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1st Place
Emily Morgan (Mixed Media – Columbus, OH)
All of Emily’s work is analog collage art and is created using hand-cut elements. Each individual piece is glued to either cardstock or cradled wood panel, and is sealed to promote longevity. Elements primarily consist of vintage/antique botany illustrations, vintage/modern photography, and other suitable ephemera.
lovely-but-dead.myshopify.com | facebook.com/LovelyButDeadArt | tiktok.com/@LovelyButDead
2nd Place
Kate Morgan (Mixed Media – Columbus, OH)
Kate Morgan is a contemporary female figurative artist working in mixed media. Painting over original drawings and collage elements, including vintage and antique paper. Layered artwork depicts figural explorations, portraits and animals in expressionist color palettes and surreal style. Inspired by Iconography, folklore and fashion. Shading with ink, watercolor washes & colored pencil. Finished with gold leaf. Wood panel substrate.
katemorganart.com | instagram.com/katemorgankmid | www.facebook.com/katemorganart
3rd Place
Snigdha Mall (Mixed Media – Mason, OH)
Snigdha is an Abstract Representational Artist. They are inspired to paint the calmness in all the chaos. Snigdha specializes in oil painting & mixed media. They paint in many different layers. They start with collage, adding different papers and modeling paste textures, giving the background its first layer. Once I dry the first layer, Snigdha begins with water-soluble materials like graphite and charcoal. They make some markings and use the rule of thirds to draw my subjects. They then move on to spray paints, alcohol inks, and India inks. They give a base to the background and then add acrylics in which they work light to dark and paint my subjects. After adding the darks, shades, and highlights, Snigdha seals all my water-soluble materials. Finally, Snigdha adds their last layer of oils, giving life to the subjects. The closer you look, the more it will connect to you. You could feel the story it says. Snigdha likes the juiciness of oils and how they make their artwork speak for itself. All along the way, they leave the layers showing from the beginning.
snigdhamallsingh.com | instagram.com/snigdhamallsingh_art05
Honorable Mention
Mark Hilligoss (Wood)
Mark uses a chainsaw to cut wood blanks from downed trees. Afterward, they mount the green, wet wood in a chuck on the lathe and use gouges, scrapers, and hollowing tools to create rough forms which are set aside to air dry. Consistent thickness of the object’s walls minimizes cracking as the wood dries. Once dried, after several months, Mark remounts the bowl or vessel and refines the shape making the form thinner and more balanced. Defects or anomalies create the opportunity to fill the wood’s natural voids with colored epoxy, like turquoise, stabilizing and adding beauty to the form.
fairturnstudio.com | facebook.com/fairturn
