Maria Arango
Maria Arango is originally from Cuba and now lives in the USA, where she makes original woodcut prints. She has been exhibited in the Las
Vegas Art Museum, and has been awarded Best of Show overall Boulder City Arts Festival, Best of Show Award (Printmaking) in the Art Fest of Henderson and Tempe Art Festivals and purchase awards including works in the Springfield Museum of Art. She has been exhibited in Brand Gallery and Art Center in California, the Hunterdon Museum of Art and the 5th Print Biennial in the Marsh Gallery of the University of Richmond Museum, Adamo Gallery in Las Vegas and the Kolob Art Gallery in Springdale, Utah. Her work is part of permanent collections including the University of Oregon and the Princeton Graphic Arts Collection. She is exclusively represented by the deZion Gallery in
Springdale, Utah. A personal goal to complete 1,000 woodcuts is progressing heartily. Art Festivals throughout the West continue to be Maria’s favorite venue for meeting her fast growing audience of collectors. http://www.1000woodcuts.com/
Susannah MacDonald
Susannah MacDonald is a New Zealander living in Auckland. She is a painter, illustrator, poet, creative writer, flute teacher, spiritual counsellor and animal lover. Susannah is passionate about conservation, particularly that of the New Zealand environment, its native animals and plants. Her keen interest in natural sciences and palaeontology formed the basis for a recent body of work.
Susannah holds a Bachelor of Design and Visual Arts degree in visual art, from Unitec Auckland.
Susannah has been owned by many cats over the years, and doting aunty to as many dogs, horses, guinea-pigs, rats and mice.
Susannah is married to Alan MacDonald, fellow artist, musician and best friend. http://esoart.blogspot.co.nz/
Alex Storer
Alex Storer is a science fiction & fantasy artist in Sheffield, UK. He says, "As an avid science-fiction reader, a large part of my artistic inspiration comes from whatever I’m reading – there’s no denying the influence of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in my piece, Hope. What I aspire to achieve in my work is something that evokes a similar atmosphere as the work of those sci-fi art greats of the 1970s and 80s, but something also distinctive and timeless, which takes the viewer on a journey to, and beyond, other worlds. My preferred medium is digital, although many of my pieces start out as a rough pencil sketch, which I’ll scan and work over. Although my roots are in fine art I much prefer digital – it comes without the mess!” http://www.thelightdream.net/index.html
Lisa Yount
Lisa Yount is an artist and jeweller in the San Franscisco Bay Area, California, USA. She says: Discovering, playing with, and bringing to others’ attention the wonders of the outer world of nature and the inner world of the imagination is my passion. My computer-generated (in Photoshop) paintings and photocollages, the latter built primarily from my own photographs, rise from the borderland where these two worlds meet. They combine textures (rocks, tree bark, sand, leaves, building reflections), computer-generated fractals and kaleidoscope patterns, natural objects, and occasional human beings to create art that both celebrates nature and goes within and beyond it into surrealism, fantasy, and myth. Although some of my images are playful, I hope that others will puzzle and even haunt the viewer, leading to contemplation of a spiritual dimension beyond our physical surroundings. To see samples of my work, please visit http://www.lionlight.com/