Visual Art

Cooling Down

Oonagh Latchford is a visual artist living and working in Wexford, Ireland. She holds a BA (hons) in Art. Working mainly in oils, her painting practice, which is predominately figurative, has for many years explored the theme of memory. She grew up by the sea and it has always played a large part in her life- and is around which many memories are based. Family loss – erosion of memories - and erosion of the very places many of these memories are rooted in – all have inspired her current body of work, along with an interest in climate change. Seemingly unconnected areas of research- but each serve as a metaphor for the other – and both are subject to a type of erosion.  A pink line is a common motif, wrapping itself protectively around people and memories –  linking both to places she is rooted in. It also interrupts the work, adding an element of abstraction and stopping it being read as a straightforward scene.

Latchford’s paintings are in collections in Ireland, Europe, USA and Hong Kong. Exhibitions include: SPF 50, (Solo show) Creative Hub Wexford 2022; Wide Open Space, (Group show) County Hall, Wexford, 2022; The society of Woman Artists Annual Exhibition, London 2022; Sceilini in Paint, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery. Hong Kong 2018

You can find Oonagh at www.oonaghlatchford.com and on Instagram @oonaghlatchfordart

Motherhood Knot Group

Montserrat Serra Nonell is a mixed media Spanish artist based in Granollers, Barcelona. She creates abstract paintings and textile sculptures using natural materials. In her words: “I create to translate into mixed media images/sculptures the beauty of the ephemeral and unpredictable of life”. Nowadays she sets her framework through warm, full abstraction, and soft and touchable sculptures. Her creative approach is intriguing because of the connection between human development, spirituality and art. She creates a warm and ethereal aesthetic in her artworks that invites the viewer to connect with their inner peace. This body of work explores through soft sculptures what means for her to be a mother witHout her mother close, as she passed away 25 years ago. She talks about empty spaces, weight and softness.

Woody

David Birozy left the urban life of southern California in 2014 for the peace, quiet, and open spaces of Wyoming. Here he found a slower paced life in a beautiful piece of the nation where anything outdoors is on the top of the list for just about everybody. He is married, with two teenage and three adult children children spread across California, Wyoming, Washington, Nevada, and Texas. Mr. Birozy has spent thirty-two years working in the public sector, for both state and municipal governments in California and Wyoming. He has been a supervisor, manager, department head, and leader for twenty-one of those years. Mr. Birozy has both a Bachelors and Juris Doctor degree.

Hold On Tight

Carve Stone is an award-winning sculptor, exhibiting and published internationally. A Bostonian, working from a studio in Florida, carving into mined rock, using both traditional hand tools and modern electrical tools, Stone works in the abstract, leaving much room for exploration of the quarried rock. Carve is most interested in portraying our ever changing environment as well as how humans interact culturally and socially.

Climate Patinations

Emily Budd’s contemporary sculptural practice expands on the transformative and collaborative power of foundry craft to imagine queer and ecotopic futures. Budd received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2018 and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Find Budd on Instagram @ladybudd and online at emilybudd.com

Cafe Terrace at COVID Capacity

Donald Patten is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine. As an artist, he produces oil paintings and graphic novels. His artworks have been exhibited in galleries across the Mid-Coast region of Maine. His online portfolio is donaldlpatten.newgrounds.com/art and you can find him on Instagram @donald.patten and Twitter @DonaldLPatten1

Ember Storm

Rachel Berkowitz lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in London, Rachel Berkowitz graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the UCLA School of Art and Architecture in 2016. Rachel is currently showcasing paintings for a solo exhibition February - May 2023 , called “Biophilic Harmonies”. Previously, she has exhibited in solo painting and photography shows, group Fine Art shows and at global artist events in Los Angeles, London and Japan. Her artist residencies range from the La Napoule Artist Foundation in France, to the Slade School of Art London Summer Intensive in England to the Volcanoes of Lassen Volcanic National Park, in California. 

Rachel has been awarded first place in various International Fine Art competitions and has received numerous private and public commissions from staging paintings for Palm Springs Modernism Week, to painting a mural for Bill Nye, The Science Guy’s new videos filmed at The Planetary Society in Pasadena. She is currently the resident artist at Zensai, an Art and Fashion streetwear store in Beverly Hills, where she customizes clothing that features her own artwork. Rachel has self-published three complete Fine Art photography books. One of her most popular series titled “Fairfax Royalty” was displayed at a booth for Gallery 1202 in The LA Art Show, 2020.