My name is Phillip McLaughlin and I go by Raccoon Stew. I've been practicing art for well over 15 years and have even taught art for 2 years as an elementary art teacher.
In my daily work as both an ergonomist, and Occupational Health Nurse I have a sketched out education anatomy and corrected anatomical postures or ergonomically correct workstations for many years.
Drawing from a science background gives me a different perspective, an altered artistic view of the world. I found my artist's voice in structures and shapes beginning and watercolours and moving towards other mediums and a more abstract view,
Having been heavily exposed to music and the arts since early childhood, I am so grateful for my late mother who initiated my formal musical training in elementary school with piano lessons, but drums and percussion became a greater calling. My private instructor trained me as a Jazz drummer. The school band teacher required me to study Jazz, Symphonic and Pop music. The early 80's for me were filled with the sounds of Art Blakey, Coltrane, Mingus, Run DMC, Man Parrish, Fela Akuti, Stevie Wonder, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Terry T. and B.B.
Yasi is a Mixed Media Artist. She is a photographer, painter, illustrator, Graphic Artist, T-Shirt and Hat Designer, Landscape Architecture Student, Video Editor, Animation Creator, and Writer. She is working on book publishing this summer in addition to NFT works. She has served in the military, was raised in Germany, and graduated with a Digital Design Degree in 2016. She has sold several paintings in Virginia while working for another artist.