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
also penned a ghost story novel, Jiko Bukken, set in Kyoto, Japan in the
winter of '92-'93. Available in Paperback and eBook on Amazon.
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.
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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