Lois Van Baarle

A woman is lit by the warm red glow of a floating jellyfish. A serene woman with green hair and a bikini top looks lovingly at a small group of floating green fish. A young woman with a bright green scarf holds a magenta octopus in her hands. A young woman with blond hair is carried by two robotic flying toasters.

If beauty can be found wherever you look for it, then Lois Van Baarle has certainly chosen the most unusual places to cast her gaze. She finds her greatest inspiration for joy and whimsy in one of the deepest, darkest places on earth: the ocean.

Though wrapped in warm, supersaturated colors and rich, murky …read more

Meg Lyman

A small winged cuttlefish floats in front of a large octopus. A green tree frog with bright red and yellow spots sporting a party hat. A cow-colored cuttlefish with horns and an udder, a.k.a. Cowthulu.