Author: Seraphina Calder

Alan Brown first encountered photography in a studio darkroom, watching an image emerge as film was developed. The experience began a lasting interest in photography and visual art that has shaped more than 40 years of creative work. He went on to study at Syracuse University, earning a BS in Communications with a major in Advertising Photography and a minor in Art History. Those studies brought together the practical demands of making an image and the long history of how images communicate. In A Portrait with a Pear, Brown draws on the familiar language of formal portraiture and gives it an…

Allan Wesaquate works across painting, photography, and installation, allowing each medium to carry a different kind of experience. In his abstract paintings, he often starts with feeling instead of a predetermined image. Acrylic paint builds in layers, while vivid colors and changing forms give the surface its movement. One area may seem restless; another offers a moment of calm. The work draws from personal experience, yet Wesaquate leaves its meaning open to those who encounter it. That interest in how images hold and change meaning extends to his photography. A photograph records a moment, but its life does not end…

Mike Garibay creates art through an active exchange between imagination and material. Using oil paint and oil pastels, he develops vivid compositions in which color, gesture, and shape move freely across the surface. His works range from expansive canvases to intimate pieces on panels, allowing him to explore how scale changes the emotional experience of an image. While Garibay’s abstract forms often appear impulsive, their placement reflects an underlying sense of order. Contrasting colors and shifting shapes generate movement while maintaining harmony across each composition. His artistic range also extends to carefully rendered portraits, which highlight his observational skills and…

German contemporary artist Eda Groneberg creates paintings shaped by expressive color, textured surfaces and symbolic narratives. Her work considers how memory and identity influence the way people experience beauty, change and emotional renewal. Rather than presenting a single fixed interpretation, Groneberg builds visual environments in which color, movement and material invite personal reflection. Since beginning to present her work publicly in 2024, Groneberg has exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. Her paintings have also become part of private collections in several countries, extending her practice beyond her home in Germany. Within a relatively short period, she has developed a…

Miguel Barros is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings invite reflection on the relationship between humanity, memory, and the natural environment. Born in Lisbon in 1962, he holds Portuguese, Canadian, and Angolan citizenship, reflecting a life shaped by different cultures and landscapes. His years in Angola and his move to Calgary in 2014 expanded his creative perspective, introducing new environments while deepening his connection to the places he had left behind. Trained in Architecture and Design at IADE in Lisbon, Barros brings a strong understanding of structure, proportion, and spatial relationships to his art. At the same time, his paintings move beyond…

For nearly five decades, multidisciplinary artist Vandorn Hinnant has explored consciousness, intuition, ancestral knowledge, and realities that exist beyond ordinary perception. His visual art and writing emerge from personal experiences he associates with the spiritual realm, including encounters with non-physical consciousness. Rather than treating such experiences as mythology, Hinnant regards them as part of humanity’s enduring effort to understand what cannot be perceived through the five senses. Hinnant’s philosophy is inseparable from his creative practice. His works, which he sometimes describes as “spirit whisperings,” attempt to make invisible energies visually present. Through organic forms, layered colors, symbolic structures, and intuitive…

Camille Ross is an American photographer and visual artist whose work emerges from questions of heritage, identity, and belonging. Born in San Francisco in 1964, she spent her childhood between two dramatically different settings: the progressive energy of 1970s Berkeley and the rural traditions of Mississippi. Moving between these environments introduced her at an early age to different experiences of race, culture, community, and history. Ross’s biracial identity and Cherokee ancestry have become significant foundations of her artistic practice. Working with photography and digitally constructed imagery, she explores the ways family history continues to shape the present, even when parts of…

Sonja Kalb creates abstract paintings in which colour, texture and movement come together as expressions of the natural world. Born in Stuttgart and currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Kalb studied Textile and Applied Design, earning a Dipl. Ing. degree. This early training gave her a strong awareness of materials, surface relationships, pattern and composition. Her creative journey began with photography, natural studies, portraiture and figurative work before expanding into collage and abstraction. Through this gradual shift, she developed a visual language that places greater emphasis on atmosphere, materiality and emotional experience. Kalb’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums, art associations,…

Sculptor Bobbie Carlyle creates bronze figures that examine the strength, vulnerability, and ambition at the heart of human experience. Rather than treating bronze as a static material, she gives it a compelling sense of motion and emotional presence. Her figures appear caught between thought and action, as though responding to an inner force that urges them forward. Classical sculptural traditions can be recognized in Carlyle’s attention to anatomy and form, yet her work communicates ideas that remain distinctly contemporary. Through carefully considered gestures, expressive poses, and richly textured surfaces, Carlyle transforms the human body into a visual language. Her sculptures…

Keith McHugh approaches art as an opening into the private territories of the self. Guided by honesty and instinct, he transforms thoughts, emotions, memories, and spiritual questions into visual and written forms. His work does not simply reveal what can be seen on the surface. It reaches toward the hidden aspects of identity that often remain unspoken. Through imaginative symbolism and poetic language, McHugh creates a space where personal reflection becomes a shared human experience. This sense of openness is central to his creative voice. Art becomes both a doorway into his inner life and a key capable of unlocking…