LVAG “Realms of Wonder” Online Art Gallery Show
13 artists participated. 43 individual pieces of art.
Meet the LVAG Artists who are participating in our “Realms of Wonder” Online Art Gallery.
The LVAG is pleased to present our Spring Online Gallery Show, “Realms of Wonder: A Fantasy Exhibit”!
“Realms of Wonder” invites artists and viewers alike to step beyond the familiar and into worlds shaped by imagination, myth, and magic. Dreamlike landscapes, magical creatures and people… this exhibition celebrates the boundless possibilities of fantasy. We seek artwork that transports the viewer—works that evoke curiosity, mystery, adventure, and the sense that something extraordinary exists just beyond the edge of the ordinary.
Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly, drawing inspiration from folklore, mythology, fantasy literature, surreal dreamscapes, and entirely original worlds. Whether intimate or epic, whimsical or dark, these visions remind us of the enduring power of storytelling and the human desire to imagine what lies beyond the known. “Realms of Wonder” is a celebration of creativity, discovery, and magic.
Karla Ann Cloninger Sculpture 28 x 10 x 5 $800 Found objects screwed, wired and glued to a fan blade support, then pained with acrylic washes. • karlacloninger1@gmail.com
*FIRST PLACE, 3D* Karla Ann Cloninger • Into the Light• Sculpture • 20 x 7 x 4 • $425 • Found objects cut, screwed, wired and glued to an old cheese box. Painted with acrylic washes. • karlacloninger1@gmail.com
Karla Ann Cloninger • Suplication • Sculpture • 24 x 9 x 7 • $850 • Found objects screwed, wired and glued to a ceiling fan blade, then painted with acrylic washes. • karlacloninger1@gmail.com
Lin Cheng • Untitled • Oil • 60 x 60 • $2,700 • There are 17 animals with unusual appearances in the artwork; can you spot them?
Sean Cottman • "Framework No. 1: Vessel for Small Worlds" • 2025 • Drawing • 9 x 6 • $300 • Japanese Ink + watercolor on Arches watercolor paper- I built this piece around a simple question: what if the ordinary objects we walk past are actually holding something? Framework No. 1 is a quiet structure, part totem, part doorway, part vessel with worlds tucked inside its hollows. A lone pine at the top. A range of mountains glimpsed through an opening. A small orb resting at the base, heavy enough to look like it remembers something. I wanted the realm to live in the viewer’s head, not on the paper. The wonder isn’t what I drew. It’s what you bring when you lean in close. I sometimes think of everyday objects, and think, “What if on an atomic level, this is what exists?” What is the naked eye hiding from you? • seancottmanart@gmail.com
Sean Cottman • "Framework No.3: The Long Procession" • 2026 • Drawing • 6 x 9 • $300 • Japanese Ink on Arches watercolor paper. Framework No. 3 moves left to right, the way a story does. A small striated world enters the frame. Pieces of something older; a fallen wall, a fragment of architecture, a half-buried form drifts across the middle, weightless and unhurried. At the far right, a hatched square and a quiet curve close the line. Beneath it all, a path leading somewhere unknown, maybe a place for watching the procession pass? I wanted the piece to feel like time moving across a horizon- the way ruins appear through a landscape long after anyone remembers what they were. • seancottmanart@gmail.com
Sean Cottman • "Framework No. 6: Harmonic Horizons" • 2026 • Drawing • 11 x 11 • $400 • Japanese ink on Arches watercolor paper. This one felt like chaos when I began it. Slowly, line after line and after much patience and restraint- harmony began to form and Harmonic Horizons became the work. I have a fondness with negative space, I tried to once again allow the negative space to work along with the line work and minimal color to bring on a calming, relaxing feeling in this piece. My Framework series represents beginnings, and ideas of beginnings- this is an ongoing series with multiple, “sub-series”. How does this Framework make you feel? • seancottmanart@gmail.com
