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I envision new myths for a post-human future using anthropomorphized animals, archetypes and reimagined mythological creatures from our past. Building layers with cold wax and oil paint mimics the layers of time, textures building, inspiring pareidolic images. Channeling my spirit guides, I allow them to speak new entities into being, that listen to my helpless sadness as climate change unfolds, from the comfort of my lovely middle class life. I’m inspired by the fairy tales of Kiki Smith, the oddness of Louise Bourgeois’ psychological venting, and the honest authenticity of outsider artists.

Laurel Antur is based in the mountains of Southern California. Currently working in cold wax and oil, Laurel has used many different media like watercolor, inks and mixed media. Inspired by expressive arts, intermodal arts and accessing the collective unconscious, Laurel uses art as a mystical practice. Fighting the emotional numbness of our times, she uses art to connect with nature and envisions new myths for a possibly post-human world.

My work tells stories – my stories, other people’s stories and stories not yet told. I use bright colors and work in large scale, focusing on the most important subject in the narrative, which may be a portrait or an inanimate, everyday object. I leave the viewer wondering about what is happening and the meaning behind each work.

Melissa Arostegui recalls having a strong interest in shape and color as a child. She spent a lot of time looking at the shapes and outlines of ordinary objects, which shows up in her work. Much of her inspiration came from studying the work of David Hockney and Elizabeth Murray while attending SAIC. This is evident in her large paintings, primarily of bold still life objects and portraits.

Since receiving her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Melissa has participated in several art shows in Illinois including a solo show at the Mission Gallery in Elgin called “A Place She Calls Her Own.” In addition, Melissa participated at Bare Walls, a live event at the Art Institute of Chicago and has been involved in other exhibitions across the country. In 2018, Melissa Arostegui’s work was featured in the magazine Art & Beyond and she was also featured in an online article by Artsy Shark in 2023.

Recent group exhibitions include Refreshing Feminism, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; and Evolve.Women.Wisdom, Long Hall Gallery, West Hollywood, California.

Art is meant to excite inspire and motivate the viewer into seeing in a new & different way

It should enhance the energy in the space where it is viewed

Studied, showed and wom awards Toronto Canada 1975-85

Portrait artist on Venice Beach 1985-95

one man show HOT GALLERY Venice Ca 1989

SHERMAN GALLERY 1991 Salons at GEMINI MANOR THRU 2012Y

MY work is figurative people spiritual animal based

most recently I am showing at my own studio commissions and original art and prints

Greetings, I'm Nadya, a 39-year-old artist originally from Russia and currently based in Los Angeles.

Since my childhood, oil paintings have captivated my imagination, and museums were my second home. Five years ago, I finally resolved to pursue my passion for oil painting, embarking on an intensive journey of private and group lessons to hone my skills. I am profoundly grateful to both my teacher and myself for having taken this step.

My paintings comprise a fusion of realism, romanticism, and dreamlike elements. I am particularly fond of using symbols to convey my personal stories through a universal language that resonates with people all over the world. My themes revolve around my emotional experiences and life circumstances, which I translate into imagery to invite the viewer into my inner feminine world.

My goal is to creatively display a story through the glass of imagination and capture the enchantment of dissociated reality. I work with different mediums, including watercolor, oil, gauche, pencils, ink, artist pens, pastel, digital applications, coffee, and pretty much everything that can be used for drawing and creating.

Elena Baydina (aka Anoriel) is an artist and author with background in Psychology and Education. Her inspiration comes from exploring universal archetypes, legends, myths and folk tales.

Elena was born in Moscow, Russia, in the midth of the cold December. She now creates, lives and teaches in California, San Francisco.

Using everyday materials, things found on the ground or stuff otherwise thrown away, I weave webs of intention and possibility. I keep my hands moving and let what comes come through.

Sometimes, as a result of my training in Art and Healing availed through the now mythic Arts & Consciousness Program in the Berkeley Arts Annex of JFKU, i set an intention, forget it, allow my hands to move through their touch healing processes, find and follow only pleasure, move from joy to joy as i explore materials, textures, colors layering and co-collaborating with the healing and storytelling the process makes into symbolic, manifest, co-created, divinihuman reality.

Once the “thing” emerges, the symbol exists, i can then engage with it as a thing wholly separate and “born” from me. I ask it for its knowing. I ask it what it needs. I become the hands that serve it and help it find its places where it can do its work in this world.

I write, record, photograph, collage with the parts and pieces of the thing and its process of becoming. I share stories of its making and our continued deepening and learning in worded forms that disappear on breath or glint at the edges of memory and leave as pieces in the body of the sacred witnessing assembly for their own retellings.

I use the thing of the things i make, the flotsam and jetsam of the ephemeral to talk about temporality, ecology, the climate and its call to us to turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes in time to survive and celebrate life.

SERIAL GALLERY-IST & FOUNDER OF

ART EXPERIENCE CENTERS

Beth opened her first gallery in Los Angeles in 1987, and has been a founder for unique arts experience and education spaces ever since. She's co-created creative spaces in LA, London, Kansas City, San Francisco, Oakland's Fruitvale/Jingletown, Pacifica and now Crestline, California.

TRANSFORMATIVE ARTIST

Beth earned her MA in Transformative Art from the Department of Arts & Consciousness at JFK University when the program was in the Berkeley Arts Annex. Beth went on to begin and then abandon her PhD pursuits in Women’s Spirituality in the School of Philosophy & Religion at California Institute of Integral Studies.

Intentional improvisational collaboration is Beth’s favorite art form.

CRESTLINE CREATRIX MATRIX

Beth Benson, @artmakerpoet, now calling herself the Crestline Creatrix, is a Transformative Artist using every day art materials and sacred intention to weave webs of connection for the healing, hopeful experience of her clients, collaborators, readers and viewers.

