Megan Aline grew up in Thomaston, Maine. As a child, she took classes at the Farnsworth Art Museum, where she rubbed elbows with American realists Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, as well as photographers such as John Paul Caponigro. With family lineage including the classical realist William Davis, Aline was raised with a broad liberal arts…

Contemporary landscape artist Jill Basham was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Columbia, Maryland. Basham comes from a family with a multi-generational history of artists. She grew up with an interest in art, yet it was not until later in adulthood that she began oil painting. Once she began, she never looked back. Basham…

Lynn Boggess Solo Exhibition opens on Friday, April 24th with an Opening Reception that evening from 6–8:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome! Lynn Boggess is a plein air landscape painter who grew up on a farm near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Life in such a rural setting allowed…

Raymond Bonilla is a nationally recognized illustrator and fine artist. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media and Illustration from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2005. He continued his education at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, where he received his Master of Fine Arts…

Born in 1948 and raised in Southern California, Pamela Carroll is a self-taught realist painter based in Carmel, California. Inspired by early Dutch and Spanish masters as well as contemporary realists, Carroll’s work reflects the traditional techniques of Classical Realism. Her commitment to painting from life and her focus on still life and portraiture have…

For Scott L. Christensen, painting is not just a passion—it’s a necessity. Born in 1962 and raised in Lander, Wyoming, Christensen developed an early aesthetic shaped by the region’s wild beauty. While attending Chadron State College in Nebraska on a football scholarship, a severe neck injury ended his athletic career and shifted his path. Seeking…

Claudio Cionini was born in Grosseto, Tuscany, in 1978. After studying painting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his attention turned to the industrial landscapes surrounding the town of Piombino, where he now lives. A visit to Paris in 2007 provided further inspiration. Fascinated by the city’s boulevards and their seemingly endless vistas, the…

Andreas Claussen, born in 1988 in Hanover, Germany, is a pioneering oil painter whose journey from law studies to the art world underscores his deep-seated passion for visual storytelling. Claussen’s oeuvre is particularly noted for his FLOOD series, in which an anonymous astronaut traverses a dystopian, flood-ravaged Earth. This body of work is a testament to Claussen’s…

Scott Conary, raised in the suburbs of the East Coast, attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He now lives with his family in Portland, Oregon, where he creates oil paintings that explore the quiet power of the everyday. His subjects—broken eggs, stubborn weeds, weathered doors—are familiar objects pulled from their usual contexts, revealing the…

Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1966, Trish Coonrod knew from a young age that she would become an artist. She majored in painting at Washington University in St. Louis and later continued her studies at the New York Academy of Art, where she graduated with honors in 1995. Shortly after, she began working in the…