Sean Cottman • "Framework No. 4: A Coordinate in the Dream" • 2026 • Drawing • 10 x 8 • $300 • Japanese Ink + watercolor on Arches paper. Framework No. 4 is a quieter kind of map. A circle holds a small horizon, a sun rising over what might be mountains or waves. A blue line cuts across, the way a horizon does when you stop calling it anything else. Above, a single window floats free, holding a sky that isn’t there. Below, a small red mark fixes a coordinate. I wasn’t trying to draw a world this time. I was trying to draw the idea of one! The moment when a place stops being a memory and starts being a place you could go back to, if you knew the way. • seancottmanart@gmail.com
Sean Cottman • "Framework No.5: The Threshold" • 2025 • Drawing • 9 x 6 • $300 • Japanese Ink + watercolor on cold press paper. The staircase leading to the door is the literal visual center. “Threshold” names what the piece is: a place between. Single word, weighty, mythic without being too theatrical. This is the subtitle I almost gave No. 1, but No. 5 earns it more honestly. The staircase makes it concrete. I really like to hear what the viewer sees in their imagination with my work. The three pillars hold a lot of mystery and meaning, but what is it? • seancottmanart@gmail.com
*1ST PLACE, 2D* Karen Fusco • "As the Sun Sets" • Acrylic • 18 x 24 • NFS • Imagine walking through this scene as the sun frames the mountains. Feel its warmth. • unixgal@aol.com
Karen Fusco • One Snowy Day • Acrylic • 12 x 24 • $350 • A fantastical winter scene brings peace and wonder to the viewer. • unixgal@aol.com
Karen Fusco • "Wandering by the River's Edge" • Acrylic • 12 x 16 • $400 • Where oh where will that river bring you? What's behind the mountains?
John Gregg • "Green Two Headed Cycat with a Red Ball of String" • Drawing • 8 x 6 • $250 • "Green Two Headed Cycat with a Red Ball of String" is a colored pencil drawing of a colorful, quirky, fun loving, two headed, cat like monster, having fun with a ball of string.. This color pencil drawing and is part of my 'Cycat Series'. • johngregg.com@gmail.com
*HONORABLE MENTION, 2D* John Gregg • "Lavender Cycat with Two Heads having a Conversation with an Orange Butterfly" • Drawing • 8 x 6 • $250 • "Lavender with Two Heads having a Conversation with an Orange Butterfly" is a colored pencil drawing of a colorful, quirky, fun loving, cat like monster, having a conversation with an Orange Butterfly. This Character Drawing is part of my 'A Conversation with a Cycat Series'. • johngregg.com@gmail.com
John Gregg • "Yellow Cycat Drawing" • 8 x 6 • $250 • "Yellow Cycat" is a colorful, quirky, fun loving, cat like monster. My Cycat Series is drawn with colored pencils on paper. • johngregg.com@gmail.com
Barbara Gross • "Bad Hair Day" • Watercolor • 16.5 x 13.75 • $300 • I came across a very tangled tree which looked like a bad hair day. The sprites became symbolic of how myself and my siblings terrorized each other. • reenmaid1@verizon.net
*HONORABLE MENTION, 2D* Barbara Gross • "Balance of the Unicorns" • Watercolor • 15 x 15 • $300 • Watercolor, colored pencil and oil pastels. The balance between light and dark, good and evil. • greenmaid1@verizon.net
Barbara Gross • "Bird Sprit Land" • Watercolor • 12 x 14.5 • $300 • Watercolor and colored pencil. Where do I go to get my wings? • greenmaid1@verizon.net
Barbara Gross • "Butterfly Maiden" • Watercolor • 12 x 15 • $300 • Watercolor and colored pencil. The Butterfly Maiden is a Hopi deity. Butterflies as pollinators are essential for our crops. • greenmaid1@verizon.net
Barbara Gross • "Get Your Head out of the Clouds" • Watercolor • 14.5 x 10.5 • $300 • greenmaid1@verizon.net
Rashi Jain • "Stillness of the Soul" • Oil • 16 x 20 • $500 • She stands in quiet harmony with the world around her -soaking in the beauty of rustling leaves, blooming flowers, and endless skies. In this peaceful stillness, she is free, grounded, and deeply connected to the magic of life. Nature becomes her sanctuary, a place where serenity flows effortlessly, and her spirit shines with calm, grace, and quiet joy. Created in rich oil layers, the painting builds depth and movement through textured strokes that echo the rhythm of nature itself. Subtle touches of gold are woven into the composition, adding luminous dimension and a sense of divine light- as if nature itself is softly glowing from within. • rashijain85@gmail.com
