Summer Nap

Summer NapMelissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out onto the Mojave Desert. Her colorful mixed media paintings explore the magic of the American Southwest, as well as night, summertime, road trips, solitude, and friendship. She creates work based on both real memories and imaginary places shed like to visit swimming, dreaming, in the sunshine and under the moonlight. About this

Her striking naturalistic art is accompanied by fun scientific facts: Some trees have thinner root hairs than human hairs

His Exhale series of works are based on the breath

” weaving stories of resilience and healing into my art

each floral morphs nature with the decorative

Many pieces pair celestial charts with place-specific maps of coastal New Hampshire and Maine

and is a certified animal behavior consultant

as well as night

I hope they can realize that colours are just the surface and the content is more beautiful

Benzakein’s passion for flowers and the farm-to-centerpiece movement shines throughout

a Texas-born Chicana artist

The viewer is positioned within each tiny imaginary scene wherein simplified elements of architecture and landscape - such as illuminated doorways

and hues of spring and summer flowers