Art fair secrets: Insights for emerging artists Michael Wallner shares his exhibiting experience as an art fair regular, having traded at over 30 events. Art Seen reaches out to him to share his wisdom

Myra Eastman was born in Los Angeles and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Colleen Hoffenbacker presents floral motifs to explore the evolving relationship between nature and technology, utilising both traditional and digital mediums to capture the delicate essence of the natural world.

Vanessa Onuk was born and grew up in and around Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Laura Silverman is a visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Tessa Maagdenberg was born in the Netherlands and, later, with her four young children, spent 17 years living in four different countries across the Middle East and Asia.

Paula Borsetti creates abstract paintings that are a story of her life, reflecting her love of family, friends and the natural environment of New England.

Born in New England, raised in rural Connecticut, and attending school in the Berkshires, Massachusetts, Walters found work in the arts, both at museums and backstage in theatre, until the pandemic in 2020. It was then that he lost all future work prospects and a sense of belonging in the art world.

Shawn Marshall is a Kentucky-based mixed media artist and art educator whose artistic practice focuses on the natural world, with a specific interest in how we shape it and how we are shaped by it. Through different approaches, both abstract and representational, she explores our connection to, and impact on the natural environment and its universal meanings. When working abstractly, Marshall explores the human impact on the environment through an overhead lens, viewed like unearthed cities, abandoned buildings, garden ruins, gritty sidewalks, empty billboards, etc.

Karla Zamudio is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist who is constantly exploring various mediums as a channel for expression.

Karen Taylor is a Toronto-based abstract artist, whose recent work celebrates the art of typography and the abstract patterns the words create. Her paintings feature her favourite words, quotes and song lyrics.

Jackie DeBlasio is an artist who began her career aged 50.

Susie McColgan is a Michigan-based artist who grew up enjoying the Great Lakes and their beautiful vast skies and sunsets. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BFA, she worked across the region as an art director, producing award winning illustrations and designs.

Felicia Fraser is a visual artist living in Vancouver, Canada. She trained as a graphic designer and illustrator, graduating from Capilano University’s IDEA program in 2009. After working as a successful senior designer at an agency for 12 years, while also starting a family, she returned to her original love of painting purely for her own mental health. When the pandemic turned life upside down, she used it as an opportunity to launch herself in a new direction. Fraser’s realistic paintings focus on the power of ordinary objects to tell the stories of who we are, using nostalgia to connect the viewer to childhood joys and memories and to remind people not to lose sight of the kid within themselves.

Yvette L Cummings holds a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. She is currently Associate Professor of Visual Arts in Painting/ Drawing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

Divyangi Shukla is an Indian artist currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She received a BFA in 2020 from Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and is currently pursuing an MFA Studio in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kristen Flynn is a contemporary artist who uses printmaking techniques to create works that investigate and communicate her identity. Living on a rural property and being a mother, she is drawn to investigating facets of motherhood, beauty, life cycles, mortality, and the abject through found objects and images she collects from her direct environment. Flynn also has a particular interest in appropriating past artworks that are iconic for beauty.

Yana Beylinson is an award-winning artist based in New York. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she began a rigorous education in painting at the age of 10 and moved to the United States as a refugee in 1995. She earned her BBA at Baruch College in New York City in 2000 and later attended the School of Visual Arts, NY. Her paintings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and belong to private collections internationally.

Tushita Singh is an artist based in New Delhi, India, with an interest in embroidery and pattern.

Lesley Bodzy is a sculptor and painter based in New York City and Houston.