Beth bravely explores her own connections in hyper personal confessional writing about the internal, relationship, family, community and ecological truths that inform the contrasts and intersections inside climate and political realities. She consciously collaborates with her facebook readership to create community and publish everyish day.

She, installed as founder and facilitator in the www.crestlinecreatricsmatrix.com, is her best work-in-progress to date.

Both my work are especially driven by a need for texture, and feature a level of impasto that indicates a sculptural value. I work with paint, canvas, papier mache, wood and other media to create pieces that do not subsume the materials within the content, but instead make the materials I am using part of the subject matter. Whether abstract or figurative, my work will often integrate tactility into a design or pattern, but it is not the product of a conscious or intellectual plan. No one said this better than the art critic Tony Cavanaugh, who wrote that I create "with an intuitive feeling, as though the imagery springs directly from the artist's unconscious in the manner of automatic writing." Another way of saying this is that my work comes from a part of my psyche that is hidden from me. Or more recently this is a side of myself I find when it is as if I have entered a magical forest, or a magical forest that is always waiting for me; a forest that as Baudelaire says, is filled with things that “look at me with familiar eyes.”

Influence/affinities: Leonora Carrington, Judy Scott, Yayoi Kusama

Meg Boe Birns is an artist, poet, and literary critic living and working in the East Village. She has studied privately with Lenora Shargo of the Maryland Institute of Art, Henry Pearson of The New School and Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and has also been a student in a number of art classes at The New School. She has exhibited her work in a variety of venues in and around New York City, including the Small Works at the Washington Square East Gallery, the TNC Gallery, the Ridge Street Gallery, the Lynn Prince Gallery, and the Art for Healing Gallery. Her drawings have been published in the Art Times, Collages and Bricolages, The Creative Woman and on the cover of the premiere issue of I, The First Person. She has been given awards by the Rockland Center for the Arts and the National Art League.

Highly influenced by artists like Hopper, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Diebenkorn, I paints multicultural urban Los Angeles with all its contradictions and poetry.

I am trying to blend my classical European artistic background with contemporary conceptual approach. In the LA urban environment I am looking for and finding manifestations of eternal human values, such as love, faith, longing, and the strife for a better life. I try to see real people and their life through the facades of the buildings depicted with much love and connection.

Born in Moscow , Russia /f. USSR/

Moscow's Art School at Kropotkin St.

MA graphic design from Stroganovskaya School of Art and Design, Moscow.

Graphic Design Workshop Artist Union USSR

Group Show at Bienalle/ Chekhoslovakia, Praga

1989- Came to USA, Los Angeles

1990-2009 Decorative painted furniture and murals

2008-1st Solo show TALK TO ME LA1 Modern Art Gallery

2010-2nd Solo show TALK TO ME LA 2 at Modern Art gallery

2012 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios

2013 Group show "Seen and Unseen"Downtown LA

Phantom Gallery

curator and artist

2013 Group show "Oneness"Phantom Gallery

2015 Group show at Civitella d'Agliano

2015 Group show at Nuremberg ,Germany

2016 Solo show at Lark Gallery Hawthorne

and curator for CALIFORNIA show

I am a professional scientist, but my genetic makeup always pushed me to the artistic world. I preferred company of artists to the company of peers, which even manifested in my choice of spouses. So, being immersed in the artistic world all my life, I finally realized I needed to let my personal artistic juices out. And allow visceral part of me to kick in and get out.

As a scientist, I thought it will be a good idea to find a balance between cognitive and visceral sides. Hence, I decided to use opto-electronic approach to create images never existed before. But building blocks for creating these novel images are everyday very familiar objects. The closest definition for the final images will be ‘digital still-video’. The reason for that is that either the object involved in the creation of image is moving, or the imaging device, or both.

When creating an image, I seek, by transformation, to reveal in objects of everyday life what they can be, or manifest, given they are brought in motion, which is not particularly pertinent to their nature. So, it’s the opposite of what I try to do as a scientist, where molecular motion at nanoscopic level is translated into steady-state observations with opto-electronic devices.

I hope the approach to creating my images results in new and unexpected visual creations enriching viewers with new emotions and thoughts.

My life is a cascade of transitions, transformations, and quite unobvious and unpredictable revelations regarding what I was, am, and/or potentially can be. There are several examples of that throughout my lifespan. The pertinent one is that I started my adult life as a Ph.D. in Biophysics and may retire as an ‘artist’. The start happened in Russia, and retirement will, hopefully, happen in the US.

Never stop, move forward despite obstacles and misunderstandings from others. You just have your Way and your own Guiding star.

Irina Ciszczon is a Russian-born artist and photographer, embarked on a new chapter on a new chapter of her life in 2015 when she moved to the United States at the age of 50. Starting from scratch in a new country, I found solace and purpose in my passion for the arts. My artistry is inspired by my life experiences and the challenges I faced during my transition to a new culture and way of life. My work often reflects my personal journey, showcasing resilience, hope, and perseverance. My Life story is a testament to the power of passion and creativity to transcend boundaries and overcome adversity.

Ilana Dashe (Dasheprints), is a Colombian/American designer who investigates the mediums of printmaking. Using her extensive background in graphic design and marketing, Ilana draws much inspiration from her interpretation of Japan's natural and man-made wonders that, while appearing to be on opposite ends of the spectrum, are in fact, inherently intertwined.

Ilana Dashe is a Colombian/American designer based in North County San Diego making hand-printed lithographs and silkscreen prints that provide her take on Japan – its beauty in nature, icons and architecture – how seemingly contradictory elements blend together.

