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Black Petals Artists donate their work to enhance the writer's work
and we appreciate their efforts. Here are their bios:
L. A. Barlow
is a visual artist and photographer based in Houston, Texas. Her pursuit of imagery has
taken her from the quiet macro universe of a single raindrop to the last vast open wilderness
areas of the world. The visual intelligence and artistry of her art are born of curiosity
and appreciation for the many moods of life, nature and a passion for the depicting the
"what is" of being. This passion shines throughout Barlow's work and has attracted a wide
audience around the world. Bar Napkin
Art is a self-taught fine artist, currently running and participating in
gallery shows in the Northern New Jersey area. Bar Napkin
is not only his Moniker but the choice of medium when doing artwork, actually on Bar Napkins. He is also
schooled in Graphic Design from NYU, self taught in photography and photo manipulation. Brian
Beardsley
about
himself: "A long time ago, in an ancient land called Illinois, a son was born to two noble
people who had to flee to Seattle to escape sheer boredom.
There, Brian's only friend was a magic
pencil. He and that magic pencil would open portals, fight
ogres, and travel to distant lands. You can find his
lair at: www.studiobmedia.com Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
lives in
California and works in the mental health field in Los Ángeles. His artwork has appeared
over the years in Medusa’s Kitchen, Nerve Cowboy, The Dope
Fiend Daily, and Rogue Wolf Press, Venus in Scorpio Poetry
E-Zine. Darren Blanch, Aussie creator of
visions which tell you a tale long after first glimpses have teased your
peepers. With early influence from America's Norman Rockwell to show life as
life, Blanch has branched out mere art form to impact multi-dimensions of color and
connotation. People as people, emotions speaking their greater glory. Visual illusions
expanding the ways and means of any story. Digital arts mastery provides what Darren
wishes a reader or viewer to take away in how their own minds are moved. His evocative
stylistics are an ongoing process which sync intrinsically to the expression
of the nearby written or implied word he has been called upon to render. View the vivid
energy of IVSMA (Darren Blanch) works at: www.facebook.com/ivsma3Dart,
YELLOW MAMA, Sympatico Studio - www.facebook.com/SympaticoStudio,
DeviantArt - www.deviantart.com/ivsma
and launching in 2019, as
Art Director for suspense author / intrigue promoter
Kate Pilarcik's line of books and publishing promotion -
SeaHaven Intrigue Publishing-Promotion. Wayne F. Burke's drawings have appeared in a
number of publications, in print and online, including FLARE, Portland
Review (ME). Red Savina, Duane's Poe
Tree, Driftwood Magazine, Grey Sparrow, The Octopus
Review, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in
the central Vermont area (USA). Terry Butler lives in the country, near
a small town south of San Jose,
CA called Hollister. He used to write steadily, publishing both in print and
online as Terence Butler, but after some health issues, the energy needed to
write seemed to dissipate somewhat. He has been a professional photographer
and a painter/collage-assemblage maker for most of his
working life, so painting and photo art have taken the
place of genre fiction as an outlet. Recently the story “Fire
Man” appeared all as a piece in his mind so he simply wrote it
down. He sent it to Cindy, and in the ensuing back and forth. They somehow
discussed using some of his visual art, too. Cindy is simply
the best, and a real stalwart in this little world.
She has a big heart and a deep love for animals, too! It's well known that an artist becomes
more popular by dying, so our pal Steve Cartwright
is typing his bio with one hand
while pummeling his head with a frozen mackerel with the other. Stop, Steve! Death
by mackerel is no way to go! He (Steve, not the mackerel)
has a collection of spooky toons, Suddenly Halloween!, available
at Amazon.com. He's done art for several magazines, newspapers,
websites, commercial and governmental clients, books,
and scribbling - but mostly drooling - on tavern napkins.