Suann Lester • "Field of Silent Bloom" • Photography • 24 x 36 • NFS • This work explores the idea that realms of wonder exist within our world, just beyond the edge of the familiar. Created through macro photography of high-fire crystalline glaze surfaces, each image captures mineral formations shaped by intense heat and chemical transformation. These real, microscopic landscapes resemble dreamlike terrains and shifting environments, suggesting that the extraordinary is embedded within the unseen structures of our reality. • schooze3@cox.net
Suann Lester • "Passage Through the Hidden" • Photography • 24 x 36 • NFS • This work explores the idea that realms of wonder exist within our world, just beyond the edge of the familiar. Created through macro photography of high-fire crystalline glaze surfaces, each image captures mineral formations shaped by intense heat and chemical transformation. These real, microscopic landscapes resemble dreamlike terrains and shifting environments, suggesting that the extraordinary is embedded within the unseen structures of our reality. • schooze3@cox.net
Suann Lester • "Structures of the Unseen" • Photography • 24 x 36 • NFS • This work explores the idea that realms of wonder exist within our world, just beyond the edge of the familiar. Created through macro photography of high-fire crystalline glaze surfaces, each image captures mineral formations shaped by intense heat and chemical transformation. These real, microscopic landscapes resemble dreamlike terrains and shifting environments, suggesting that the extraordinary is embedded within the unseen structures of our reality. • schooze3@cox.net
Suann Lester • "The Expanding Terrain" • Photography • 24 x 36 • This work explores the idea that realms of wonder exist within our world, just beyond the edge of the familiar. Created through macro photography of high-fire crystalline glaze surfaces, each image captures mineral formations shaped by intense heat and chemical transformation. These real, microscopic landscapes resemble dreamlike terrains and shifting environments, suggesting that the extraordinary is embedded within the unseen structures of our reality. • NFSschooze3@cox.net
Suann Lester • "Where Form Takes Root" • Photography • 24 x 36 • NFS • This work explores the idea that realms of wonder exist within our world, just beyond the edge of the familiar. Created through macro photography of high-fire crystalline glaze surfaces, each image captures mineral formations shaped by intense heat and chemical transformation. These real, microscopic landscapes resemble dreamlike terrains and shifting environments, suggesting that the extraordinary is embedded within the unseen structures of our reality. • schooze3@cox.net
Gabby Marushok • "Night Elf’s Rest" • Acrylic • 12 x 12 • $240 • “Night Elf’s Rest” takes inspiration from desert scenery, and places an otherwise forest dwelling creature within the arid environment of a rare desert oasis. Using acrylics I painted a dreamy, murky pool of water for her to finally lay in peace and calm after a long journey. • artbygmaru@gmail.com
Gabby Marushok • "Sacred Pool" • Acrylic • 14 x 11 • $285 • The “Sacred Pool“ is based on the spirit of the desert and those who traverse it. Through the use of acrylics, I imagined a fairy’s journey to a sacred pool in the middle of the desert. The smell of the approaching storm, the sound of a mystical, powerful whirlpool, and the vast emptiness of certain desert landscapes. Moody colors create an eerie feeling in the air, but the fairy seems quite at peace in their isolation. • artbygmaru@gmail.com
*HONORABLE MENTION, 2D* Gabby Marushok • "The Summoning" • Acrylic • 9 x 12 • NFS • Influenced by my love of fantasy RPG‘s “The Summoning“ depicts a necromancer calling forth her skeletal army while drawing immense power from the world around her. Using big radial shapes in both the blood on the ground and the spiraling clouds above, the necromancer has undeniable control over the elements— animating these six ghastly corpses to bend to her every will. • artbygmaru@gmail.com