Ilana’s work is greatly inspired by her experiences living as a foreigner in Tokyo. Searching to fulfill her artistic passion in Japan, she has learned both lithograph and silkscreen print techniques locally. Ilana loves the challenging process and effort required in hand-printing and the textured, natural look that is produced. She has exhibited her prints in Tokyo since 2017.

Ilana received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis in Visual Communications with a focus on graphic design.

After university, she returned to Southern California to begin her design career at an advertising agency, and then at a design studio before starting her own design consultancy, Avanti Creative, LLC in 2011.

Ilana and her family lived in Geneva, Switzerland for five years prior to moving to Tokyo in 2015.

“EliZe” da Jose – Artist Statement

I understand art as a way of emotionally experiencing reality and a universal language of

communication.

Without conscious e?ort and thought, I try to fill my paintings with expressions strong

enough to let the spectator feel the energy put in the depth of the canvas, transforming the

perception of picture into his own art act.

Most recently, I find myself inspired to focus on developing and exploring the connection

between iconography and abstraction in light of Cosmism philosophy. The inspiration of

this uniquely blended style came about as briefly explained in the following.

I believe that abstract painting was and still is an artist’s attempt at capturing and

expressing Plato's world of ideas which is invisible to the earthly eyes. Then, at the

beginning of the 20th century came the avant-gardism of Filonov and Malevich which was a

rebellion against physicality, materialism and petty-bourgeois consumption.

Iconography takes its roots from the symbiosis of antique vivid imagery and spiritual

practices of Ancient Egypt. From ancient times to the present day, man has never stopped

asking himself questions about who he is and what his true role in this world is.

My newfound unique style of blending iconography and abstract painting is somehow an

endeavour to continue humanity’s perennial e?ort and desire to capture and express the

depth of the invisible world via visible materials, to have a glimpse of the heavenly realm via

earthly instruments, akin to Plato and Malevich’s line of thinking.

In my work, I try to find an image of the elusive other shore - where every soul aspires to go -

and trying to find artful means to communicate what is di?icult to express in words.

ELIZAVETA DAJOSE (Artist Name: Elize)

Elize daJose is a professional artist, sculptor, iconographer and illustrator.

Her artworks primarily consist of a unique blend of abstract art and icon painting, experimenting with various materials, although her favorite media remain acrylic painting and ceramics.

Born in Moscow, Russia, her life as an artist started at a very young age. One day on a snowy street in her hometown, she bought Kazimir Malevich’s book from a peddler which turned her consciousness upside down and defined her entire life path.

From 1996 to 2000, she religiously undertook painting, sculpture, and graphics in various workshops of Moscow artists.

Since 2001, she has been working in the creative workshops of the Babushkinsky Sculpture Combine and in 2002, she became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, sculpture section.

From 2002 to 2010, she actively participated in group exhibitions at the Central House of Artists, Gallery on Kuznetsky Most, Darwin Museum, and Timiryazev Museum.

In 2010, she participated in the Annual Art Juried Competition in Los Angeles, CA, and became a laureate.

In 2011, she took part in the collective exhibition "Woman Day Art Exhibits" at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, and in 2012 she had a solo exhibition "Three Artists" at Liz Loft Gallery, LA, CA.

In 2016, Elize moved to California and actively participated in collective exhibitions, including the "Summer Exhibit" at Bergamot Station Art Center in Santa Monica (2016), "Brain Art Event" at Lark Gallery/The Chiari Project in West Hollywood (2017), and "The Art of Transformation" at Brick & Mortar Loiter Galleries in Long Beach (2023), among many others.

In 2025, Elize was awarded the Silver Medal at the New York International Art Juried Competition, "The Light from the Other Shore."

In 2026, an essay featuring Elize's creativity and spiritual development was published in the book "Revelations of the Artist - Deep Calls to Deep", curated by ArtServe International.

Elize is an active member of the Los Angeles Art Association and Riverside Community Arts Association. She is currently represented by Lark Gallery in West Hollywood and Literary Engineers, LLC in Benicia, CA.

I embarked on my journey as an artist just a few years ago, initially experimenting with colored pencil sketches. As my artistic exploration evolved, I delved into the realm of digital manipulation, utilizing graphic software to transform my creations in diverse ways. However, it was my collaboration with AI that truly ignited a new chapter in my artistic development. Working alongside artificial intelligence infused my creative process with fresh inspiration and boundless possibilities. With each artwork, I strive to evoke emotion and resonance, hoping that my pieces will resonate with your hearts and find their rightful place in your lives.

Was born in Moscow, have been living in Los Angeles since 1992.

My photographic collages are layers of my reflections and observations, being personal, political or historical.

Like our life experiences, these thoughts accumulate on top of each other, to create my feelings and emotions that get expressed in the artwork.

The layering process coincides with the synthesis of creating visual pieces that invites one to investigate and explore the given information.

Like in previous works of mine, made on glass, the technique and the transparencies in my photographic digital collages are an important part of the art, they emphasis the build-up process and the blending which creates the images.

Vered Galor has been involved with the fine art world as an artist, curator and educator for over thirty years. She received her BA and MA in Fine Art from California State University in Northridge in 1975 and 1978.

Mrs. Galor started her career as glass sculptor. In 1981 she established a business doing curatorial projects and consulting in Contemporary Fine Art.

She lectured, participated in discussions and wrote art programs to encourage the collaboration of Art and Architecture.

Since 1989 Mrs. Galor has been concentrating on photography. She has been creating here own work, teaching photography and showing with galleries in Los Angeles California, Fort Collins and Loveland, Colorado and Las Vegas Nevada.

Janet’s primary artistic focus is painting abstracts expressing positive energy, flowing with huge swaths of textured acrylic on canvas. The intent is to uplift and/or instill a sense of peacefulness and fulfillment, plus joy and healing for the viewer. Janet’s lifelong passion and pursuit revolves around art and creativity.