He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was
awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He
recently illustrated the Cimarron Review, Stories for Children, and Still Crazy
magazine covers. Take a gander ( or a goose ) at his online
gallery: www.angelfire.com/sc2/cartoonsbycartwright . And please hurry with your response - that mackerel's
killin' your pal, Steve Cartwright. Bryan Cicalese
was born in Newark and currently resides in Bloomfield NJ With his
wife Marina. He began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil and is self-taught. Bryan’s
major artistic influences are mainly comic book artists including Jim O ’Barr (The
Crow) Barry Windsor Smith (Weapon X) and Alex Ross (DC’s Kingdom Come) His preferred
medium is Black Micron pen but he often incorporates color pens and markers for
effect. Bryan’s artistic endeavors focus on his interests which are the Occult, science
fiction and fantasy. From an early age, Bryan was interested and curious about the hidden
things that go bump in the night and always wanted to know the truth about such urban legends
as the Mothman and the Beast of Gevaudan among others. This is reflected in his work. His
work is personal and part of who he is. Marina Cicalese (nee Rodriguez)
was born in Elizabeth and currently lives in Bloomfield with her husband Bryan. Marina’s
talent for painting wasn’t realized until one rainy July 4th in which
she could not go to the beach. In what began as her husband’s attempt to keep Marina
occupied on the rainy holiday quickly became something much more. With a set of acrylics
and a paint brush Marina began to produce a number of paintings that featured an amazing
command of color and a raw talent that she continues to sharpen to this day. Marina has
been showcased in a number of local art shows and has sold many of her paintings. Marina’s
influences are both musical and visually inspired by the gothic subculture and brings that
dark sensuality to all of her work. Maddisyn Condora
is a full-blooded Italian girl, born and
raised in Jersey who speaks her mind with no filter or regrets. Loved by her friends and
family, as well as the center of obsession for some of her exes. But what else could be
expected from a Scorpio whose hot mom and role model is none other than Cindy Rosmus? Native New Yorker Elise Daher, an Art Producer in NYC, spends most of her
time reviewing other peoples' beautiful photos. Sometimes she ventures off to take a few
of her own. Her passion for photography combines well with her love of all things Brooklyn,
beaches, and furry felines. @lebaneezblonde If Charles Addams, Edgar Allan Poe, and Willy
Wonka sired a bastard child it would be the fat asthmatic by the name of Michael D. Davis. He has been called warped by dear friends and a freak by passing
strangers. Michael started drawing cartoons when he was ten, and his
skill has improved with his humor, which isn’t saying much. He is
for the most part self-taught, only ever crediting the
help of one great high school art teacher. His art has been shown at
his local library for multiple years only during October due to its macabre
nature. If you want to see more of Michael’s strange,
odd, weird, cartoons you can follow him on Instagram at
mad_hatters_mania. Paul “Deadeye” Dick is a one-eyed illustrator, writer
and sculptor. Living in Scotland with his
wife of 20 years and 3 children. Despite suffering from fibromyalgia,
he lives an active life.
Under
the pen name Paul Dick Knight, he is the creator/writer/artist on the Deadeye
Samurai comicbook. Mixing epic Japanese mythology and
legend with the precepts of the superhero genre.
Paul's
3D work can be seen on the
figurerealm.com site under the name “Deadeye.” His part photorealistic,
part painted art features on several current and upcoming Yellow Mama and Black Petals
stories. Including his Dick Dice hardboiled SF tales and the Matt Malleus
horror tales written by his brother, Earl.
As of November, 2011, Paul is Yellow Mama's
new Assistant Art Director. Scarefina Doll:
ScAreifiNa Wicked Little doll #ChildrenOfTheBlood Kevin D. Duncan
was born 1958 in Alton, Illinois where he still resides.
He has degrees in Political Science, Classics, and Art & Design.
He has been freelancing illustration and cartoons for over 25 years. He
has done editorial cartoons and editorial illustration
for local and regional newspapers, including the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. His award-winning work
has appeared in numerous small press zines, e-zines, and he
has illustrated a few books. J. Elliott is an author and artist living in a small patch of
old, rural Florida. Think Spanish moss, live oak trees,
snakes, armadillos, mosquitoes. She has published (and illustrated)
three collections of ghost stories and three books in a funny, cozy series.
