Beach 40 Equinox
Tom McIntire is a painter and filmmaker. Originally from the East Coast, he studied art in the desert southwest before relocating to Seattle in the mid-1980s. He lives with his husband Kurt and chihuahuas Crouton and Macaron.
My art journey has taken me from painting to performance to screenwriting and filmmaking and back again. The different disciplines have informed one another, presenting opportunities to grow and change my approach. The pandemic came along as I was already shifting to working in the painting studio as my primary practice. The strange world we are all navigating – claustrophobic, exposed, vulnerable – the emotions and situations forced me to re-examine who we are to one another, and how we can live together in a healthy, compassionate, inclusive way. The things that bring me joy, the garden, the animals, then the natural world, my pets, creep into even my darker work.
Beach Ballin
Native Miami-born Mindy Tillery, a contemporary mixed media artist grew up with a love and deep appreciation of being surrounded by beautiful spaces, both in her childhood home as well as in the natural world. She studied art and architecture, with a passion for creating living spaces that reflect a balance of elegance with practicality. Her creative journey has led her to many opportunities including jewelry design and interior design. After her successful career as a professional interior designer, she felt called back to her first passion and returned to her artistic roots as a full-time practice in 2020.
She has carefully observed and feels that beauty is essential as an indication of divine order in the universe, from the connection and arrangement of patterns in the microcosms of the natural world to the macrocosms of the vast galaxies. Her fascination with flora, fauna, fashion, sacred geometry, and astronomy as well as profound truths discovered in poetry including music, dance, meditation, philosophy, and prayer, are what she deeply expresses through her art by analyzing and interpreting dreams through symbols and patterns.
Current themes she’s experimenting with are; patterns found in both the micro and macro elements of nature and the cosmos, exploring her personal creative expression through deeply personal, inner reflective, intuitive emotions in order to foster personal harmony, healing, and well-being in an oftentimes chaotic world.
Her process consists of exploration and experimentation, layering mixed mediums. Working with lustrous encaustics has led her on a journey into the dreamy and mysterious. Her personal creative process consists of using various mediums such as oil + cold wax, oil sticks, pan pastels, ink, collage, and encaustic medium to name a few, building up the surface as well as excavating in various layers to achieve a multi-dimensional visual experience.
The universe is alive with relationships between color and form, movement and sound, texture, and scent. My objective is to take the viewer into exquisite harmonious dream worlds revealing the power of their own imagination where inner worlds melt with the outer world of the graceful play of this and that.
Currently, my body of work involves expressing and presenting how the beauty of nature and the cosmos have, especially beneficial healing powers. I have discovered that the exploration of deep personal inner reflections and emotions is useful in my personal art practice as a healing balm for fostering harmony and well-being in an oftentimes chaotic world. A sense of humor is also very essential to keep a good healthy balance in my life. My intention is that my art brings joyful feelings of well-being to my collectors.
Beach Blur
Matt is a self-taught multiformat photographer who utilizes digital, film, and historic processes to capture the natural world. He has an affinity for photographing trees and water, often while hiking, but enjoys photographing all subjects and experimenting with a wide variety of techniques.
His foray into historic process photography through workshops and practice over the past year has resulted in the creation of images using wet plate collodion, platinum and palladium, cyanotype, oil, gum bichromate, salt, and dry and glass plates.
His usable camera collection includes lenses dated as early as 1861 and cameras dated as early as 1880. The majority of his work is done using a mirrorless digital camera and a large format 4×5 film camera.
He is always looking for new (new to him but many times based in the 1800s and early 1900s) and interesting techniques to inform his creative process.
Matt is based in Mclean, VA, though his images represent many locations both domestically and abroad. His work has been exhibited in more than 10 galleries throughout the U.S.
Through my work I strive to capture the beauty and drama of nature and my surroundings – whether it be hiking on a secluded trail or through a busy street. I enjoy sharing my perspective through photographic processes and inspiring others to explore.
Beach Day
Vivian Bloomberg is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. She grew up on the East Coast and draws much of her inspiration from the lush landscapes and warm beaches of her childhood.
She prefers oil paint for its versatility and blending qualities, although she sometimes enjoys the ability to work more quickly with acrylics and watercolors.
In addition to relying on childhood memories, she enjoys painting animals, people, and places important to family and friends.
She took up oil painting through classes at a private studio in the Los Angeles area, Calico Canvas. She also studies painting at Santa Monica College.
Her work is in many private collections and has been shown at the Emeritus Gallery in Santa Monica and the San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center.
For me, painting is part expression, part meditation, and mostly fun. My paintings tend to include the real, the surreal, and nearly real objects that spring from my imagination.
Some paintings start with detailed drawings in an effort to capture a particular pet, person, or scene. The paintings that are the most fun begin with a blank canvas and the freedom to let the brush decide what to do. I like to think that these paintings say something more to me and other people who see them.
Beach Day
Through her time in the beauty world, Smith was able to refine her aesthetic sensibilities and establish her theory of color. During a career that spanned over thirty years, she worked on developing brands, products, and color stories for companies such as Estée Lauder and L’Oreal. She served as the Executive Director of Makeup Marketing for Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, working closely with the founder of the brand.
Smith is quickly developing her reputation as an emerging artist to watch. Her work has made its way into more than one hundred private homes across the United States and abroad. Her paintings have been exhibited in a multitude of gallery shows and can be found at Red Fox Gallery in Pound Ridge, NY, William Pitt Sotheby’s in Ridgefield, CT, and Make Modern Studios in Darien and Greenwich, CT, among others.
