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I’ve been creating since childhood, back when crayons, scissors, and glue felt like tools for making my own little world. Shows like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers shaped my early imagination, opening me to different cultures, perspectives, and a sense of curiosity that never really left. My creative path has wandered through many forms. I started in film photography, stepped away for years, then resurfaced through small handmade crafts before finding collage. Both traditional and digital collage feel natural to me. I love gathering existing images, choosing the pieces that resonate, and letting them arrange themselves into something new. My process is instinctive and unforced; music often sparks the flow.

I'm a photographer, web developer, and the creator and admin of the site SeattleArtists.com.

Self-taught as an artist, I am blessed with a very active curiosity and a lifelong love of learning. I continue to explore new photography techniques to create non-traditional art through photography. In 2024, a workshop in Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) reshaped my vision—and a feature on my shift appeared in the online March 2025 issue of “ICM Photography Magazine.” I entered my image “Moonrise Over Peter Kirk Park” in two shows and was awarded a 2nd place ribbon in the 2025 Cascadia Competition cell division at the Washington State Fair and 2nd place People’s Choice at the Kirkland Seniors Art Show. As a former ribbon winner, I was on the Kirkland CIty Hall TWIK podcast on April 16, 2026 to discuss my art and the Senior Art Show. My "Two Painted Turtles Basking on a Log" received 1st place in the Senior Art Show in 2025. I was born in Massachusetts , but lived in many states. My favorite is Washington state. My family has been in Washington since late 1889. When I moved in 2017 from Southern California to Kirkland, WA. I felt like I had arrived home. Though I spent over three decades in IT positions, computer programming and web development, my creative side was always quietly growing. I have been making photos since my teens. My first darkroom class at UMass, Boston in the 1970s was exciting and I never stopped learning. Three years as a bookkeeper for Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts exposed me to a range of contemporary art.

Steve Bisig is a Pacific Northwest fine art photographer based in South Bend, Washington. His black and white landscapes explore stillness, atmosphere, and emotional connection to place through forests, rivers, coastlines, and mountains shaped by weather, season, and time. His work grows from direct experience outdoors, often during long walks through rain, fog, tidal shorelines, and quiet backroads where subtle light and changing conditions reveal themselves slowly. Rather than pursuing dramatic spectacle, Steve is drawn to quieter moments that invite reflection and a slower way of seeing. Working in black and white allows him to reduce the landscape to form, texture, contrast, and mood. His photographs often explore solitude, resilience, transition, and the enduring character of the Pacific Northwest. His work has been exhibited in galleries and art spaces throughout Washington State and is collected by individuals seeking timeless, contemplative artwork for homes and shared spaces.

Krista O'Halpin holds a BFA in Visual Communication from SCAD and is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Seattle Washington. Her work is a distinctive blend of dark, bold, and familiar elements from folklore that is often used to focus on dismantling analytical and systemic patterns where unfairness resides. Krista draws heavily from her own personal experiences with trauma, mental health struggles, a natural curiosity and appreciation for things often overlooked. Using a wide variety of mediums from illustration, printmaking, design, embroidery, photography to explore empathy, connection, and the human condition.

I am a "Designated Master" with both the American Impressionist Society and the Oil Painters of America. I am currently still painting and teaching classes and workshops.

I am a professional/commercial photographer selling fine art prints and helping artists document their fine artwork. https://www.dandevriesphotography.com/photographing-fine-art/ I am also a potter selling fine art tableware and bowls - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587672990975

Vicki Basta, is an artist, altar maker, nature connector and workshop facilitator. Her work focuses on pressed pressed botanical, land art, collage and photography.

Apart from his ventures, Lloyd explores the world with camera in hand, capturing both places and moments — rooted in the belief that how we see the world can help shape our future.

39 • navy veteran • life long self taught artist • I currently work with acrylics and ink, but work with other types of mediums.

I create textured, layered work that explores a sense of place and time, blurring the boundaries of photography, collage, and printmaking; of hands-on and technology. Find out more at https://linktr.ee/lizruest.

I'm a Seattle based artist, but hail from the Midwest. I bring my myriad of experiences into my art practice, pulling from past lives in architecture, sustainability, interpretive design, lighting design, and performance art. I studied art and architecture at the University of Arizona and University of Illinois, along with classes at Gage and Pratt in Seattle.