She's currently writing (and illustrating) a ghost story novel, Jiko
Bukken, set in Kyoto, Japan in the winter of '92-'93. Episodes
on Amazon's Kindle Vella. Paperback and eBook coming
late this summer (2023). Cynthia Fawcett has been writing for fun or money since she was able
to hold a pen. A Jersey Girl at heart, she got her journalism degree at
Marquette University in Milwaukee and now writes mostly technical articles
about hydraulics and an occasional short story or poem
on any other subject.
Jack Garrett was an artist, actor, writer, and musician
extraordinaire. He played keyboards and guitar for several rock bands well
known in the downtown NYC area during the 1970s and ‘80s and opened for
the Ramones as well as for U2 with his band the Nitecaps
during U2’s 1980s European tour. He leaves a treasure
trove of art, music, and writing. Mr. Garrett had been put
on warning at more than one job for doodling at his desk.
He passed on September 28, 2011.
Dawn Marie Gonzalez is 47
years old and is from the Bronx. Currently, she’s
living in Yonkers, NY. A wife, and mom of an 18-year-old
son, she is also an administrative assistant for a Non-Profit. She
has always enjoyed doodling, drawing, and painting,
and she finds it relaxing. This painting used to illustrate
the poem “Direction” is of the view near the Yonkers
Waterfront. Christopher Goss, longtime
Black Petals and Yellow Mama contributor, has recently made
some lifestyle changes, moving from Del Rio Texas, where
he made his living building and servicing radio and
TV towers, to Spearville, Kansas, where he now works on giant
generators on a 300-unit wind farm. He has also started dabbling in some photo
art, along with his dark fiction and poetry. KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic.
She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving,
and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more,
she’s a certified herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of
calculus. Her creative efforts have been
nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the
Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for
poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for
fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s
had more than forty-five books published and has served
as an editor for several literary journals.
Channie’s latest book is Eternal not Ephemeral, Eternal
not Ephemeral: Greenberg, KJ Hannah: 9798852494016:
Amazon.com: Books, a collection of fifty tales, including
"Absinthe for Aliens,"
"Isabelle," "Transitory Unease," and "Special Teeth,"
which were originally published in Yellow Mama or Black Petals.
Bernice Holtzman’s
paintings and collages have
appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan,
including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s
Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she
can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She
is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.
Rebecca Holtzman
was
an artist and author of short fiction, essays,
children’s stories, a collection of nonfiction stories about growing up
with her large family, titled The Mama Stories, and pointed
letters to the editor. She was a talented poet, lyricist,
and parodist, the winner of the jingle-writing contest for the Broadway play Two
Gentlemen of Verona in the 1970s, and in 1981
had her poem selected by the New York Statue Committee
as the winning entry to become the inscription for the statue, “Cosmopolis,”
by Nikos Korkantzis for “The Cosmopolis Project.” Her essays have appeared
in Reader’s Digest and the column
“A View From the Audience” in Playbill.
Rebecca was a member of ASCAP and had one of her songs performed in The
Songwriter’s Showcase in 1991. An elementary school secretary for 20 years,
Rebecca was the writer of her school’s annual Christmas party
musicals, featuring her song parodies. Rebecca’s daughter
continues to be in awe of her and is sure she left something
out of her mother’s extensive bio.
Rebecca’s
daughter continues to be in awe of her and is sure she
left something out of her mother’s extensive bio.
