April 2016 Featured Artists

Best in Show Winners

Landscapes

Please email Raquel directly if you are interested in purchasing this award winning piece or visit her website if you are interested in seeing more of her artwork.

Traditional Art

Raquel Stokes

“A Tale of Two Mountains”
Acrylic on Canvas, 48″ x 30″, $950

Raquel Stokes is a Pacific Northwest self-­taught Artist. She has formulated her style over many years of experimentation. Raquel approaches art much in the way she approaches life: with spontaneity and versatility. Her subject matter is purposefully varied, both for her own enrichment and to appeal to diverse interests.

Her acrylic paintings are colorful, detailed, and surreal. Her primary sources of inspiration come from nature and life’s absurdities. The resulting artwork is a direct reflection of how she sees the world­ vibrant, dizzying, and full of diversity. Raquel is driven by a primordial curiosity and restlessness and these traits are illuminated in her work.

 Photography & Digital Art

Markelle Palombo

“Lassen”
Photography on Fine Art Fiber Rag, 36″ x 24″, $900

Thriving on the urge to infuse randomness with discovery, Markelle Palombo creates a series of images that any audience can identify with and all can relate to.  Extraordinary Decisions is a project of discovery and self reliance. The images in this series bring together personal strength and awareness without the distraction of external noise or conflict. In the purest sense, these photographs represent being ok within yourself.  

Photographs captured and revealed within this photographic project give the viewer a fresh breath of infinite possibilities. Extraordinary Decisions brings together a group of photographs with a singular and thematic approach to photography as an art form: each image represented in this project is created by a precise and individualistic photographic sensibility. As the viewer, you feel as if you are a part of not only the enveloping landscape, but also a part of that decisive moment. Markelle’s images will engulf and inspire you.

If you are interested in purchasing this award winning piece or seeing more of Markelle’s photographs, please visit her website or email Markelle directly.