With their dark, unflinching eyes, Paulina Archambault’s portraits are unsettling to some viewers. But for the Virginia painter, the portraits express human emotions, like melancholy, that reach back to her childhood in Poland. Artist: Born and grew up in Krakow, Poland, Archambault studied visual art in Poland and Hamburg, Germany, where she earned an art degree.…
Science and the natural world meet in the otherworldly yet photorealistic still-life paintings of New Orleans-based artist Ida Floreak. Artist: Grew up in Cambridge, MA, and earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting and scientific illustration. As part of a college program, Floreak spent a year in Rome,…
From pink clouds to her glowy lemons, color is key in the landscape and still-life paintings of South Carolina’s Jessica Fields. The artist: Born in Louisiana, Fields was raised mostly in The Woodlands, TX. She headed north to the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, where she graduated with a degree in painting. She returned…