Author: Iris

Eliora Bousquet is a French-listed abstract painter and illustrator whose work lives in the space where emotion opens into something larger. Born in Angoulême, France, in 1970, she stepped fully into her artistic path in 2009. It’s the kind of beginning that doesn’t feel late—it feels deliberate, like she waited until the internal compass was clear. Her paintings move by intuition more than plan. They carry a sense of wonder that doesn’t need to announce itself, and a steady pull toward the night sky—its hush, its distance, its rhythm. In Bousquet’s world, nature and cosmos aren’t separate categories. They’re two…

Kathryn Trotter’s paintings come in full volume—rich color, palpable texture, and an obvious enjoyment of paint as a material. On a quick read, the work feels lush and spirited: animals set like portraits, surrounded by flowers, pattern, and thick passages of pigment that you can almost trace with your eyes. Stay with it a little longer, though, and the underlying order starts to show. The brightness isn’t random. It’s held up by design instincts that come from where she started. Trotter first trained in textiles and fashion design in Texas, a world where construction matters and every layer has a…

Oenone Hammersley moved to Palm Beach Gardens in 2024, and the shift has fed directly into her visual world. She arrives with a practice shaped by theatre design, decades of travel, and a steady devotion to the natural environment. Known internationally for mixed-media paintings built from saturated color, textured surfaces, and radiant light, she often returns to water—its shimmer, its motion, its vulnerability. Her paintings have been shown in Palm Beach, New York, London, Paris, Washington D.C., and Miami, and they sit in both private and public collections. Florida’s tropical gardens have become fresh material: thick foliage, repeating forms, heavy…

Paul “Gilby” Gilbertson has always worked from the inside out—starting with materials, paying attention to how they react, and learning how to steer them without squeezing the life out of them. Back in the early 1970s, he came across a watercolor method that would become closely associated with his paintings: sprinkling salt into wet washes to coax out organic, crystalline textures. It wasn’t something he set out to invent. It happened unexpectedly, the way many strong studio discoveries do. What matters is what came after. Gilbertson didn’t treat the result like a novelty; he kept testing it, adjusting timing and…

Pasquale J. Cuomo’s relationship with photography starts in a simple, relatable place: a teenager experiments with a camera and realizes it isn’t just a passing interest. Born in the United States, Cuomo has spent more than fifty years working through the medium’s shifts and reinventions. He learned photography in the era of film and darkrooms, then carried that discipline into the digital age without losing what those earlier years taught him. That long stretch of time shows up in the work. You can feel the accumulation of practice—trying different approaches, recalibrating, making mistakes, refining, and returning with better judgment. For…

L. Scooter Morris makes work that refuses to behave like background. Her pieces don’t simply hang on a wall—they take up space with the insistence of something alive. Morris calls herself a sensory illusionist, and it fits once you spend time in front of her art. The experience starts in that instant before you can explain what you’re seeing—when your eyes register color and form, but your body picks up depth, weight, and shift first. Her “Sculpted Paintings” don’t stay politely flat. They press outward, sink inward, and change depending on where you stand. A ridge catches light and the…

Miguel Barros, born in Lisbon in 1962, makes art that feels shaped by a life in motion. Moving between Portugal, Angola, and Canada has widened his understanding of what a place leaves behind—how it forms identity, settles into the body, and keeps traveling through memory long after the suitcase is unpacked. He studied Architecture and Design at IADE Lisbon, graduating in 1984, and that training still anchors his painting. You can feel it in his sense of proportion, his timing, and his ability to organize space without draining the work of feeling. When he relocated from Angola to Calgary, Alberta…

Amid the vibrant rhythm of Milwaukee, Janet Adventure Sather is reshaping what abstract sculpture can be by embracing materials most artists would never consider. Rather than stone, wood, or metal, she works with conductive light, fiber optics, and sugar—a combination that feels fragile, luminous, and strangely alive. These sculptures do far more than occupy space. They shimmer, react, and seem to pulse with quiet energy, echoing the emotional presence of the people who inspire them. Through these glowing forms, Sather explores the invisible emotional worlds we carry with us—the calm we show, the tension we hide, the bravery we rarely…

Miguel Barros makes art that feels like a conversation with place—sometimes quiet, sometimes dreamlike, and often layered with a sense of longing. Born in Lisbon in 1962, he carries the influence of three distinct geographies: Portugal, Angola, and Canada. Each one has shaped the way he sees color, form, and the emotional undercurrent that runs through a landscape. When he moved from Angola to Calgary in 2014, he found himself surrounded by new skies, new seasons, and new rhythms. These changes didn’t replace what came before; instead, they blended into his work, creating a dialogue between past and present. Barros…

In a wide creative field filled with artists who make images, there are a few who do something more. They build stories, pull you into them, and hold you there without force. Kimberly McGuiness is one of those artists. Her work does not simply present a scene. It offers an entry point into a mental landscape where emotion and memory sit close to imagination. She works with a steady clarity, but her pieces feel open, like doors left unlatched on a quiet night. Kimberly brings a sense of wonder without leaning on theatrics. Instead, she threads her ideas through color,…