Janne Karlsson is an insanely
productive artist from Sweden. His dark surreal art
is widely spread around the world. Janne's many books are
available at Amazon or via his website www.svenskapache.se. He can be reached at svenskapache@gmail.com Mike
Kerins is
a writer/artist based in the UK. His artwork has been
exhibited in various galleries and he has written articles,
stories and illustrated for various publishers including:
Yellow Mama, Dark River Press, Black Petals, Tartarus
Press, The Horrorzine and the BBC. He is currently working on his first novel. The magnificent depravity of his illustrative work can be experienced at:
www.darkartgallery.com <http://www.darkartgallery.com/> A. F. Knott is a self-taught collage artist focused on
book layout and book cover design as well networking
in conjunction with Hekate Publishing, one of its missions,
bringing together artist and writer. Sometimes seen selling in
New York City's Union Square Park. Work can be found on flickr.com/photos/afknott/ Any exchange of ideas welcome:
anthony_knott@hekatepublishing.com Mike Knowles has spent over 40 years working mainly in comics, along with contributions
to TV, Radio, animation, gonzo-style journalism for
a “top-of-the-shelf” magazine and odd spells
as a digital artist. Not to mention three gruesome years writing gags
for comedians (even though they begged him not to. But what did THEY know about
humor? https://www.facebook.com/mikeknowlescomicauthor I wrote for the comic papers. Lonni Lees is a multi-award-winning writer
in both fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her
stories appear in Hardboiled magazine, Yellow
Mama, A Shot of Ink, Shotgun Honey, Black Petals,
Einstein’s Pocket Watch, All Due Respect,
and in the anthologies Deadly Dames and More Whodunits. Among her
numerous writing awards over the years, she has award-winning
stories in Felons, Flames, and Ambulance Rides,
Battling Boxing Stories, and her published short story collection,
Crawlspace. Broken won first place and
is her 4th published novel. Her first novel Deranged won
the PSWA First Place award for best published novel. Her next novel, The
Mosaic Murder, was followed with a sequel, The Corpse in the Cactus,
which won First Place and was published in the U.S.
and UK. She won several other writing awards for her
short stories, including Grand Prize. She received both art and
a nonfiction Creative Writing Awards from NLAPW, California
South branch, an organization of women writers, artists,
and composers, and she served as President from 1982–1984. She is a
current member of Sisters in Crime, PSWA, and Arizona Mystery Writers, where
she was the first writer to win two consecutive awards in their annual short
story contest. Twice Lonni
was selected as Writer-in-Residence at
Hedgebrook, a writer’s retreat on Whidbey Island. After living in four states
and visiting many countries, she’s settled in Tucson, AZ. She
fills her spare time showing her art at WomanKraft Gallery,
reminiscing on all her travel adventures, illustrating
stories for online magazines, and dreaming up new tales
to tell.
Hillary Lyon is an illustrator for
horror/sci-fi and pulp fiction websites and magazines, and the Art
Director at Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine. She
is also founder and senior editor for the independent
poetry publisher, Subsynchronous Press. An SFPA Rhysling Award nominated
poet, her poems have appeared in journals such as Eternal
Haunted Summer, Jellyfish Whispers, Scfifaikuest, Illya’s
Honey, and Red River Review, as well
as numerous anthologies. Her short stories
have appeared recently in Night to Dawn, Yellow Mama, Black
Petals, Sirens Call, and Tales from the Moonlit
Path, among others, as well as in numerous horror anthologies such
as Night in New Orleans: Bizarre Beats from the
Big Easy, Thuggish Itch: Viva Las Vegas, and White
Noise & Ouija Boards. She appeared, briefly, as
the uncredited "all-American Mom with baby" in Purple
Cactus Media’s 2007 Arizona indie-film, "Vote for
Zombie." Having lived in France, Brazil, Canada, and several states
in the US, she now resides in southern Arizona.
https://hillarylyon.wordpress.com/
Rich
MacNeill is a
digital designer living in Brooklyn NY. When he is not designing websites, he
can be found around town drawing or creating music.
