Jillian Goldberg, Cary, NC

www.jilliangoldbergart.com, https://thesilverpaintbrushpodcast.substack.com, @jillzgoldberg on Instagram

Jillian Goldberg received a BA in Art Education at the University of Cape Town in 1969. She taught art at all levels for thirty years, opening seven after school art programs in the Charlotte and Triangle under licence to Monart. She founded and directed the GIfted and Talented Summer Camps at Queens University in Charlotte which ran for over twenty years serving thousands of young people from all over the Southeaseastern US. Since retiring she has painted professionally. She is currently the host of The Silver Paintbrush Podcast.

Patrizia Ferreira, Cary, NC

www.patriziaferreira.com / @patriziaferreira

Patrizia’s work laboriously incorporates the debris of her surroundings namely, textiles and plastic, to create poetic pieces that speak of our society of over consumption, and the state of our environment. By giving life to otherwise inanimate materials, making something beautiful out of the discarded she invites the viewer to reflect upon the repercussions our actions cause on our planet. A native of Uruguay, being an immigrant and being a woman instruments in great part her work. Pieces appear fragmented, torn, frayed, depicting the obvious, inevitable passage of time. A piece made of many disconnected parts. An analogy for how she feels. Made of many broken, fragmented pieces – yet, strongly rooted, undeniably human.

Patrizia Ferreira received a bachelor’s degree in textile design from the Institute of Industrial Design in Montevideo, Uruguay and a Master of Science degree in textile design for prints from Philadelphia University (currently Thomas Jefferson University). She is the recipient of the 2024 Emerging Artist in Residence at Artspace, Raleigh, NC. She is an artist and educator living in Raleigh, NC.

Leslie Pruneau, Raleigh, NC

https://www.colorvisiongallery.com/

Leslie Pruneau is a painter, assemblage artist, and art instructor with a 40-year career highlighted by national and international exhibitions, public lectures & critiques, and has served as a juror for numerable art competitions. After living in New York City and Berlin, Germany, she now maintains a full-time studio at Artspace in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Delphine Peller, Raleigh, NC

www.delphinepellerart.com @delphine_peller_art

Art is my opportunity to amplify what I see as beautiful in the world. The textures and layers in my compositions are my way of capturing and preserving the essence of a moment. Most of my work is inspired by my visits to parks and gardens.

I encourage the viewer to share my passion for looking beyond the ordinary and to make new discoveries every day.

Dawn Marie Rozzo, Raleigh, North Carolina

https://dawnrozzo.com/ @dawnmarie.rozzo https://dawnmarierozzo.substack.com

I am a painter and collage artist. I am immersed in my garden and the local landscape. I have also long been interested in things that are hidden or altered by time. My art practice explores both these interests.

My observations call for spontaneous, gestural studies with the paintbrush or pencil, but are finalized through step-by-step processes. Painted over collage or canvas, my work hints at mystery, or incongruence while staying grounded in my love of the natural world.

Amy Friend, Wendell, NC

www.amydraws.com

Amy Friend is a mixed media artist whose work explores the balance between freedom and rootedness. Using the red thread as a symbol, she creates visual metaphors of birds in graceful struggle — capturing the tension, discomfort, and beauty found in navigating life’s opposing forces.

Friend earned her B.F.A. from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and studied at the Studio Arts Center in Florence, Italy. Now based in North Carolina drawing inspiration from the region’s natural landscapes and creative community.

Friend’s practice blends traditional and experimental techniques, rooted in graphite drawing and incorporating acrylics, printmaking, and textiles. Influenced by time spent in nature — hiking, camping, and traveling — her work becomes a meditation on movement, memory, and transformation, where vulnerability and strengthquietly coexist..

Leatha Benvie Koefler, Raleigh, NC

https://www.leathakoefler.com

Leatha Koefler’s studio practice centers on working with found materials. She builds sculptures and wall art from outdated technologies such as slides, VHS tapes, film, floppy disks, and other similar media.

The art she creates from film is deeply personal. Her great-grandmother Ella’s quilts—stitched together from scraps of clothing—carry the memory of the people who once wore those fabrics. Inspired by this tradition, Koefler now creates her own quilts and garments as art pieces, stitching together film and slides to preserve memories in a new visual form.

Koefler’s work inherently documents society’s transition from analog to digital. By combining elements from both eras, her art memorializes the once-significant images, data, and narratives stored on these obsolete technologies, transforming them into contemporary reflections of memory and change.

Aaron Zalonis, Raleigh, NC

aaronzalonis.com | @azalonis

I draw and paint (mostly) ink on paper with both hands; straddling the worlds of frenzied comedy, science-fiction, hypnagogia, and quiet meditation.

