A quiet moment learning from the best | Kenya 2018
Jana Young Siegel is a fine artist based in Atlanta, GA. Jana graduated from the University of Georgia in 2015 with a BFA in Fabric Design. She found her love for painting + drawing through her textile design, + continued to paint after graduation.
Design has played a major role in each one of Jana’s professional experiences. She interned for notable designers + artists in both the fashion + interior industries such as Carolina Herrera + Susan Hable. Each experience taught her the many facets of the design industry—giving her the motivation to launch her own company, Jana Ink and Paper, in 2017. Jana worked as a style associate at Style Design LLC until late 2018 when she decided to focus on growing her business full time.
Jana Enjoys exploring + creating new textures with different materials, but loves + frequently relies on the fluidity of inks + fluid acrylics to create her work. Her subject matter is immensely inspired by nature + design and she loves highlighting different textures.
Jann Edmondson is a photographer and artist living in Hanover County, Virginia. Formally trained as an artist, Jann works across many mediums including acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. Her artistic focus for the last 8 years has been abstract photography and the alternative photography technique of cyanotype.
Jann draws inspiration from nature, and loves to experiment with texture, color, composition and
process to evolve her work. You can either find Jann outside, studying plants, flowers and
insects; or inside testing, experimenting and creating with her cyanotypes. In her latest collection, Jann brings more depth to her cyanotypes, through an exploration with texture and color. By combining traditional cyanotype with a variety of mixed media, she creates
fun, colorful and expressive prints that reflect her love of both art and nature.
An inherent passion of Jenan’s since childhood, her painting flourished after a series of life-changing events, enabling her to tap into the intuitive process behind the brush. She attended The Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina and under the mentorship of the talented Jim Campbell, first experienced the beautiful beginnings of meditative creation.
Mr. Campbell was a key influencer for her that relayed the message of art meeting the soul’s readiness and willingness to discover the true beauty within one’s work.
Throughout her travels, Jenan often found inspiration in her natural surroundings which governed many of her earlier works. She spent her summers creating art programs for elementary school youths and sharing with them her passion for the brush.
Drawn to the calming yet powerful sustaining life force of water, Jenan finds inspiration from it and believes it is universally inherent to all living beings. Primarily working in acrylic paint and oil pastels, Jenan’s recent body of work is strongly influenced by the surrounding salt marshes and lovely florals along the South Carolina coast.
Her work is heavily textured and the rich vibrancy of her emotional pieces are felt through beautiful colors and lavish layers.
She resides in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina with her daughter Isla, and mini doodle, Goji.
Jennifer’s work mainly focuses on the relationship between shape and movement, drawn from inspiration from travels and a love of interior design. Combining multiple mediums to create layers of both balance and edge, she aims for structure and interest in each piece. Her work has been featured in Traditional Home’s 2018 Hampton Designer Showhouse.
Jennifer currently lives and works in Raleigh, NC, with her husband Nick, daughter Emma and English Bulldog Bruce.
Jodee Molina is an artist living in Midland, Texas whose work with color and the feminine form celebrate the joyful, in-between moments of life. Her colors are clean and clear, and her compositions vacillate between abstract shape, floral silhouettes and the female figure. She enjoys combining mediums and uses gouache, charcoal, pastel, collage and photography in addition to her acrylic work. Jodee’s visual aesthetic is informed by her travels, a love of Latin culture and music, favorite books, fashion, and the light in the Llano Estacado High Plains where she resides with her husband Rodolfo and her daughter Georgia.
Julia Contacessi (Con-ta-chess-e) studied at Pratt Institute in New York, earning her BFA with honors in 2000. She has been working in the art field since then and launched her own successful business in 2013. Fine art has been her focus for her entire career. Julia explains her process of creating modern abstract art as one of freedom and child-like joy, where she can indulge the intuitive responses that emerge from engaging with each work.
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As a Missouri native nestled in wooded acres close to the heart of Kansas City, I’m drawn to both the calm of nature and the energy of city life.
Throughout my younger years, I found myself intrigued with art and looked forward to taking any art classes I could. One such class was from a local artist who offered private lessons in her home, where I studied highly detailed realism with acrylic. When it was time to choose a career path, the idea of continuing with art on a professional level seemed almost irresponsible, and too good to be true. So, I went into allied health until my first child was born, after which I became a stay at home mom.
Though I kept busy raising children, painting and studying art always seemed to find a way into my schedule. Once a few of my paintings were hung and sold in a local shop, I began to see my hobby as something more.
Inspired by the way light moves, unique color combinations and painterly marks, I aim to incorporate these elements into paintings that play a delicate balance of realism and loose abstraction.
I'm Kate Kvasnicka born and raised in the South Carolina, I graduated from the College of Charleston, and now I live with my little family in Richmond, VA. My work is inspired by nature and my childhood, packed with bold colors and playful shapes showcasing my quest for making vibrant yet calming images. I love painting abstracts and florals.
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Katie Ré Scheidt is a contemporary nature-inspired artist based in Roxbury, CT where she lives with her husband and two children. Primarily working in acrylics, gouaches, oils and charcoal, the artist’s genres span abstracts and nudes to custom landscapes and portrait work. A sumptuous palette and an immersive approach to painting contribute to Scheidt's style. Uplifting and lyrical, her work is unscripted and often left in a state of dynamic incompletion, allowing room for the viewer to project his/her/their experience onto the canvas with personal connection. Scheidt's work is about letting ideas flow with the suspension of judgement.
Keiko Pogany is a mother and maker, born, bred, and based in Los Angeles, CA.
She comes from a long line of woman makers: growing up with a mother who sewed all of her dresses and quilted beautiful blankets; to her aunt in Brazil who ran a family uniform and leather goods business; to her grandmother who supported the family for over 65 years by hand crafting traditional Japanese dolls, so detailed and immaculate, it would often take a year to make just one.
Keiko graduated with a degree in Studio Art from UC Irvine, but it is this family tradition of sewing, mending, knitting and making that informs her artistry. In her work, she seeks to blend traditional craft with contemporary abstraction, color and shape.
I am inspired by structured design, patterns and textiles and mixing that with the freedom of a Picasso style continuous line technique to create a graphic perspective on human figures, nature and other subjects. This process offers me both the recklessness in creating a subject in one continuous line with no worry over proportion or perfection and then a controlled hard edge painting. In the end, with its imperfect form one of my paintings may be seen differently in the viewer's eyes than it did in mine when I created it.
Leslie Garrelts is an acrylic landscape artist in Wichita, Kansas. She has always had a passion for art in one form or another. Her childhood hobby of drawing led to a love for Graphic Design, where she earned a BFA in the study from Wichita State University.
Traveling often with her husband and two children, she developed a passion for painting the beautiful places they would go. She is constantly pausing to observe the landscapes around her, forever in awe of nature. Painting also brings her closer to God. Her goal as an artist is to use her talent in a way that honors Him.
