Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes. -Jacob Nordby I am a photographer. I wasn’t an abstract artist. My journey discovering abstract art begins with curiosity in phone apps. I have turned applications into art, fine-tuning and layering. My instinct for what I call ordered chaos—arranging a variety of different objects together for an artistic whole—drives my work. As I delve ever deeper into abstracts, I ground all of them in photography. My abstractions are not bound by but they pay homage to a life long journey in photography while I evolve in exploration of…

Fashion artist working in mixed water media

My recent works are small, colorful, emotive drawings. They arise through a process of intuitively shuffling through the pages, putting one away and pulling out another, allowing them gradually to come to fruition. Scissors flood in front of a blue shadow face; the left arm floats away from a body. A fork comes out of a phone; eyes watch what I eat. I often work without a plan, allowing meaning to arise from layers of material, images, text, pattern, and color. I see drawing as a way of aesthetically organizing my consciousness. When disparate elements become integrated on the page through layers of pattern and color, the symbolic meaning of…

Janie Baber of Fayetteville, AR is a self-taught acrylic artist whose art, highly textured, colorful and often including mixed media, is usually created on repurposed surfaces. Florals are a favorite subject but she also enjoys painting whimsical animals and abstracts but will try any subject.  Her affordable price point gives the average person an opportunity to enjoy original art in their home or office.

Ruth Lawlor is an abstract painter from Northwest Arkansas “I find inspiration every time I step outdoors and feel fortunate to live where I am surrounded by nature. My fascination with non representational art stems from an interest in design and the challenge of communicating an idea or mood with simplicity. I view non representational art as a means to convey ideas about the intangible and ethereal.”

Karen Wagaman works in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media to create whimsical animal paintings m. She enjoys using vibrant colors and textures to bring out the characteristics and personality of your fur baby with a custom pet portrait. Her work is on display at Studio 300.

Passionate about traditional Indian folk art and original tribal painting which has lively ness and simplicity of nature .Tree of life depicts the true human nature which dwells around peace and living in harmony.

I would like to know where my art trailer could be set up.

I am a recent college graduate that graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Arkansas Tech University in December of 2020, and I am glad to have an opportunity to share my art with my Arkansas community in NWA. I primarily work with digital illustration and painting, but I also use other media as well, such as pen and ink, charcoal, and pastels. I specialize in human and animal portraits, as well as medical illustrations and other nature-based subjects.

In doing portraits, it’s best to do a simple color study. Neutrals are the most difficult to produce. These commissioned guitars were a joy to do. The grained wood surfaces challenged my brush techniques.