Joanna Moody, Garner, NC

www.joannamoody.com | @josabode

Joanna Moody is a teaching artist working in Raleigh, NC. Her subjects range from figurative to abstract while experimenting with a variety of mediums including collage, mixed media and printmaking. Joanna uses her art practice to promote closer investigation, understanding and discovery of her materials and to find meaning in the mundane. Her creative process is intended to communicate where the world of efficiency and words fail.

Caprice McNeill, Raleigh, NC

https://capricemcneill.com/ | @caprice_mcneill_artist

Artist Statement

I create paintings that hold space—physically and emotionally. Drawing on the structure of courtyards and enclosed gardens, I explore the inner self through layered surfaces and openings I think of as breathing areas—sites of rest, contemplation, and protection. Flowers, whether abstract or representational, are my visual language. They draw viewers in with their beauty while also pointing to impermanence, vitality, and the complexity of emotion. Even in my most minimal pieces, floral forms guide color, shape, and tone. Their arrangement influences how the work is perceived and experienced. Each piece reflects the internal dialogue between what we choose to express and what we choose to keep within.

Bio

Caprice McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist based in North Carolina. She studied graphic design at the College of Design at NC State University, where she developed a strong foundation in composition and visual structure. A lifelong love of gardens—and their spatial logic, containment, and sensory richness—deeply informs her practice. Studying in Italy further refined her sensitivity to color and form. McNeill’s work explores interiority, sacred space, and emotional resonance through floral imagery and architectural reference.

Nida Zehra, Raleigh, NC

www.nidazehra.com | @dairah_e_zindagi

I am a mixed media artist exploring the intersection of nostalgia, sadness, and hope. My practice is a spiritual excavation. I view every piece as a meditative prayer, peeling back layers of the self to reveal something raw and honest.

This process is rooted in a personal history of nonviolent resistance. Inspired by the hyper-realism of Giovanni Benzoni’s Veiled Rebecca, yet raised in a culture that discouraged image-making, I developed a practice that seeks to capture the subliminal details of the human experience. Through color and texture, I offer the viewer a moment of empathy and a reflection of our shared resilience.

Julie Dyer Holmes, Raleigh, NC

https://www.juliedyerholmes.com | @juliedyerholmes2

Since 2021, Julie Dyer Holmes has camped, kayaked, hiked and painted along the east coast of the United States and Canada. Her inspiration includes the beaches of North Carolina, rugged coasts of New England and the boreal forests of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Canada.

She seeks to capture the sights and sounds of nature in gouache paintings while on the road. As she paints outdoors, she navigates all the elements nature offers: ever changing light, atmosphere, sun, clouds, salty sea air, birds calling, wind, and more. Then, when she then returns to her studio in Raleigh, NC, she paints oil paintings inspired by these places. Her approach includes using the road trip paintings, photos, intuition, imagination and memory as her guide.

As the seasons change and summer moves to fall and winter, her painting practice changes too. She loves painting from imagination and in real life. What does that mean? When you visit her studio you will see paintings of clouds, woods, the ocean, leaves and more. You will also see still life paintings packed with references to her northern roots and deep grounding here in the south.

Her hope? To paint and show you the fleeting joy she feels as well as our connection to nature and each other.

Caitlin Cary, Raleigh, NC

www.caitlincary.com | @caitlin_cary_art

Caitlin Cary is a Raleigh, NC-based, self-taught textile artist and musician known for her innovative and intricate sewn fabric collages, which she calls Needleprints. Cary works exclusively with repurposed fabrics, primarily cast-offs from the upholstery/interior design industry.

Cary’s work has been featured in Our State magazine, Walter magazine, and The News & Observer. Her work is widely collected, awarded, and exhibited in galleries, public spaces, and private collections in North Carolina and beyond. From August ’25 to Jan 2026, her piece “Death and Taxes” is on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art as part of the show “Then and There, Here and Now: Contemporary Visions of North Carolina."

“I love fabric for its sentimental power,” Cary says. “Fabric is comfort. It’s home. It’s the protection of clothing, and the softness of drapery and furniture. Moreover, it is a repository for amazing artistry; even fabric totally made by machine begins with the design ingenuity of artists. I love that in making my work, I am inherently ’in conversation’ with a huge number of fellow artists. When I depict the built environment in fabric, it automatically becomes softer, more dear, more relatable. I love the feeling that each piece becomes a part of the legacy of textile design, manufacture, and craft in North Carolina and beyond.”

In recent years, Cary has been experimenting with abstract forms and additional mediums, including encaustic wax, imported silks (a gift from the NC State School of Design), paper, film, and more.

