Our Artists

“Those that Reach” is the second piece in a painting series about soul searching. This piece is the catalyst of a spiritual journey— the moment of truly turning inwards and venturing within your own heart. Those that reach will always find that what they are searching for is reaching back.

I’m a South African and internationally trained Bench Jeweller and Jewellery Designer with extensive experience spanning European and American goldsmithing techniques. Recognised for expertise in 3D design (with awards including Best of Show at FVCC and selection for the prestigious SNAG juried exhibitions). Combined a unique mix of traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design tools to create unique and sculptural pieces. Strong cultural awareness, bilingual skills (English and Afrikaans) and a global outlook gained via international experience.

As an abstract and surrealist digital photographer, I create hallucinatory dreamscapes and landscapes ~ a realm of intense colors, shapes, and textures that tell myriad stories that defy everyday logic. Using only original material, I work exclusively with my iPhone to discover what surprises that phone apps, layering, and blending present to me. To this end, I am inspired by my surroundings as I continue to ripen my visual style by weaving together technology and nature into digital collages of eccentric imagery.

My improvisations often result in painterly abstract images that give viewers a tactile visual experience that transcends the ordinary. The concept I’ve been exploring lately arises from a desire to play with surrealist storytelling in a collage setting. Often embracing a Lilliputian perception of the world, it allows me to explore the interactions between architecture and human beings, as they exist in the cinema of our dreams.

I will shoot and then combine people and places from as many unnatural angles and perspectives as I can, which adds to each story. I often include close ups of flowers in the mix, thereby continuing an earlier abstract phase of my photographic pursuits which began with the onset of Covid in 2020. I am then layering not only the images themselves, but also the actual stories each one tells. As such, I entice viewers to share my dreams, which are truly a continuing break from “reality” and an adventure to see the unseen.

At 73 years old, I have turned to photography as my primary means of creativity, after a long, rich life collaborating in film, music, and particularly the theater, as a sound designer in NYC, and I've carried the lessons of that arena into my photography. My tastes are stimulated by an eclectic spectrum of artists from every art form, era, and genre whose spirits never fail to encourage my creativity. I’m an Outsider and a Late Bloomer, and shaping and sharing these abstract and surreal photographs is my response to the chaos of modern life, offering both my viewers and I moments of sublime immersion and escape.

"MetroVerse" is a multiple exposure photo print, utilizing visual layering to embody the constant state of urban adaptation. The superimposed images fracture and re-form the cityscape, mirroring how we must constantly process, merge, and navigate conflicting moments and demands simply to survive.

The digital space was created to seek ideas and human connection. This connection has helped people grow and evolve. As the connections grew, so did we. As time passed, we’ve strayed further from the the positive growth and in all the chaos and noise from misinformation, AI slop, and hate, one message grows louder and louder. As the tech companies grow and AI infiltrates everyday life, our critical thinking and connection to ourselves shrinks. As AI does the thinking for us and our algorithm feeds us insecurities, we can hear only one message - CONFORM.

My main passion is the wearable art of jewelry and talismans. I primarily utilize stainless steel findings paired with natural gemstones and pearls. I also use leather, shell, varying metals, paint and more. I love to use wood as well as incorporate jewelry into a common canvas.

My practice is a research-based and transdisciplinary art practice. I make work through a visual and experiential practice, along with written research, often accompanying each piece. I'm always up for a challenge and love trying new things, so I enjoy a variety of media. I hope to expand my horizons even further by using my trans-disciplinary art practice to include media that aren’t often paired, incorporating my jack-of-all-trades attitude into the new pieces I create. I am interested in how stories are told and art is made in a post-internet age. I am also interested in how bodies are portrayed, seen, and viewed in this time period.

Eros is an illustration, comics, and printmedia artist with an education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their illustration work is rooted in surreal anatomy and personal relationship to the body through a transgender lens, as well as surreal expression of love for the self and queer intimacy.

Painting is how I process and communicate the world. My work is my voice for the feelings and emotions I struggle to speak and find words for. The intense emotions of motherhood - love, sleepless nights, connection. The intense emotions of depression and loneliness. The intense emotions of simply living - finding joy, spirituality, friendship. When words fail me, colors and shapes become my voice. That voice is my work. It is my hope that my voice resonates with you.

These two video works use satirical commercial formats to examine how artists adapt to
the shifting social, institutional, and psychological landscapes of Miami’s art world.
Through parody, magical realism, and heavily stylized advertising language, the pieces
expose systems of visibility, cultural gatekeeping, performative inclusion, and the
nightlife-infused environments that shape artistic production.
By adopting the aesthetics of skincare ads and law-firm commercials, the works reveal
how artists evolve identities, strategies, and survival mechanisms within a scene
defined equally by ambition, glamour, critique, and chaos. Humor becomes a lens to
explore transformation, resilience, and the unspoken pressures embedded in Miami’s
cultural ecosystem.

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I view the process of drawing and painting as an enchanted retreat—an opening into meditation
and self-discovery. My practice blends watercolor with pen & ink or pencil, a combination that
allows for both precision and detail while also embracing looseness and spontaneity. Creating,
for me, is about balance—between order and freedom, control and release.
Through my work, I hope to offer viewers a magical space to pause, breathe, and smile. I have
been influenced by the luminous, haunting illustrations of Kay Nielsen, the dreamlike elegance
of Itzchak Tarkay, and the ornamental richness of Gustav Klimt, whose use of pattern, gold, and
symbolic detail inspires my own pursuit of “visual poetry” through line, silhouette, and color.
My work can best be described as modernized folk art—pattern-rich, sometimes layered with
watercolor washes, and animated by subtle shifts in light and texture. I often incorporate
shimmering paints that catch the light, producing a dreamlike glow. Rooted in my love of
folklore, mythology, nature, and the mysterious wonder woven throughout it, my art is an
invitation to step into a world both whimsical and reflective.

The fragility of humans is a concept I love to decontextualize from innocent intentions, to violent impulses. Taking these psychological spectrums, I tear into the human psyche at its most primal form because at our core we are still animals.

I create faith-inspired abstract digital artworks rooted in movement, color, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.