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Mr. Tiger, a Wise Old Man
DR. JEANETTE BEVILACQUA has increased her artistic explorations over the last 7 years since the death of her husband.
“Fueled by the grief process, It helped! The most recent medium I discovered is pastels, with the surprise depth of color and expression, better than expected! “Mr. Tiger” feels like a wise old man, and I hope teaches us respect, acceptance and protection of our animal kingdom family. I feel his grief - he knows and forgives, a lesson for us all.”
“Fueled by the grief process, It helped! The most recent medium I discovered is pastels, with the surprise depth of color and expression, better than expected! “Mr. Tiger” feels like a wise old man, and I hope teaches us respect, acceptance and protection of our animal kingdom family. I feel his grief - he knows and forgives, a lesson for us all.”
The World is Always Changing
RANDY L. BROZEN
handmade lokta paper, photography, paper flowers, fake vines, moss
Randy is an Artist and Educator; she uses plants, moss, handmade paper, her own photographs and other ‘interesting stuff.’
handmade lokta paper, photography, paper flowers, fake vines, moss
Randy is an Artist and Educator; she uses plants, moss, handmade paper, her own photographs and other ‘interesting stuff.’
Circles
BELLA CALABA
Bella is a freshman in high school and enjoys painting as a hobby. She is submitting her artwork to the Art Challenge as she has family members with glaucoma and wants to help find a cure for this disease.
Bella is a freshman in high school and enjoys painting as a hobby. She is submitting her artwork to the Art Challenge as she has family members with glaucoma and wants to help find a cure for this disease.
Liquid World
DR. DENISE CARVALHO
My paintings are oil and mixed media. They are abstract works that are inspired by ancient connections between pictograps and script. They address ideas that link art and music, but are also inspired by nature.
My paintings are oil and mixed media. They are abstract works that are inspired by ancient connections between pictograps and script. They address ideas that link art and music, but are also inspired by nature.
Drapes
CELESTE CASTILLO
I am a retired hair stylist and make-up artist with a little too much time on my hands. Rather than an artist, I prefer to call myself a hobbyist if that word even exists. I love anything that requires creativity and exercising my brain, such as crafting, painting, woodwork, plastic arts, cross-stitching, embroidery, you name it, I will do it all, only for personal pleasure and enjoyment.
I made this 3D piece using a combination of media like canvas, fabric, plaster, glue, and acrylic paint.
I am a retired hair stylist and make-up artist with a little too much time on my hands. Rather than an artist, I prefer to call myself a hobbyist if that word even exists. I love anything that requires creativity and exercising my brain, such as crafting, painting, woodwork, plastic arts, cross-stitching, embroidery, you name it, I will do it all, only for personal pleasure and enjoyment.
I made this 3D piece using a combination of media like canvas, fabric, plaster, glue, and acrylic paint.
Song From Half Mountain
PATRICIA CAULFIELD
A visually impaired abstract artist, Patricia works primarily in mixed media on cradleboard including acrylic paint, vine charcoal, conté crayon, pencil, collage, sanding and distressing. Clouds have always been a source of inspiration for Patricia. By constantly studying form, movement and light, Patricia creates atmospheric paintings – land and seascapes - without using photographic reference. Drawing from the motivational power of nature, her vision of depth and space is brought to the forefront.
Moving from realistic painting to abstract due to vision loss from glaucoma, Patricia sees her role as an artist in a new way. Her work is a product of her own thinking, her soul, her heart. It is an authentic expression of a created world that you can see and experience. It is intangible. It is abstract.
As a patient advocate, Patricia instituted an art show and silent auction benefiting research programs for glaucoma in San Francisco, CA, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She curates art from visually impaired artists around the world including their bios and journey with vision loss. In 2022 she was the keynote speaker at the Patient Summit in Oak Brook IL. Patricia was recently a guest on the podcast The Artist Next Level with Sergio Gomez.
