Rachel Borntrager uses the idea of wide-view landscapes and topography to remember and honor moments of wholeness in life, especially moments where joy and pain co-exist. She uses ink, alcohol ink, water, and gouache to create layers of depth. Her work always includes the use of salt, an element she believes is as conceptually important as it is visually to her designs.

1.Mountain biking, here on local feature the Masterpiece can be depression lifting, anxiety decreasing, and stress relieving for so many. Watercolor painting 8×10 with mat and framed to 11×14. 2. Watercolor painting 8×10 with mat and frame to 11×14 showing the changes in the brain by PET scan, validating the “realness” of depression. Many people are stigmatized when they have this disease. 3. Top Of The World comic strip, digital art, 8×10 mat and framed to 11×14 showing how support can get you through tough times, in this case, the pandemic. 4. Humorous comic featuring a Sphynx cat gaining weight because of stress due to the pandemic. 8×10 mat and…

A vent piece.

I make resin art, memorial jewelry and keychains

Liz is an artist working in acrylic, mixed media, acrylic ink, and hand-made paper. Her work ranges from semi-abstract natural landscapes to more textural intuitive paintings and collage, which invite the viewer to interpret the work.

This particular body of work merges elements of religious iconography, American folk art , and traditional oil painting.

Michelle Jordan is a Northwest Arkansas artist specializing in contemporary watercolors on canvas. “My works are designed to create beauty and order out of Tohu vavohu.”

Artist Stephen Seratt has always felt there is a connection between the young skateboarder he was and the street art scene from which he gets inspiration. To him, they seemed to go hand in hand as some form of urban expression.  He also finds that this type of popular culture subject matter can have many meanings for many different people, which is great to broaden exposure/impressions it may have on various observers. Seratt tries to keep it fun and colorful as to maximize enjoyment–and he hopes you enjoy his art during the October 13 Art on the Bricks Art Walk.

My name is Barbara Iglehart, I am a pastel artist and I teach art at the Wellness Center in Rogers Arkansas. Much of my work revolves around uncomfortable realities happening in our personal world and in the world at large. A world we have all lost control of both personally and collectively. We “carry on” many times anxiously, forced to deny evidence of mounting atrocities, in all areas of life, as we are adroitly led past the mounting horrors of this reality, being allowed a just a moment of pity or silence, before being steered to the next distracting pastime or thing of pleasurable interest. All this in hopes that…