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Jessica McDaniel’s vibrant line art drawings and paintings of smiling animals transport viewers into her whimsical world. Describing herself and her art as, “happy, happy, happy”, Jessica transmits her gleeful personality into her art through bright colors, bold shapes, and bunnies named, “Lucky”. When she is not making art, Jessica enjoys going out with her family and friends, and dancing to Michael Jackson.

Heather Kingsbury draws and paints what she loves. Her work features flowers, cats, and various shades of purple. She often works by breaking down images carefully re-constructing them piece by piece to create a completed work. Through this meditative collage process, Heather is able to slow down and bring order to a loud, chaotic world. Recently Heather has also been using her iPad camera to amass a small archive of photos, which is still finding it’s direction. When she is not making art, she enjoys shopping, going on walks, and collecting items that make her happy.

Fariha Farhat describes herself as, “a happy human” and her drawings as, “fancy words like a poem”. She likes “blue – because of the sky and swimming in the ocean, and pink – because it is the universal of love”. Fariha is known for her drawings of “sensoory” boats. She describes every boat as having, “lots of colors and containing every life in the water”. Some of her favorite things are pop music, camping, stretching, Chinese horror movies, and family time. She believes that “a good person is like a butterfly, laughing is good for the heart, and all people are important”.

Delenn Schoeber is a creator of fantastical worlds. Each canvas tells a story. Winged creatures against detailed landscapes transport viewers into her rich inner world. As a natural storyteller, each piece is character driven. Beginning with a sketch of the creature, she lets her imagination build the world around it. In addition to drawing and painting, Delenn writes murder mysteries featuring fearless female characters. When she is not creating, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her family capturing the outdoors with her camera. She is always gathering information and inspiration for her next story.

Deidre Snow has an outgoing attitude and an active social life. The joy and energy of her lifestyle comes out in her art, which often includes drawings and paintings of hearts, home-made cards, paper flowers, as well as abstract paintings. The paintings often feature the use of multi-colored, thickly poured, splattered, smeared and otherwise manipulated paint. It is often thickly applied to the canvas without brushes, relying instead on blow dryers, scraping devices, pouring implements, and her bare hands. There is a relishing of the material properties of the paint, and an emphasis on process over product, a vital impulse to continually explore the qualities of the paint itself.

Much of Darren Lowe’s work is concerned with the joyful expression of the popular culture he grew up with, including films such as Grease and musical artists such as Michael Jackson and Patti Smith. He also has a fondness for illustrating animals, especially elephants. His work also relates to memory, and the tendency of memories to be all at once intense, at times involuntary, and also fleeting. This sometimes gives his work a distorted and at times deconstructed and dreamlike quality.