Category: artwork

Cover Art by Andrew Furey

Artwork submitted by Aidan Furey of Belfast, Ireland, on behalf of his brother, Andrew.

Andrew Furey was born in Lisburn in 1974. He studied Art History at Cardiff Art College (UWIC) and later settled in Nottingham for much of his adult life. His debut exhibition in 2011, Listening to Rivers in Trees, had a deep connection to this area. He returned to Ireland in 2016 where his work focused on the abstract as found in nature. Andrew passed away in Amsterdam on the 12th of April 2022.  

Ocean of Stillness by Shrishti Tassin

Shrishti Tassin is an artist based in India. Her body of works includes abstract landscapes, installation art and murals. 

She feels compelled to capture emotions evoked by nature’s inherent numinous quality, juxtaposing the beauty of a physical landscape to the hidden embers and expanse of our consciousness; her works explore nature as simultaneously containing an instant and the infinite.

She has created artistically diverse works for public spaces and curatorial art for private collectors.
Instagram: @shrishti.tassin.art

Chartreuse Woods by Vian Borchert

Vian Borchert is a noted expressionist artist. Borchert has exhibited extensively within the US and internationally. Vian is a graduate and “Notable Alumni” from the Corcoran George Washington University, Washington, DC. Borchert exhibits in museums and key galleries in major cities like NYC, LA, London. Borchert had her artwork exhibited in prestigious venues like The SAM Museum in PA, The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, Times Square – Broadway Plaza, United Nations Lobby Gallery in NYC, Art Basel Miami Beach, 1stDibs Design Center in Chelsea, NYC. Borchert’s artwork is also in embassies and in private collections worldwide. Borchert’s art has been vastly featured in press like the esteemed Museum Week Magazine, Oxford Public Philosophy Journal,  MOEVIR Paris Fashion & Art Magazine, ARTPIL, The Washington Post, 300 Luxury Magazine, Collect Art Magazine and Vie magazine. Borchert is an art educator in the DC area. Borchert’s artwork is available in “1stDibs” and “Artsy”.
Website: www.vianborchert.com

A Petal Darkly by Beth Horton

Beth Horton holds a degree in creative arts therapy and majored in health science at Niagara University, located in Lewiston, New York. Her love for art began as a small child, watching her father paint into the wee hours of the morning. In addition to abstract art, Beth enjoys photography, mixed-media composition and sketches. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including: About Place Journal, Aji Magazine, and Olit.

Website: elizabethkirschdehorton.substack.com

Cover Art: Scarred Beauty by Gerburg Garmann

Gerburg Garmann, a native of Germany, is a former professor of Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Indianapolis, USA, and is now fully concentrating on the arts.  Her scholarly publications appear in English, German, and French in international journals. Her artwork and poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world. “Painting is yet another foreign language for me and allows for aesthetic expression in form of color, shape, thought, and passion. It is a language, which can be shared by many, verbally and non-verbally. Because paintings (just as other forms of art) provide symbolic as well as real meeting grounds of the spiritual and our day-to-day experiences, they solicit our reaction no matter whether our engagement with the actual piece of art ends up in affection or dislike, in affirmation or disapproval. In the end, all artwork manifests a story.” She specializes in creating art for women.

For more information please visit www.gerburggarmann.com

Cannibal’s Cantabile by Jay Daugherty

Jay Daugherty studied art history at SOAS and Tibetan Studies at Oxford. His abstract surrealist style draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, including Vajrayana Buddhism, Dzogchen, theories of perception, and the phenomenology of pictorial space. 

The Great Release  by Anthony Afairo Nze

Anthony Afairo Nze is a graphic designer and artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. For more of his work visit him on Instagram @ Anthony.the.artistt.

East Side Gallery, Berlin  by Jeremiah Gilbert

Jeremiah Gilbert is a college professor and award-winning photographer and travel writer based out of Southern California. His travels have taken him to nearly a hundred countries and territories spread across six continents. His photography has been published internationally and has been exhibited worldwide. He is also the author of the collections Can’t Get Here from There: Fifty Tales of Travel and From Tibet to Egypt: Early Travels After a Late Start. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels.

At the Intersection of Leaf and Rain  by David A. Goodrum

David A. Goodrum is a photographer/writer in Corvallis, Oregon. His photos have graced covers of Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, Red Rock Review, The Moving Force Journal, and appeared in many others. His artistic vision has always been to create a visual field that momentarily transports you away from hectic daily events and into a place that delights in an intimate view of the world. See additional work at www.davidgoodrum.com.

Suttons Bay by Lori McElrath Eslick

As a Kendall grad, and one of the few from Kendall who is hired by Hallmark Cards in Kansas City as a greeting card artist, they demand that level of all the artists that they recruit and hire from around the country, and world, so I’ve worked hard all of my working artist life to create art to the best of my skills. Now as a children’s book author and illustrator, I’ve illustrated 20 plus picture books a few are also in watercolor. That said, to paint at any level is to have fun. Art should be about having fun. More from Lori at Www.EslickArt.com Instagram: @mcelratheslick

Cover Art | The Map of a Myth II | Kwong Kwok Wai

(120 cm X 60 cm, oil on raw linen, 2021)

I usually start with concepts in my painting process, and concepts converted into symbols. With abstractions suggestive of old places, I try to build up a connection between history and contemporary art. Having always liked drawing maps of some imaginary places since childhood, I recently experimented portraying history with maps.

In this painting, I transformed fragments of a 2021 satellite map of the Kowloon Peninsula into a non-representational depiction of the city. 

