Louise Lamirande is a digital painter and mixed media artist living near Montreal. Before starting to paint she quiets her mind and goes deep inside into a sacred space where creativity flows naturally in an intuitive way. Then she taps into that infinite source of inspiration to create abstract paintings. Even if Louise uses the modern and innovative tools offered by digital media to express that creative energy and share it through her artwork, she also likes to explore and experiment with traditional media like watercolor, ink and acrylic. Louise’s vibrant abstract paintings are stepping stones toward self-healing spiritual growth and self-development. To paint brings joy and well being in her life and she hopes you will feel it and enjoy her artwork.

Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist known for her imaginative paintings of surreal creatures and whimsical characters. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues such as The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN); The DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI); Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Foster Museum (Eau Claire, WI); Bloomington Art Center (Bloomington, MN); and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), as well as several galleries in major cities across the United States. Davis is a recipient of the 2013 Next Step Fund Grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota.

My name is Natsuki Otani, Tokyo born illustrator working in England. My hope is that my illustration can make people happy even if it is for a moment. I have a style that is best described in colour and realized in detailed design. Bold vibrant colour forms the basis of a working practice that seeks to unite dreams and reality. I try to give the viewer a feast of colour and complexity, my surreal macabre touches are the counterpoint to my sweet and childlike innocent subjects. I am available for various projects such as: editorial, fashion illustration, product and logo design, pattern design, live drawing, portraits, storyboarding, comic, character design, poster design, advertising and murals.

Kerry Vander Meer completed her MFA in sculpture from Mills College. Her talents, however, also extend into the realms of painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation, and performance art. Not only has Vander Meer exhibited and taught extensively throughout Northern California, she has also exhibited in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Santa Fe, as well as numerous galleries and museums across the country. Her works appear in collections in U.S., Germany, Spain, Ireland and Japan. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including artist-in-residency awards at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland, Millay Colony in Upstate New York, Villa Montalvo in Santa Clara, California, and Foundation Valpariso in Spain.

Terri Dilling is a painter and printmaker, inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Her work evokes a landscape or garden, but also the microscopic worlds contained within. Terri received a BA from Indiana University, a BFA Georgia State University, and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. Travels abroad have been very influential on her work. After being awarded a 2005 residency at the Caversham Centre in South Africa, she revived printmaking in her own practice, and was also inspired to become more active in her community. She joined the effort to found the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, and currently serves as president.

Artist painter Lena Kramarić was born 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia, lives and works in Dubrovnik. She graduated in 2008 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (painting). Since 1999 she has had 13 individual exhibitions in Croatia and about 20 group exhibitions, both in the country and abroad.

27 years old, Los Angeles bred, artist-in-the-making. AA degree in Art History in 2006. Followed by a BA degree in Art History from UCLA in 2008. Currently pursuing an MFA in the Academy of Art University’s Graduate Fine Arts program. Roxanne Coble finds inspiration in vinyl records, graphic novels, and the simple quirks of everyday life.

Netherlands-based artist Redmer Hoekstra draws fascinating composite illustrations that merge animals and everyday objects or machines, from a lizard with computer keyboard scales to an owl with books for wings. At times he even brings three or more forms together, as with a whale emerging from a submarine, the entirety of which has the appearance of a banana. Whether you regard the pieces as humorous or slightly disturbing, it’s hard to deny the ingenious way each creature is formed.

A native southern Californian, David Galchutt has been working as an illustrator for 30+ years. Though he had done some advertising illustration in his early years, the primary focus of his illustrating career has been in the children’s industry, working for both toy companies and publishing. In 1993 a children’s book that he wrote and illustrated, There Was Magic Inside, was published by Simon and Schuster. Now working as a designer in the giftware industry, he continues to freelance for children’s publications, primarily Highlights for Children. This relationship is especially rewarding as he had a subscription to that magazine as a child. His spare time is spent painting, a passion that never seems to burn out.

Jana Brike is an intriguing communicator. For her upcoming solo exhibition “After the End of Time”, opening September 6 at FB69 Gallery in Munster, Germany, the artist produced a fascinating array of works created while staying in a cabin on a manor-house park by the Baltic Sea. These new paintings, she tells us in the following exclusive feature, are akin to a group of personal icons that relate more to a deep satori state of insight into one’s true nature.

Gel Jamlang is a Filipino artist living in Baltimore. She studied at the University of the Philippines college of fine arts. Gel worked for 12 years in the industry of home design and construction, painting murals and furniture. She simultaneously painted large scale oil and acrylic paintings. Shortly after exhibiting in New York at the Philippine Consulate, Gel moved to Baltimore and focused on drawing and painting. She paints portraits and human subjects experimenting with different mediums. She joined RAW and showcased in July 2012. On November 2012, she won RAW Baltimore’s Visual Artist of the Year award and represented the city in the national competition. December 2012, Gel won the national title of RAW Visual Artist of the Year 2012.

Melinda was born in 1959, in a small town in the Rocky Mountains of northern Utah. She attended university in Salt Lake City and graduated with honors in Mathematics. Her first career, in computer graphics, was an ideal blend of the mathematical and the visual. Her lifelong interest in abstraction and visual language now finds expression in her career as a fine artist.

Connecticut illustrator Carly Janine Mazur works traditionally to bring to life her vision of a solitary world. Her paintings evoke a sense of intimacy within the viewer, inviting you in with solid composition juxtaposed against fine rendering. Carly’s subject matter focuses on the hauntingly rendered human figure within a minimalistic, yet harsh environment to touch upon peoples’ reclusive relationship with their environment.

Greg Spalenka’s distinctive, dreamlike images haunt the mind, invoking new and old myths, populated with fire beings, desert spirits, and winged, ethereal creatures. His vast landscapes of extraordinary worlds lend themselves to exploration and contemplation, with vivid touches and tangible details that bring alien expanses, charmed forests, and mysterious labyrinths alike to life.

Anka Zhuravleva was born on December 4, 1980. She spent her childhood with books on art and her mothers’ drawing tools, covering acres of paper with her drawings. In 1997 she entered the Moscow Architectural Institute deciding to follow in her mothers’ footsteps. But at the end of 1997 her mother was diagnosed with cancer and died in less that a year. Then her father died in 1999.