Patricia lectures to students at the Boston University in the biomedical neuroscience graduate studies program on glaucoma, vision loss and the connection to the artist, 2022, 2023. Locally she is a member of Creative York and the York Art Association. She is a contributing artist at the Garth Gallery in Columbia, PA. Patricia also has four cloudscapes in the permanent collection at the Wellspan York Cancer Center, York PA. In March 2024 she will be a part of a show featuring women in art at the Red Raven Art Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A visually impaired abstract artist, Patricia works primarily in mixed media on cradleboard including acrylic paint, vine charcoal, conté crayon, pencil, collage, sanding and distressing. Clouds have always been a source of inspiration for Patricia. By constantly studying form, movement and light, Patricia creates atmospheric paintings – land and seascapes - without using photographic reference. Drawing from the motivational power of nature, her vision of depth and space is brought to the forefront.
Moving from realistic painting to abstract due to vision loss from glaucoma, Patricia sees her role as an artist in a new way. Her work is a product of her own thinking, her soul, her heart. It is an authentic expression of a created world that you can see and experience. It is intangible. It is abstract.
As a patient advocate, Patricia instituted an art show and silent auction benefiting research programs for glaucoma in San Francisco, CA, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She curates art from visually impaired artists around the world including their bios and journey with vision loss. In 2022 she was the keynote speaker at the Patient Summit in Oak Brook IL. Patricia was recently a guest on the podcast The Artist Next Level with Sergio Gomez.
Patricia lectures to students at the Boston University in the biomedical neuroscience graduate studies program on glaucoma, vision loss and the connection to the artist, 2022, 2023. Locally she is a member of Creative York and the York Art Association. She is a contributing artist at the Garth Gallery in Columbia, PA. Patricia also has four cloudscapes in the permanent collection at the Wellspan York Cancer Center, York PA. In March 2024 she will be a part of a show featuring women in art at the Red Raven Art Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Feeling!
DR. GUNJAN CHADHA
I am Ophthalmologist by profession with love for art and nature. I usually like to sketch mainly using charcoal as the medium.
I am Ophthalmologist by profession with love for art and nature. I usually like to sketch mainly using charcoal as the medium.
Target
CHARLES CHAMOT
Crayon drawing on American Standard Etching Paper. Part of a body of 200 drawings done in the late 70’s and 80’s.
32”X48” unframed.
copyright 1985 Chamot
Crayon drawing on American Standard Etching Paper. Part of a body of 200 drawings done in the late 70’s and 80’s.
32”X48” unframed.
copyright 1985 Chamot
Melanin Drip
JAHKORI DOPWELL HALL
My name is Jahkori Dopwell Hall and I am an African American Artist, Elementary Art Teacher, and self-made Entrepreneur with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in the field of Illustration. I am currently a student studying at the University of Florida working on my Master’s Degree in Art Education. As a patient born and diagnosed with Primary Congenital Glaucoma, I never let the condition stop me from achieving my dreams. I use my artwork as a way to inspire and educate others while also telling beautiful stories.
Melanin Drip is a chalk pastel drawing of an African American face at a side profile angle and in close proximity. This illustration was featured as the art piece for Melanin March in my 2022 Black History Year Calendar, revealing the beautiful hues within the skin and dripping from above.
My name is Jahkori Dopwell Hall and I am an African American Artist, Elementary Art Teacher, and self-made Entrepreneur with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in the field of Illustration. I am currently a student studying at the University of Florida working on my Master’s Degree in Art Education. As a patient born and diagnosed with Primary Congenital Glaucoma, I never let the condition stop me from achieving my dreams. I use my artwork as a way to inspire and educate others while also telling beautiful stories.
Melanin Drip is a chalk pastel drawing of an African American face at a side profile angle and in close proximity. This illustration was featured as the art piece for Melanin March in my 2022 Black History Year Calendar, revealing the beautiful hues within the skin and dripping from above.
