Sophia Paris
Sophia Paris is a Los Angeles-based Iranian artist. Her fine art often focuses on her heritage and lifestyle. As an artist, Sophia’s inspiration springs from a variety of ideas and places. Her paintings mix the traditional with contemporary flair.
Calligraphy, poetry, and architecture take primary focus on Sophia’s traditionally inspired art. Many of her works use Iranian script to share selected words from Rumi. She also explores place by creating fantasy perspectives based on designs from locations in Iran.
In her contemporary works, Sophia explores wonder and femininity. She uses everyday objects, such as pinwheels and lipstick, to explore pop sensibilities and American idioms.
Sophia’s artwork is available directly from the artist’s studio, on Saatchi.com, and at Artlounge Collective. More works will appear at the Art Expo New York, April 2024.
Karen Eccleston
Karen Eccleston is very much inspired by the old masters, Van Gogh, Manet, and also Georgia O’Keefe.
Growing up in Southern California and visiting Hawaii, Karen enjoys painting Coastal landscapes, tropical Florals, and Ocean Scenery. She works primarily with acrylic and oil. Karen has sold many pieces to physicians and hospitals, and also private clients.
Ashley Wright
Ashley Wright paints highly vibrant, textured, eye-catching landscapes and illustrations. Since becoming a full-time artist, Wright has sold her work internationally, and exhibits throughout Southern California. Her paintings focus on perception and reality in relation to Derealization, Dissociation, and Maladaptive Daydreaming – all things Wright struggles with. She hopes that her paintings help bring awareness to C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the beauty that comes from it. The world’s that Wright creates come directly from her inner world that has protected her when struggling with Dissociation. All of Wright’s paintings take visual inspiration from locations around Southern California, nostalgia from Sci-Fi, and the vibrant designs of the 80s/90s. The combination of nostalgia and dissociation allow for Ashley’s paintings to take on a dream-like state and envelop viewers to wonder about each texture, brushstroke, and color palette. Dreamscapes allow for viewers to feel a sense of familiarity, hope, discomfort, and unknown, just as someone who struggles with dissociation may emotionally and physically experience.
Susan C. Price
Influenced by her favorite artists and teachers: Picasso, Bonnard, Schiele, De Kooning, and Joseph Blaustein, David Valentine, Susan C. Price focuses on changing and turning objects, figures into complex color fields. She approaches each painting with what she calls “creative destruction”, trying new things until she’s satisfied.
Catherine Dickson
Catherine Dickson have shown her work in Seattle and Los Angeles for the past 20 years. After attending Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she grew up, she then went on to attend Arizona State University with a double degree: a BA in Art History and a BFA in Digital Photography. She has shown many works, many times at Santa Monica Art Studios, Hanger Gallery, and the Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery. Dickson ebbs and flows between various mediums, having a mastery of each technique while keeping a consistent sensibility of mood and tone.
TSmitty2001 (Tim Smith)
The fleeting moments, the perfect shot, the one with the magic light and shadows. All of them are their own piece of time Tim Smith tries to preserve in the time machine of the camera’s eye. In that instant, there’s nothing but breath and the stillness of the moment. Tim has been fortunate enough to have been exhibited in galleries all over the world, and he hopes to find himself fortunate enough to be featured in your home.