Janet unleashes the power of Visuals through Art, Website Design, Branding and Vision Board Workshops.

Find out more about Janet's Art by visiting her website: https://janetgervers.com/

While a lifelong artist, I didn’t pursue art as a career until 8 years ago, where I focused on developing as an abstract painter, selected for juried and invitational shows, including the 2020 Los Angeles Art Show selected for a BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica juried show in 2019, 2022 and coming in June 2023..

Art’s in my fabric and my purpose is uplifting people. While my first career has been graphic, website and branding design, it’s vital developing on my path as an artist.

Started as Curator Organizer

I founded Venice Arts Collective, 2003-08 creating opportunities for artists in Venice, Santa Monica and Los Angeles.I curated and exhibited in the Venice Centennial Art Show at SPARC, 2005.

My digital art was exhibited three years at Councilman Bill Rosendahl, 11th District, West Los Angeles Office.

Paintings exhibited in a juried show (Juri Koll, Curator) in Venice, plus the Venice Art Crawl, 2015/16 .

In 2018, I was invited to be Solo Painter at Hollywood Sculpture Garden.

I was invited to exhibit in the Los Angeles Art Show in 2020 by BG Gallery, a highlight of my art career.

Websites: Art: https://janetgervers.com

Design: https://jagmedia.net

I was born in Russia, in the city of crafts and artists, Sergiev Posad. I graduated with honors from the Ekaterina Higher School of Folk Arts in 2010. I lived and worked in Moscow for a long time, where I graduated in design in 2013.

As for my work, I am always inspired by the lyrical and beautiful nature that surrounds us. Through the lens of my own vision, I combine colors, shapes and materials that intertwine to create a unique and distinctive aesthetic for my work. Some of my paintings are in private collections in Russia, Asia and Europe.

"My art allows me to see the beauty – the color and design – in ordinary everyday objects, in buildings, in clothing, in nature.

We are all surrounded by beauty. All we need to do is stop, look and take it all in."

Georganne Aldrich Heller, daughter of the famous fashion designer and art collector Larry Aldrich and a successful designer is an artist in her own right. She makes collages building on the vision that drove her long career as a theatrical producer in New York. Each collage and boxed construction represents a setting of evolving mysteries, opening the way to surreal dramas inviting viewers to enter the world of her dreams, yet unruled by any sort of literary content. Instead, Heller favors a lucid, iconic approach where the “thingness” of shapes and substances is allowed its own expression, her visual reasoning riding on the dynamic that powered western art through a half century of experiment, from cubism to De Stijl.

✨ My Mission ✨

Through my art, I seek to help others experience a spiritual awakening — to rediscover inner harmony, hear the heart at deeper levels, and remember the Song of the Soul. My intention is to assist individuals in reconnecting with the soul of our planet, Gaia, and with the consciousness of plants, animals, and the greater cosmos — the galaxies and stellar systems that mirror the vastness within us.

With my paintings, I strive to create spaces that invite reflection, transformation, and healing. Each artwork becomes an environment for exploring certain states of mind and energy — helping to release negative patterns, restore balance and confidence, and awaken intuition and higher awareness.

My aim is to awaken, inspire, harmonize, and fill hearts with beauty, wonder, and a sense of the sublime.

With my art, I seek to create environments and settings that invite contemplation and transformation. Each painting becomes a space for working with certain states of mind and energy — helping to release negative patterns, restore balance and confidence, and awaken intuition and higher awareness. My aim is to inspire, harmonize, and fill hearts with beauty, wonder, and a sense of the sublime.

Each of my artworks is born with a particular intention, setting, or mood — I embed frequencies of emotion and meaning within the paint itself. Thus, my paintings can serve as portals for meditation, reflection, and inner alignment. Through them, I also express my admiration for the beauty and diversity of life on Earth and the infinite expanse of the Universe — its stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, and unseen worlds beyond.

✨ Oil Paintings of Night and Light ✨

Space • Cosmos • Other Dimensions

Angels • Archangels • Ascended Masters

Spirits of Gaia • Animal Totems

Sacred Places of Power on Earth

Paintings for Meditation • Inspiration • Healing • Harmonization

✨ Energy Portraits • Color Therapy ✨

Izabel Raa is an award-winning Russian-born American artist, music composer, and author. Her paintings serve as gateways to meditation — vivid portals into states of balance, serenity, and awakening. Drawing on years of spiritual practice across diverse traditions, Izabel creates works that transport the viewer into a higher emotional and energetic resonance. Her intention is to restore love, wonder, and healing to one’s life through art infused with presence and soul.

A true citizen of the world, Izabel follows the call of movement and inspiration, creating wherever she feels resonance. Her creative path has led her through many Places of Power across the globe — from the Himalayas and Mount Uluru to Mount Fuji, the ancient temples of Nepal, Thailand, and Bali, as well as the mystical landscapes of Sedona, Mount Shasta, Monument Valley, and Hawaii. She has also journeyed to the Amazon jungles of Peru, the Egyptian pyramids, and the sacred dolmens of Russia. Each of these places nourishes her art, infusing it with the spirit of the Earth and the infinite Cosmos.

Her artistic journey began in 2013 in California, where she started painting in oil while simultaneously composing music — crafting electronic, cinematic, and meditative soundscapes that evoke both intimacy and vastness. From ambient and experimental sound worlds to piano and string compositions filled with emotion, Izabel’s music transcends genres, exploring the mysterious bridge between sound and color. Her works can be found on all major platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube.

Izabel’s first exhibition took place in 2017 in Sedona, Arizona — the mystical heart of North America. Since then, her artworks have been exhibited in the United States, Italy, India, and Russia, featured in numerous shows, art events, and spiritual festivals dedicated to mindfulness, Buddhism, yoga, Hinduism, Orthodoxy, and Shamanism. Her paintings now reside in private collections and meditation centers worldwide.

