★★ Look For The Rainbow ★★

Natalia was born in Europe and drew pictures from her childhood. She has started to paint in oil on canvas since 1990. In 2005 she moved to the USA for a better life and has started to display her Art in local Art Galleries in North Carolina since 2016.

Natalia’s artwork has been shown in her solo exhibition at Mooresville Art Gallery, Yadkinville, and Morganton North Carolina. She is the award winner of several local art contests and shows. In December 2018 Natalia Leigh received President’s Choice award for outstanding work in the visual arts from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Presently Natalia works as a nurse and paints pictures in her spare time in her own studio in Kannapolis NC.

★★ Negative 01 ★★

A dedicated photographer, inspired by the masters of painting, is committed to creating extensive series documenting American life and abstract work. Diverse landscapes and intricate cityscapes are captured on film and with pixels. Inanimate objects are personified. Human presence may be absent, but natural marks and human traces provide a backdrop. Overcast light is optimal, as it enhances color richness. Minimalistic abstractions are created through the lens and without a camera, filling the frame with balance, color, and asymmetrical and symmetrical energy.

★★ Penumbra ★★

Milwaukee-based artist Dennis Felber has created indoor and outdoor sculptures since 2015. Inspired by nature’s unique shapes and textures, his sculptures incorporate a combination of stone, steel, and copper that mimic the organic forms observed around him. Utilizing specific welding techniques he creates sculptures that reveal a sense of movement and flow yet show a balance between the materials of metal and stone giving the sense they are alive and growing. From large-scale commissions to smaller wall pieces, his art elicits a want to touch it and experience the texture created. His work has won numerous awards and has been shown in galleries across the US.

★★ Reverie ★★

Rachael is a self-taught stippling and impressionistic painter. A small-town “mountain girl” at heart, after living in the Midwest and the San Francisco Bay Area, she proudly makes her home in the foothills of Colorado. Rachael combines her love for this beautiful world, the outdoors, and organic textures with her vibrant use of color and meticulous mark-making with “dots” to create her artworks.

Rachael had many inspirations for art and creativity in her family and life. She earned a B.S. in Business from the University of Colorado and a Master of Science in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco. After fifteen years in the corporate and higher education sectors as an HR and Information Systems specialist, Rachael began to focus on her passion for creating impressionistic, detailed, month-spanning artworks in themes of nature, texture, and the bold use of color. Rachael’s artwork has been shown in a number of exhibitions in the Rocky Mountain Foothills (and once on a Jumbotron in Times Square).

★★ Serenity And Feline Companions ★★

Leigh Witherell has carved a unique and profound niche for herself in the world of art. Her use of unconventional technologies combined with an ear for hearing emotions as she listens to people has provided her with an opportunity to give voice to her art.

She believes in art’s power to reveal the raw, unfiltered emotions and difficult truths of society. Her journey in figurative art has only just begun and she feels that as an artist, it is her goal to master her style and create art that resonates deeply with human emotions and experiences. What sets her apart is her introspection, humility, and a deeply ingrained desire to communicate on a more profound plane through her art. Her canvas is not merely a piece of art; it is a window into the human soul, mirroring the melancholic beauty of truth and life.

★★ Shipwreck ★★

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 the Arizona desert. Her paintings are focused on alcohol ink, acrylic ink paint, and other enhancements to bring out the texture of nature. 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 when looking at her work.

★★ Song Of Angels ★★

Buena Johnson is a Los Angeles based visual artist and art instructor. Most recently, Buena’s work became a part of the permanent collection of the Laguna Art Museum. She has exhibited at the Band of Vices Art Gallery and was a featured artist with the Los Angeles Lakers. Buena’s latest solo exhibitions include TAG Gallery, 2021, and The Los Angeles Art
Association’s GALLERY 825 in 2023. She was also an Artist In Residence in South LA and taught art at UCLA for 8 years. Buena is a graduate of Pratt Institute of Art in NY.

Buena’s art is deeply influenced by the African American experience and reframing black history through positivity and truth. In prior years her work portrayed a visual history of jazz, blues, and gospel music legends. She also produced an inspired Angel and biblical series influenced by her upbringing as a (PK) Preacher’s Kid. Religious and Christian iconography
appears often in Buena’s drawings and paintings. Also, her art echoes visual artists such as Kara Walker and Charles White.

She has received widespread recognition for her realism style of fine art. She primarily uses Pencil to create portraits and highly detailed figurative art, drawn from her own photographed sources and imagination. Buena has worked as a teaching artist for many Southern California libraries and community centers. She had the privilege of instructing unhoused Veterans through UCLA and the Veteran’s Association.

Her artworks were shown at the Brand Library and Art Center, the Los Angeles Art Association, Spectrum-RedDot Miami, ArtShareLA, and a solo exhibition at the Museum of African American Art. Also, Buena’s work has been showcased in the History Collection at the Smithsonian, collected by the Getty Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) LA, and the Laguna Art Museum. Her work has been used by set designers in major studio films and on network television.

Buena’s work exists in the private collections of notables and celebrities such as Arianna Huffington, Halle Berry, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Sinatra, Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, The Los Angeles Dodgers and United Airlines. She has received many prestigious awards.

★★ Sophie ★★

I Received BFA and MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. My thesis was “Kviatkev, the Understanding of Abstraction.” I have been drawing since age 4. My background is a BFA and an MFA in painting with minors in ceramics, design, and printmaking. I began my career from 1976 to 1991 and during the dormant years, from 1991 to 2021 I still painted but did not exhibit. Tumultuous times but healing times. During the isolation of COVID, I began to paint again and found a genuine newness and expression in my work. I follow T. S. Elliot’s Objective Correlative. This is a means of expressing emotion in art by using either set objects, a situation, or a chain of events. Through this method, the painting becomes that emotion. My style leans towards abstract painting, because it supplies the necessary tools allowing the portrayal of thoughts and emotions in work. In my work, I do not dictate the emotion found in my paintings; but leave it for the viewer’s own discovery and interpretation. This work subjective in nature, utilizes color to illustrate feelings, dreams and with each piece, there is an underlying core of darkness and a definite area of light. This draws the eye over the piece to core. The lines keep the eyes moving, while the dots scream, “look at me”. The work ranges in sizes from small works on paper to 48×48 inches on canvas. With each piece, there is an underlying core of what could be construed as darkness and a definite area of lightness.”  The exchange between colors, lines and shapes tell my story.

★★ Space Warp At The Cathedral ★★

Gerrit “Gert” van Ommering is a fine art photographer based in Gold River, California. Originally from the Netherlands, he relocated to the United States at the age of 19 to pursue a dynamic career in the aerospace industry, specializing in the invention, design, development, and deployment of space systems. Following retirement, he transitioned to photography—channeling his technical expertise and creative drive into a new artistic medium.

Gert is actively involved in Northern California’s photography and arts communities. He contributes to the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center and Gallery and serves as the Print Director for the Sierra Camera Club. He also holds memberships in various arts organizations across Sacramento, Yolo County, Rancho Cordova, Lodi, and Placerville. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and competitions, earning regional awards and entering several private collections.

In July 2024, he co-presented the successful duo exhibition “REALISM\Fantasy” with his wife Lucille at the Mills Station Arts & Culture Center in Rancho Cordova, where he contributed the “Fantasy” segment. He had a solo exhibition, “Embellished Emblems,” at Gallery 1075 in West Sacramento during June 2025. This body of work explores classic and vintage car emblems through radical digital manipulation, emphasizing bold color, texture, and abstraction.

Gert’s work consistently explores the tension between realism and imagination, blending technical precision with experimental expression.