In the "Land and Longing" exhibition, Taylor Pierce’s landscapes explore not just the beauty of the desert but the stories it holds within. Through her work, she brings forward the resilience and history of the land, asking what it has witnessed across time. With each painting, Pierce invites viewers to consider their own connection to nature and the powerful link between the past and present.

Guy Nelson’s acrylic paintings delve into the intricate relationships between humans and the environment, focusing on themes of self-preservation, community, and the beauty of natural spaces. In his work for the "Land and Longing" exhibition, Nelson captures the atmospheric glow and mystery of forests and outdoor settings, inviting viewers to slow down and engage with the layers of meaning within each piece.

In the Land and Longing exhibition, New York-based artist Cary Hulbert presents fantastical worlds where flora and fauna blur, spirit animals roam, and imagination takes root. Her layered paintings—rich with color, transparency, and meaning—invite viewers to linger and uncover the subtle, shape-shifting beauty that dwells within her dreamlike terrains.

Painter Lindsay Mueller transforms her encounters with nature into sculptural works that blend material, memory, and emotion. With surfaces built from plaster and paint, her landscapes reference parks, roadsides, and the layered history of shared spaces. Now featured in Create! Magazine’s Land and Longing virtual exhibition, Mueller’s work asks: how real is this space—and where does it rupture?

Dana Oldfather’s paintings radiate with vulnerability, tension, and dreamy psychedelia. Known for her expressive, emotionally charged landscapes, Oldfather brings a deeply personal lens to the natural world, using it as a portal to explore fear, impermanence, and wonder. Featured in Create! Magazine’s Land and Longing exhibition, her work invites viewers into a space where the inner and outer worlds collide in vibrant, unsettling beauty.

Canadian painter Nicki Ault creates luminous, heartfelt landscapes that express her deep connection to the natural world and her own emotional experience of it. Ault, whose work is featured in the exhibition Land and Longing, shares how discovering her identity as a Highly Sensitive Person and Empath helped her understand the profound love and belonging she finds in nature—and how this understanding fuels her practice. Through rich, light-filled brushwork, she crafts visual love letters to the boreal forests, prairie skies, and northern lakes of Saskatchewan.