48″ x 36″ Acrylic on canvas. Live paint collaboration with Phillip Price.

I have been enjoying the life of an artist since I retired as a teacher. I now have time to work on my life dream of enjoying and creating art. The paintings you will see in my collection are a combination of light and shadow. In my still life, landscape, drawings, and abstract creations are a keen sense of the richness of color, balance, and movement. Hopefully, the dramatic use of light will captivate your eye as you wonder through the paintings.

Robin Bruce is a musician-poet-visual artist whose interdisciplinary work is rooted in nature and contemplative practices. Her background as a healer in the modalities of breathwork, Buddhist meditation, yoga, and Sat Nam Rasayan inform her creations. This art submission features reclamation paintings from Robin’s most recent book, Dear Gordon. The intention is to name, reclaim, and heal the often unspoken intergenerational trauma of American enslavement. In the maitri practice within Tibetan Buddhism, lies a mandala in five sections corresponding to five elements, colors, shapes, and emotional terroir. In their healing system, the attitude toward emotions is that they are intended to be felt, investigated, and illuminated. Every emotion has a…

I’m a very versatile artist, but for this event I’d like to submit my abstract works. My idea for this pop up is to illustrate the sidewalk cracks in various places in northwest Arkansas and add the address of each.

I have been fascinated since my earliest years with nature and how we intertwine with it. Whether it be the smallest flower or the clouds above I’ve always had the need to capture it. I have started incorporating digital art along with my photography In hopes of achieving fine art with an artistic flair.

My work is primarily crochet with PLARN (plastic yarn) made from recycled grocery bags and other upcycled materials. I do not use a pattern so all my bags are unique and dependent upon materials I have at the time, I love to use oddball fibers in a different or unusual way and my purpose is to reuse, repurpose and recycle as my depression era parents always said.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Belgian-born artist Joëlle Storet immigrated to the United States from Austria in 2001. She took inspiration starting at a young age from Belgian illustrations and the vast confluences of her Belgian-Congolese upbringing. Her artistic pedigree also draws from her late grandfather, Zamenga Batukezanga, who is known the world over for being the most popular and influential Congolese writer of his era. His folkloric works of fiction and his non-fiction documentations of Congolese culture painted her frame of reference for most of her life. She has since transmitted her thematic expositions to the thriving artist community based in Northwest Arkansas. Storet graduated from the University of Arkansas with a…

I have experienced art lessons with different instructors over the years. My showing is a whimsical look back at the completed pieces . Plus some pieces I have done for friends.

The assemblage is a visual diary and a narrative of pandemic icons and personal responses to isolation during the 2020 health crisis. Each panel consists of columns of cardboard pieces suspended with copper wire from dowels. The illustrations and words are arranged in loose chronological order. Media – paint, markers, jute, recycled papers, copper and wood. Approximately 6 ‘ high and 12’ in length.

This piece is about the brevity of life and the fleeting nature of physical beauty. I chose to paint the social icon of both beauty and fashion, Audrey Hepburn, on a surface of cracked plaster which shows fragility and imperfection. Note- The first two pieces, Audrey and Marilyn would work for January’s theme of Pandemonium. The following two pieces ( Jeremiah and Joelle) would work for February’s theme of The Black Experience. The portrait of Jeremiah was sold to Jeremiah Pickett, a black musician here in NWA and is of course NFS.