Family
CLY FOWKES
a collage of 11 photographs
created in Photoshop, 2023
a collage of 11 photographs
created in Photoshop, 2023
Be My Teddy Bear
MARYANN GILMARTIN
-pastels in sanded paper-
My bio has not changed much since I entered the first TGF Art Challenge in 2020. I began painting with pastels in 2005. It has been a journey ever since. There have been many adventures on the journey with new things to learn, and old and used things to drop along the way. My artistic journey continues. I used to only paint landscapes of places where I traveled with my husband. But I took another step on my journey and began to paint still life. These contain flowers from my garden. Here I have tried to capture the fuzzy, fluffy Helianthus annuus ‘Teddy Bear.’ They grow from 2 to 10 feet tall and look very showy in a large vase. They are depicted here standing in a large copper bucket used for the serving of maple syrup. This flower is also special because my blind husband carefully planted the seeds that produced this spectacular sunflower.
-pastels in sanded paper-
My bio has not changed much since I entered the first TGF Art Challenge in 2020. I began painting with pastels in 2005. It has been a journey ever since. There have been many adventures on the journey with new things to learn, and old and used things to drop along the way. My artistic journey continues. I used to only paint landscapes of places where I traveled with my husband. But I took another step on my journey and began to paint still life. These contain flowers from my garden. Here I have tried to capture the fuzzy, fluffy Helianthus annuus ‘Teddy Bear.’ They grow from 2 to 10 feet tall and look very showy in a large vase. They are depicted here standing in a large copper bucket used for the serving of maple syrup. This flower is also special because my blind husband carefully planted the seeds that produced this spectacular sunflower.
Irises
SONIA GRINEVA was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow’s leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)
After coming to the United States at the age of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence.
After coming to the United States at the age of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence.
Prickly Pear
SONIA GRINEVA
Sonia has traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many “plein air” artists. She has painted some of Europe’s most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe, and Prague.
She has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public, and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia has traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many “plein air” artists. She has painted some of Europe’s most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe, and Prague.
She has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public, and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Capri, The Faraglioni Rocks
SONIA GRiNEVA
Sonia Grineva’s work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Sonia Grineva’s work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Seeing through the Bluebonnets
JACKIE HEER
New student at SiNaCa Glass Studio. Inspiration for glass blowing art came from experiencing the Texas Bluebonnet flowers in the spring time.
My career involves educating doctors, staff and patients on the importance of earlier surgical interventions to ensure patients can maintain their vision in their lifetime.
=manipulated glass in its molten state (2100 degree F). Gathered glass on the end of a 4.5’ steel rod and then using tools and air to shape and form the material. The piece cools overnight.
New student at SiNaCa Glass Studio. Inspiration for glass blowing art came from experiencing the Texas Bluebonnet flowers in the spring time.
My career involves educating doctors, staff and patients on the importance of earlier surgical interventions to ensure patients can maintain their vision in their lifetime.
=manipulated glass in its molten state (2100 degree F). Gathered glass on the end of a 4.5’ steel rod and then using tools and air to shape and form the material. The piece cools overnight.
Cadiz Carnival
ANNIE HESSE
I am grateful to have started taking photographs before embarking on any formal training. This has allowed me to pursue photography with a more open mind and fewer conventional constraints.
My focus of interests has evolved over the years as my vision has diminished. Photographing the cultural milieu around me in Black & White was my initial inspiration; the darkroom was magical. Eventually, my desire to show the viewer my perception of the world and also to initiate another way of ‘seeing’ became vital.
Color, shape, texture and contrast are the key elements in my photographs, not to mention the physical distance between the camera and the subject especially while travelling.
My photographs have appeared in numerous group shows in the United States including the travelling exhibition, “Sight Unseen – International Photography by Blind Artists” currently showing at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.
This is a very colorful photograph taken during the Carnival festival in Cadiz, Spain. Motorized floats were circulating around the city each one containing a different group of celebrants. It is a closeup of a group of brightly costumed women and men festooned with sparkles and plumes singing and playing guitars. The woman on the right is nearly in focus. She has her head uplifted and is obviously enjoying her song. The others are not quite as clear due to the movement of the float and the lack of daylight. The predominant colors are red and warm tones of beige and ochre.
I am grateful to have started taking photographs before embarking on any formal training. This has allowed me to pursue photography with a more open mind and fewer conventional constraints.
