My work attempts to balance both order and chaos. The order in my use of geometric shapes with sharp lines is offset by the looseness of the shapes (chaos). I rarely udiliz a brush in my art but instead apply paint with an assortment of different objects. I tend to concentrate on color and composition allowing forms to just happen.

New paintings, from the series "Divine particles", are based on my experience as a bone marrow donor for my sister. After successful surgery, I became fascinated by the nano world and genetic images, with the focus on the idea of DNA.

In my work, double helix has become a symbol of life and of constant movement. In the search for the beauty of the particles, hidden from the human eye, I was inspired by the idea of forms rather then the scientific truth. As a fine artist, I am aware, that visual world is governed by it’s own visual laws.

My professional degree and training is rooted in the classical European traditions; and I am influenced by the ancient culture of my birth place - Georgia, where I graduated from Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts. I believe my background gave me a variety of tools to create my own visual language.
For the past 20 years, I’ve been living in the United States and working mostly as a figurative artist. Here, I was able to explore, travel and grow further as an artist and a human being.
Although I have shown in the US and in Europe, and my work is on display in public and private collections in many parts of the World, this is my first public exhibit in Washington, D.C., as I only moved here few months ago.

As in life, my passion for painting involves a search for what is beautiful, interesting, or universal. I love watching people, and the silent dramas and stories that I see form the basis of my figurative painting. I work mainly from commission, and Artomatic is only my third public show. I have just begun to paint more still lifes and landscapes and look forward to an expanded career as an artist as my regular worklife recedes into the sunset.
Fern Loos Beu

The world is full of compelling images. Some make you think, some make you smile, some fill you with sadness and others leave you breathless with their beauty. By capturing an image through photography, I seek to capture the emotion it evokes in me and share it with others.

As a city dweller, I am drawn to the realism and stark beauty of an urban setting. And nature provides inspiration in its changing moods and quiet corners. I work exclusively with natural light and without a tripod to facilitate the capture of my immediate emotional response to a subject. My work uses bold lines, repeating patterns and the play of light and shadow to create intimate portraits of the objects that I encounter in the course of daily life, both at home and abroad.

I have been taking photographs for over 30 years. I am largely self-taught and after many years as a respected IT consultant and successful internet entrepreneur, I am now taking my photography to a higher level.

Catching nature in its finest is the goal of photographer Zandra Chestnut. Taking advantage of the local parks and neighborhoods in her hometown of Washington, DC, Zandra looks for the “close up” views, and with timing and luck, captures the best of nature. Lotus Blossoms, garden flowers and other works of nature are captured courtesy of local parks and neighborhood gardens. “Mer-Max Park” captures the falling waters of the spectacular fountains at Meridian-Hill -Malcolm X Park.
“My photographic eye was developed early in my teens and put on the shelf during my years as a working wife/mother with children. Advancements in the digital camera world make it more affordable and simpler to capture what my creative eye sees. Now, in retirement, I utilize a Nikon Digital SLR with zoom lenses and enjoy the affordability, ease and simplicity of using the computer to enhance and highlight my photos. Serving as a board members of the visionary Ward 7 Arts Collaborative, an organization with the mission of fostering awareness of, support for, and participation in the arts among community residents, Zandra is connecting her love for photography with her involvement in her local community.

William Baxter Clark

“We all tend to live our ‘status quo’ until life thrusts change upon us“.

Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1959 to a very modest, but loving upbringing, youngest of 3, resources were always limited to the mainstream. At the young age of 10 or 11, I adopted the philosophy, “Work with what you have”. This became apparent to my mother. She said, during one of our conversations, “At that point I knew you were different” because of some unbidden project I created within the entry of our home. My father was a commercial painter who surrounded us with color. I can’t remember a white wall. The wonderful encouragement of a teacher/friend allowed me the focus to self-teach. Four years in the military during peace time, moving from here to there showed me diversity.

The stresses of the “status quo” tell us to leave our passions and our adolescent wisdom behind and to leave no time or space for heart and thought. The cost to me added up to kidney disease and an open heart surgery. That was 2002, my spiritual year of change.

My release is quick. My emotions are unrelenting.

“These are my children”. Dolly Parton

Most of my work is photography related.
I use digital and film to create image transfers, solar plates, mixed media. I like to use interesting papers, cloth and metal to give my work texture. I use recycled materials to add interest to my work.

My work has simplified itself a bit over the last year. Gone is some of the chaos, along with the need to put everything I know into one painting. I’ve tried to stop multi-tasking and to focus, imposing limits for myself and working within a set of parameters – a certain range of colors, repeated elements, paint quality, etc.

I recently joined Artworks, a shared studio and gallery space in Reston, VA. I find that the tall white walls and lack of distractions there have brought clarity to my artwork and allowed me to explore some ideas that have been rolling around in my head for ages.

I’m still addicted to color – that hasn’t changed. I love transparent washes and subtle veils of color that allow the paper or canvas to show through and backlight the pigment with its pure, white light – a nod to my many years as a printmaker.

Truth be told, I’m a minimalist at heart. I just have a lot of ideas to work through before my paintings catch up with me…

The Test Strip

the tool of photography

A playground. A fort. An interactive, environmentally friendly, creative space designed to give the imagination room to roam free.

My collection, called "Object Oriented Comprehension", is a series of pronto plate lithographic prints exploring symbols and contextual perception. These works are part of my experimentation with traditional and modern lithographic printmaking techniques.