Ben Minish-Malinconico has
a zest for life with a lot of passion and humor. He loves photography,
traveling, and anything outdoors. Over the years, he held
some unique jobs, such as being Santa’s elf; dining
hall worker at a camp for LGBTQ+ adults; Porky Pig;
Halloween ghouls; and working with adults with special needs for
over three decades. He and his husband are a great match and are in it for
life.
John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover,
North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Baltimore
Review, and others. Winner/Nominee of numerous contests/awards, John
edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals.
He’s a retired physics professor living in Knoxville, Tennessee.
http://jcmannone.wordpress.com https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone/ Brendan
Matley lives
in the town of Oldham near Manchester, England. He is married and
has a daughter named Amy, whom he loves more than anything. He's
been writing fiction for years, and he and a friend had a short-lived
crime/noir ezine called A Shot of Ink. He hates
Manchester United by the way, and pulls for his
local team. Sheilah McGuckin
is a Brooklyn girl who enjoys writing and
photography in her spare time. Jen
Mong is
an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. When not drawing
or writing, she is reading; watching TV or movies; taking
walks; listening to music; enjoying nature; and keeping
company with family and friends.
Kelly Moyer is an accomplished poet, photographer
and fiber artist, who pursues her muse through the cobbled streets of New
Orleans’s French Quarter. Her collection of short-form poetry, Hushpuppy,
was recently released by Nun Prophet Press.
Patty
Mulligan’s lifelong passion has been to
work with animals in all aspects.
She has been a kennel manager for a shelter, a surgical
assistant with a veterinarian, and co-founded a local animal rescue
organization.
During her recent years working with animal
rescue and doing TNR, she documents and photographs
all animals for identification purposes. She carries
a point-and-shoot camera with her at all times.
Patty’s husband Bill recognized a talent in her photography and urged her
to exhibit a few pieces at an upcoming art show in the library. She was amazed
when one of her pieces won 2nd place in the photography medium.
She continues to enjoy photography and has shown her
works at the Bayonne Library, the Bayonne Community Museum,
The Ferdez Art Gallery, Bee’s Art Studio, Hendrickson’s Restaurant
and enjoyed a duo show with her husband at the Jewish
Community Center. Patty is a member of The Hudson Artists of Jersey City, the
Art Circle of Bayonne, the Core Artists and Beautify Bayonne. Sean O’Keefe is an artist and writer living in
Roselle Park, NJ. Sean attended Syracuse University where he earned his BFA in
Illustration. After graduation, Sean moved to New York City
where he spent time working in restaurants and galleries
while pursuing various artistic opportunities. After
the birth of his children, Sean and family move to Roselle Park
in 2015. He actively participates in exhibitions and art fairs around New
Jersey, and is continuing to develop his voice as a writer. His work
can be found online at www.justseanart.com and @justseanart
on Instagram. Bronx-born Jack Pepper plays a mean guitar and has recently been branching out into photo
illustration.
Contrary to popular belief, Rob
Plath is not yet under
the jurisdiction of the worms. His latest book of poems,
Batter the Keyboard Like a Raptor Is Behind Yr Back, is available
from Laughing Ronin Press.
Originally from Bronx, New York, Jack Real works as a plumber in New Jersey. When he’s
not snaking pipes, he likes to have a few beers and listen to Classic Rock
with his childhood friend, fellow Yellow Mama artist Jack Pepper. Ann Marie Rhiel was the Assistant
Art Director for Yellow Mama Webzine. She
was born and raised in Bronx, New York, and lived in New Jersey.
