Bryan Jennings is constantly inspired by the landscape: The blurred lines, the smoothness of blended colors, the movement and marks, the hidden and mysterious of things most of us see and ignore every day. Jennings is drawn to the light and weather, capturing a moment in time that he often relates to human emotions that are part of an emotional journey. bryan4art.com
Deborah Davidson’s paintings are likened to Frankensteins, where she assembles bits and pieces of found images, stitching them together to breathe new life into her creations. Frequently, these new incarnations embody abstract ideas such as vulnerability and defiance. Symbolism subtly resides in the combinations of animals perched or balanced on everyday objects within her artwork. Birds, delicate and small yet exuding great presence and dignity, feature prominently in some of the images.
Davidson’s paintings delve into themes of alchemy, secrets, innocence, and the dichotomy between things kept and things discarded. Her art explores the fragility of life and finds beauty in the ordinary, making a statement about the inherent significance of common objects. deborahdavidson.com
Robert Redding is an Orange County, California based painter. He graduated from Cal State Fullerton with BFA in Painting and Photography. After a short time as a graphic designer he made a career as a print and textile designer in the surf/skate clothing industry. It was during this time he witnessed first-hand the myth and evolution “California Dream.” Robert now depicts the dichotomy of California life in its land and people with his work. His work is included in private and corporate collections. robertreddingstudio
Ada Pullini Brown’s art is grounded in observational drawing and painting, encompassing both the figure and the landscape. Over the last several years, she has developed two distinct bodies of work: Living Veiled and The Migrants. Both bodies of work demonstrate her ongoing fascination with the lives of women. The Living Veiled series tackles the issue of cultural traditions and the veiling of women, an ancient dress code prevalent across various cultures, including her own. The Migrants consist of paintings and works on paper that reflect her concern for displaced populations.
Ada Pullini Brown’s most recent works focus on sky views in the series Through the Empyrean. Initiated during the Covid lockdowns, this marks a return to landscape art and a quest for a fresh approach to this familiar subject. Within these works, the floating circles and rectangles serve as a focal point, reminding the artist that she can only perceive a small piece of the expansive landscape from her specific vantage point. adapullinibrown.com
Bradford J. Salamon was born into a creatively inclined family in Los Angeles, California, his artistic journey was shaped by the passion of his parents. His father, Joseph, immersed himself in painting, while his mother, Mary Lou, found joy in writing and playing the piano. At the age of 13, Salamon delved into drumming, performing with various bands in local nightclubs, schools, and churches by the time he turned 16. Notably, at 18, he contributed drawings for his band Idle Lovell’s album cover, a milestone marked by their signing to Blonde Vinyl Records.
Recognition of Salamon’s artistic prowess prompted his father to publish charcoal drawings portraying rock and roll stars and celebrities. Over a few years, more than 100 subjects adorned nationwide retailers like Virgin Megastores and Tower Records. Following graduation and international art studies in his mid-thirties, Salamon returned to portraiture, this time exploring oil painting under the influence of Lucian Freud and Alice Neal. Between 1996 and 1999, he earned the distinction of being an official Grammy artist recognized by The National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Salamon’s artistic focus shifted towards painting portraits of friends, family, musicians, and notable LA artists such as Don Bachardy, Andy Moses, Llyn Foulkes, and Roland Reiss. His works are characterized by a distinctive texture, boldness, and an economy of brush strokes that define his artistic signature.
Jon Ng received his MFA degree in Painting and Drawing from California State University, Fullerton. He has taught art at the college level, and in adult education courses. Jon has over 20 years work experience as an independent contractor in the decorative arts, and design related fields. He exhibits locally and nationally, while maintaining a full-time studio in Orange County, CA. Jon Ng’s work is in a handful of private and corporate collections across the United States. jonng.net
Paul Paiement finds himself in an exhilarating epoch, akin to the Romantic era, where the current fast-paced, controlled, and technologically driven culture sparks a profound yearning to reconnect with the expansive and ever-changing aspects of life. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” a deliberate and slower existence is sought amid a seemingly detached yet inherently intertwined relationship with nature.
