Downe Burns is a Texas native.  He is largely a self-taught artist with a distinct style that has almost universal appeal.  Downe’s desire is to create works that are both emotive and pleasant.  He avoids the darker moods of the environment, choosing to allow his imagery to create positive feelings.  He especially likes things that are old.  They produce a feeling of substance…rich in time and warm with use.  With rich and bright colors, a new life is breathed into something maybe forgotten or gone unnoticed.  Burns has exhibited throughout the United States.

Cheryl Gross grew up in New York, attended the School of Visual Arts, Hunter College and the Art Students League, and graduated with highest honors from the Pratt Institute.  She is best known for the generous use of her palette, utilizing bold strokes of crimson, cobalt and yellow.  Recently, she has shifted her focus from urban landscapes and studies of the human figure from interesting angles to a variety of musical instruments, including some with historical significance.  In addition to regular shows in the United States, Ms. Gross is a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute and Curator at the Park slope Artist Counsel.

Her work combines vibrant color, rich texture and much movement. She starts every painting with a simple sketch, and then as each shape and object "finds it has soul and speaks to her" she completes the piece. Her semi-abstract paintings are from the heart.

Natalya exhibits regularly in Ohio and in galleries throughout the United States.

Helen Zarin was born in Shirae, Iran in 1970.  She was recognized early as having extraordinary talent and studied under the well known Persian artist, Saber.  She later enrolled in the Art & Culture Society, a national organization for gifted Persian artists.  There she was recognized by the Iranian Society as a “God Gifted Talented Artist.”  Conditions in her native country eventually compelled Helen to turn elsewhere for creative nourishment.  In Helen’s words… “Hard work and God given talent are not enough for an artist to progress and blossom; Creative freedom in the right atmosphere is essential.”  She journeyed first to Europe, where she displayed her work in Vienna.  Helen has lived and worked in Baltimore, Maryland since 1993.  Zarin’s work is displayed throughout the United States.