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UGallery releases new art and welcomes new artists to our community every week. We love seeing what each new week will bring. This week’s newest artist are Amna Mehmood, Mike Kaplan, Tricia May and Karen Darling! Read on below to learn a little bit more about her work.

Amna Mehmood. San Jose, California.

Amna Mehmood creates stories of fictional characters living in fictional worlds. Her photographs tell tales that go beyond the models and the settings she shoots. Amna hopes to create secret worlds and stories for people to enjoy. She says, “one can just sit, staring at a photograph, lost in the worlds that exist inside it.

Mike Kaplan. Sedgefield, Western Cape.

Mike Kaplan developed his eye for landscapes while studying graphic design in London. His fascination with William Turner’s ability to capture the movement of water motivated him to take his design eye to rivers and oceans with a camera in hand. By snapping long-exposure shots at sunrise and sunset, Mike Kaplan develops his own mastery of the flowing quality of a seascape.

Tricia May. Boise, Idaho.

Tricia May looks to the philosophy of yin and yang to drive her balanced compositions. With Mother Nature as a guiding force for her art, Tricia takes oil to canvas to depict the play of warm and cool colors found in landscapes, flowers, and the sky. Tricia May founded the Plein Air Painters of Idaho and is a member of Oil Painters of America.

Karen Darling. Brampton, Canada

Trained as an illustrator, Karen Darling has learned to capture the human form in all its essence. Her female forms seem to dance across the canvas. Despite a love for abstractions, Karen keeps enough of her understanding of the body to develop a clear and stylistic approach to the figure.

If you’re loving these artists, let them know by leaving a comment on their UGallery profile page. I’m sure they’d love to hear from you.

After a run of wedding pinners, we’re excited to invite an expert interior designer as UGallery’s next guest pinner. Tina Ramchandani of Life in Sketch reminds us that making our homes beautiful is equally as important as making our weddings memorable. Tina will be hopping on board to pin an array of sketches on UGallery’s “Be Art Guest” board. In true Life in Sketch fashion, Tina will deliver the most beautiful designs that she comes across on her day-to-day. So if you need a little inspiration to make your home just a smidge more artful, look no further. Tina will give you just what you need.

UGallery releases new art and welcomes new artists to our community every week. We love seeing what each new week will bring. This week’s newest artist are Julie Goulding and Luca Spano! Read on below to learn a little bit more about her work.

Julie Goulding. Toronto, Canada.

Similar to David Hockney, Julie Goulding explores the geometry of mundane life to deliver spatial paintings edged with surrealism. Her art is grounded in naturalism, but features elements of abstractions that lend to its overall classicism. Each canvas invites the viewer to embark on a journey assessing the beauty of man. Julie studied art with Clive Head in England at York University and exhibited work in London and New York.

Luca Spano. Cagliari, Italy.

Luca Spano views landscape as a “series of overlapping links of personal and cultural aspects.” Each of his photographs are layered with the richness of our collective consciousness. By tapping into the cultural imagination of his environment, Luca Spano captures spontaneous moments in a minimal fashion.

If you’re loving these artists, let them know by leaving a comment on their UGallery profile page. I’m sure they’d love to hear from you.

Doug Lawler, exotics-extraordinaire and Bay Area native, is our Artist of the Week. While living in the tropics of Hawaii, Doug discovered his love for painting. Following the whims of his romantic heart, Doug moved from the island to San Francisco in the sixties. In San Francisco, he established himself as an innovative and socially-minded artist and art conservationist. His work stems from travels in Mexico and Spain and represents the primitive artifacts connected to our past. We caught up with Doug to ask him a few questions about his art. Read on below to see what he has to say!

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UGallery releases new art and welcomes new artists to our community every week. We love seeing what each new week will bring. This week’s newest artist is Yoko Naito! Read on below to learn a little bit more about her work.

Yoko Naito. Woodside, New York.

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Yoko Naito only takes photographs when she is alone. Even though her photographs are images of vacant places, they are filled with boundless complexity. In Yoko’s scenes, emptiness is made tangible through her ability to make a void seem as though it had been filled just seconds prior to her snapping the photo. Yoko’s images are reminiscent of ghost towns that once prospered, but are now empty.

If you like Yoko Naito’s art, let her know by leaving a comment on her UGallery profile page. I’m sure she’d love to hear from you.

Bells have been ringing at UGallery after we released our new Wedding Registry. Since the launch, we have fallen in love with two beautiful guest pinners. But as the saying goes, the third times a charm.

Please give a big welcome to Jen Campbell of Green Wedding Shoes. Jen will be this week’s wedding guest pinner. She’ll be curating the best of her blog on UGallery’s “Artful Weddings” board. Jen couldn’t be more perfect for our guest pinner series. She believes there is no right way to hold a wedding (we feel the same way about registries). Green Wedding Shoes inspires couples to make their wedding day all about them, even if that requires breaking some traditions. You can check out Green Wedding Shoes or see what Jen’s pinned on UGallery’s “Artful Weddings” board for truly inspiring weddings.

Happy Pinning, Jen!

Every week, UGallery releases new art and welcomes new artists to the community. We love seeing what each new week will bring. Say “Hello” to Deanna Fainelli. She is UGallery’s newest artist! Read on below to learn a little bit more about her work.

Deanna Fainelli. San Rafael, California.

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While photographs of her travels are the bedrock of Deanna Fainelli’s art, it’s her use of bold imagery that truly cements her artistic style within the urban realm. By layering metropolis-centric symbols one on top of the other, like graffiti on signs, Deanna establishes an edgy feel that is at once familiar and unique. Deanna Fainelli says, “Drawing on my experience in fine art, photojournalism and graphic design, I capture the gritty soul of the cityscape.”

If you like Deanna Fainelli’s art, let her know by leaving a comment on her UGallery profile page. I’m sure shey’d love to hear from you.

We are so excited to welcome Heather from Style Unveiled as a guest pinner to beautify our “Artful Weddings” Pinterest board. Style Unveiled is a one-stop shop for everything wedding.  It is a curated site with only the best of the wedding world. You’ll find wedding dresses galore, beautiful bouquets, and more! If you’re looking for inspiration to make your wedding as artful and original as our art collection, take a peek at her pins on “Artful Weddings.”

Below is a sample of what Style Unveiled has to offer. If a Vera Wang wedding dress doesn’t make you want to jump on the Pinterest board ASAP, not much else will!

Happy Pinning, Heather!