She also creates energy portraits — personalized paintings attuned through meditation to the unique vibration of each individual. Working from a person’s photograph, Izabel channels their energy onto canvas, crafting custom artworks delivered globally.

Exhibitions and Events

2017

• Jerome (Sedona), Arizona, USA - Art Walk Event, Yester Day’s Gallery (Jan 2017).

• Jerome (Sedona), Arizona, USA - “The Love of Art,” Art Walk Event, Yester Day’s Gallery (Feb 2017).

• St. Petersburg, Russia - Participation in Budart Art Retreat for Artists (June 2017).

• San Francisco, California, USA - Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Zen Center (Aug 1 - Sept 9, 2017).

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Meditative Art Exhibition and Performance, Budart Meditative Art Festival (Sept 16 - 21, 2017).

2018

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Yogananda Fest “Change Yourself to Change the World” (Apr 28, 2018).

• Lake Forest, Los Angeles Area, USA - Exhibition-sale, Thanksgiving Event, Gallery “Olympic” (Nov 2018).

2019-2020

• Moscow, Russia - Mini Exhibition, Gallery & Tea Club “Arteafact” (Nov 2019 - Jan 2020).

2020-present

• Divnomorskoye, Gelendzhik, Russia - Permanent exhibition, Private Gallery of Eco-Villa “Sea Chalice” (Oct 2020 - present).

2021

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Online Group Art Show and 2 Artists Zoom Meetings “SoulRise”; publication in Art & Beyond Magazine (Jan - Apr 2021).

• Moscow, Russia - “FreedOM’art,” Group Art Exhibition of Artists of the Spiritual Art Style (July 4, 2021).

2022

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Exhibition “Soul’s Flights” (Jan 7, 2022).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - “Universe of Soul,” Solo Exhibition with music album presentation and guided meditations, SMART Anti-Gallery (Jan - Feb 2022).

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Art Transforming Spaces” (Feb 1 - 15, 2022).

• Florence, Italy - International Prize Leonardo da Vinci - The Universal Artist (Feb 6, 2022).

2023

• West Hollywood, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “The Art of Wellness” (Mar 2023).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Exhibition “A Journey Through Inner Places of Power and Resourceful States of Consciousness” (Aug - Nov 2023).

2023-2024

• Divnomorskoye, Russia - Group Art Exhibition “Lumen” (Nov 2023 - Jan 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo art show during various music and art events (Nov 2023 - Mar 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Show in Café “Na Chile” (Dec 2023 - Apr 2024).

2024

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Harmony Within” (Feb - May 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Show in “Dom Dushi” (House of Soul) (Apr 2024).

• Divnomorskoye, Russia - Audio and visual art performance in Café “Lumen” (May 2024).

2024-2025

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Voices of Resilience” (Nov 2024 - May 2025).

2025

• Goa, India - Solo Exhibition “Whispers of the New Earth,” Saral - Café of New Earth (June 2025).

Publications

2017

• “Cathedral’s Magic” — featured in Jerome First Saturday Art Walk celebrates “The Love of Art”, Verde News / Kudos Magazine (Feb 2017).

• Articles and online features connected with the Jerome exhibitions:

– Jerome First Saturday Art Walk celebrates "The Love of Art"

– Jerome Art Walk, February 4, 2017

– Jerome Art Walk to have Valentine’s Day focus

• San Francisco Zen Center Blog — “August Art Show: Izabel Raa” (July 14, 2017).

• Artists on Art Magazine — “Beholders of the Night: A Summer Solstice Oil Painting” (2017).

2018

• Art & Beyond Magazine, July/August Issue — Feature article with paintings “Infinity” and “The Dance of Love”, presented by LarkGallery.

2021

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Summer SoulRise Special Issue — Feature article with paintings “Violet-Blue Heart of the Universe”, “The Way to the Abode of Masters”, "The Path Through Dimensions" and "Mysterious Night of Azur".

• Interview with Artist: Izabel Raa — LarkGallery blog (2021).

2022

• Art International Contemporary Magazine, Issue #1 (Jan–Feb 2022) — Feature the artwork “The Cat, Stardust and Cosmic Fireplace”, or “Where the Love Is”.

• Leonardo da Vinci – The Universal Artist, Florence, Italy — Award and catalog publication (Feb 2022).

2024

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Spring Issue — Feature article and paintings “Enchanted World” and “Alma de Primavera”.

• "Женщина Мира. Пробуждение истины" ("Woman of the World. Awakening of Truth") (Russia) — Printed almanac publication featuring artworks and an article about the artist (2024).

2025

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Winter 2025 — Feature article and paintings “Road to Monument Valley”.

Awards

• International Prize Leonardo da Vinci – The Universal Artist, Florence, Italy (2022).

Links

https://bio.site/izabelraa

https://izabelraa.com/

https://www.instagram.com/izabelraaart/

https://www.facebook.com/izabelraa/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/15QFm0wjlxvNIAO6UVWCkS

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/izabel-raa/1544850360

https://www.pandora.com/artist/all-albums/izabel-raa/AR5xV5gfJrmgwxX

https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08QMLLQGM/izabel-raa

https://www.youtube.com/@IzabelRaa

I make art

to communicate

what I cannot communicate with words;

what I need to say

about what's going on in the world around us;

what I cannot fix;

what I wish I could make different

with my paint and clay

or metal and wood;

I work very hard at it -

always with my hands,

smearing, scraping, sanding -

until the experience becomes intimately personal;

communication is at the heart of every creation,

wedded to a humanistic concern;

I yearn with passion to make sense of it all;

fulfillment comes

only after I am personally satisfied

with having known, experienced and conveyed -

or at least tried to convey,

an ongoing, meaningful conversation;

a conversation that has found its way in the work itself;

a conversation that may potentially transpire

a continuance of the same with each viewer -

long after the paint has dried.