My focus of interests has evolved over the years as my vision has diminished. Photographing the cultural milieu around me in Black & White was my initial inspiration; the darkroom was magical. Eventually, my desire to show the viewer my perception of the world and also to initiate another way of ‘seeing’ became vital.
Color, shape, texture and contrast are the key elements in my photographs, not to mention the physical distance between the camera and the subject especially while travelling.
My photographs have appeared in numerous group shows in the United States including the travelling exhibition, “Sight Unseen – International Photography by Blind Artists” currently showing at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.
This is a very colorful photograph taken during the Carnival festival in Cadiz, Spain. Motorized floats were circulating around the city each one containing a different group of celebrants. It is a closeup of a group of brightly costumed women and men festooned with sparkles and plumes singing and playing guitars. The woman on the right is nearly in focus. She has her head uplifted and is obviously enjoying her song. The others are not quite as clear due to the movement of the float and the lack of daylight. The predominant colors are red and warm tones of beige and ochre.
Blue Woman
ELLEN KATCHER
My art is often described as moody and atmospheric. Although this is never deliberate, I do feel that art that communicates a mood or idea is most interesting. It invites the viewer into another reality.
I work in graphite, charcoal, watercolor and oil. I have studied with Max Ginsberg, Diana DeSantis, and Mary Anne Heinzenn, among others. I have won many awards, and my paintings have been displayed in prestigious galleries such as The National Art League in Douglaston and The Salmagundi Club in Chelsea, NYC.
I have been painting for almost 20 years. Before that I taught high school biology.
I have had glaucoma since the age of 63, for ten years, so I know what a rough ride it can be. Let’s fund a cure, more treatments, and earlier detection. Glaucoma has had a profound negative affect on my life since I developed it at age 63. I cannot imagine how different my life would have been if I had developed it at age 30.
Blue Woman is an oil painting from a live model. 12” by 16”, on linen canvas board.
My art is often described as moody and atmospheric. Although this is never deliberate, I do feel that art that communicates a mood or idea is most interesting. It invites the viewer into another reality.
I work in graphite, charcoal, watercolor and oil. I have studied with Max Ginsberg, Diana DeSantis, and Mary Anne Heinzenn, among others. I have won many awards, and my paintings have been displayed in prestigious galleries such as The National Art League in Douglaston and The Salmagundi Club in Chelsea, NYC.
I have been painting for almost 20 years. Before that I taught high school biology.
I have had glaucoma since the age of 63, for ten years, so I know what a rough ride it can be. Let’s fund a cure, more treatments, and earlier detection. Glaucoma has had a profound negative affect on my life since I developed it at age 63. I cannot imagine how different my life would have been if I had developed it at age 30.
Blue Woman is an oil painting from a live model. 12” by 16”, on linen canvas board.
Butterflies Enjoying Flowers
MARY ELLEN STOYANOV
I’m one who enjoys painting. It is something I do for enjoyment. Although I’m losing my vision, I still enjoy it. My life path has led me in many directions, from teacher to lab worker. But painting is always there.
This is a painting of a tiger swallowtail butterfly in my cone flower patch.
It is a 9 by 11 inch watercolor.
I’m one who enjoys painting. It is something I do for enjoyment. Although I’m losing my vision, I still enjoy it. My life path has led me in many directions, from teacher to lab worker. But painting is always there.
This is a painting of a tiger swallowtail butterfly in my cone flower patch.
It is a 9 by 11 inch watercolor.
Vision Quest: Journey Into Seeing
NANCY R. TISLON-MALLETT, MD
I am a retired academic physician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care and a visual artist. My passions for the love of nature, color and patterns, biology and medicine are expressed in my artwork. Most of my works are silk paintings or complex cloth with embellishments of embroidery, felting and beading, of microscopic or biological images.
Vision Quest is my journey of glaucoma, diagnosed when I was 45. The technical images of my retina and optic nerve were fascinating to me. The artwork is my interpretation of these diagnostic studies.
