Moir Gallery, three Bronze Awards from the Camelback Gallery, an Artistic Excellence Award and two Honorable Mentions from Fusion Art, a Talent Prize Award, an Honorable Mention, and Finalist Awards from Teravarna, a Special Merit Award and a Special Recognition artist title from the Light Space Time Gallery, and an Honorable Mention from the Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery. Andrea was a featured artist in Hayden Ferry’s Review Issue 72, Spring/Summer, 2023.
Andrea’s current art projects are about play and exploration. She lives in a vibrant arts community; her works reflect the relationship of art forms, theater, poetry, dance, and music. She occupies herself with “what if” questions to generate creative imagery visualizing her musings and sensations in the present.
My current art projects are primarily influenced by my passion for play and exploration. I experiment with color schemes, curious shapes, light patterns, varied lines, dynamic compositions, my collection of digital materials, and texture brushes. I occupy myself with “what if” questions to generate creative imagery: What if I captured the flight patterns of my backyard birds? What if I condensed the colors of my favorite Florida beach into a single image? What if I could recreate the feeling of silk through colors? What if I merged different poses of a figure into a single image? What shapes and patterns would result from layering objects in various blend modes? Another main influence comes from observing other artists at work and visiting art museums wherever I travel. I focus on the finer details of underpaintings, blending, brush strokes, paint mediums, and varnishes. I photograph textures and patterns that inspire me to try something new in my own work. I usually have the best time when I am left behind in a museum to roam in circles around the art.
Shelter Us
Deborah Perlman was born in Baltimore, MD, and is currently based in South Florida. A graduate of Boston University (BFA, sculpture) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, sculpture), she has exhibited her work regionally and nationally, won several awards, and has been featured in a number of art publications.
Her influences include 19th and 20th-century African sculpture; the Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction, and Cubism art movements; Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘illogical perspective’ works; Louise Nevelson’s bas relief works; Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes; and Frank Stella’s metal reliefs, among others.
Perlman creates wall-mounted sculptures depicting spaces somewhere between real and imagined. She constructs each work using various materials, then adheres each element to the base, juxtaposing forms and shapes to highlight their points of contact and the shadows they cast.
Perlman invites the viewer to glimpse her interpreted world and discover where they find themselves.
My sculptural reliefs feature almost-but-not-quite-real spaces, somewhere between authentic and imagined. The work submitted refers to my spiritual awakening after a life-altering loss. Trying to find peace, I was drawn to spaces reminiscent of sanctuaries, places for reflection and meditation. These works were the result of my search.
I constructed 3-dimensional geometric forms out of paper and adhesive by cutting, scoring, and folding each piece element. I adhered them to the base, juxtaposing forms and shapes to highlight their points of contact and the shadows they cast.
I’m inspired by African sculpture; the Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction, and Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Lipschitz) art movements; Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘illogical perspective’ works; Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes; and Frank Stella’s metal reliefs, among others.
I ask you to consider: What do you see? Do you find yourself in it, or not? Glimpse into my interpreted world and discover where you find yourself
Shepherd Beach Day
Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer (Americana Photo Awards, Budapest International Foto Awards, European Photography Awards, Global Photography Awards, Golden Shot International Photography Awards, London Photography Awards, New York Photography Awards, Pollux Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, etc.) 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. As an artist, his 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. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and several countries on four continents.
Photography has been my passion since early childhood. I believe the finest images are those that are serious yet playful, aesthetically appealing yet a bit quirky. My overall approach to photography and related forms of artistic production results from the combined influences of Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Impressionism, and Surrealism, all of which affect how I see the world around me and then proceed to document it. This process involves important decisions regarding matters of abstraction, distortion, fragmentation, and emotional affect, as well as whether to capture a subject realistically or instead quite innovatively. As both an artist and an admirer, my favorite photographs tend to be ones whose contents speak loudly for themselves — even when it is not immediately clear exactly what they are saying. They seek to inspire their viewers to wrestle with their intriguing contents and, as a result, ponder various aspects of our surrounding world in new and unique ways.
Sheridan Neev
Ruth Egnater was born in Detroit Michigan. Both her grandfathers and mother were talented artists. She graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Ruth also attended LCC and took the curriculum for an associate’s degree in art. She has been doing art since she can remember.
Since her retirement and her two daughters have grown she has been doing art full time. Her main focus has been on printmaking. Ruth has participated in many shows and competitions around the globe and has received awards for many of her prints.
Ruth is presently working on a series of non-essential heroines. She is active in her local art scene and participates in many group events in the greater Lansing area in Michigan.
“Drawing from my background as a retired nurse, I infuse my printmaking with a unique perspective on humanity and resilience. My ‘Non-essential Hero’ series delves into the often overlooked narratives of everyday women, capturing their strength and vulnerability in intricate detail. With 15 years of experience in printmaking, I blend technical skills with a passion for social commentary, shedding light on women’s issues through each limited edition print. Through my art, I strive to ignite conversations and inspire empathy, inviting viewers to reconsider the essence of heroism in our society.”