Julienne Johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. She has been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting, with both Grammy and Dove Award nominations to her credit. Her latest music was released in Oslo, Norway, April 2019 for award winning producer, Knut Asphol. Her poetry has been published in the United States, and the UK. Despite her success in these areas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts – her strongest, most direct form of communication.

She trained classically as a fine arts major at Taylor University, Indiana and continued painting representationally for the next ten years doing commissions, while exhibiting minimally. Much later, after re-settling in Los Angeles, Johnson returned to studying art briefly at Otis College of Art & Design in 2005, transferring to Art Center College of Design in 2006 where she custom coordinated a Master’s-level type program and was mentored by the late Franklyn Liegel.

Since 2010, Johnson has been honored with 5 solo exhibitions across the United States, including a solo museum show at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art; her sculpture and paintings have been included in numerous museum shows around the world, including: Armenia, Japan, China, Qatar, Italy and Thailand. Her work can be found in 7 Museum Permanent Collections internationally and can be viewed on permanent exhibition at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, and several museums in Italy and Thailand. Residencies include: China, Italy, Japan, Thailand and Mexico.

Her work can be found in private and corporate collections across the globe. She resides in Southern California.

I am a retired nurse that has been doing energy work since I was a child. I found a technology (Lifestream Generator), that was very helpful in my own health journey. I have been able to help others as well.

Leader of the International Bunker Art group, Kiki is constantly mastering his abstract expressionist techniques.

His art works are on display in the state museums in Germany, Armenia, Estonia, Kazakhstan and constitute an important part of the Nancy and Norton Dodge collection of the Zimmerly Art Museum in New Jersey.

My art name is Lark - the bird that lingers between the earth and the sky. We artists do it at the moment of inspiration and meditation. That's how I create my art. I meditate and start with the spontaneous movements of my instruments; usually it is not a brush. A brush makes me think. My instruments are usually just pieces of cardboard. I also paint on any surface – canvas, board, plexiglass, glass, wood, etc – and I love to experiment and see what happens. My best creations take place in a state of no mind.

Although I begin the way abstract expressionists do and use some sumi-e techniques, eventually most of my creation starts shaping as abstract or impressionistic landscapes as ocean, sky, trees, flowers and mountain views start appearing from the formless. Nature is my source of inspiration, but instead of landscape details I channel nature's moods, the feeling of being one with nature, and swimming in its atmospheric light.

Light is what drives me to continue working. My mission is always to bring more light to people around me with my art, poetry and meditations. I know that viewers feel joy, peace and harmony when they look at my work, enter and settle inside it because it heals their emotional wounds and it makes me happy. Being an artist is an opportunity to express the fountain of my creative energy and at the same time serve people's needs in beauty that will heal the world.

When people perceive the light, the high and playful energy that my paintings emanate, they start feeling they are back in the fairy-tale world of their childhood, when their soul was open to transformations and miracles, and they feel like Alice in her enchanting wonderland.

From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Santa Monica Museum Art Director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz.

Fusing classical and contemporary art traditions, Lark's award-winning artworks carry her signature gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color palettes. They have been featured in the many prestigious exhibitions, art catalogs and sold globally in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, Armenia, Canada, Sweden and many other countries. In 2021 - 2025 Lark's art was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Shiba City Museum of Art In Japan where Lark got two Gold Awards in the group shows.

About the Art

Each art piece you see was created with the intent to bring positive energy to the viewer and to the space it is placed in. Each piece has an additional, specific intention such as providing protection, healing, prosperity,creativity, relaxation, and passion to the space in which it is placed. The artist took special care to be in a positive, meditative state while creating these pieces.

About the Artist

Anastasia Lebedeva comes from a family of experimental artists, she has been trained in classical schools of art since a very early age and exposed to a wonderful and eclectic collection of art and artists since birth. Anastasia also goes by the name Simrit Kaur and has been KRI certified to teach Kundalini yoga since 2007 and Prenatal Kundalini Yoga since 2008. The quality of the mental state that meditation brings influences her ethos greatly as she aims to translate that bliss into art that radiates the same. The aesthetic of her paintings is always to uplift both the space it is in as well as the viewer.

I’m an abstract symbolist who works with color, texture, shape and storytelling imagery to convey my wonder and appreciation for this earthly experience we call life. I want to excite the sensibilities, to engulf, saturate. I have many messages but, mostly, my work invites others to address and confront the power of simple beauty, the incunabula, the unknown, rites of passages, epiphanies, rebirth. Transformation is a constant in life and essential to our evolution. Each step we take is sacred and decides the journey. Every breath requires a new commitment to courage. My paintings examine the personas, the bodies, the heavens, dark and mysterious corners, the stopping places and launching pads of the soul. I’m deeply affected by the style of the original artists, the cave painters. Scientists opine they were women. These days my studio features drawings by DaVinci, photos from the Webb telescope and undersea animals. I live in the crossfire of science, art and personal healing.

I am often thoughtful of unity and through-line, I seek to convey a freedom and visceral truth that is unencumbered by any one message or agenda. This allows me to construct each work with a joyful, exploratory energy.

Montealegre’s art education emerged under the tutelage of abstract painter, Robert Kingston.

She is a recipient of the Puffin Foundation Grant for her performance art piece: Portrait of the First Woman.

Montealegre has continued to win prizes for her paintings and her works are featured in several publications.

Montealegre’s recent BELLINGHAM'S WHATCOM MUSEUM presentation of her painting, Heal Thyself! was featured in the Lightcatcher building where Eva performed a joyful song to introduce the curator's presentation.