The Map of a Myth I | Kwong Kwok Wai

(76 cm X 90 cm, oil on raw linen, 2021)

Reference: Road map of Central, the core financial and government area; and Shumshuipo, an old district with a low-income population.

The Map of a Myth IV | Kwong Kwok Wai

(76 X 90 cm, oil on canvas, 2021)

Reference: Aerial photos of the Kowloon Peninsula in 1947 and satellite map of the same area in 2021.

Like Sand Through An Hourglass | Yuchen Shi

Yuchen Shi is an artist based in Singapore from the United World College of South East Asia. Inspired by collage art, her work mainly revolves around metropolitan lifestyles and the way they contribute to the construction of one’s identity. Although oil is her primary medium, she also experiments with installationand video art to present her thoughts regarding the rapid development of our world. Her artworks were featured in various exhibitions internationally.

Reborn| Monica Viera

Monica Viera is a latinx author and painter from East LA. She writes and listens to 80s music in her free time.  

Magic Dream | Yolanda Fleming

Yolanda Fleming is a New Jersey shore-based mixed-media artist and exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ. Her work hangs in business offices, galleries, restaurants and private homes in NJ, NY and Philadelphia. She is also a hospital marketing director and co-publisher of EDGE Magazine, also based in NJ, an author and musician who has recorded under the name Yoji Ananda. “Magic Dream” was created while listening to “Magic,” the song by Olivia Newton-John on repeat shortly after her passing. For more info, visit yolandafleming.com.

Sky Blue | Elizabeth Schoonmaker

Elizabeth Schoonmaker lives and works in the Town of Plainfield in upstate New York. Elizabeth received a Master of Fine Arts from the University at Albany. During her career as an artist at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, N.Y. and at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., Elizabeth launched several community-based projects, including The Drawing Company, a program offering drawing classes and exhibition opportunities for elderly residents, and A Wedding Gift, a historical narrative featuring stories and photographs about memorable wedding gifts and their owners. Elizabeth is the author and illustrator of Square Cat and Square Cat ABC, published by Aladdin Books/ Simon & Schuster. https://elizabethschoonmaker.blogspot.com/

Cover Art | Malia Nahinu

Malia Nahinu is a Los Angeles, CA artist who loves to create art as a form of healing and has been published worldwide.

Baby Breath | Vian Borchert

acrylic on canvas, 2022

Vian Borchert’s landscape paintings evoke the idea of romance while remaining engaging and contemporary. As an expressionist artist, Borchert describes her artwork as a form of visual poetry. Borchert’s art presents imagined landscapes of romantic fields while the nature depicted emerges to tell stories of far away lands.

Vian Borchert is an award winning artist and poet exhibiting worldwide. Vian is a Notable Alumni from Corcoran George Washington University. Borchert exhibits in major cities with numerous coverage in publications. Borchert is an art educator in the DC area. www.vianborchert.com

Ocean Tears | Danielle O’Hanlon

20×20 acrylic on canvas

Danielle O’Hanlon is a self-taught visual artist specializing in 3D acrylic sculpting and mixed media paintings. Her work is abstract and dreamlike, with color-changing backgrounds and 3D elements. Danielle also works with oil, acrylic, and charcoal. Danielle’s works have been published in multiple magazines and have been featured in galleries all over the US. Danielle currently lives and works in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. More of her work can be seen at http://www.danielleohanlonart.com.

Over the Edge | Moti Mordechay Cohen

Moti Mordechay Cohen (מוטי כהן) is an Israel artist interested in art for more than four decades and has been painting and drawing for more than three decades. He works without prior planning in an intuitive process until a theme, an idea, or a vision finds him. He paints in a studio with no windows as he does not need a view. He uses industrial materials like tar, black ink, and other colors which enable him to express his feelings. A good painting to him manages to arouse the viewer’s interest and thought.

Blooms of Hope | Marco Aversa

Marco Aversa is a grade 9 student at Our Lady of the Bay in Collingwood Ontario. Aside from running his small business, he enjoys visual arts, baking and escape rooms. He can be found @themakershack on Instagram and TikTtok. 

The Map of A Myth V | Kwong Kwok Wai

(51 cm X 61 cm, oil and acrylics on canvas, 2022)

I usually start with concepts in my painting process, and concepts converted into symbols. With abstractions suggestive of old places, I try to build up a connection between history and contemporary art. Having always liked drawing maps of some imaginary places since childhood, I recently experimented portraying history with maps. In this painting, I employed a topographical map of Hong Kong in 1904, and transformed the symbols of the village settlements into abstract patterns.

Teatime | Barbara Candiotti

Barbara Candiotti is a former High Tech Worker who now focuses on photography, art, and writing.

“Teatime” depicts a whirlwind fusion of complementary colors of cyan and orange surrounding the calming Kanji symbol for tea (Cha) at its center – calmness beckons in the middle of any storm. Her work can be found at Candiotti-Art.

SpeculumLacum & SomniareAquae | Robert Palmer

Robert’s recent subject matter revolves around landscape. His portfolio consists of balancing subject matter between two ideas; large open spaces and small concentrated spaces, both in landscape. Some works are inspired by places Robert visited, while others are inspired from places he imagined.
Robert Palmer graduated Sum Cum Laude from ASU with a degree in Fine Art, Painting in 2003. He has been shown in several shows throughout Utah and Arizona. In June 2022,
Robert was a featured at Tempe Gammage Auditorium.
https://www.instagram.com/robert.palmer.7505/

Travelling Inward | Cristina Iorga

Cristina Iorga’s art is a burst of the subconscious. In her conception, art is concerned with the expression of both the spiritual and the material. Iorga thinks that the expression of pure feeling puts the viewer in touch with an alternative, ultimately spiritual world.