Karen Taylor is a Toronto-based abstract artist, whose recent work celebrates the art of typography and the abstract patterns the words create. Her paintings feature her favourite words, quotes and song lyrics.

Jackie DeBlasio is an artist who began her career aged 50.

Susie McColgan is a Michigan-based artist who grew up enjoying the Great Lakes and their beautiful vast skies and sunsets. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BFA, she worked across the region as an art director, producing award winning illustrations and designs.

Felicia Fraser is a visual artist living in Vancouver, Canada. She trained as a graphic designer and illustrator, graduating from Capilano University’s IDEA program in 2009. After working as a successful senior designer at an agency for 12 years, while also starting a family, she returned to her original love of painting purely for her own mental health. When the pandemic turned life upside down, she used it as an opportunity to launch herself in a new direction. Fraser’s realistic paintings focus on the power of ordinary objects to tell the stories of who we are, using nostalgia to connect the viewer to childhood joys and memories and to remind people not to lose sight of the kid within themselves.

Yvette L Cummings holds a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. She is currently Associate Professor of Visual Arts in Painting/ Drawing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

Divyangi Shukla is an Indian artist currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She received a BFA in 2020 from Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and is currently pursuing an MFA Studio in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kristen Flynn is a contemporary artist who uses printmaking techniques to create works that investigate and communicate her identity. Living on a rural property and being a mother, she is drawn to investigating facets of motherhood, beauty, life cycles, mortality, and the abject through found objects and images she collects from her direct environment. Flynn also has a particular interest in appropriating past artworks that are iconic for beauty.

Yana Beylinson is an award-winning artist based in New York. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she began a rigorous education in painting at the age of 10 and moved to the United States as a refugee in 1995. She earned her BBA at Baruch College in New York City in 2000 and later attended the School of Visual Arts, NY. Her paintings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and belong to private collections internationally.

Tushita Singh is an artist based in New Delhi, India, with an interest in embroidery and pattern.

Lesley Bodzy is a sculptor and painter based in New York City and Houston.

Julie Derbyshire is a photographic artist whose practice is research-based and process-led. She tells visual stories through her projects and her underlying concerns surround notions of fragility and transience and the universal themes of the human condition. Derbyshire incorporates processes of fabrication, manipulation and disruption into her work, including of the final photographic prints themselves, using the photograph as the final distillation of these processes.

Kiki Klimt developed her unique way of painting from Leonardo da Vinci’s sfumato technique. Based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science, and her own study and experience, her “painting with light” combines the physical, emotional, and rational aspects of painting.

Marybeth Rothman is a contemporary US artist known for her fictional visual biographies and abstract narratives.

Tristan Perrotti is a Portland-based figurative painter. A graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, he holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies. Using a blend of Impressionist and Baroque techniques, he focuses on depictions of the human body to explore his emotional landscape.

Lydia Jewel Gerard is an abstract painter and digital artist based in Tacoma, Washington State. Her work engages ideas of sexuality, safety, and the investigation of light as it relates to emotion. By utilising luminance in her digital work and softness in painting, Gerard explores her own mind but also seeks to understand and engage the minds of others.

Painter Jess Quinn explores female narratives woven from imagination and life.

The paintings I have been making recently are a visual diagram of how I think and process information. My experience of time and space is full of interruptions, chaotic shifts, and disorderly or awkward moments. As a mother raising two kids, I have learned to pivot, be flexible, and be alright with not always having the answers. My paintings reflect these moments. Nothing goes as planned. In my paintings, the surfaces are never planned but rather constructed with shapes, figures, or forms. I start with a section of an artwork from history that triggers a feeling, or I might see a mundane object, a dying plant or a photograph that sparks a memory or references time.

Tanner Simon investigates the absurdity of meaning and implicit trust in authority, confronting the very foundation of language and symbolism. He makes monumental paintings the size of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps, manipulating the relationship between imagery and larger-than-life scale. Directly addressing the deficiencies of acrylic and house paint used in contemporary painting, he pushes the modern limitations of oil paint by achieving matte, flat surfaces through a unique process, building thick layers of semi-transparent, solid-colour glazes.

Sara Purves is an artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a Fine Art major at the Claude Watson School for the Arts, and later graduated from the Environmental Design programme at the Ontario College of Art and Design. After a career as a graphic designer, Purves picked up the paintbrush again and has since sold hundreds of works of art, now all in homes across the country.

Cesar Mammadov is a painter from Azerbaijan whose work is steered by a line from a Vladimir Nabokov poem: “I love this life with a frenzy of love...”