Kai Lun Qu • "Fire Mage" • Oil • 20 x 16 • $2,000 • This piece was inspired by the illustrations of Magic the Gathering. A fire mage walking along a mystical forest during the twilight hours, with only her flames and the moon guiding her path • kailunqustudio@gmail.com
Kai Lun Qu • "Ghost Rider: Sorceror Supreme" • Oil • 16 x 12 • This piece was a fun mash up of the Sorceror Supreme and Ghost Rider. It was the piece that got me my first gig with Marvel. • NFS • kailunqustudio@gmail.com
Kai Lun Qu • "Kratos" • Oil • 20 x 20 • NFS • This piece was created for Sony's 20th God of War Anniversary Exhibition show in Los Angeles • kailunqustudio@gmail.com
*BEST IN SHOW* Kai Lun Qu • "Taking Flight" • Oil • 18 x 24 • NFS • This piece was created for DreamWork's How to Train your Dragon Exhibit in Los Angeles. • kailunqustudio@gmail.com
Kai Lun Qu • "The Monster Slayer" Oil • 12 x 18 • NFS • This piece depicting Geralt of Riveria slaying monsters mid battle was a commission by a client. • kailunqustudio@gmail.com
Olivia L. Shelton • "Lizard Girl Future #4" • Oil • 30 x 24 • $1,100 • I Used Oils to Create this painting. She represents my future, my past and how i like to take care of others. Life is precious, unpredictable and magical. My love for the possibility of life on other planets influences some of the characteristics of this painting as well. • olivitashelton@gmail.com
Olivia L. Shelton • "Lizard Girl Internal Peace #9" • Oil • 30 x 15 • $800 • My Lizard girl has always helped me represent strong feelings that I have. This particular time my son was going through a very difficult change in his life and his inner peace inspired me to create this. • olivitashelton@gmail.com
Matthew Szostek • "Coming of the Storm" • Oil • 20 x 24 • A beautiful storm spirit coming from the sky, on the left it's daytime on the right is at night with the moon peering up from behind the mountains. • $650 • artbymp@yahoo.com
Matthew Szostek • "Eye Of the Storm" • Oil • 30 x 24 • Oil on canvas called "Eye of the Storm" The Eye Nebula appearing before a person on the beach bringing forth the mystery of the ocean and space. • $700 • artbymp@yahoo.com
Matthew Szostek • "Quan Yi and her Dragon" • Oil • 40 x 30 • $900 • Oil on Canvas. It started out as a portrait painting but the person was trying to scam me so I changed it into a Qaun Yi and added a Dragon. • artbymp@yahoo.com
*2ND PLACE, 2D* Matthew Szostek • "Moon Mermaid" • Mixed Media • 18 x 24 • $600 • Black framed with orange trim in glass. This is a Mermaid with a conch shell hat coming up to see the moon. This is a graphite, acrylic and watercolor painting. • artbymp@yahoo.com
Terri Ann Thompson • "Bearded Iris and Friends" • Mixed Media • 9 x 12 • NFS • The central figure of my 9" x 12" collage is a photograph of this gorgeous bearded iris that bloomed on Easter morning. It is surrouded by pictures of other flowers from my garden as well as some of its "friends" (a hummingbird and a cat). I also used acrylic paint and ink in creating this mixed media painting. • tat5@columbia.edu
Terri Ann Thompson • "On Thin Ice" • Watercolor • 8 x 10 • NFS • I imagined what it would be like to ice skate on a frozen lake when I painted this 8" x 10" watercolor on Arches watercolor paper using a dreamy pallete of ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and alizarin crimson. • tat5@columbia.edu
Terri Ann Thompson • "Purple Sunset" • Acrylic • 8 x 10 • NFS • If the world was purple, this might be what it would look like to sail into the sunset. I used acrylic paints to make this picture on an 8" x 10" canvas panel. • tat5@columbia.edu
Best in Show: “Taking Flight” by Kai Lun Qu
1st Place, 3D: “Into the Light” by Karla Ann Kloninger
1st Place, 2D: “As the Sun Sets” by Karen Fusco
2nd Place, 2D: “Moon Mermaid” by Matthew Szostek
Honorable Mentions:
-“Lavender Cycat with Two Heads having a Conversation with an Orange Butterfly” by John Gregg
-”Balance of the Unicorns” by Barbara Gross
-”The Summoning” by Gabby Marushok