My day job for decades has been in building out solutions to make technologies both useful and safe in the world. The process and research required to successfully do this has kept me an outsider in an insider based world. A child of fresh off the boat immigrants pushed me ever outside mainstream. In building solutions the way I had over my career in BigTech sealed my position of outside looking in.
My name is Daniel John, I am an abstract surrealist painter, digital artist, music producer and high vibrational music artist. My art is a reflection of my journey towards self-discovery, an extension of my fascination with the metaphysical and my exploration of spirituality.
Katherine Farrell was born and raised in Ireland where she trained as a doctor and came to Maryland in 1973 for post-graduate education. She practiced as a public health physician for the State of Maryland until her retirement in 2008. She paints in oils usually from direct observation, and she loves to paint plein air. Katherine has a studio in Ellicott City which is named Sheebeen Busy (after a remark by a visitor) She and her husband Bernard live in Ellicott City, Maryland and have three daughters and four grandchildren.
Todd Washington’s goal is to add emotional depth and texture to an image. He frequently includes people in his work, finding this subject ideal for communicating his ideas to the viewer. He is a painter and photographer, with influences ranging from Alice Neel to Marsden Hartley, from Irving Penn to Annie Leibovitz. Todd (American) is a graduate from St. Mary's College of Maryland, and also studied art at College of Southern Maryland.