Born and raised in Ukraine, Baltas was heavily influenced by her father, who himself was an artist. She began painting at a young age and focuses on still life, religious icons, landscapes, and portraits. With oil as her medium and Southern culture and nature as her inspiration, she opened her gallery in Baton Rouge where she continues to create new art.
http://allasfineart.com/about.html
Samuel Brieck – Columbus, OH 
Samuel creates whimsical, fantastic, and adventurous art. The main medium Samuel prefers to use is acrylic paint on either illustration board or watercolor paper. They also like to make art for screen printing!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BrieckDraw
Kevin Buckland and Pertain Gillespie-Buckland – Lewis Center, OH 
Kevin & Pertain Buckland met while attending The Columbus College of Art and Design. Pertain works mostly b&w, Kevin works in watercolor. Kevin and Pertain live and work at their home studio outside Columbus, Ohio. For over 36 years, this husband and wife team have owned and operated a graphics and fine art studio.
https://pertainbucklandart.com/
Anne Coburn-Griffis – Pandora, OH
Anne is passionate about the natural world of Northwest Ohio and shares her love for the inhabitants primarily through watercolor. She preserves the best of the region, highlighting the talent of its people and being a part of their sustainable growth. She uses watercolor with layering techniques and occasionally fine paper and watercolor rag collage.
Zhen Zhong Duan – Dublin, OH 
Zhen Zhong Duan utilizes his technique, experience and aesthetic ability to complete his paintings. Sketching, memory and imagination are all used to create his favorite places with oil and acrylic on canvas.
Jen Florentine – Columbus, OH 
Jen Florentine is an Ohio based abstract artist. Jen hopes to bring forth a personal story in each of her paintings. – a visual dive into her subconscious. Each painting is started by laying down paint in a carefree and expressive way, letting the paint and tools decide what it wants to become. Color plays a significant role in her artwork and the palette is established as the painting develops. Her paintings consist of many layers of paint, primarily acrylic, but also utilizing charcoal, ink and pastels. Each painting is a complete surprise when finished.
https://www.instagram.com/jenflorentineart
Dan Gerderman – Pickerington, OH
preferred surfaces are found wood and board panels that are being repurposed. He paints or assembles his work with sloppy outsider marks and professionally guided brush strokes to create imagery that is instantly recognizable. Clever text and wordplay appears in much of his work. An he’s inspired by conversation, popular culture, and literature.
https://www.gerdyart.tumblr.com/
Thom Glick – Columbus, OH 
For painted works, once Thom’s decided on a subject, they create a refined graphite drawing. Then, Thom chooses a canvas and builds up a layered ground of color. Often this layered ground becomes part of the background of the painting. Sometimes this ground involves applying paint by washing, scumbling, and spattering. After the ground is to their liking, Thom transfers the graphite drawing to the canvas surface, usually with a projector. From here, Thom approaches the painting much like a color-by-number exercise, first focusing on the shapes of color, then lastly adding the outlines.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/thomglickillustrates
https://www.instagram.com/thomglick/
Amy Haggard – Columbus, OH 
Amy’s mission as an artist is to create art that evokes a feeling of playfulness and joy. She creates that joy using vibrant colors, graphic patterns, and organic shapes. Her love of simple forms and how they can build imaginary worlds comes through in her dreamed up botanicals and abstract compositions. For Amy art is play, constant experimentation, and an unending curiosity that she wants to share with the viewer.
https://www.instagram.com/amythemakist/
Dimonde Hale – Columbus, OH
Having lived in a big city his entire life, the streets and the cultures embedded in them, inspires Dimonde’s art and gives its viewers a look into that world. Oil paint on canvas creates vibrant cityscapes, urbanesque interiors, and vignettes exhibits how objects, and architecture can teach you about the people that live among them.
https://www.mondeart.bigcartel.com/
https://facebook.com/mondepaints
https://instagram.com/mondepaints
Kelley Hensing – Batavia, OH 
Kelley’s artwork is inspired by the mysterious. Her images portray dreams, fears and fables, while seeking to transcend a world of chaos. Her visual language brings together nature, spirituality, and archetypal figures to form her own narratives both beautiful and symbolic. Kelley has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her first major show was in 2014 with Last Rites Gallery, NYC. She also shows with Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, OK and at various art conventions throughout the year.
https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=9416
John Lee – Pittsburgh, PA 
Painter, street art extraordinaire, Cardboard Caravaggio, John Lee is the artist behind Clohn Art (pronounced “clone”). He’s currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but his reach is far and wide. John grew up just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, and this southwestern influence is evident in many of his works. His art utilizes a variety of styles and materials, many of which are found objects. His goal is to make his art accessible and affordable.