Paul Paiement’s artworks engage in a process of “hybridization,” interweaving the synthetic, man-made elements of culture, such as architecture with its linear perspective, alongside the organic elements of the natural world. The objective is to bridge the perceived disparities through the visual languages of linear and atmospheric perspective, representation and abstraction, and strategic layering.
Landscapes devoid of specific identity or location become the canvas for Paul Paiement’s artistic expression. Leveraging atmospheric perspective, he crafts scenes that exude a naturalistic vastness, imbued with a sense of infiniteness. Plexi-glass overlays, airbrushed to simulate flattened architectural drawings, introduce a geometric abstraction that coexists with the intricate representation found within the landscape. The resultant amalgamation, a hybrid, emerges from the confluence of nature and machine in Paiement’s artistic exploration. paulpaiement.com
Lesli Bonanni paints evocative, atmospheric landscapes with soft pastel on textured paper. Her work is of a minimalist nature, primarily interested in the distillation of the landscape to reveal its essence. Upon entering the studio, she is filled with anticipation, excited to experience what she doesn’t know, yearning to see what will happen. Embracing the not knowing is essential for her. For Lesli, the act of painting is a spiritual one. The world is shut out, and in her quiet solitude, she is connected to the Universe. The extreme focus centers her restless self. The process is impulsive, intuitive, introspective, and emotional. Lesli is fearless. leslibonanni.com
Art in any form, from song writing to playing piano and guitar to singing in choirs and stage performance to sculpting and painting has always been a part of my life since I was born. From dancing in my crib to singing in the Master Chorale to painting in my Laguna Beach Studio has been my life's journey.
Art to me is like breathing. I cannot live without it. It starts my mornings and puts me to bed at night. My mind is usually imagining or visualizing my next painting. Watching art videos and reading about other artists is what fills my time when I am not creating.
My love of working in clay has expanded to my love of abstract painting allowing me to be free and express myself with no limits. Color excites me and over the years it helps me to express my inner self. adriennefayne.com
Kevin Scianni is a Los Angeles based painter and art instructor whose work combines architecture, geometry, simulated textures, and synthetic colors to form spatially ambiguous environments.
Using various traditional and digital tools, Scianni builds paintings that exist in a merged space. The process usually begins with a sketch on paper and initial marks on canvas. The painting is then photographed and altered on the computer. These changes are then applied to the painting, and the process begins again. The paintings initially draw from a variety of sources, including architectural renderings from Early Renaissance paintings, Persian manuscripts, video game environments, and Scianni’s own photographs.
Ben Brough is an American artist residing in Southern California. As a painter and illustrator Ben has shown his work worldwide most notably with Bruno David Gallery and his work has been collected by The Museum of Art and History and The International Surfing Museum. You can also see his work with collaborations over the last 25 years with big brands like Volcom, Volkl, restaurants, murals and on album covers and band merchandise. benbrough.com
My history with jewelry begins in 1974, as a teenager in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when I worked as apprentice with silversmith David Griego. When I graduated high school, in 1976, i joined the US Army and spent the next ten years in government service, spending six years overseas in Germany. I moved to Orange, California in 1987 and enrolled in jewelry classes at Santa Ana College and eventually was hired as studio technician. This led to a series of jobs at art galleries in administrative/sales positions. I taught jewelry classes for five years at the Irvine Fine Arts Center. During this time I also spent ten summers creating the Orange County Fair Visual Arts Exhibit. I then worked as operations manager for an art installation company. All of these were my day jobs between which I would always return to making and selling my jewelry designs. I recently returned to teaching classes and am currently pursuing jewelry making full-time. Jewelry Bill
A.M. Rousseau is a multi-disciplined artist and photographer who has exhibited her work in solo shows in New York, California, Texas, Ohio, and in Europe and Japan as well as museums in Lancaster, Bakersfield and Oklahoma. Her work has been published in magazines including Life Magazine, The Photo Review, Art in America, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship, The Djerassi Foundation Affymax Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Artist Residency, Yaddo Artist residency, the Virginia Center for the Arts residency, the Manhattan Borough President’s Award for Excellence and Service in the Arts, and the Harc Foundation Award. rousseaufineart