Minnesota-based artist Umbreen Hasan creates luminous abstract works inspired by nature, shifting landscapes, light, and memory. Working with alcohol inks, encaustics, and cold wax, her practice explores healing, contemplation, and emotional resonance through color and movement.

Tasneem Arif creates vibrant art inspired by flowers and the natural world. Her practice grew from a deeply personal journey, with art becoming a source of solace, beauty, joy, and optimism.

Carolyn Sweeney’s practice explores the relationship between color, place, and the natural world. Working with botanical and mineral colors, handmade pigments, folded paper, and pastels, she creates works rooted in material, memory, and the ecosystems of Oregon.

Rachel Grace Borntrager creates abstract paintings rooted in memory, physiological awareness, and lived experience, using her Soma-Line Method™ to transform the body’s sensations into a visual language of line and color.

Rosie Fitzgerrel’s vibrant paintings examine the meeting point between humanity and nature, using intense color, graphic compositions, and naturalistic scenes to explore reverence, wonder, tension, and harmony.

Cynthia Young creates atmospheric landscape paintings inspired by the quiet power of nature, capturing shifting light, subtle moods, and the deeply felt experience of being immersed in a moment.

Meet artist Sarah Jane Tart, whose vivid colors and expressive brushwork transform coastal landscapes into dreamlike paintings filled with joy, nature, and a love of color.

Based between Birmingham, Alabama and New York City, Claire Godbee creates symbolic figurative paintings that examine transformation, identity, and the relationship between destruction and renewal. Through mythology, landscape, and contemporary womanhood, her work explores the emotional complexities of becoming and regeneration.

Kimberley Kermode creates fragmented figurative paintings that explore cultural mosaic, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by migration and memory. Through vibrant palettes and layered compositions, Kermode examines how personal histories and cultural backgrounds continue to influence the way we understand belonging.

Lola Fischer is a painter and graphic artist whose lifelong creative practice is rooted in abstract forms, intense colors, and expressive compositions. From international exhibitions including the Beijing Biennial and Venice Biennale contexts to her feature in Create! Magazine’s The Magic Issue, Fischer’s work explores humanity, imagination, and the healing potential of art.

Rajab Ali Sayed is a Filipino/Pakistani visual artist, educator, and chef based in Los Angeles, California. Through painting, Sayed explores storytelling, intimacy, memory, and the relationship between human experience and the sensory world around us.

Chrys Roboras creates evocative figurative paintings that merge realistic human forms with expansive, colorful semi-abstract landscapes. Her dreamlike works explore movement, memory, and emotion, inviting viewers into stories where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.

Based in Snohomish, Washington, Nikki Gardner creates evocative oil paintings that draw inspiration from the Dutch Masters while examining universal themes of mortality, beauty, and human connection. Through dramatic light, symbolism, and carefully arranged still lifes, her work invites viewers into moments of quiet reflection.

Gherdai Hassell is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, independent curator, and researcher whose work explores identity, memory, migration, and nostalgia. Through layered materials, textiles, collage, and painting, Hassell examines Caribbean heritage, postcolonial narratives, and the histories embedded within materials.

Malia Gomez creates atmospheric paintings influenced by metaphysics and contemporary light artists, using color, mark-making, and visual perception to cultivate mindfulness and conscious presence. Her work invites viewers into moments of stillness and reflection through immersive contemporary painting.

Susan Schmidt’s contemporary figurative paintings explore memory, nature, and personal transformation through layered surfaces, abstraction, and expressive mark-making. Drawing from experiences of loss and connection to the natural world, Schmidt’s work reflects the enduring relationship between place, emotion, and remembrance.

Austin-based painter Gabe Langholtz creates narrative paintings that blend representational imagery with folk art, Color Field influences, and social commentary. In this interview, he reflects on creativity, honesty in the studio, and the career milestones that followed his feature in Create! Magazine.

Painter and writer Mya Kerner explores the rhythms of nature through expressive landscapes shaped by motherhood, stewardship, and lived experience. In this 10th Anniversary Book feature, she reflects on her artistic journey, career milestones, and the enduring connection between land and self.

Metra Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, and printmaking explore identity, transformation, and the complexities of personal history. Drawing from her multicultural background, Mitchell creates theatrical worlds filled with symbolic characters, emotional narratives, and magical environments that reflect strength, vulnerability, and resilience.

Sarah Detweiler is an American visual artist whose figurative and narrative mixed media paintings explore themes of unmasking, authenticity, motherhood, and the collective unconscious. Through painting, embroidery, and fiber techniques, she transforms personal experiences and transitions into deeply layered works that reflect evolution, connection, and emotional storytelling.