https://www.clohnart.com/about-john-lee
Megen Leigh 
Megen Leigh is an artist from Westerville, OH who has grown up in the science fiction and fantasy community. She’s been on a journey of self discovery through art. Experimenting with a variety of styles and mediums trying to find what defines her as an artist. As an artist working primarily in watercolor and fluid inks, she creates whimsical, imaginative landscapes and playful abstracts that reflect that upbringing. She’s exhibited her work at several locations in the Columbus area including a solo exhibition at the German Village Historical Society in May 2023.
https://instagram.com/leighmarts
https://Facebook.com/leighmarts
Amanda McGee – Galena, OH 
Inspired by memorable objects from childhood and familiar scenes from the past, Amanda enjoys capturing joyful nostalgia through bold brushstrokes and vibrant acrylic paint on canvas and panel.
https://www.instagram.com/amandamcgeeart/
https://www.facebook.com/amandamcgeeart/
Said Oladejo-Lawal – Columbus, OH 
Said studied painting in Nigeria and graduated in 1995 from the prestigious Yaba College of Technology. Said also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, United States of America in 2012. Their colors are fauvist in outlook. Said’s presentation is often classified as that of an impressionist artist. They like to use bright colors to bring nostalgia and deep emotions out of anyone who encounters their paintings. Said wants people to walk away feeling deeply connected with each of their art pieces. Said enjoys bringing abstract preoccupations such as music into visual prominence.
https://www.instagram.com/saidartlook/
Gavin Otteson – Lewis Center, OH 
Gavin Otteson is a contemporary Science Fiction artist working in gouache. As a Humanist and life-long fan of mid-century Sci-Fi Literature, the themes of exploration, optimism, discovery, and wonder are at the core of his work. His paintings are intentionally created to be as story prompts for the audience—scenes that could exist within larger, imagined narratives. Through the elements of retro-futurism and surrealism, he makes tangible the geologically strange and improbable destinations of Sci-Fi.
https://www.gavinottesonart.com
https://www.instagram.com/gavinottesonart/
Jillian Siefert – Columbus, OH 
Specializing in small paintings, Jillian Siefert creates unique and intricate gouache floral and landscape paintings, finishing them with small-batch handmade frames. Art has been an intrinsic part of her life since childhood, evolving from doodles in school notebooks to a profound expression of healing and connection. Drawing inspiration from vibrant colors, playful compositions, and unique perspectives, Jillian’s art celebrates the beauty of nature and the essence of home. Created in small batches, the frames are trimmed by hand, painted gold and sealed.
https://www.jillianreneeart.com/
Tom Stenger – Delaware, OH 
Tom believes there is always something new to learn in watercolor, and taking classes from several professionals in the central Ohio area keeps styles, new techniques, and subjects flowing.
Bridget Taylor – Worthington, OH 
Bridget has always been mesmerized by color. As a young kid, it was the box of fresh crayons. Her art is a colorful I Spy game. Inviting you to enjoy hidden organic forms with themes such as hazy skies, water, trees, and fish. Using bold colors to mimic her feelings when breathing in nature, she often uses her fingers to paint. Each painting is created on deep sided canvases or wood framed blocks so the viewer can imagine the paintings continuing past the sides and running farther than the eye can see.
https://www.bridgettaylorfineart.com
Matt Tisdale – Westerville, OH 
Matt is a professional commercial illustrator and painter. He’s influenced by and interested in early 20th century black and white photography. He loves the Victorian fashion influence of the period and the Art Nouveau movement and paints mostly in black and white with subtle hints of color. He uses acrylic paint on black archival paper on masonite panels.
https://www.instagram.com/matttisdale0/?hl=en
Loc Tran – Columbus, OH 
Loc uses translucent scribble-like brush stokes to create the background which contrasts with the focal area’s bold, opaque shapes. Light is often captured with choppy strokes and color is exaggerated.
https://www.instagram.com/loctran.art/
Emily Winslow – Indianapolis, IN 
Emily Winslow has always been an artist at heart, but her watercolor journey truly began in the summer of 2021. During a 30-day challenge painting a new scene each day, she realized how much she enjoyed it! Now she is a watercolor artist who specializes in nature landscapes. Creating pieces that her customers say bring them joy. She strives to create a light and airy atmosphere for people to feel at peace.
https://www.instagram.com/emilywinslowart
https://www.youtube.com/@emilywinslowart
Clinton Wood – Cincinnati, OH 
Clinton Wood III was coached in painting as a boy by his father. He is entranced by commonplace architecture and its existence within the natural world. Inspired by Cubist and Precisionist painters, exploring the structural relationship between the built environment and the organic nature that it’s bonded with. Adding rich color to reveal the intensity of these ordinary places; he works primarily in oil, painting the city and landscape surrounding his home, which he shares with his wife, fellow artist Colleen McAndrews Wood, and their two children.
https://oovar.ohioartscouncil.org/name/clinton-wood