2015 Eva is included in the prestigious Latina Art Initiative founded by Linda Vallega. She is vetted as one of the best Latin Artists in the country.

2015 Eva Montealegre is named a BEST ARTIST when ARTAVITA chooses the BEST ARTISTS in an international contest.

HIGGS BOSON, PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST WOMAN, the original painting by Eva Montealegre, a 64" x 96" oil on canvas, is featured in FIRST POST to announce the Nobel Prize Award to Peter Higgs for his creation theory explaining the origin of the Universe.

Eva’s painting, MOON ONE, is featured in the art book, ART TAKES TIMES SQUARE. Her figurative painting of a woman titled, CREATIVE CALL, is featured in the art book, WOMEN'S RIGHTS: An Artist’s Perspective sponsored by UniteWomen.Org. Her work has been honored by the City of Los Angeles in calendars and catalogs. She has participated in a number of Los Angeles community events.

2012 Eva's painting of the sun, IT'S ALRIGHT, receives first prize from WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART. That same year Eva's painting DEEP VEIN #3 is presented at MOLAA'S WOMAN FESTIVAL.

I was born in St.Petersburg, Russia.

Moved to California in 1995.

I've been a Holistic health pratitioner for many years. I'm passionate about helping people through different healing modalities, Aromatherapy and Essential Oils.

The boats that I feature in my work are a symbol of the city's history and its ongoing relationship with the River Thames. They are also a reflection of my own personal journey, having moved to London from Russia.

My work is characterized by bold, vibrant colors and expressive brushstrokes. I strive to create paintings that are both visually striking and emotionally engaging. Each painting is a unique exploration of color, texture, and form, and I am constantly experimenting with new techniques and materials.

As an artist, I am committed to pushing the boundaries of traditional painting techniques and exploring new ways of representing the world around us. My hope is that my paintings will inspire others to see the beauty in the world around them and to appreciate the rich history and culture.

Ekaterina is an artist with extensive experience in various areas of art, including painting, graphics, and ceramics. She graduated from The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, which is one of the top art and design universities in Russia.

She has over 25 years of experience as an art practitioner. Her works are represented in the collections of leading museums in Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, and other countries. Additionally, there are numerous private collections in Austria and Germany.

Over the past few decades, she has participated in and organized exhibitions, creative symposia, and other international art programs. Ekaterina has won several international art competitions, and she is also a member of the jury and chairman of creative competitions in Europe. Since 2008, she has conducted a private art studio for young artists.

My hope is to move someone in one way shape or form.

Craig Pady was first exposed to the world of visual arts while attending public school in Toronto, Ontario. Raised in Don Mills, Craig had his first taste of success in the visual arts milieu when his work 'The Baron' won a competition and was displayed in shopping centres across Canada.

Later, as a musician and Dj and Music Supervisor for Television and Radio broadcaster, he spent many hours in bars, clubs and sound studios, surrounded by fellow enthusiasts, musicians, engineers and producers. But Craig never completely eschewed the visual arts. When time could be spared, the hours were spent in the studios of sculptors, photographers, illustrators and painters. Craig is known for his passion and very intense reaction to music. And recently, when he put his pen back to paper after an extended hiatus, he noticed that the sounds he heard were driving his pen. Then evolution took over and soon thereafter, he shifted his medium to paints and canvasses.

His approach is unique in the sense that he literally paints the music he hears by allowing the brush to follow the notes as they are being played. The sounds that drive this unique method of creation are often emanating from his extensive vinyl collection. It is something you have to see ? and hear ? to truly understand.

Patrizia delved into Traditional Oriental Medicine after discovering its wisdom and efficacy through personal experience, receiving a Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine Summa cum Laude from Emperor's College. Patrizia has also trained with the American Institute of Mental Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Her background encompasses both sciences and humanities. After graduating from the University of Rome (Italy), she received a Master of Science from UCLA, where she then pursued further studies in Epistemology. Her dual interests first converged in the exploration of Kundalini Yoga (KRI Certified Instructor since 2001), a practice that continues today.

She is an avid reader and enjoys solving puzzles

(thin places) an exploration of the in between or betwixt

Lisa Rasmussen is a painter, art advocate, environmental artist, and educator. She was born in Wisconsin and has her roots in Scandinavia and Ireland. Lisa comes from a working class family, who has always supported her to follow her dreams to become an Artist. Her late Mother, Mickey was Lisa’s Muse, she fostered in her the practice of Art as being a form of expression and personal healing. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.

For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around.

Lisa Rasmussen is an award winning artist and educator. She is the Co-founding Executive Director of the new paradigm, award winning Art 4 All People LLC in Malibu. . She has over 6 years experience working at high-end fine art galleries in Chicago and San Francisco. She has sold original works created by Picasso, Chagall, Rembrandt, Dali, Miro, among others.Lisa is also a professional Transformative Artist and Teacher. Currently her work is being represented at a San Francisco Bay Area Fine Art Gallery. Additionally, Lisa pioneered an award-winning expressive art program for emotionally traumatized and abused youth in Oakland, and developed a professional art gallery for the residents of Lincoln Child Center. She has also taught expressive art to elders, at-risk teens, and has been an art coach to adults. Lisa is also the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Non-profit Art is Moving and Art Break Day, which is community art reach event offering people the means and the space to bond with their community via the art-making process.

My collage work has been a creative outlet for expression & healing for many years. I spin above life's issues and speak from my heart when I glue images onto cardboard. Healing comes through art, my ancestors' wisdom comes through art and brings discovery of self, amazement and wonder.

