Myakka State Park
Limited Edition hand-printed silver gelatin photograph
Framed with matte black profile & TruVue Museum Optium Acrylic

Edition of 50

Jovian Browne

Myakka Oak 20

Sopkin Studio

Luca and the Auroras

The Path to the Truth is rarely a straight line, it captures the twists, turns, and unexpected detours that shape our lives. Flowing across a field of deep blue, the winding form bends toward itself, suggesting a journey that is both outward and inward—a search that ultimately leads back to what is essential.

Throughout life, we encounter distractions, challenges, successes, and setbacks that can pull us away from our center. Yet with time and experience, many discover that the truths they seek are not entirely new. They are often the values, beliefs, and convictions that have quietly guided them from the beginning.

The movement within the painting reflects this process of rediscovery. Its flowing shape speaks to growth and transformation. Rather than arriving somewhere new, the journey becomes a return to what has always been there.

Abstractions By JDR

The Path to the Truth

Carlotta Gallery

"Vejle Fjord II."

"Vejle Fjord I."

"Mediterranean Sea."

"After I graduated from high school, I took off on my own travels. Like many of my friends, I backpacked across Europe. I did not have any fixed plans, but I had a bunch of cameras with me and quickly reconnected to my love for street and documentary photography. It was probably during these wild, experimental years that I found my own artistic approach. Videography came later, and my first real projects only began in recent years. I guess I always had a lot - and probably too much - respect for the moving image. When photographing people, I always follow the credo "Inside, looking out" - a philosophy of becoming immersed in my subjects' lives and environments to document them from an intimate, inside perspective rather than as an outside observer. My "formal education", to call it that way, took a different path. I never saw a photography school from the inside."

"Flamingos, Italy."

Shop Luiza Vizoli Art

Autumn Harmony

"Through long exposure, light becomes pure expression. Stripped of form, only movement, colour, and atmosphere remain."

"Spectrum in Motion."

A sun-soaked stretch of coastline comes alive in this vibrant, ocean cityscape, where a candy-colored skyline of high-rises meets a turquoise sea full of swimmers, sunbathers, and a pod of playful dolphins. Rendered in a bold style with flat planes of saturated color and simplified, patterned forms, the painting captures the joyful chaos of a busy beach day — umbrellas dot the pink sand, palm trees line the shore, a plane cuts across the sky, and figures wade, float, and swim through gently rippling waves.

The composition balances architectural structure — a dense row of stylized towers in lime green, coral red, lavender, and butter yellow — against the loose, organic energy of the water below, where dolphins leap alongside swimmers in a scene that feels equal parts observed and imagined. Playful without being naive, my precise patterning and confident color blocking give it a graphic, almost quilt-like rhythm.

Sue Graef

In the Water with Dolphins

"My Goodbye."

"Embers over Champlain."

"Golden City."

"For a synesthetic person like me, colours are a whole range of emotional and other experiences."

"Pinkish Situation."

"I used light behind a red welding curtain to create an embodied red glow and background, and placed a small red light inside my subject’s mouth. There is more to this story, but it is still too tender and raw in my memory."

"Something rotten inside."

"Neither sky, nor ground."

In This Is Me, Florah Maphosa presents a young woman who meets the world with confidence, individuality and an unmistakable sense of style. Dressed in vibrant patterned fabric, pink heels and oversized sunglasses, she poses with a playful peace sign — relaxed, fashionable and entirely comfortable in her own identity.

The work reflects Maphosa’s distinctive approach to contemporary African portraiture, where bold colour, fashion and Pop Art influences become tools for exploring personality and self-expression. The deep black of the figure creates a striking contrast with the brilliant greens, yellows and pinks of her clothing, allowing pattern and colour to become almost a second portrait of the woman herself.

Yet beneath its playful surface, This Is Me carries a simple but powerful message. The woman does not appear to seek approval or validation. Her posture declares her presence: this is who I am.

Celebrating modern African femininity, confidence and the freedom to define oneself

Artgal.Online

Ndiri Ini – This Is Me

In Not Yet!, Florah Maphosa introduces an unexpected element of humour into her portraiture. A young woman stands before a mirror, but the face looking back at her appears noticeably older than the figure we see from behind.

The painting becomes a playful reversal of one of life’s familiar contradictions. As children, we often cannot wait to grow older. Adulthood represents independence, freedom and possibility. Yet once youth has arrived, the desire to hurry time forward can disappear remarkably quickly.

Maphosa turns this contradiction into a gentle parody. The mirror does not simply reflect the present; it seems to jump ahead, offering its subject an unexpected glimpse of what time may eventually bring. Her younger figure and older reflection occupy the same moment, creating a humorous conversation between youth and age.

Not Yet!

Beautiful misty afternoon near Newport lighthouse Oregon Coast. Makes a beautiful image in any contemporary or beach decor.

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