Landscapes 2022
Art Exhibition Winners
Below are the biographies and/or artist's statements along with the artist's websites or emails.
Please visit the Landscapes exhibition page and contact the artists directly for purchase inquiries or to see more of their work.
Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you for sharing your talent with us.
MOrning Reflection
Photography
Izzy Kapetanovic
First Place Winner
My primary photography interests include nature and urban landscape, travel, and architecture. I am a firm believer that it's not what the camera sees but what one's eyes and mind perceive.
a cairn of hope
Oil
22 x 28
Kathleen H. Peters
Second Place
My path to becoming an artist has been very meandering, though I have always used my hands and created things. I originally went to school to be an engineer because I wanted to gain the skills it would take to help people spontaneously perform random acts of creativity. I practiced engineering doing heat transfer in a lab at 3M. While there, I realized that, in addition to my passion for how things work, I also found myself reaching and searching for moments of beauty and calm in my everyday life. While engineering was amazingly creative and innovative, it didn't fulfill that desire. After several years of practicing engineering, I took the plunge and became a juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and a member of the Cardigan Mountain Art Association. I decided to pursue the arts through the medium of fiber. I had worked with fiber since I was a little girl, learning to design and sew from my Grandmother at her kitchen table. As my art began to develop I delved into other mediums - pottery, pastels, paint, cement, wood, metal, glass, anything I could get my hands on. Like engineering, I soon discovered there are a multitude of tools and materials available to make my artistic dreams become realities. I love using my technical background in order to understand the material properties of the medium with which I am working. This allows me to control my work precisely in order to produce heirloom quality work. It allows me to create work that can be cherished for years to come and to share my love for finding beauty in the simple, everyday things in life. And it allows me to fulfill my greatest desire: to enrich the lives of others.
white mountains contemplations
Photography
36 x 36
fabienne sowa-dubkowski
Third Place
Fabienne, best known as Fab is a California-based photographer and art historian. Using photography as a primary form of artistic expression, she discovered a passion for nature photography and illuminating the hidden world for the viewer. Deeply rooted in the academic fine-arts tradition, her photography reverses the anthropocentric perspective of the art genres to portray the transient and illustrate the interconnectivity of humanity and nature. To capture the ephemeral qualities of a subject and atmosphere of a scene, she uses, mostly, a handheld camera. Her distinct post-processing techniques are used to portrait the essence of the subject and scene. This artistic journey seeks to arouse the senses while highlighting the compelling stories that take place in the ordinary world. Each process is inspired by the subject itself and what will best portrait it’s essence.
padma aleti
Honorable Mention
Padma started her artistic journey in her native India where she grew up the youngest of six children. She received a student pan watercolor set as a gift and was soon painting everything in sight, teaching herself new techniques as she mastered the ones she already knew. She pursued a career in graphic arts and web design, putting her artistic talents to good use. Having worked with all mediums in the past, she gravitated to watercolor for its unruly fluidity and exquisite transparency. It seems fitting as watercolor is the most challenging of the mediums and Padma seems to thrive most as the challenge increases. She has become quite an accomplished painter, despite having no formal training nor the benefit of mentorship with a professional painter. She is completely self-taught. For her art is a labor of love; a way of speaking her heart out and being in unison with what nature has to offer. She loves to paint any subject that inspires her and her favorite paper is Arches and brushes are Escoda & Isabey Sable and Synthetic (Black Velvet) Silver Brushes. She has exhibited(Juried) in 'The Gallery' at Thompson Park Creative Arts Center, NJ in 2021, and two of her paintings are currently accepted into the current juried exhibit 'The Silence of Winter') in the same gallery. She recently won 'First Place' in 'Watercolors 2022', J. Mane Gallery's online competition.
