Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Kyle Hamilton Fine Art was founded in 2016. Catering to wide range of clientele, providing a comprehensive range of services for individual collectors and corporate collections. Offering clients tailored services to maximize personal, cultural, and financial returns.

Heidi Jahr Kirkeby is a Norwegian visual artist. She is educated at Vika School of Art and Nydalen School of Art in Oslo. She mainly works with nature abstractions with acrylics on canvas.Her artistic goal is to create interacting atmospheres by expressing her personal interpretations of nature. She aims to highlight the meditative value of nature in today’s hectic society. In a deeper sense the atmospheres in her paintings can be interpreted as her personal moods.During her artist residency at eskff she will explore the art of Helen Frankenthaler and use the inspiration in her own nature abstractions.

June Sira was educated at the Oslo National Academy Of The Art where she studied painting, printmaking and sculpture from 1985 to1992. She has a Master of Fine Art in painting from Chelsea School Of Art, 1999/2000. After graduation she was selected for the UBS Art Award and received the national winner prize from a jury including Sir Nicholas Serota. Her work has been purchased by museums and institutions and she exhibits regularly. In June Sira's paintings we meet people of ambiguous age in portraits or tableaus that are fabulistic, symbolic or fragments of a story. She paints with tempera or pigments and rabbit skin glue directly on canvas. A classic technique where she expresses a contemporary sensibility.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Teena Soni is a New Jersey based artist working within the traditional Indian-Miniature painting in a contemporary art setting. Her training belongs to the artistic region of Udaipur, Rajasthan where she apprenticed with both her grandfather, Badri Lal Chitrakar, the renowned Indian-Miniature painter and National Award /Shilp Guru Award recipient, and her father, artist Shri Sharad Soni. The rigorous training infused her natural abilities with the rich ancestral content of traditional artistry. Teena considers the historic art of Pichwai paintings as a base premise for taking heritage forward with added subtle contemporary component. Her mediums include cotton fabric or handmade paper, and prepared hand-made colors from plant extracts with natural stones that are traditional Indian methods. These natural dyes give a vibrancy to the paintings through time and keep them alive for hundreds of years. Soni’s work has been exhibited at Kanoria Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India, Visual Art Center, Summit NJ, Pelham Art center, NY and in New Delhi. Her work has been featured in HYPERALLERGIC, Dainik Bhaskar and Rajasthan Patrika.

Shakirra Torain Is A Creative Director, Producer, & Brand Director, PR Dedicated To Helping Creative Entrepreneurs In The Fashion, Beauty, And Luxury Industry Become Successful In Their Respective Career Field. During High School Shakirra Torain Was Accepted Into A Paid 4 Year Internship As A Graphic Designer & Intern For Marc Ecko Enterprises’ Sweat Equity Enterprises; Founded By Marc Ecko, Damon Bulter & Nell Daniel. At Sweat Equity Enterprises She Worked With Brands Such As Nissan, Timex, Britton Creative, Dr. Miracles, Saks Fifth Ave, Complex Magazine, Ecko Red, New Era, Sketchers, Frog Design, Radio-Shack & More. She Has Been Featured In New York Times, Complex Magazine, Good Morning America, Surface Magazine & CBS News. In College She Began To Work As A Freelance Production Manager & Assistant For Companies Like STYLE Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Manhattan Productions, Fifth Planet Films, Mythic Bridge, & The Mustache Agency. After Achieving Her Degree In Computer Arts & Media Arts; She Created Her Own Business Named Torain Republic. Torain Republic Is A Creative Management + Production Agency Which Helps Clients And Artists Build Their Brand, Event Or Media Production. Shakirra Torain Has Worked With Celebrity Fashion Designers Such As Marc Bouwer, Adrian Alicea, Reuel Matthews, Henry Picado, Danny Apolonio, Cesar Galindo & Claudinette Jean , Fashion Stylists Such As Latoya Mcleary, Celebrity Fashion Photographer & HMUA Anthony Isambert, Style Fashion Week Beauty Director Edwin Candelaria, Fashion Models Such As Dominique Jackson From Pose On Fox, Mimi Tao From Project Runway, CEO Of Street Fashion Week Naomi Alabi , Actress & Celebrity Media Personality Lulu Lopez & Big Vegg From Roc Runna Press.

ARTIST STATEMENTI am interested in capturing a sense of shifting time and space in my work. I want it to not quite inhabit the known world but be more like a dreaming space where meaningful and whimsical fragments of the day happen to have washed up. In this space, elements melt into one another - feelings into ice-cream, sea markers into volcanoes, London Underground tiles into lochs, colourful plastic wrappers, and road signs into a mill-pond-like sea.I keep returning to waves in my work. Not just sea waves but waves as a metaphor for building tension. I see these building tensions everywhere, in the state of the world, in people around me, in my own head, and in the mundanity of day-to-day life. Thinking about a rising tide in a literal and metaphorical sense. I like to imagine what is going on under the surface of the paintings, in the same way that sometimes the most interesting things in life are what is left unsaid.Most of my practice is painting, as the joy and liquidity of this medium allow me to explore my imagined world whilst creating it. Sometimes, however, a work lands more solidly in my brain that demands to be sculpted or videoed. Like my diverse inspirations, there is no hierarchy of mediums here, but more a utilising of different senses to explore my thought process.

As an African conceptual artist, author and life coach, my artwork focuses on consciousness, spiritual science, human, self and personal development, self-leadership, critical thinking and identity: including other multidisciplinary subjects. My work explores how we humans relate to the world around us, our connection to the universe, and what interventions we can take in our environment in order to live in harmony, within and without. Presenting subjects as variable as the effects of armed conflict, and self-leadership my work renders familiar visual signs, and I use different materials through the media of painting in a stylized form, FOTO collage, sculpting, film and performance. I also use installations that are conceptually built using different materials and forms. As a result, my work which is mainly experiential and research based, new ideas arise, which lead to the next production of art work.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.