Author: Mary W
Some painters give us images that charm the eye. Others leave behind experiences that echo, reshaping how we think and remember. Kimberly McGuiness works in the second way. Her art does not simply hang on a wall—it engages, challenges, and speaks. Each piece unfolds as a living story, threaded with archetypes, symbols, and voices that reach beyond the canvas. For McGuiness, art is more than craft. It is both reflection and guide. She draws on myth, memory, and the subconscious, shaping them into narratives that feel both ancient and intimate. Her imagery opens doorways into imagination and feeling, asking viewers…
Ruth Poniarski did not step into art through the studio but through the drafting table. She earned her degree in architecture from Pratt Institute in 1982 and spent the next decade immersed in construction—absorbing the rigor of plans, measurements, and precision. Yet those same years sharpened a quiet pull toward another path. By 1988, she shifted to painting, trading linear certainty for a medium where intuition and symbolism could take the lead. Her paintings carry echoes of that architectural training, but instead of steel and stone, she constructs with myth, philosophy, and dream imagery. Each canvas is a space of…
BYDORAPAL is a painter whose work functions as narrative, a way to translate emotions that resist language into images that speak. The influence of classical fashion is present, but what defines her approach is the ability to move beyond surface beauty into something inward. An oil painting, in her view, is not just pigment arranged on canvas—it becomes a vessel for memory, balance, and contemplation. Every mark, from a delicate glaze to a confident stroke, carries meaning. Her canvases radiate calm, yet they also stir something deeper, suggesting fragments of dreams and layered feelings. International recognition has followed, with her…
Michel Marant, born on August 4, 1945, in Saint-Junien, France, has built a body of work deeply tied to the land and to everyday rhythms. He studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in Limoges and is registered with the Maison des Artistes. Over time, his art has moved into a personal form of contemporary art nouveau, where pencil, acrylic, oil, and collage meet across canvas, paper, and cardboard. His reach is international—he is a member of “Academy Atlanta” in the United States, cited in market indexes such as AKOUN and ART PRICE, and certified with an I-CAC rating.…
David R.L. is a 29-year-old autistic artist, poet, and musician from Marshalltown, Iowa. For more than half his life—17 years—he has been immersed in the fine arts. His creative path has been marked by persistence and curiosity, always circling back to the need to express, to connect, to survive. He began at seven, sketching ancient Egyptian relics and simple still lifes, unaware that those first drawings would grow into a practice that now spans painting, poetry, and music. For him, creativity is not decoration or pastime—it is language. Sometimes it takes the shape of a line or a brushstroke, other…
Blake Weston was born in Newport, Wales, and has been circling around art for most of his life. He studied Fine Art in Gloucestershire before moving on to Cardiff University, where he began with Time-Based Art under the conceptual wing of Andre Stitt. Eventually, he found himself pulled back toward painting in his final year. That shift—away from process-heavy art toward something more tactile—has defined his work ever since. Blake is currently preparing to pursue an MA in Fine Art. He sees painting not as a craft to perfect, but as a space for exploration. He wants his work to…
John Gardner doesn’t just carve features into bronze—he draws out character. His approach to sculpture is less about documentation and more about translation: of warmth, of spirit, of small moments that outlive history books. Based in South Africa, Gardner works with speed and instinct, shaping clay not to chase likeness, but to reveal essence. He believes a great sculpture isn’t finished when it looks right—it’s finished when it feels familiar, when someone sees it and recognizes not just the face, but the person behind it. His work spans tributes to legendary figures as well as introspective forms, and in every…
Camille Ross was born in San Francisco in 1964 and raised in two sharply different worlds—radical Berkeley and rural Mississippi. That contrast—liberal and conservative, urban and rural—runs through her photography. She is part Cherokee, with biracial grandparents. Her work is shaped by that layered background and the way race, identity, and class move through American life. A civil liberties activist as well as a photographer, Ross brings a sense of lived history and cultural questioning into everything she does. Her photos aren’t just images. They ask: who is being seen, who is looking, and what power sits in the gaze?…
Eva Lemay doesn’t begin a painting with a plan. Her work grows out of sensation—what the body remembers, what the skin picks up before the eye fully registers it. Her way of seeing the world comes from deep inside: rooted in a lifelong closeness to nature and shaped by the act of paying attention. Color leads her. So does rhythm. So does instinct. She doesn’t try to replicate the landscape but responds to it—through movement, through tone, through atmosphere. She paints with oils, keeping the paint fluid, letting greens, blues, and yellows blur into each other like weather. Her paintings…
Samaj X makes art that doesn’t try to impress—it just stays with you. His work isn’t showy or decorative. It’s rooted, reflective, and built from lived experience. His pieces feel like they come from somewhere older than the canvas—formed by memory, shaped by history, and guided by something internal. He works from intuition, not trends. There’s no rush to explain or decode. He trusts the process, lets the work reveal itself slowly. What you get is something layered—part personal, part universal. For Samaj X, making art is about going inward to bring something out. It’s not about image—it’s about presence.…