Growing up in farm country Pennsylvania, Edith Lentz started her art career in graphic design. Her experience in creating bold, graphic layouts for commercial projects provided a formula that she uses to tackle each art piece. Combining organic and geometric elements, cool with warm color palettes, as well as painterly and graphic elements, gives her work a unique look that is appealing to her audience. "Most importantly I like to include a whimsical touch to provoke a smile in today's serious environment."

Jean is a contemporary Acrylic Painter who has morphed energetic abstracted colors, thick textures and shapes with the natural beauty of trees, leaves, flowers, and animals. Influenced by the vibrant, flashy hues of other cultures, Jean's palettes are a diary of her travels and often feature elements of her experiences, of memorable color combinations or exotic environments. Formally trained in photography, Jean has discovered how to unlock the hidden potential in photographs, bringing the best aspects of them into her paintings. Jean holds dear the belief that her paintings can serve to capture the essence of compelling patterns or color combinations, to recreate and share the bliss ...

Carole Katchen is an Impressionist whose whimsical social commentary has attracted a vast audience throughout the world. Proficient in both oils and pastels, she has won numerous awards including Master Pastelist status from Pastel Society of America, and the Golden Mentor Award from the International Association of Pastel Society. She has been listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who of American Art and the International Who's Who of Women.

She has written 17 published books, most recently "Express Yourself With Pastel", and articles for Cosmopolitan, Parents and several art magazines. She is a contributing editor to The Artist's Magazine and a feat...