She reconnected with her passion for art in 2016 and had her work exhibited in
art galleries around northern New Jersey ever since. She was a commissioned
painting artist, who also enjoyed photography. Her work also
appeared in Black Petals and Megazine Official. Sadly, Ann
Marie passed away in January, 2023... Noelle Richardson comes from a relatively large family and
has been illustrating and painting
for about twelve years. She writes a little on the side,
plays a couple of instruments and dabbles in tattoo design. John Lunar Richey has writings published in
Rolling Stone, Genesis, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica,
The Journal of Erotica, and The Best of the
Journal of Erotica (the latter two published in the UK). Lunar also
works with Lunar Ensemble (word & music projections). Joseph
Richkus is an enthusiastic illustrator,
photographer, writer, and reader. He has been an essential
oil perfumer for more than 20 years, and has worked as a history teacher,
chemist, security guard, and circus canvasman. He bemoans the limits
of time and regrets that he is not 10 people, one of whom would happily devote
every waking hour to reading the Sunday New York Times. Betty Rocksteady
has always
found it fascinating how we each have our own internal world of
things that resonate with us. Stephen King and EC horror comics got their hooks
in her when she was a teenager and have never let go.
Most of the things that resonate with her are in the
horror genre: darkly beautiful, strange, unusual, or horrifying. She is
drawn to the bizarre and disturbing in all art forms. Through her art, she aims
to explore her own personal resonances with pen in hand. You can follow her
progress at www.facebook.com/bettyrocksteadyart or check out her portfolio at www.bettyrocksteady.com. Cindy Rosmus originally hails
from the Ironbound section of
Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like
Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night Fever. Her noir/horror/bizarro
stories have been published in the coolest places, such as Shotgun
Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The
Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Bleachers, and Rock
and a Hard Place. She is the editor/art
director of Yellow Mama. She’s published seven collections
of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal
rights advocate. She has recently branched out into photo illustration.
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and
educator. He is the author of eight books including Imagination:
The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To
date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories
and over a thousand of his paintings and drawings have been
published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
Michael Schall is a pretty good graphic
artist, bass player, and is a huge fan of Rush, Judas
Priest, and the Beatles.
Allison Smith is a Boston-based artist and designer who
works mostly with a mixture of
pen and ink, photography, and digital collage to create horror art
that has the lingering sense of a fever dream. Her subjects vary widely, since
she enjoys almost all genres of horror. View her portfolio at:
https://foxontherun.myportfolio.com/ M.R. Sonntag is a writer, editor and artist from CT
who enjoys reading and photography. Nancy Soriano grew
up in New York City and now resides in the Hudson Valley.
She loves the darker side of art—and life. She
is rediscovering her love of photography through her latest
muse, her cat Zoey. From the hollows of Kentucky, John Sowder divides his spare time
between creating art for Sugar Skull Press and working
on various cryptid-themed projects. He illustrated
GEORGE THE HOLIDAY SPIDER by Rick Powell, which is due November
of this year. You can see more of his art at www.deviantart.com/latitudezero Henry Stanton's fiction, poetry
and paintings appear in 2River,
The A3 Review, Avatar, The Baltimore City
Paper, The Baltimore Sun Magazine, High Shelf Press,
Kestrel, North of Oxford, Outlaw Poetry,
PCC Inscape, Pindeldyboz, Rusty Truck,
Salt & Syntax, SmokeLong Quarterly, The William
and Mary Review, Word Riot, The Write Launch, and Yellow
Mama, among other publications. His poetry was selected for the
A3 Review Poetry Prize and was shortlisted
for the Eyewear 9th Fortnight Prize for Poetry. His
fiction received an Honorable Mention acceptance for the Salt &
Syntax Fiction Contest and was selected as a finalist
for the Pen 2 Paper Annual Writing Contest. A
selection of Henry Stanton's paintings are currently on show at Atwater's Catonsville
and can be viewed at the following website www.brightportfal.com. A selection of Henry Stanton’s published
fiction and poetry can be located for reading in the library at www.brightportfal.com. Henry
Stanton is the Founding & Managing Editor of The Raw
Art Review—www.therawartreview.com. John
and Flo Stanton
are writers/photographic artists living in Indianapolis,
Indiana. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications,
from The Indianapolis Star to Not One of Us. You can find
out more about them through their website www.3amblue.com. Londyyn Thomas resolutely eschews any mythologizing
of an artist and so avoids discussing personal life
and relations. John
L. Thompson
currently lives in New Mexico with his wife of twenty-five years.
