The Possibility Before the First Mark The blank canvas still excites Susan N. McCollough. In her Gulf Shores, Alabama, studio, she begins with the freedom of inner feeling, working through movement, light, color, and the relationship between positive and negative...
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Eric Wiles: Where the Light Invites Us to Stay
A Moment Held in Golden Light Branches stretch across the sky, framing an ocean horizon washed with evening light. Below them, the sand gathers shadows and warmth in countless small ridges. In Eric Wiles’s Carmel Sunset, the setting sun touches the scene with gold,...
Margot McMahon: The Living World Within Our Reach
A World Worth Looking Closely At Winding lines travel across green, ochre, and pale gray forms in Margot McMahon’s Brain Coral. The eye follows their intricate paths, discovering a living architecture that feels both intimate and immense. In Spiral Coral, softer tones...
Mary E Morgan: The Landscapes We Carry Within
Where Experience Becomes Color Orange sweeps through blue and gray in Mary E Morgan’s Sitting In The Noonday Sun. Curving lines gather and loosen, while pale passages offer moments of light within the painting’s restless movement. The image feels full of experience,...
Shu-ya Hsu: Painting the Joy of Belonging
The Rhythm of a Shared Moment Two figures make music beside blue water in Shu-ya Hsu’s Playing Drum. One leans toward a percussion instrument; the other raises both arms toward a broad drum. Grasses frame their movements, while distant land rests beneath a soft sky....
John Nieman: Color at the Edge of Contradiction
A Bright Image with a Sharp Edge Red, purple, blue, and yellow sweep across John Nieman’s Barbed Balloons. Their bright, rounded forms promise lightness, yet strands of barbed wire cross the image with unmistakable sharpness. The encounter holds the eye: color draws...
Angelė Šimoliūnienė: A Dialogue with the Unseen
Following an Inner Current For Angelė Šimoliūnienė, a painting begins with a sensation. Inspiration arrives as energy, and the hand follows an intuitive current toward forms whose meaning may reveal itself later. Her images become places to explore the complexity of...
Varda Breger: A Creative Voice for a Planet of Life
In Varda Breger’s Migratory Birds, dark wings stretch across washes of orange and pale blue. The eye follows their movement through the paper, while handwritten words draw us closer. Painting and poetry share the same space, giving the work the intimacy of a thought...








