Summer Light On A Dairy Barn

Susan Lais Hostetler is an award-winning watercolorist who also has a knack for pen & ink. Her style is loose and fresh in her figure studies and fast-sketch art, and lovely in her landscapes and vintage barns—the latter often plein-air paintings. A resident of New York City for many years and long-resident of Hudson Valley, NY, and a frequent visitor to North Carolina’s Albemarle region, she is often inspired by light and shapes during hikes along the Hudson River and local and upstate NYS Parks, and east coast watersides from Maine to Florida.

Summer Lookout

Quinn Ellis is a contemporary oil painter whose large-scale works explore light, place, and emotion through imagined landscapes. Originally from Minnesota, Quinn spent nearly a decade in Los Angeles before relocating to New York City, where he currently lives and paints.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, Quinn creates immersive scenes that balance bold architectural forms with sweeping skies and layered terrain. His paintings are not exact depictions of real places but rather constructed environments—spaces where memory, imagination, and mood intersect. Through expressive skies, rich textures, and cinematic compositions, Quinn’s work captures a sense of emotional geography, inviting viewers into a moment suspended between stillness and movement.

Influenced by the vast open spaces of the Midwest, the saturated light of California, and the vertical energy of New York, Quinn’s paintings reflect a lifelong fascination with how place shapes feeling. Many of his pieces begin with a simple prompt—a time of day, a quality of light, or a sense of anticipation—and evolve into full, atmospheric worlds.

Quinn’s work often centers around themes of solitude, wonder, and potential. Whether it’s the quiet awe of early morning or the vibrant openness of a summer day, his paintings celebrate the in-between moments that feel both grounded and transcendent.

His most recent body of work explores the emotional architecture of summer—what it means to look forward, to pause, and to reflect under the weight of sunlight. These paintings, like much of his work, serve as portals: they ask the viewer not just to look, but to step inside.

Summer Memories

Sometimes I think I was born tightly clutching a camera in my tiny hands. My Dad was a news photographer for a large newspaper in New Jersey in the 50s – 70s. I have the best memories of him taking me to the art department of the paper and spending time in the darkroom. My eyes got wider by the second as I saw images emerge on the paper.

Although there is no darkroom anymore, that wonder and excitement of seeing images emerge remains with me still.

After spending nearly 25 years in the courtroom, it became evident that every one of us sees any single event differently. And so it is as the lens captures a single moment in time. Textures, layering, and “photo-painting” have given me the ability to introduce a deeper vision and emotion to my photos, whether it is of an individual leaf or a centuries-old tombstone crumbling alone in an old New England cemetery.

In the end, I’m just a girl whose dad decades ago handed her a Kodak Brownie and said, “Go on now – Take photos.”

Summer Night

Born in Michigan, raised in Kansas, studied Art in California (BFA, Painting, MFA, Painting) Lived in Europe and exhibited there for some years, now living in Houston TX with my husband who conducts The Galveston Symphony.

Exhibits
2020
25th Arts North International, Annual International Juried Exhibit, Hopkins Center For The Arts, MN, Jan.-Feb 2020 2019
“Vignette Art Fair 2019”, Texas Juried Exhibit, The Women’s Museum Building, Dallas, April 2019
“2019 Small Works International Juried Exhibit”, Sanger Gallery, Key West, FL., April 2019
“The 22 Annual Rio Brazos National Juried Art Exhibit, Texas, April 2019
5th “Enter Into Art International Installations”, Invitational, Cologne, Bonn, Municipal Museum, Germany, Feb. 10 – June 27, 2019,

Summer Nights

Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer (Budapest International Foto Awards, European Photography Awards, Global Photography Awards, Golden Shot International Photography Awards, London 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. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and in several countries abroad.

Summer Of 54

Ruth Petersen Shorer was born in Coney Island and raised in New York City. She always knew art was her life. Ruth received her BFA in Sculpture, a minor in painting from Pratt Institute in New York after attending the Rhode Island School of Design and the High School of Music and Art in NYC. She has lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area of California. A mother and an artist, she has worked as a graphic designer, educator, and director. Currently, Ruth’s focus is painting on a variety of surfaces, reflecting inner and outer world struggles and joys. She has worked in ceramic sculpture, mixed media, acrylic monotypes, and a variety of paints. Ruth’s work combines strong design, innovative techniques, and personal vision. There is always room for the unexpected. Beginning with ideas, she allows the piece to take on its own life, without too much pressure of outcome. She believes technique is important, it permits the viewer to connect with the work. Much of her art is narrative, it tells a story, some of which relates to personal history. The expressionistic works were created as a reflection on the dichotomies of life – the joy of family and the sorrow of loss; lives touched by both exhilaration and frustration. Intensity is felt through the depth of color and form as well as the content. The works are passionate, inspiring, and emotionally rich, much like life. Though experience is unique to each of us, others can empathize and relate to her journey through their own situations. Feelings are universal. My work has been shown in museums, galleries, and private collections.

Summer On The River

Carol Schmauder was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, where she currently lives with her husband, Glenn. Like most artists, she showed interest in art at an early age and has experimented with several media over her lifetime.

She is a graphic designer that entered the world of fine art in 1988 after taking watercolor classes from Stan Miller and MaryAnn Figgins. She began using acrylics for most of her work in 2017. Her professional life has led to participation in over a hundred exhibitions; both solo and in groups. She has paintings in collections nationwide and has won numerous awards.

Because she “doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up”, Carol experiments with different styles of art. She has experienced great success with her Shattered Reality series and is best known for this fun style of starting with a traditional subject and creating sections of warm and cool colors playing off of each other. Dark and light sections also add life to these paintings. She enjoys painting in different forms of abstract art as well as traditional forms. She has no desire to quit exploring different
techniques and art forms.

Carol enjoys painting themes that are happy in nature. Even though she has experienced many very rocky patches in life she has no desire to incorporate feelings of angst into her work.

Summer Road Trip In France

Juliette Sandleitner is an artist from New Jersey who paints and documents from careful observation of her everyday life. She was born in 1993 and has been drawing since she was a child. Juliette graduated with a BFA and a BBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015. Juliette has continued her art education at the Art Students League of NY. Her artistic endeavors range from figurative fine art commissions to event photography and short multimedia productions. Juliette currently works and resides in the New York metropolitan area.

Summer Skies

I am practicing abstract art and folk art from Bangladesh, with some modern touches. I was born and raised in Bangladesh. I studied in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. I have learned to sing. My father wanted me to become a singer. But I always wanted to become an artist. I was very interested in sports and drawing from my childhood.

My family has a lot of encouragement and contribution to my life and work. I grew up in a close-knit cultural family. Which has helped me a lot to pursue my dream of becoming an artist. My aunt, Mother, and Uncle have always been my inspiration. They have always supported me from the side. My husband is an American citizen. He has been living in America for 18 years.

In 2018, my younger sister suddenly left this world at the age of 17. A few months later, in 2019, I and my older daughter came to America through my husband. Soon after arriving in America, COVID-19 started. My younger daughter was born during that pandemic. After that, my mother was diagnosed with Cancer. All of a sudden! My younger sister’s passing, my mother’s cancer, and a new country alone, it was a very difficult and depressive time for a mother of two daughters. That’s when I started doing art, many years later. The bad situation transformed me into an artist. At that time, I used to draw or paint for my own peace of mind.

In 2024, my professional art journey began at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Florida, with the support of my two daughters and husband. Having gone through ups and downs as an artist, it would not have been easy if my husband had not been by my side. There is no end to learning art; I want to learn more. Achieving something in life through art is a big dream of mine.