The Doorway

I was born and raised in NYC but mostly in The Bronx. I attended CCNY where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in The Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY in Purchase. Recently, I have had paintings and/or drawings in numerous online shows and paintings in 8 live group shows. I have had many poems published in literary magazines, in books, at HVMOCA, and self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”. My poem “Friends” was published recently(2022) at HVMOCA in written form and in audio in the “Writing Off the Walls” project. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 9 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY.

The Dream Land

Li Xintong loved to paint since she was a little girl. She came to know Mr. Pei Fabang one day and started to learn pastel painting. Now she has learned pastel painting for 2 years. Her painting “ River View” won the first prize in the National Youth Painting and Calligraphy Art Exhibition in 2023. Her other painting”Sunset” was shortlisted for the Venice International Youth Art Competition, and won the second prize in the exhibition at the Qingu Art Museum in Shanghai in March 2024.

The Enchanted Forest

I was born and raised in NYC but mostly in The Bronx. I attended CCNY where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in The Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY in Purchase. I have had paintings in 8 live group shows at Jones Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, and in many online shows. Recently, I have had work exhibited continuously at HMVC Gallery New York virtually since its inception. A wonderful gallery with wonderful artists! My poems have been published.in magazines, books, and at HVMOCA. I self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 10 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY.

The First Dive

Danette Moran, now living in the coastal area of North Carolina, is an abstract artist who receives her inspiration from living near the beach, the mountains in Lake Tahoe and Colorado, and the Arizona desert. Her paintings are focused on alcohol ink, acrylic ink, and paint with other enhancements to bring out the texture of nature and life itself. She claims her artistic talent started with a 35mm film camera, and the hours spent in a dark room developing that film. Her goal is to bring out a feeling, a vision, or a thought that is new to the observer; and to find a sense of calm and personalization when viewing her work.

The Flight Of The Owl

Andrea Hellman, Ed.D., is an associate professor of English at Missouri State University. 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.

Andrea is a prolific fine artist, who maintains an online gallery of her works. She is a member of the Fresh Gallery in Springfield, Missouri. 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, a Silver, and two Bronze Awards from the J. Mane Gallery, two Artist-of-the-Month Awards and five Bronze Awards from the Camelback Gallery, a Second Place Award and an Honorable Mention from the Ten Moir Gallery, a Bronze Award from the Global Painting Conclave, two Talent Prize Awards and an Honorable Mention from Teravarna, an Artistic Excellence Award and two Honorable Mentions from Fusion Art, two Special Merit Awards and several Special Recognitions from the Light Space Time Gallery, a Best-in-Show Award and a Crystal Award from the Gallery Ring, two Laurel Awards from Gallery 4%, an Honorable Mention from the Art Show International Gallery and the Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery. Her art was published in the Passengers Journal, the Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and New Note Poetry, and she 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.

The Flower

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 abstract and macro. Her work has been published in several art magazines. One of which is a special edition only about her photography at Docu Magazine in 2024. Her photography was exhibited physically and virtually in the UK, the USA, Italy, Greece, and Switzerland. Her last exhibition was at Artexpo New York in April 2025. Mote is to come. She is also working on three projects that will take several years, The aim is to publish a book.

The Flower Concert

Born in coastal Southern California in 1960 and living in the Mojave Desert, I spent my early years exploring nature. The seascapes of native wildflowers which sprouted after the Spring showers mesmerized my imagination and firmly implanted a hold on my love of color.
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Traveling the world in later years, my appreciation of the wonders of the sea was awakened. Becoming a keen diver while living in Micronesia and Australia fostered my passion for the underwater gardens of the reef and further reinforced my love of all things bold, bright, and energetic.
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I am a self-taught artist not afraid to indulge my own freedom of expression. I paint both in oils and acrylics, however, mostly favor acrylics as they continually challenge me and I love the desired effects achieved in working quickly with them. I’m inspired at the moment and it’s this type of discovery that truly excites me. Deliberate strokes of the brush, too, or fingers in conjunction with paint applied straight from the tube to canvas provide a fundamental fulfillment. That freedom of the inner child in me creates whimsical works which make me smile as if in my own hidden world. Manipulating paint onto a blank canvas is very rewarding and being engaged in the metamorphosis to capture a moment of form, texture, and movement never before seen is my Nirvana.
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When the outcome of a completed painting inspires someone to reflect inward eliciting feelings of intrigue, warmth, and joy, and most importantly producing a smile I know that the final verdict is a success. I aspire to provide colorful artwork to viewers and collectors with the hope that they too will be as delighted as I am and raise a warm smile every time they capture a gaze at one of my paintings.
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The Future

Nora KOMOROCZKI – Artist name: MANO

Nora is a Hungarian artist-painter with the artist name Mano. She was born in Hungary and is still living in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. She’s been painting with oil on canvas for more than three decades, inspired first by the beautiful landscapes in Hungary and other countries where she has been living with her family for a few years (Sweden, Israel, Belgium). Her qualification is journalist, but she has visited some artistic courses both in Stockholm and Budapest. First, as the Editor in Chief of Hungarian Airlines she could travel a lot, and later as the Regional Director of the Scandinavian and Baltic Countries at the Hungarian Tourism Agency she could see and meet interesting people, and capture the beauty of different countries. She tried to show this beauty and special moments on her canvas. Her artworks were invited to different art exhibitions – solo and in group – organized in Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Israel, Belgium, the USA, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy. She is an artist awarded several international art prizes (Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Picasso, Palma d’Oro, Art Olympic Prize, Artist of the Future, Face of Peace Art Prize, Artist of Creativy, Top 60 Masters, Trophy International Prize Paris, The best Modern and Contemporary Artists London, World Best Artist Prize, Leaders Protagonists of Art at Washington, Silver Cross of Merit Hungarian State Award, International Prize ARTIST of the YEAR 2025, etc.)

The Gangs All Here

Joanne Chase-Mattillo was born in the beautiful Midwestern University town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. While the natural surroundings of her childhood were inspiring, the beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for her entrance into the field of photography. Joanne began vigorously studying photography and other art arenas to hone her skills as a visual artist. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). She is now a full-time artist.

In addition to color and black and white film, Joanne shoots digitally and employs the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoys creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. As an extension of photography, she has branched out to do videos and has a YouTube Channel, THE VIDEO ART OF JOANNE CHASE-MATTILLO. Along with nature, Joanne frequently photographs female and male subjects at themed studio shoots. She often uses the photograph of models combined with images of her nature photography to create unique photo montages.

Joanne has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France, England, Switzerland, Scotland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Taiwan, Brazil, Dubai, and Italy.