Stoneboat 12.1 — Spring 2022

“New York” by Olga Nenazhivina

“Girls and Flowers” by Olga Nenazhivina

“Jeremiah” by Nicola Brayan

visual Artist Bios

Nicola Brayan is a young, aspiring artist from Sydney, Australia. She has rediscovered her passion for art during the pandemic. She uses vivid colours and contrast to capture emotions and expression. Her work is a love letter to what it means to be human. More of her work can be found on Instagram at @an.aesthetic.mirror.

Olga Nenazhivina is a Russian-American artist born in 1966 in the city of Saratov in Southern Russia. In the '70s, her family moved to Vladivostok, a neighboring city quarters with China and Japan. She then received her initial artistic training under her father, Valery Nenazhivin, a professional sculptor, and her mother, Nina Nenazhivina, an art enthusiast. In 1985, Nenazhivina received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Vladivostok College for the Arts. Since then, her works have been extensively exhibited domestically and internationally. She now lives and works in New York Metro Area, United States.

Sarah Spillers is a contemporary painter who was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work depicts the aftermath of the populous city going through the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Spillers has been exploring the new environment that the pandemic has created and translated it into a series of paintings, emphasizing the use of lively color and texture in contrast to these gloomy and more serious times.