Enelay Creative is the identity for Nadia L. Adona, a photographer and multimedia designer based in Maryland. A graduate from the Art Institute of Washington, Nadia began using her powers for good in 2011 by supporting various organizations such as Katsucon, Asia Heritage Foundation, D.C. Funk Parade, and Black Rose Dagger Films, LLC, along with other cultural, charity, and fandom groups. Nadia also captures intimate life events such as weddings and church events, and enjoys working with individuals and families to photograph their next heirloom portraits.
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Holly Carton is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Bowie, MD with her husband and baby girl. Her art tends toward the colorful and fantastical, bridging off of her whimsical view of the world.
Born in 1984 in Fairfax, Virginia, Jessica McKinney grew up just outside of Washington, D.C.. She showed an early interest in art and began to exhibit her photography while just a teenager, winning numerous awards at the Prince William County Fair. Still, necessity required that Jessica dabble in other career paths in her teens and twenties, and she eventually moved away from her home state. While living in North Carolina, she returned to her first love and studied fine art.
I am a artist by passion and city planner by trade. My work pairs bold line work and architectural forms with high voltage color and patterns to engage in storytelling and provide the medium for this self-exploration. I also love spreading Black Joy! So naturally my favorite subjects are black women, natural hair, and afrofuturistic imagery.
The Origins of SinkArtist TM: Art is everywhere. I have spent a few years painting on canvas, with either oil paints or acrylic. I noticed that I could blend with acrylic the best and that when water is added, the outcome can be stunning. With canvas, however, it's really difficult to prevent absorption of the paint. It dries so quicky! I began to explore working on other types of media. SinkArtist was born somewhat accidentally. But the idea is simple - we spend so much of our time face down.
I'm a versatile Maryland artist who captures energy through light and vibrant colors. As a person who grew up near the Chesapeake Bay, her landscapes and abstract work are inspired by the beauty of nature, often depicting the absence of human presence, liberation (“set free”), and freedom (“being free”). She portrays the personality of nature while providing the viewer the opportunity to escape and appreciate all the beauty that surrounds us.
DC area artist, Deborah Walmer, manipulates and layers bold colors of oil paints her own version of cubism. Her paintings have been described as paper unfolded or stained glass. You can see the influence of Picasso, Braque, Dali, and Kahlo in her paintings. In addition, she has recently expanded into Abstract works. These abstract paintings are a mix of textures which include oil paint, oilstik, acrylic, paper, fabric, and found objects, woven together with the techniques of the cubism genre.
Azerbaijani and Russian American artist, Leyla Rzayeva (b. Moscow ’86) has shown her work in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Rehoboth, Delaware including George Mason University and the inaugural 2016 Contemporary Museum Artist Retreat. Rzayeva received BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art (’08) and holds a Professional Printer Certificate from Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico (’09), nonprofit center for fine art lithography dedicated to reviving the art of lithography and the growth of contemporary printmaking around the world.
Studio and gallery for fine mosaic art and handcrafted jewelry. Art created with materials including glass, stone, minerals, fossils, fine gems, and found objects. Resident artists with frequent guest showings. Some commissions accepted – help design a piece for yourself or for a gift. Watch the work, browse, shop and meet the artists! Andamento is an Italian word meaning ‘movement’ or ‘course.’ It describes the flow of lines in a piece of mosaic art produced by placement of rows of materials chosen by the artist.
Dale Hall's passion for photography began in her early teens while browsing pages of Life Magazine. In 1978 and 1979 while in her late teens she studied photography at The New England School of Photography. She came back to the Annapolis area and has had very diverse experience from people and pet photography to forensic engineering photography over the past 40 - plus years. Presently she lives on Kent Island and loves mother nature’s ever changing light show, the bird migrations and all that the change of seasons bring on an island.