Georgia Dodson’s recent paintings of Forest Floors make reference to the work of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, a ‘forgotten visionary of Dutch painting’; drawn to the same intense depiction of an ecology in minute, accurate detail.

Weiland Payeris influenced by German Romanticism and the tradition of landscape perception. Payer transfers the composition of works by Böcklin and Altdorfer, which he uses as a starting point of his creative process. illing with his own material. Payer then fills in these compositions with his own material from photography of personal journeys, sketches and everyday impressions.

Brad Woodfin makes divinities out of the underdogs of society by painting animals with an aura of grace and dignity. Woodfin's paintings are influenced by Old Masters who embraced darkness in their work. In particular Caravaggio, as well as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Durer, Rothko and Vermeer.  His animals are subtly illuminated and barely visible in the enveloping darkness and in the artist's own words, "my animals are his (Caravaggio's) prostitutes and beggars". 

Born in Chicago to a sculptor and a physicist, Mia’s background qualified her perhaps uniquely, to create her expertly lit paintings, contrasting banquet pieces, with subtle white line added DNA.  In a perfect synthesis of the very modern interest in genetics with the 17th century portrayal of food in still life, her compositions simultaneously reference Dutch Realism and the coiling configurations of molecular imaging.