Songs in the Flowers

Songs in the FlowersMelissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out onto the Mojave Desert. Her colorful mixed media paintings explore the magic of the American Southwest, as well as night, summertime, road trips, solitude, and friendship. She creates work based on both real memories and imaginary places shed like to visit swimming, dreaming, in the sunshine and under the moonlight. About this

Born in Corner Brook

In this series

After a drab winter

Wendy Whatley creates three-dimensional

Holler Greetings represents the collaborative vision of artists Brandon Patrick and Michael Wooldridge

favorite book) to the quirky (first diaper blow-out

As a plein air painter

This tension between fact and fiction in our perceptions continues to be a source of inspiration in her art

Many of the objects in these paintings were found on the ground

Maine and for two years

The surface of each piece is created in iterative movements wrapping fine yarn -- or braided cord for larger works -- row by row to form taut and layered pieces that yield images of subtle depth

This piece is from Noelle's ETA34 collection