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Ishika Guha is a self-taught abstract artist with a strong focus on abstract expressionism. She lives in London, originally from Bangladesh. Ishika is diverse in her choice of mediums. She allows her colour palettes to run free! Acrylics, Oils, Watercolours- all are included in her team.
Jen Haefeli graduated with honors as George Mason University’s first InterArts graduate in 2005, recipient of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Award. Shortly thereafter she established Wild Root Creations. Jen also partners with non-profit organizations. She is a passionate advocate and has helped facilitate relationships and fundraising opportunities building literacy centers, sustainable education, and agronomy-based programming in challenged environments for over ten years. Jen has exhibited and sold her work internationally. Jen is a Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Greater Pittsburgh Art Council, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, and Creative York member. She is a member of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh and serves on their Board. Jen is a member of the Southwest Pennsylvania chapter of United Way, and She serves on the Board of Harvest107, which aims to create sustainable food sources in developing countries like Haiti. Her work is in private collections worldwide.
Laura is a self-taught abstract painter using the power of the colors found in nature to put her soul on canvas. Born in Romania, she grew up in the heart of Rome which is still a great inspiration for her. Currently living in Brno, a multicultural city of Czech Republic where she participated in numerous exhibitions. Feelings and emotions expressed through color and its variation, the landscapes are the box containing it all.
Brandi Hofer is an artist, muralist, author, and educator. Hofer is most well known for being a successful collected Canadian Artist, exhibiting internationally and across North America. In 2021 she was featured by Create Magazine in their article 28 Contemporary Artists You Need To Know About. Her podcast Colour Me Happy! Has garnered attention as one of the best art podcasts to binge this season by Create Magazine! She will head to New York September 2022 with PXP Contemporary Gallery to the Affordable Art Fair with work from her Taylor Collection inspired and based off of the photography work by photographer Taylor Lorenz. Hofer’s first book Colour Me Happy! See your everyday ordinary as extraordinary is set to come out October 2022. She has some upcoming big, literally BIG, announcements and projects happening in the next couple of years.
Ellen Holleman is a painter, mixed-media visual artist and spatial designer, based in the Netherlands. She was trained as a spatial designer at the Utrecht School of the Arts (the Netherlands). After graduating she took off to work in Mérida, Mexico, with the design team of Mexico Mágico, a new entertainment park that was being developed at the time. Later on she joined the muralists team on site in Cancún. It was there she totally fell in love with colours and painting. When the park was shut down, she went back to the Netherlands where she returned to her design career. During the following twenty-five+ years she worked mainly as a spatial designer on urban planning projects. Curiosity about how people live and move about, and how this is affected or controlled by the urban environment is what thrives her. Besides her work as an urban design professional she did several applied art projects, worked as a cultural producer and initiated multiple grass roots urban projects. Painting always remained her personal creative outlet but over the years the urge to paint more grew stronger and stronger. After working as a visiting artist at a local artists initiative in 2020, she decided to start focussing on building a serious painting practice, shifting her career from the urban design field towards the arts. Since 2021 she works in a studio in Zaltbommel, where she participates in a local artists initiative and had her first solo (cultural centre De Poorterij, September 2021) since the nineties. Ellen prefers to work with oil paints and traditional painting techniques, but also enjoys experimenting and using contemporary techniques, like (digital)collages and photography, as part of her creative process. The themes in her artworks are strongly affected by her work and experience as an urban design professional.