Energized by a vast spectrum of hues, Carol Estes’s images reflect an inner buoyancy and optimism – abstract painting is integral to her personality. 

Her early work was developed at the Stout-McCourt Gallery in Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas, from the 1980s until 1993. Drawn by its unique light, she moved to New Mexico and found its varying tones and shadows inspiring. 

She cherishes the freedom and mystery of abstract art that emanates from the soul and has its own language and life.

Having been an art teacher, woodcarver and a printmaker in my formative art years, I emerged as a painter, awash in color and searching for pattern. While seeking brilliance in color is a worthy goal, pattern in nature is primal - the need to find a glimmer of logic in a vastly complicated, confusing and tumbled landscape. The goal is lofty, but when the quest is conducted with paint and brush, it is a joyously daunting adventure.
 
Color and pattern are everywhere, but the seeing and the interpretation of them are different for each of us. I look for the brilliance and the gaiety of life around me. I try to catch the light and design in all its strangeness and beauty. There is so much joy and adventure to paint in one lifetime.

Elena Golberg was born in Barnaul, an industrial city in the Siberian part of Russia. At a young age she attended an art school for gifted children, where she was strongly influenced by powerful, Russian realistic art traditions.

Elena earned her Fine Arts degree with a teaching license from a Soviet state university in 1989. Following her graduation, Elena taught art history, painting, drawing, composition, sculpture for over 14 years.

Elena happily moved to the United States in 2004. In America, she became fascinated with Native American culture and painted many Native American portraits. 

Today, Elena sketches enthusiastically in the Arizona desert. Where she fine-tunes the “movements” of the Saguaros’ muscular trunks and branches. She likes to catch the early morning light, which helps to portray the Saguaros’ strong expressions as they gesture toward the immense, Arizona sky.

Cristall Harper’s oil paintings are memorable, bold and beloved!  She is most-known for her fun

animal portraits and energetic florals. Her portraits are painted in the difficult oil style of 

wet-on-wet, or alla prima, and her florals are either alla prima or a build-up of acrylic, colored pencil

and then finally oils. Either way, her paintings are realistic from far away but abstract up close.

It’s important to Harper that the surface feels alive. Her collectors love her mark-making and

use of color.

Born in Texas and raised in Missouri, Harper received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from

Utah’s Brigham Young University in 2002. She hustled for the next 16 years, experiencing

rejections, failures, growth, small successes, and eventually became a professional artist. In

2018 she had her first significant gallery solo show and it’s just getting better.

Angie Haskell is known by a large audience as both an award-winning author and contemporary artist. Inspired by modernists of the 1930’s and 40s, such as Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove and the Canadian Group of Seven, Haskell’s stylized work transforms vast landscapes into bold geometric compositions, where sharp lines and bold shapes create a sense of both order and dynamism. 

Leveraging her unique perspective as an author and female landscape artist, her work emotionally resonates with viewers on a number of levels, including the writing of a powerful story that accompanies each piece of work when presented to the buyer. 

Angie is married to celebrated artist, William Haskell, with whom she often collaborates in the designing of accessories for museum stores in the Southwest.

Mexican-born Odilia Iaccarino is self-taught and now based in Texas. She specializes in abstract expressionism with acrylics, organic elements, and mixed media. Her work conveys deep emotions, and is marked by intense shades, dynamic colors, and dramatic brushstrokes. 

Her Mexican childhood and summers in California influenced her art that balances abstraction with figurative elements, as in her Meninas series, inspired by painter Diego Velazques "Las Meninas" in Madrid. 

Her pieces are exhibited and found in private collections in the USA, Spain, and Mexico.

Jodey is a contemporary abstract artist known for her dynamic mixed-media works. By layering materials, manipulating drying times, and using metal tools to expose what lies beneath, her paintings uncover a secret story, one that reflects the depth and complexity of life.

Embracing uncertainty, she leans in and transforms the seemingly chaotic into something beautiful and unexpected, surprising both the artist and viewer alike.

Jodey pursued studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the founder of MODRN EARTH, a Detroit area gallery dedicated to showcasing artists who share her vision for transforming spaces and perspectives through art.

Encaustic art is one of the oldest forms of art. It's painting with a specific mixture of beeswax and damar resin. Painting with hot, melted wax, incorporating photography, oil paints, pan-pastels, and ink. She loves the smell of the melted beeswax that fills her studio! 

The process requires Shari to have both patience and spontaneity. It's a rare marriage of being in control and completely losing control. It's labor-intensive, and there are many steps involved. What Shari loves most about encaustic is that the outcome is a dreamy, ethereal image with texture and appeal, unlike any other art form. She wishes everyone could see encaustic works in person to really appreciate all they have to offer. Photos rarely do them justice.

Shari is often drawn to the imagery and symbolism of trees, but she also often plays with beautiful, loose, abstracted landscapes and imagery of the divine feminine. 

Daniela Pasqualini is an experienced Italian painter based in the United States whose abstract works have been exhibited internationally and are held in private collections worldwide. Since she was a child, Pasqualini has been expressing herself through drawing and sketching, developing a passion for the arts. By breaking down elements of flora and fauna, she transforms her observations of nature onto the canvas, bringing rhythm to splashes of vibrant color and creating texture through form.

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“My paintings convey years of travel seeking stories of all kind; experiences involving nature, places, people and sounds that are woven into the relationship with vibrant colors, texture and lines. It is a sculptural  interpretation of the images and emotion accumulate from my travels.

I hope that through my paintings, where all the elements of an experience come together, I am able to communicate the essence of my surrounding"

Erica attended the University of Oregon where she received her degree in Fine Art, focusing in ceramic sculpture, drawing and painting. Since graduating she has combined her trade as a professional graphic designer and oil painting to serve her art career of sixteen years.

Her work is varied: including explorations in abstract, figurative and landscape painting. Her graphic design background is evident through her use of negative space, intelligent composition, and strong form. 

Regarding process: “On the final layer I place the paint on the canvas and leave each stroke as it was applied. This honors the direct quality of the paint and my process. I don't go back to rework the piece. How I am feeling on that day, that moment, can be seen in the brushstrokes: cautious or brave, random or studied. I believe art is more powerful if the viewer can see evidence of the painter in the work".