Author: Seraphina Calder

Emma Coyle has been working with the visual vocabulary of Pop Art for over two decades, but she isn’t trying to re-create its golden era. Originally from Ireland and living in London since 2006, Coyle takes what she needs from that mid-century aesthetic—the color, the edge, the tension—and steers it into a space shaped by contemporary media and her own sensibility. She’s not playing by old rules. Her paintings are pulled from the now, stripped from today’s advertising culture and reassembled into something more personal, more current. In 2022, her solo show The Best Revenge at Helwaser Gallery in New…

Stormie Steele didn’t walk the usual path to becoming an artist. She didn’t come from art schools or formal mentorships. Her work comes from somewhere more personal—born out of years spent growing, reflecting, and healing. A self-taught artist, writer, and healing arts practitioner, Steele approaches creativity the same way she approaches life: with openness, honesty, and deep listening. Her paintings don’t try to impress or explain. They’re rooted in feeling, in letting the brush follow the rhythm of something larger than herself. Her work isn’t about chasing perfection—it’s about embracing the rawness of being alive. In Steele’s world, abstract art…

L. Scooter Morris doesn’t create work that stays on the wall. It reaches out—visually, emotionally, and even physically. She calls herself a sensory illusionist, and it fits. Her “Sculpted Paintings” are built from mixed media and layered surfaces that invite you to move around them, not just look at them. These aren’t decorative pieces. They’re charged with tension—the kind that lives between what’s happening and what’s underneath. What drives Morris isn’t perfection. It’s truth. She works to create spaces that ask, rather than answer—spaces where we can slow down, take stock, and ask harder questions about the world around us.…

Natali Antonovich didn’t arrive at painting through drama or flash. Her work isn’t interested in impressing anyone. Instead, it pays attention—carefully, patiently. Over time, she’s crafted a style grounded in observation, rooted in the little things most people miss. She sees how light rests on surfaces, how pauses carry weight. That quiet attentiveness led her through different creative fields—graphic design, portrait work, the delicate process of batik, and years of teaching art and art history. But it’s in oil and watercolor that she found the clearest way to express herself. These mediums give her the pace she prefers—slow, reflective, without…

Katerina Tsitsela doesn’t paint what she sees. She paints what she senses—those shifts in mood, memory, and presence that live just under the skin. Working out of Greece, her art straddles the line between painting and engraving, but her focus is always internal. She’s less concerned with depicting landscapes as they appear and more drawn to what they trigger in the mind. As she puts it, her work explores “internal landscapes,” where color and shape give form to emotion and perception. Her work isn’t meant to be read in a straight line. There are no clear stories. No linear messages.…

Helena Kotnik approaches painting like a quiet excavation. With degrees in Fine Arts from Barcelona University and the Akademie der bildende Künste in Vienna, and a Master’s that sharpened her conceptual eye, she works from the inside out—digging into culture, psychology, and form. Her work straddles the border between reflection and critique. She doesn’t decorate; she investigates. Drawing from recognizable sources—classic paintings, social roles, personal moments—she reconfigures them, less as references than as tools for inquiry. Take Friends (2025), a piece loosely anchored to Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Kotnik doesn’t copy or parody the original. Instead, she pulls it apart…

William Schaaf has never treated art as decoration. For him, it’s a process—of making, remembering, and healing. Now 80, he’s still in his studio, still forming horses from bronze, canvas, and clay with the same intent that’s guided him for over sixty years. Horses are his subject, yes, but they’re also a kind of language. They carry memory, power, and spirit. Schaaf’s relationship with the equine form is personal and spiritual, shaped by a long-standing respect for Zuni and Navajo fetish traditions. His work reaches back into those practices not to replicate them, but to honor their deeper purposes: healing,…

Clint Anthony’s art begins where words leave off. Rooted in emotional honesty, his work uses color and texture as direct conduits to feeling—whether it’s joy, longing, or the deeper contradictions of being alive. Though he now lives in Australia, much of Clint’s creative DNA was formed during his two-decade stay in New York City. From 1996 to 2017, he immersed himself in the city’s vibrant cultural life, studying at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and developing his visual language at The Art Studio NYC. He also played an active role in the art scene, curating shows at The Gershwin Hotel.…

Adamo Macri was born in Montreal in 1964 and studied a wide mix of disciplines at Dawson College—commercial art, photography, graphic design, art history, and fine arts. It shows. His work never sits comfortably in one category. Though he’s often grouped with sculptors, that only scratches the surface. He works in multiple mediums—photography, drawing, video, painting—and tends to blur the lines between them. His approach is idea-first. What holds it all together is his fixation on meaning: how a single word or image can carry history, slang, and myth, all at once. Macri’s photographs are tightly composed, often with a…

Born in 1964 in San Francisco, Camille Ross grew up split between two very different Americas: Berkeley during its politically charged heyday and the quiet backroads of rural Mississippi. That contrast—activism and conservatism, city grit and country silence—runs through her life and her photography. With biracial roots and Cherokee ancestry, Camille has always seen the world from a layered perspective. These intersections show up in her work—not as statements, but as quiet revelations. Over the years, she’s moved between roles: civil rights activist, educator, and documentary photographer. But the common thread has been observation. She’s not just snapping photos. She’s…