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.

Justin Richel’s sculptural paintings challenge traditional ideas of the painted surface by combining illusion, materiality, and three-dimensional form. Through his unique process of building objects from wood, canvas, and paint, Richel explores perception, trickster mythologies, and the relationship between artifice and reality.

Lyz Wendland is a visual artist based in the Twin Cities whose mixed-media paintings and paper installations explore fragmentation, healing, and transformation. Through her practice, Wendland reshapes lived experiences of trauma into a visual language that reflects resilience, strength, and the possibility of beauty emerging from what was once broken.

Alyson Khan is a painter whose geometric abstractions explore transformation, perception, and symbolic space through the quiet narrative of the psyche. Drawing from ritual practice, architecture, design, and esoteric symbolism, Khan creates layered compositions that examine protection, transcendence, and the relationship between inner and outer worlds.

Laurén Gerig is a visual artist based in Lansing, Michigan, whose abstract paintings translate moments of observation, memory, and stillness into intimate visual records. Through layered abstraction and calligraphic mark-making, Gerig explores the emotional relationships formed through daily encounters with the landscape.

Rachel Le Roux is a British Filipina artist and interior architect based in Manila whose paintings explore the female form, movement, memory, and transformation. Blending her architectural background with a sensitivity to space, texture, and atmosphere, Le Roux creates figurative and abstract works that examine renewal, concealment, and the emotional spaces between what is seen and unseen.

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

Pittsburgh-based artist Jake McCauley creates paintings rooted in mundane realism, exploring themes of observation, memory, place, and perception. Through cinematic compositions and recurring imagery of windows, his work examines how we experience the spaces between ourselves and the world around us.