Jayn Anderson is a North Carolina based abstract painter. She spent her childhood on the East Coast before moving to England to study. During her years there, Jayn was afforded many opportunities to travel, including several solo trips. Some of her most memorable travels were to Mallorca, Ireland, Israel, Uruguay and the Czech Republic, as well as many other spectacular locations. These deeply meaningful experiences continue to shape the work that Jayn creates today.

Jayn embraces the inherent chaos of life, thriving in ever-changing environments. Her work mirrors this spontaneity and energy in every mark that she paints. Jayn has a fiercely independent spirit, with an empathetic, old soul. She uses music as a vessel to channel her experiences and the emotions they evoke into her artwork. She prefers not to think about what she’s creating but instead letting intuition and automation be her guide. 

When she’s not creating, Jayn enjoys reading, exploring nature and staying active while spending time with her family. 

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Irena is a Czech based photographer who loves observing the world and portraying it through her feelings, dreams and moods.

The world is extremely interesting. And everyone is interesting.

She favors an individual approach and imaginative projects, bold ideas, original places and moody weather.

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Tara Bach is an ethereal abstract artist from Saugerties, New York. She has been painting professionally since 2015 and has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions. Taras work meets at the intersection of dreamscapes and reality. She is often playing with balancing elements of spontaneity and control. In her artworks, color and movement take over the canvas. She creates luminous, enchanting worlds that transport the viewer to a new place and invite them to appreciate her unique perspective of the natural world. She finds her inspiration in her connection nature and the universe. Whether it is the calm and peaceful essence of the ever-changing tide, the power of a vigorous storm, or the wonders of galaxies unknown, the changing elements resonate with her and remind her of life and its uncertainties. Much like the law of attraction, Tara shifts positive energy into her work, triggering a change in the surrounding environment and in this process, can attract improvements in health, wealth and personal relationships for those who view and surround themselves with her art.

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I've always found a refuge in words. Writings take care of what bodies fear: caresses and blows. Words materialize my sensations and weave a skin that is put outside my mouth on pages. I've studied philosophy and literature in Arts Faculty at the University of Geneva to grasp myself through texts and to penetrate and analyze others' language, in their sinuous paths. I became more and more attached to styles of writing, as well as to individuals because I felt an authentic discourse that revealed rich inner lands. However, my studies lacked the body. Theatre made me realize that my body spoke more than my words in a language that no one could translate, including me. Dance and performance sketched inimitable movements. The scores can be reproduced indefinitely, but the embodiment changes each time and it's this uniqueness that animates me. During my professional training as an actress at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Ecole Supérieure des Teintureries de Lausanne, encounters with artists such as Frédéric Fonteyne, Gian Manuel Rau, Emilie Blaser, Marco Cantalupo, Olivier Dubois, Jean-Baptiste Roybon and Massimo Furlan have carved rich inner grooves. The body in space is essential to me. My visual influences converge as much with Sophie Calle, who transcends private space by immersing the public, as with Spencer Tunick, who saturates public space with a crowd of individuals, blurring the boundaries between private and public. The art in which I identify myself is an art that gives an equal importance to places, objects, lights and people, whether this art is performative, choreographic, cinematographic or theatrical. I created the substance brute project from what I call Traum-a, a place between dream (Traum) and trauma. The result is a raw, unaltered material, bringing together my creations in various artistic fields.

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Tofo Bardi (b.2001) is a visual artist who draws inspiration from the depths of the human mind and enjoys working with the subject of altered consciousness.

She is a graduate of the University of Benin specializing in Painting. In her works, Bardi presents and intense preoccupation with the states of the mind, rites of passage and and expressive representation of what is real and unreal.

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Ellen Burgin is an abstract artist who works in a variety of mediums on paper and canvas.  Burgin’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of two museums: The Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama and the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana. She exhibits her work nationwide–most recently in the 35th Annual Northern National competition in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and the Valdosta National in Valdosta, Georgia. Burgin’s paintings are included in the publications Artists of the Bay Area and Wild Lands, curated by gallerist Jen Tough. Burgin is the recipient of several grants and awards for her work, including a Wake County Regional Artist grant and a Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency grant. She received a BFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and attended graduate school at Louisiana State University on a teaching scholarship where she received her MFA. Born and raised in Marion, North Carolina, a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Burgin has called San Francisco home since 2006.

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Before settling into the riotous adventures of the Rocky Mountain west Leah Cupino  packed and unpacked into more than 20 different dwellings. This ritual became her  constant, now a necessity in the studio to process the ongoings of her life.   

 Each work is a peek into the generous, scintillating color of her inner landscapes.  Often visually compared to the abstractions of Joan Mitchell, and conceptually  aligned with Gaston Bachelard’s ‘La Poétique de l’Espace' (‘The Poetry of Space,  1958), her strokes subdivide sky, ration rivers and inhabit new domains.

Currently, she is putting in many hours in her studio, leads multiple workshop and  curation projects, and does all the outdoor activities with her three sons, husband,  and mountain dog. In her recent past she has held a professorship at Carroll College,  built a family home, exhibited, curated, and sold her work across many locales of the  country. Leah has completed residencies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts  and Virginia Commonwealth University, and obtained a BA of Fine and Commercial  Arts from Walla Walla University in 2003. (born. 1981, Fitchburg, Massachusetts)

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