Art and beauty go hand in hand. Shelby K. Smith, a self-taught artist and former beauty executive, has translated her talent and passion for color onto large-scale paintings that evoke joy and delight. Largely informed and inspired by the work of Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Josef Albers, among others, her body of work revolves around the use of geometric shapes to create artwork that is minimal and abstract.
Moved by the power of color as it has the ability to evoke emotion and uplift the spirit, Smith ritualistically creates and mixes new shades that speak to her aesthetic perspective. The precision found in Smith’s artwork lends itself to being both elegant and functional, allowing the work to fill interior and architectural spaces with balance, structure, and a sense of movement.
Shelby’s art focuses on large-scale and oversized paintings, including works that are designed to span across multiple panels. The nature of this work invites the viewer to be present and fully immerse themselves in the colors and vastness of the canvases themselves.
Beach Fun
Ronaldo Byrd was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Contemporary Hip “Pop” Artist who began painting at the tender age of 3. As an early teen, Byrd was accepted to and attended Art Instruction School, which boasts a graduate, Charles Schulz. He graduated and received a Diploma in Art from Art Instruction School at age 16. While enrolled in the course, Byrd was also attending The High School of Art and Design in New York City, before moving to Burlington, New Jersey. Byrd was then accepted to, and attended, Burlington County Institute of Technology, where he majored in, and received a Diploma in the field of Advertising Art and Design. He was then accepted to the Hussian School of Art. Byrd is mostly a self-taught Artist who has developed his own style of art and his own characters, which he puts in phenomenal scenes. He has shown his work in several galleries, including a solo show at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Byrd and his artwork have also been featured in several newspapers and magazines. One of which includes The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also been a story on CBS 3 Eyewitness News. Byrd’s message to the world through his artwork is one of love and acceptance. His hope is to convey this as boldly and as beautifully as he can.
I am a contemporary “Hip Pop Artist” who has developed over 200 characters that I put in phenomenal scenes. The bold colors that I use represent the way I see the world. There is beauty in everything I see, and I believe that everyone has something to offer to the world. My artwork and characters are a representation of differences, and my hope is that the world can see beauty and acceptance through my eyes.
Beach Stones II
Sharon Bachner was raised in and currently lives in New England. Traveling as a child, she drew inspiration from bold-colored mosaics and the techniques of ancient art. She started making mosaics in 1995. Since that time, she has progressed through many different styles, methods, and materials. Her current methods involve blending alternative media with traditional mosaic techniques and motifs. She uses primarily stained glass, fused glass, metal, polymer clay, epoxy resin, and various fabrics. She was mostly self-taught with some formal education in painting and architecture at Rhode Island School of Design and Tulane University between 1988 and 1993.
The quality that I strive for most in my work is a sense of cohesion. I have a particular interest in exploring edges, both literal and figurative, that delineate and separate. Boundaries exist between different groups or colors within a composition and a society. Despite the boundaries, we are all fundamentally and inextricably intertwined on a spiritual level.
I keep a sketchbook of visual ideas and develop the most interesting ones into detailed compositions. I work backward from the two-dimensional image developing a plan to create the various elements of the design. My work integrates layered surfaces, borders, and textures and involves multiple techniques and media. New projects often require a unique approach and I frequently learn and implement new methods with each design. My work has used a wide variety of stained and patterned glass, glass cane, fused glass, sheet metal, wire, found metal, metal leaf, polymer clay, clay cane, glass beads, shattered tempered glass, and lenticular sheets. With every work comes a new composition as well as a new method of integrating materials.
I am fascinated by the tension that can be created by contrasting colors, patterns, and textures using many layers and mosaic pieces. I explore in my art the concept of the singular within the plural, from cells in an organism to the sole individual within a community.
Beach Vogue
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 Art (MFA). She is now a full-time artist.
In addition to color and black and white film, Joanne shoots digitally 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 in fun-themed studio shoots.
Joanne has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France and England, Switzerland, Scotland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Dubai, and Italy. Her work has also been selected for Lunar Codex, a very special project partnered with SpaceX to deliver the images of art in a time capsule to be permanently affixed to the surface of the moon, selected by Era Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of “Legends Of The Moon”.
As a photographer, I am constantly in search of iconic imagery. The craftsmanship and perfection of classic Hollywood cinema have always been an inspiration and goal I seek to achieve in my photography. While enjoying the technology of the present and how that has enhanced photography, I am very drawn to recreate photographs that reference the best of the past. It is my intent that the viewer of the images I create will be taken out of the everyday present to a magical place where at any time they would dream of going. Whether photographing people or nature, I strive to honor the best and beauty of all that I have an opportunity to capture with my camera.
Summer days are the dream moments of the year that are looked forward to in dreary seasons. The beach, pool, lakes, and oceans draw all to embrace the sun and beat the heat. When we think of summer, we embrace all that the warmth of the sun brings.
Beacon
I am a primarily self-taught photographer and began creating digital collages as a new means of expression. In creating images, my goal is to create images that evoke a story of some kind that often moves far beyond the relatively literal boundaries of traditional photography. I have exhibited widely and have earned recognition in local, regional, and national exhibitions. My works are also included in several corporate and private collections.
I draw from a wide range of photographic subjects such as landscapes, botanicals, and wildlife as well as urban environments and people. I follow an intuitive yet somewhat ordered process of layering or merging portions of photos until an image that speaks to me emerges. Most often this is more likely a random bit of serendipity than deliberate intent. Images often suggest a sense of time and place or reflect a rich and ethereal interplay of color, shape, or form. Images may provoke an indefinable question that does not readily yield answers without further study and reflection. Ultimately, my collages provide a vehicle to stimulate both my imagination and that of the viewer, leaving one free to interpret and create an individual sense of meaning and value.