
Cover Artist Nataly Tikhomirov
Inside Land Park/Grid November 2023
Nataly Tikhomirov is an award-winning artist whose watercolors, miniature lacquered boxes and iconography have been exhibited worldwide.
Nataly Tikhomirov is an award-winning artist whose watercolors, miniature lacquered boxes and iconography have been exhibited worldwide.
“My work explores our need for a sense of belonging and home, and the symbols with which we surround ourselves in that space,” artist Davy Fiveash says.
Laurie Curran studied art at UC Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute. Her style is a masterful balance between abstraction and realism.
“The feel what I was looking for in this painting is lightness, gentleness and calmness,” Grigor Malinov says. “The breeze with its softness sends away the turmoil. The woman in the white kimono reflects the tranquility and peace that the breeze brings. I used characteristics of the Japanese culture, which is well known for its meditation traditions and practices.”
Considering herself an earth artist, Jennifer Rugge creates her art using organic materials and mixing paints and clay slips from natural minerals. Her work engages a presence of life from the land of our ancient ancestral roots in color and composition and with pictographs from early languages.
Ruth Holton-Hodson is a retired health and consumer policy advocate—and artist. She loves the challenge of capturing light in her vibrant watercolor still lifes and pastel landscapes.