Our Newest Artist Partners – Winter 2023
A new year comes with a new cohort of Artist Partners! We're continuing to expand our network of talented artists whose pieces bring new perspectives and stories to our growing artwork library. Read through to learn more about this great group of woman artists.
Tamara Brink
(she/her)
b. Bonners Ferry, Idaho 1981
Lives and works in Haleiwa, Hawai’i, USA
Originally from Idaho, Tamara Brink made her home on the North Shore of Oahu. Surrounded by the lush flora of the tropical pacific islands, Brink has found inspiration in the natural world around her. Her work captures the depth of contentment and peace found in the instinctive clarity nature offers in its simplest forms. The love for “I ka aina” or “the earth around” is an important cultural value in Hawaii, which has allowed Brink to appreciate and relate with those who are equally inspired and in awe of I ka aina through her artwork. Brink’s work continues to develop and grow as she expresses her admiration of nature in an abstract manner with a strong emphasis on shape and color.
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Edda Davila
(she/her)
b. Miami, Florida 1989
Lives and works in Fort Pierce, Florida
Edda Davila spent her childhood in Nicaragua surrounded by beauty and influenced by her grandmother who was a professional artist. Displaying a talent for artmaking through the years, Davila moved to the United States to pursue her artistic career. Davila’s work aims to depict the uniqueness of each person, creating portraits that transmit the strength and courage of individuality. Vibrant, bold, and powerful, each painting exudes energy. Through her paintings of nature or people, Davila’s mark-making and use of bright colors defines her recognizable practice.
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Renske Herder
(she/her)
b. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands 1986
Lives and works in Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
Renske Herder is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who works in the fields of textile design, collage, graphic art, and painting. Herder’s work primarily consists of abstract and mixed media artworks. Often utilizing existing or made photographs as the starting point of new work, Herder recontextualizes the imagery with brushwork and patterns, aiming to inject new energy into still life imagery. As a mixed media artist, Herder’s practice encompasses a wide range of styles, from whimsical portraits, to illustrative still life, to collaged imagery, each work is unique yet speaks to her overall contemporary and bold aesthetic.
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Erin Harrison
(she/her)
b. Rossland, BC 1986
Lives and works in North Vancouver, Canada
Erin Harrison’s practice explores how we personally identify with the relationship between space and form. Creating minimalist abstract paintings, Harrison aims to break down the complexity of her surrounding environment into simple and carefully considered compositions. Delicately and deliberately balancing shapes and colour, Harrison creates bold compositions that encourage curiosity. Successfully playing with depth and perspective, the forms in each painting create a narrative for the viewer, allowing us to decipher and allocate meaning to their abstraction. Harrison continues to create work that is relatable universally, with the purpose of inspiring creative thought and emotional exploration.
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Sky Hoyt
(she/her)
b. Balboa, Panama 1968
Lives and works in Stonington, Connecticut
Sky Hoyt’s work is informed her surroundings, inspired by images found in different settings: domestic, online, printed, outdoors, and of course other artists and art history. Captivated by subjects such as gardens and their roots in folklore/mythology; the familiar painted figurative subject, the arrangement of everyday objects; and style and decorating. Hoyt is constantly looking, evaluating, and stepping back to view her own work through the eyes of others. Creating collaged mixed media works that include textiles, rice paper, and gold leaf, Hoyt’s unique and playful compositions are a nod to her love of pattern and interest in interior design.
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Call for submissions
We’re currently accepting artist applications for our Artist Partners Program whose practices fall under one or more of the following categories:
Editorial photography
Collage
Printmaking
Illustration
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