Sydney McBride, Raleigh, NC

https://www.sydneymcbride.com | @sydneymcbrideart

Sydney McBride is a printmaking artist primarily working in linocut relief prints using the reduction technique where the image is carved and printed from a single block in multiple layers. Printmaking as a medium is integral to her artistic practice as it mimics the repetitive nature of memory collection and transformation that is the central theme of her art. Places and objects from everyday life that may otherwise be taken for granted are given center stage in order to examine the meaning and feelings that they evoke. Her work encourages quiet contemplation on these objects and experiences found in everyday life and how they may gain meaning over time as we seek to understand our inner lives and the world around us. While the imagery used in her work is varied, it is always centered around personal memories and with an emphasis on intricate detail.

Wiley Johnson, Raleigh, NC

https://www.wileysart.com | @wileysabstractart

Most of my abstract paintings are filled with bright colors that make me happy. My favorite techniques are using rubber bands and feathers. My paintings are unplanned. I never know how they will end until the colors” pop.”

I am inspired and motivated to paint because it makes me happy and gives me something to do when I am alone. My only sibling and best friend, Zach, was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2011. The isolation of my studio gave me freedom to create. My paint and canvas do not judge me because I have autism. Painting helped me get through a really challenging time just like it helps me deal with everyday problems. Painting is my profession and a big part of my therapy. I have always been isolated due to my disability, but it makes me happy to hear people say that they like my art. Art connects me to my community and to the larger art world. I am grateful for the opportunities that art gives me.

Andie Freeman, Apex, NC

www.andiefreeman.com | @andiefreemanart

Alla prima oil painter, cataloging life .

Helen Seebold, Cary, NC

www.LittleFlowerArt.com | @helen_seebold_littleflowerart

Helen Seebold’s body of work, which employs a variety of media including clay, paint and found/repurposed materials, has been featured in gallery exhibits throughout the East Coast, and private collections worldwide. Her love of Nature and interest in ancient global traditions fuels her creativity.

Her community-driven, site-specific installations have activated underutilized spaces throughout North Carolina, with vibrant and interactive art encouraging the viewer to reflect on how these spaces can positively impact their communities. She has been awarded several Public Art projects throughout the Triangle including: a Bus Stop Mural in Chapel Hill, a Sidewalk Mural in Raleigh, and a commemorative life size tiger sculpture, named Blaze, for the Fuquay Varina Fire Department.

When she is not working on public art and installation projects, she pursues private studio practice in pottery and clay sculpture in Cary. She holds a Certificate in Public Art Pedagogy, a 500hr Yoga Teacher Training certificate and a 200hr Meditation certificate with Meditation Alliance International and is an avid gardener. You can view more of her work at www.LittleFlowerArt.com or follow her on FB and Instagram.

Pam Van Dyk, Raleigh, NC

https://inklingprintmaker.com/ | @inklingprintmaker

My printmaking practice is rooted in discovery. Each impression I pull from carved linoleum, etched or incised copper, and wood is an act of revelation that captures both intention and chance. Most of my subject matter explores the natural world around the spaces I inhabit. I love the conversation between what I plan and what the medium insists upon and the physicality of the process: the resistance of the carving tool against the matrix, the careful selection of ink, the calculated pressure of the press, and that final moment when I lift the paper to see what has emerged. Every print carries the evidence of the process--the grain of the wood, the bite of acid, or the pooling of ink in unexpected places, which are not marks of imperfections but are instead collaborations with materials that have their own voice. In embracing printmaking's inherent unpredictability, I've found a practice that keeps teaching me to balance vision with openness, technique with trust. This is what keeps me returning to the studio. As cofounder of Triangle Printmakers Collective, I've found that printmaking's magic multiplies when shared. The studio is a space where artists at all levels can experience that same thrill of discovery.

Jean Gray Mohs, Raleigh, NC

https://www.jeangraymohs.com | @jeangraymohs | In the Studio With

Jean Gray Mohs creates tactile, abstract sculptures in wood, metal, and thread that explore the body as both structure and shelter. Shaped by her experience with chronic illness and an organ transplant, her work transforms personal narrative into organic forms that honor memory, invite touch, and hold space for connection. Her pieces live in private collections, public spaces, and exhibitions, and she welcomes collaborations and commissions.

Adam Cohen, Raleigh, NC

https://adamdcohen.com / | @yourpaladam

I paint human interiors. I turn people inside out, revealing their spirit, and mine, and – hopefully, when you look at them – yours.

My figures straddle abstract and figurative worlds. They emerge from an undifferentiated place, like a creature just breaking the surface of the ocean, its shape still distorted by the water’s lens.

Improvisation, chance, accident and surprise are central to my practice. I try to keep a portal open to my unconscious, and there’s a sense of collaborating with something larger than myself. This results in images I could neither plan nor duplicate.

Currently a studio artist at Artspace in Raleigh, NC.