Deborah Santana is an author, business manager, and activist for peace and social justice. Her non-profit, Do A Little, serves women and girls in the areas of health, education, and happiness. With a passion to provide educational opportunities for girls and women, Ms. Santana collaborates with organizations that work to prevent and heal relationship and sexual violence, improve the lives of America's abused and neglected children, and a worldwide community of artists and allies who work for empowerment, opportunity, and visibility for women artists.

In 2005, she published her memoir: Space Between the Stars that told of her experiences growing up as a bi-racial child, and her coming of age.

Ms. Santana has produced five short documentary films, four with Emmy-award winning director Barbara Rick: Road to Ingwavuma, Girls of Daraja, School of My Dreams, and Powerful Beyond Measure. These films highlight the work of non-profit partners in South Africa, and the Daraja Academy, a free secondary boarding school for girls in Kenya.

The joy of painting and the pursuit of creative vision are at the core of my artistic practice.

Since early childhood, making art has been inseparable from a sense of wonder—an experience of connecting to something greater than myself. I have long been drawn to the mysterious ways in which art comes into being, as if it possesses a life of its own, capable of guiding both the creator and the viewer. In this process, art has the power to engage, mesmerize, and even transform.

Like Wassily Kandinsky, I believe that art can generate a spiritual and healing atmosphere. Whether consciously or intuitively, the artist may access a higher source, allowing the work to emerge as an expression of inner necessity. Kandinsky described art as a manifestation of the soul, suggesting that “everything which adequately expresses the inner need is beautiful.” This idea continues to resonate deeply within my own practice.

My background as an art historian has further shaped this perspective. Across cultures and historical periods, art has often been linked to ritual, transformation, and shifts in perception—experiences that move beyond the material and temporal toward the infinite and eternal. Ancient philosophical traditions recognized art as a means of transcending ordinary reality, a concept that continues to inform my work.

As an artist, I see the act of creation as sharing affinities with mysticism and the idea of “traveling between worlds.” In this sense, art becomes not only a form of expression but also a process of discovery and connection. It serves as a vital and generative force—one that supports both spiritual exploration and personal well-being.

Tatiana Sizonenko, PhD, is an art historian and a beginner painter. Originally born in Ukraine, educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in San Diego, CA, Tatiana currently resides in San Diego. Tatiana teaches history of art at CSUSM, Design Institute of San Diego, and UCSD.

My paintings come out as attempts to "translate" from ideograms and fantastic hieroglyphs that I see in the patterns of nature, most often in the tree bark.

It is like listening to a song in an unknown language. Everyone will have their own guess of what the words might say, but the main theme of the song will be recognized.I am so thrilled by the moments of gazing into the patterns of nature when intuition gives a glimpse from the world of archetypes. I think that trees are books and libraries that can be read, perhaps as well as any thing around if we attune to it…

My paintings are sort of "snapshots" from the process of reading the Book of Nature by the mind;these "snapshots" are somewhere in between the imagery and the language.The mind projects meanings onto the shapes and lines, but they are being reflected back, startling and puzzling… there is always a sensation of a mirror dialog, of having been "read" yourself by the Book of Nature...

born in Baku, Azerbajan, lived in Moscow since 16 years old, moved to L.A. in 1992;

M.F.A. in Film &Tv( Animation major) from UCLA;

involved in painting, writing and illustrating, cartooning, mixed media, paper theatre, small size dioramas

Madelyn Webb

“LAMAZO”

Artist Statement.

Art Coming From Life And It Is A Life. The purpose of her art is to connect, to give anyone looking at her work at certain ways in which she sees uncompromising realism, surrealism, transcended by powerful contrasts of light.

BIOGRAPHY.

Madelyn Webb

Madelyn Webb started painting at a young age, had desires of being an artist. At school ages in art class she draw a painting by her imagination, but her teacher didn’t like it because it wasn’t following his standards. After a while that painting took a first place at regional art festival.

After that she start to draw at home studio and didn’t show her art to any professionals.

She’s immigrated to the United States in hopes of pursuing her passion for the fine arts. Madelyn attended art and music classes at LA City College, but dropped out because she had home situations and taking care of sick parents.

Throughout the years she dabbled in art as a hobby but never fully pursued it.

She went on to get her masters by attending Los Angeles Film School Academy where she’s focus on art and perspectives. She realized that her calling was art, even friends encourage her to be an artist, and that is when she put her full focus on paintings and being an artist. She had guidance by a few renounced artists. Madelyn’s works are a part of various collections. Her highly abstract improvisations have become increasingly representational.

The purpose of her art is to connect, to give anyone looking at her work at certain ways in which she sees uncompromising realism, surrealism, transcended by powerful contrasts of light.

The current collection she has out has been in the works for about 3 years with some paintings that go back more then many

Memorable images, powerful interaction, symbolism – these are defining features of Victoria Zelenikina’s art.

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Victoria was born in October 1992, Novorossiysk, Russia.

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Victoria is a self-learner, therefore she has no limits or rules in her artworks. She does not admit there is the right or wrong way to create. This is why it’s always difficult to define the genre of her works. She paints the way she feels.

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Victoria made some drawings under the unknown circumstances, therefore it is quite challenging to put them in line with ordinary pieces. There are some paintings made while sleepwalking. When the artist recollects herself on the floor covered with paints and curiously looks over an image on the canvas, does it really matter if this image has skewed horizon?

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Victoria creates her own reality escaping from the real world. She suffers from somnambulism (sleepwalking) which brings many of her story lines. She depicts different images and subjects while fully asleep and being looked after by her husband. These ideas soon thereafter become realized and transform into another work of art. Creating new worlds cures the artist’s soul though letting everything out.

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Victoria’s artworks encourage a deeper view of the pictures, a search for something extraordinary or even spiritual in familiar images. If one succeeds, this will allow going beyond the limits of human understanding.