The piece that I have submitted is a silk painting of my retina, inspired by the Retinal Nerve FiberLayer (RNFL) image at an annual glaucoma check up.
-22” x 22” hemmed silk scarf, designed and painted, using textile paint
I am a retired academic physician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care and a visual artist. My passions for the love of nature, color and patterns, biology and medicine are expressed in my artwork. Most of my works are silk paintings or complex cloth with embellishments of embroidery, felting and beading, of microscopic or biological images.
Vision Quest is my journey of glaucoma, diagnosed when I was 45. The technical images of my retina and optic nerve were fascinating to me. The artwork is my interpretation of these diagnostic studies.
The piece that I have submitted is a silk painting of my retina, inspired by the Retinal Nerve FiberLayer (RNFL) image at an annual glaucoma check up.
-22” x 22” hemmed silk scarf, designed and painted, using textile paint
DALL-Eye
MEGHAN S. VITA
Passionate about supporting supporting families of young children diagnosed with Glaucoma. Inspired by the power AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney bring to people around the world - especially those with no formal training in art - to express themselves creatively. Excited by blockchain technology and it’s potential use cases in the non-profit sector. I used my free DALL-E account to prompt the algorithm to create an impressionist-style image of eye pressure.
Passionate about supporting supporting families of young children diagnosed with Glaucoma. Inspired by the power AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney bring to people around the world - especially those with no formal training in art - to express themselves creatively. Excited by blockchain technology and it’s potential use cases in the non-profit sector. I used my free DALL-E account to prompt the algorithm to create an impressionist-style image of eye pressure.
A Whirl of Love
NATALIE WARREN
After a year as a student at Braille Institute, I am happy to become a part of the volunteer team, and continue to adapt, learn, and also get to help others in return who are visually impaired, and sharing my passion and interest such as art, music and braille just to name a few. As a musician, piano teacher, composer, educator, poet, and visual artist, I continue to expand my creativity and bridging joy every day. It is indeed a beautiful life to enjoy and to treasure the beauty within and around each of us.
‘A Whirl of Love’ is a mixed media artwork, using acrylic paints, foam hearts, tissue paper, and light pink glass globs to create a textured and tactile art piece. It is filled with colors, as sky, ocean, green land, and sand, outpouring a whirl of hearts upward for possibility, openness, beauty and joy.
After a year as a student at Braille Institute, I am happy to become a part of the volunteer team, and continue to adapt, learn, and also get to help others in return who are visually impaired, and sharing my passion and interest such as art, music and braille just to name a few. As a musician, piano teacher, composer, educator, poet, and visual artist, I continue to expand my creativity and bridging joy every day. It is indeed a beautiful life to enjoy and to treasure the beauty within and around each of us.
‘A Whirl of Love’ is a mixed media artwork, using acrylic paints, foam hearts, tissue paper, and light pink glass globs to create a textured and tactile art piece. It is filled with colors, as sky, ocean, green land, and sand, outpouring a whirl of hearts upward for possibility, openness, beauty and joy.
Maine Summer’s Halcyon Day
GEORGE SPAETH
painting and frame
painting and frame
Sun R’EYES
MARGARET BURTON
Study for Ars Vampirica
MICHAEL COUGHLAN
oil on canvas
Michael Coughlan is a Los Angeles based visual artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1990’s. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at RDFA Gallery in Los Angeles and group exhibit at the Stalke Collection in Kirke Saaby, Denmark.
oil on canvas
Michael Coughlan is a Los Angeles based visual artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1990’s. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at RDFA Gallery in Los Angeles and group exhibit at the Stalke Collection in Kirke Saaby, Denmark.
Morning By The Sea
ROBERT LEWIS WORTMANN
Robert Wortmann is a retired physician who began painting later in life. He loves nature and color and tries to combine the two in his paintings. The result, he hopes, is a pleasant emotional response from the viewer.
-pastel on paper
Robert Wortmann is a retired physician who began painting later in life. He loves nature and color and tries to combine the two in his paintings. The result, he hopes, is a pleasant emotional response from the viewer.
-pastel on paper
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