Lawrence Bridges
Honorable Mention
Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums, Flip Days, and Brownwood. As a filmmaker, he created a series of literary documentaries for the NEA’s “Big Read” initiative, which include profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick. His photographs have appeared in the Las Laguna Art Gallery 2020, Humana Obscura, Wanderlust a Travel Journal, the London Photo Festival, and are currently on display at the ENSO Art Gallery in Malibu, California. You can find him on IG: @larrybridges
Leah Dockrill
Honorable Mention
Leah Dockrill is a Toronto-based artist specializing in collage and acrylic painting. Her works have been exhibited in Canada and the U.S., in public , private and online galleries. In recent years many art and literature journals and reviews have published Leah's art, the most recent being Mud Season Review, Issue #59, December 2021, in which Leah was selected as the featured artist for the issue. Leah has been awarded numerous distinctions for both her paintings and collages; she is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and the Colour and Form Society (Canada). She is represented by Tag Art Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario and NOWORDS Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
gerri duke
Honorable Mention
Gerri lives in the mountains of Colorado. Being self-taught she has learned through many years of practice taking photos of everything and everyone she could. From early childhood Gerri also loved to draw. As a young adult she started painting, first in oils, then in acrylics. Living in Colorado is a great inspiration for her wildlife and landscape photography and painting. She also loves drawing portraits and perfecting her still life photography skills. Gerri’s photos have been included in “Cowboys and Critters,” a book for outdoors enthusiasts, and the Mensa Bulletin Magazine. She has won awards for her still life and wildlife photos, and has been included in the Sangres Art Guild Calendar for several years. And she sells her work in galleries and shops around Colorado. Gerri is a member of the Sangres Art Guild, the Fremont Center for the Arts, and the Florence Arts Council.
Michael j. duke
Honorable Mention
Born in the UK Michael spent fifteen years living in Israel. It was only in 2000 when he joined the Tel Aviv Camera Club that he took photography more seriously, culminating in four solo exhibitions and TACC group exhibitions. During 2003 to 2004, Michael helped set up of Ventures Group of Song-writers, Poets, Artists and Photographers which was a group that mixed artistic outputs for various products and became the group Publicity Secretary.
In January 2005, he returned to London and joined the Isle of Wight Photographic Society and the Hampstead Photographic Society and went on to serve the HPS as Programme & Publicity Secretary. He initiated the HPS Newsletter which he edited through to November 2019. Michael appeared in numerous solo and various group exhibitions including 07 in Covent Garden London, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London in 2016, The Florence Biennial of Contemporary Art, Italy (2019 & 2021) and Hampstead Arts Council in Central St Giles, London (2020) as well as in various international salons. He gained a QPSA from the Photographic Society of America (2018) an AFIAP from Federation Internationale De L'Art Photographique (2019), an Hon.CPE from the Campina Photographic Exhibitions Society in Romania (2020), a GPU.CR1 From the Global Photographic Union (2020), an ES.CPE from the Campina PES in 2021 and PPSA from the Photographic Society of America (2022). His work can be described as either documentary or artistic deciding which style to use depending upon the end-use of the image.
keyran hostetler
Honorable Mention
The driving forces and possibilities created from nature and evolution were – and are – fascinating to me, leading me to find the field of speculative biology. Speculative biology, a kind of hypothetical science which explores hypothetical futures of nature, became a center point for my work very early on. It is through this lens I choose to view a world on fire, with the hope that even if we pass the temperature threshold and global warming become irreversible, the planet will live on and replace what we destroyed.
elizabeth kayl
I have always been told that I have an “eye” for capturing a good photograph. Driving down the road or walking along a city sidewalk, I am constantly seeking to find that perfect composition or subject to frame in my mind, hoping that my camera is with me. It wasn’t until the pandemic hit that I became serious about sharing my work with a broader audience than just my family and have been pleased with the success I have received in doing so. As a photographer by passion and not trade, I am intrigued by both the ordinary and extraordinary. For whatever reason, I am particularly drawn toward abstractions and unusual landscapes and have an affinity for the subject matter of trees, skies, birds and architecture.
kristopher schoenleber
Kristopher is an award winning photojournalist, with 19 years in television news and 13 years in still photography. He specializes in landscape and nature fine art photography. His work has been featured in numerous art exhibits, locally and internationally, and several publications. Born and raised at the Jersey shore, he loves to travel and explore the world around him, always looking for his next magical capture.