When he is not searching for
lost remnants of the old west, he can be found working
on several writing projects. Thompson is known to have worked as
a truck driver, heavy line diesel mechanic, armored truck guard, corrections,
body guard, and a host of other professions.
His true passion is writing,
collecting vintage books and is
the current cover artist for the Casca the Eternal Mercenary series. His
novel 'Truck Stop' is due out 2017-18 by Dusty Desert Press. Daniel Valentin is a young artist
born in the Bronx, but raised in Jersey City. He has been in
a number of musical theater productions throughout his academic career, from the 5th
grade all the way up to college. Daniel has been in a
few choirs and has even competed in the World Choir
Olympics. He currently sings with Saint Peter's University
Schola, the Saint Peter's University Choir. Having been a founding
member of the choir, he has since been in 2 albums that are available on both
Spotify and iTunes. At Saint Peter's University he received a Bachelors Degree
in Biology. Daniel has been interested in the arts since
very young, and particularly became interested in drawing,
painting, and sculpting since having taken classes at Saint Peter's Preparatory
School. He considers photography as a hobby, but hopes to one
day get more involved with the art. Keith C.
Walker was born in Leeds in
1939. He studied Ceramics at Leeds College of Art and the Royal
College of Art. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, he was Personal Assistant to Eduardo
Paolozzi. Keith taught at Hull College of Art and Leicester
Polytechnic, which is now De Montfort University. In
1994 he retired from Academia. Keith says,
“Digital technology has made and continues to
make big changes to all of our lives: the way we communicate, the way we are monitored,
the way we entertain ourselves, and much, much more. We
now leave a digital footprint wherever we go, and with whatever we do. Do we already have one foot in an
Orwellian world? My collages
are an investigation, with a small “I,” on the impact of digital
technology and its possibilities.”
Sophia Wiseman-Rose (aka Sr. Sophia Rose) is a Paramedic and an Anglican novice
Franciscan nun, in the UK. Both careers
have given Sophia a great deal of exposure to the extremes in life and have
provided great inspiration for her.
She has travelled too many countries, on
medical missions and for modelling (many years ago), but has spent most of her
life between the USA and the UK. She is currently residing in a rural
Franciscan community and will soon be moving to London to be with a community
there.
In addition, Sophia had a few poems and short stories
in editions of Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction
Magazine
The majority of her artwork can be found on her website.https://www.artstation.com/sophiaw-r6
After graduating from the New York School of Visual
Arts with a bachelor of fine arts degree, Bill Zbylut found various freelance illustration work, such
as Woodlawn Books, Amedeo Petti in Manhattan, creating
personalized caricatures for the WE crew apparel who
conducted internet live safari drives in Africa for Wildearth TV, album covers
for various NJ musicians, and numerous cartoons for a local newspaper. Though
Bill usually worked with ink and watercolors, he started paintings in
oils and acrylics feverishly since 2005. He continues
to try new mediums including pastels, scratchboards,
and lithographs. He discovered the Hudson Artists on
New Jersey as a new motive for creating a great opportunity to show his many works. In
recent years, Bill has won several awards for oils, acrylic, and
stippling in the mixed media category and was named Artist of the Year by
the Hudson Artists in 2012. Bill has had the pleasure
of showing his talent in many locations in his native Bayonne: the Bayonne
Community Museum, the Ferdez Art Gallery, Bee’s Art Studio,
All Fit Studio, and Hendrickson’s Restaurant. He and
his wife Patty showed their many works in a “couples” show at the Jewish
Community Center. He was also included in the 25th annual Cathedral Arts
Festival in Jersey City. Bill is a member of The Hudson Artists, The
Bayonne Art Circle, Core Artists, and Beautify Bayonne. Artist
Zero lives in an underground bunker somewhere
in Colorado or someplace else with Promise, a rescue
Australian Shepherd with an appetite for corn-on-the-cob
and peanut butter.
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