Author: Seraphina Calder

Sylvia Nagy’s work lives where craft meets systems thinking—where an object can feel personal while still speaking in the language of technology, process, and global change. With training that spans industrial design and fine art, she brings a maker’s understanding of materials into a practice driven by curiosity and feeling. Nagy studied at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, earning an MFA in Silicet Industrial Technology and Art, an education that sharpened her attention to structure, fabrication, and how ideas become physical form. Over time, that technical base opened into ceramics as a more expansive vehicle for expression—especially…

Nicola Mastroserio isn’t chasing what’s fashionable. His studio isn’t a response to the market, and his choices don’t pivot around what might sell. Instead, his practice turns inward—toward questions that don’t move on a seasonal calendar. He treats art as a kind of inquiry: not a mirror for appearances, but a method for approaching what sits underneath them. What matters in his work is essence—how reality is built, how it’s felt, and how it might be understood beyond the surface of daily life. That inward focus gives his art a particular stance. It’s reflective without being distant, philosophical without becoming…

Eliora Bousquet, a French-listed abstract painter and illustrator, paints at the threshold between emotion and infinity. Born in Angoulême, France, in 1970, she began her artistic path in 2009—a late start that reads less like delay and more like arrival. Her practice is guided by intuition, wonder, and a steady fascination with the night sky’s quiet rhythm. Nature and cosmos sit side by side in her work, not as separate subjects, but as two ways of describing the same pulse: growth, drift, brightness, disappearance, return. Each canvas feels like a meeting point between heaven and earth, where color becomes language…

Kathryn Trotter’s paintings don’t whisper. They arrive with color, texture, and a sense of pleasure in the act of making. At first glance, the work can feel exuberant—animals framed by florals, patterned settings, and paint applied with real physical presence. But the longer you look, the more you notice the structure underneath the brightness. Trotter’s background helps explain why. She began with textiles and fashion design in Texas, training that teaches you to think in layers: pattern over pattern, surface over surface, detail held in balance with the whole. Later, in San Francisco, she explored trompe-l’oeil, an old technique built…

Local artist Oenone Hammersley relocated to Palm Beach Gardens in 2024, bringing with her a visually rich practice shaped by theatre design, travel, and a long-standing commitment to the natural world. Internationally recognized for mixed-media work that leans into bold color, layered texture, and luminous light, Hammersley is especially known for paintings that revolve around water—those shifting surfaces that can read as both invitation and warning. Her works have been shown in Palm Beach, New York, London, Paris, Washington D.C., and Miami, and are held in private and public collections. In Florida, the tropical gardens have become a new spark:…

Paul “Gilby” Gilbertson has spent a lifetime staying close to process—testing materials, watching what they do, and learning how to guide them without forcing them. In the early 1970s, he discovered a watercolor approach that would become closely tied to his work: using salt on wet pigment to create natural, crystalline textures. It wasn’t planned. It happened by chance, the way a lot of good techniques begin. But instead of treating it as a one-time trick, Gilbertson kept working with it, refining when to apply it, how much to use, and how it could support the mood of a painting.…

Pasquale J. Cuomo’s path into photography begins in a familiar, honest way: a teenager picks up a camera, thinking it’s just something to try, and discovers it’s something that stays. Born in the United States, Cuomo has spent more than five decades working with the medium as it kept changing around him. He lived through the film years and the darkroom hours, then moved into the digital era without abandoning what the earlier process taught him. That long timeline shows in his images. They carry the imprint of practice—years of experimenting, adjusting, getting it wrong, getting it closer, and returning…

L. Scooter Morris creates artwork that doesn’t simply hang on a wall—it takes up space like a living thing. She describes herself as a sensory illusionist, and you can see why: her pieces operate in that split second between what your eyes report and what your body understands before language catches up. Her “Sculpted Paintings” aren’t content to stay flat. They advance, recede, and shift as you move. Light hits a raised edge and suddenly the whole surface changes. Step closer and you’ll notice the build: acrylic paired with mixed media, thickened areas, ridges, seams, and shadows that feel almost…

Born in Lisbon in 1962, Miguel Barros has built an artistic life shaped by crossing borders—geographic, emotional, and cultural. His years moving between Portugal, Canada, and Angola gave him a wide lens on place, identity, and the quiet ways people carry memory. Trained in Architecture and Design at IADE Lisbon (1984), Barros brings a designer’s sense of structure into his painting practice: an attention to balance, rhythm, layering, and how a surface can hold both order and surprise. That architectural discipline doesn’t restrict the work; it steadies it, giving his gestures a framework where intuition can move freely. In 2014,…

In the lively pulse of Milwaukee, Janet Adventure Sather is carving her own path in abstract sculpture by using a medium few would ever imagine. Instead of traditional sculptural materials, she turns to conductive light, fiber optics, and sugar—an unexpected combination that feels both delicate and luminous. This unusual blend does more than create beautiful forms; it carries electricity, radiance, and sensitivity, allowing her sculptures to feel almost alive. They glow, hum, and seem to breathe, channeling the inner life of the people and emotions that inspire them. Through these shimmering structures, Sather explores the unseen layers of human experience—the…