Matthew Carver’s work invites viewers into alternate realities, where time travel, ghostly encounters, and cyberpunk landscapes intertwine with spiritual and mystical themes. Featured in The Spirit World virtual exhibition, Carver’s paintings and graphic novels explore how stories, myths, and belief shape our understanding of the unseen.

Jessica C Fisher, a New York City-based painter, channels her emotional experiences into oil paintings that explore memory, darkness, and the human spirit. Her Blasphemous Saints series confronts themes of violence, complicity, and vulnerability, creating intimate narratives that invite reflection. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her work bridges reality and imagination, revealing the unseen in hauntingly beautiful ways.

Isabelle Heldenfels’ work bridges the delicate line between remembrance and imagination, presence and absence. Through whimsical, nostalgic compositions drawn from family photo albums and domestic artifacts, she creates dreamlike paintings where the living and the dead quietly converge. Her pieces will be featured in “The Spirit World”, a virtual exhibition exploring the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny—from meditations on the unseen to encounters with ghosts, myth, and the paranormal.

Sarah Penina’s work inhabits the magical space between art and illustration, blending whimsy, vivid color, and playful ghostly figures to explore themes of childhood, escapism, and emotional introspection. Included in the upcoming “The Spirit World” exhibition, her paintings offer a tender meditation on memory, imagination, and the unseen threads that shape our inner worlds.

Carl Grauer’s latest series, Natural Thresholds, invites viewers into a contemplative space where the natural and spiritual worlds intersect. Through oil paintings framed in circular portals, Grauer navigates themes of loss, transformation, and hope, capturing moments that move from sorrow to solace. His work is featured in Spirit World, an exhibition exploring the mystical, eerie, and unseen.

Working under the name Glass Bambi, British artist Claire Dockray creates luminous, dreamlike paintings shaped by memory, fragility, and emotional resilience. Blending Pop Art, realism, and surrealism, her work draws from mid-century imagery, cinematic lighting, and personal narrative to explore longing, identity, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Her work is featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World virtual exhibition, which examines the spiritual, mystical, and uncanny through contemporary art.

Chris Nelson’s paintings contemplate mortality, ritual, and the quiet resistance of working by hand in a digitally saturated world. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, his oil paintings blend classical techniques with surreal undertones, using skulls and symbolic objects to reflect on both literal death and the modern loss of human ritual. Nelson’s work invites viewers to slow down and consider what is lost when creative processes become automated.

Julia McGlew’s artwork transports viewers to a calmer, kinder world filled with fantasy, nature, and surreal imagery. Featured in the upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her paintings merge emotional depth with whimsical storytelling. Influenced by the overlooked beauty of animals and a vintage aesthetic, her work invites reflection, imagination, and escape into an ethereal, magical realm.

Jon Gernon transforms canvas into spaces of myth and imagination. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, his paintings and allegories encourage viewers to step into a world where narrative and imagination meet. Gernon’s work inspires audiences to create personal stories, making each encounter with his art a unique and participatory experience.

Multidisciplinary artist Aunia Kahn brings a vibrant, symbolic visual language to The Spirit World exhibition, weaving personal history, cultural influence, and mystical storytelling into layered compositions. Her work reflects a powerful journey of survival and renewal, offering viewers a transformative encounter with color, symbolism, and inner mythology.

Danish artist Lisbeth Thygesen brings shimmering layers of Nordic nature, magic, and mystical symbolism to her work, which is featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming virtual exhibition “The Spirit World.” Her paintings and sculptures bridge the physical and spiritual, inviting viewers into realms of myth, intuition, and quiet transformation. Learn more about her practice, background, and artistic vision in this featured profile.

Tomás Carlos Ortolani creates paintings that connect the viewer with worlds beyond perception, using symbolism, dreams, and personal narratives to explore the unconscious. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, his work blends technical mastery with deeply psychological and spiritual themes, offering a contemplative journey into the unseen.

Maya Sumile creates mystical work that bridges the tangible and intangible, blending self-portraiture, Gothic literature, and Romanticism to explore the human condition. Her paintings and environments evoke the uncanny while balancing dread and serenity. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Sumile’s work invites viewers to experience narratives that give form to silence, dreams, and enduring human stories.

Anne Spalter, a pioneering visual artist in both traditional and digital media, presents immersive, symbolic landscapes in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition. Her work blends surrealism, science fiction, and archetypal imagery to explore the boundaries between the natural and the cosmic. Through her series Surrealist Landscapes and Future Landscapes, Spalter merges dreamlike geometry, luminous color, and algorithmic processes to create worlds where inner and outer realities converge. Featured internationally in major collections and publications, her practice invites viewers to encounter transformation, intuition, and the mythic dimensions of contemporary experience.

Emily Ezell, born in Monroe, Louisiana, creates apocalyptic and surrealist paintings that blend neon, mutated creatures, and corpse-like nymphs with historical references to the Old Masters. Featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, her work explores the uncanny, pop surrealism, and Southern Gothic themes, creating images that are simultaneously provocative, grotesque, and mesmerizing. As an educator and professional artist, Ezell continues to push the boundaries of narrative, technique, and the surreal, inviting viewers into worlds that challenge perceptions of beauty, desire, and decay.

Amelia Carley transforms found materials into vivid dioramas that become the foundation for her surreal landscapes. Her work examines ecological anxiety, memory, and the overlap of the natural and artificial, inviting viewers to consider humanity’s impact on the environment through imaginative, layered compositions

In Issue 53 of Create! Magazine, Brooklyn-based artist Caroline Otis Heffron shares her transhistorical approach to painting, where women from art history meet contemporary street imagery. Through magical vignettes and saturated colors, her work examines dualities of belonging and isolation, vulnerability and strength, offering a theatrical yet intimate exploration of memory, myth, and feminine identity.

Taylor Keister creates layered assemblage paintings that explore nostalgia, femininity, and the tension between outward appearances and inner reality. Her work merges saturated color, decorative motifs, and altar-like structures to confront suburban rituals, childhood experiences, and the emotional cost of perfection.

Paige DeVries turns everyday walks through her New Orleans neighborhood into vibrant paintings that highlight the relationship between humans and their environment. Her work observes how choices shape landscapes, blending humor, quiet beauty, and reflection on suburban life

Cindy Phenix creates dense, collage-like paintings and installations where humans, animals, and natural elements intertwine in vivid, layered compositions. Her work examines ecological crises, societal tensions, and the delicate balance between humanity and the natural world, offering viewers a glimpse into a poetic, interconnected universe