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:
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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.
Check
out her latest short fiction collection, An Orbit of Chairs:
https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Chairs-KJ-Hannah-Greenberg/dp/B0CWMMM73T
Within its
pages are two tales originally published at Yellow Mama: "Alive Another
Day" and "Light Notes."
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.
April Lafleur’s distinctive painting style is inspired by
German Expressionism, emphasizing the artist’s deep-rooted feelings or ideas,
evoking powerful reactions-abandoning reality, characterized by simplified
shapes, bright colors, gestural marks and brush strokes. Masters like Kirshner
and Marc come to mind when viewing April’s dynamic paintings.
April has earned an
AFA at the Community College of Rhode Island, where she had the privilege of
studying with Bob Judge, a masterful painter who has worked as an artist for
over sixty years. Her studio is located at the Agawam Mill in Rhode Island.
https://www.aprillafleurart.com/
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 founded and for 20 years acted
as senior editor for the independent poetry publisher,
Subsynchronous Press. Her horror, speculative fiction, and crime short stories, drabbles,
and poems have appeared in more than 150 publications. She's an SFPA Rhysling Award nominated
poet. Hillary is also the art director for Black Petals.
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 to 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.