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The Wonderful Artists Who Grace this issue are:
Roses and Wildflowers Cover Art
Denita Benyshek
Cover Art “Bluebird Choosing a Direction”
Artist in Residence, Botanica Gardens in Wichita, Kansas, 2024.
“I am a mother, a multi-media artist, a mental health counselor, and an interdisciplinary researcher on contemporary artists as shamans. Korean manshin Kim Junghee initiated me as a shaman through a traditional naerim gut. In my work, I integrate healing and channel nature spirits to provide a gift to my audience. Awards include Ucross Foundation, Pilchuck Glass School scholarship, and Botanica gardens artist in residence. My formal education: BFA and MFA in painting, MA and PhD in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, with additional training in dance and jazz/blues vocals. My artworks are in many private and public collections, including University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, King County Ethnic Heritage Collection, and The Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark. Past curated group shows include Redefining Visionary Art, New York City.”
Research and publications:
http://saybrook.academia.edu/DenitaBenyshekPhDMFA
Art:
Coreopsis Journal Cover Art
Kevin Kihn
Cover Art “Curvilinear Perspective”
Kevin has an interview profile and gallery in Coreopsis Journal here:
“My cover image uses stereographic projection as a form of perspective. It’s the same projection used in the star map of an astrolabe, an ancient astronomical device.
I have an abiding fascination with curvilinear perspective. Over many years, I’ve developed a rather elaborate system or array of systems of perspective.All share the same geometrical and mathematical basis as the mapping of the earth or the stars. Recently, I’ve come to realize that, having forebears who were sea captains and navigators, I’ve inadvertently recreated the whole system of celestial navigation. I’ve unwittingly recapitulated ancestral knowledge, only as an artist rather than as a navigator.
My work runs in two streams. In the one, fantasy and mythology represent all that is mysterious and subtle and difficult to apprehend in the human psyche and for that matter in the universe. In the other, geometry and geodesics are an attempt to grasp the underlying structure of things, while perspective rationally seeks to describe our perception of the visual world.”
Design
Dara “Maverick” Napoli
With Lezie Kinyon
Background and graphic layout
Helena Domenic
Arts Advisor
2024 Artist in Residence for the Society for Ritual Arts
Helena Domenic is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Kutztown, she was an Associate Professor of Art History and Studio Art at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania for eighteen years. She is an accomplished painter who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Germany, Egypt, and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After viewing the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the age of eighteen months, her mother predicted she would become an artist. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. She has also taken courses in Art Therapy from Cheyney University and will be entering Cherry Hill Seminary’s Spiritual Direction program in Fall of 2023. Helena lectures regularly at conferences about art and the sacred, painting, and installation at both academic and healing arts venues. Her interests include antiquities from all cultures, African and Nubian studies in particular. Her art is influenced by artists such as Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Jimoh Biramoe, El Anatsui, Bettye and Alison Saar, and Agnes Pelton. Helena also offers classes in various kinds of art and spiritual studies from her studio in Phoenixville, PA, where she works to create an environment of community and creativity. Helena’s book, An Illuminated Guide to Wicca was released by Schiffer in April of 2022, and is enjoying great sales.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HelenaDomenicArt
Interior Illustrators
Jack Ruttan,Artist in Residence for 2025/6
Jack is the artist for our icon for “Buy Us a Cuppa Coffee”
Coreopsis Journal: “The Birth Pains” Todd Fabyanic
Jack Ruttan is a Canadian TV scriptwriter, freelance journalist, and illustrator with a sense of humor, and a fresh take on the world.
Feel free to investigate his site and find out more about him and his work. Jack Ruttan is at: https://mruttan.ca/
Visit his Patreon Page, and make a contribution, or ask for a commission!
https://patreon.com/user?u=93388363
Drawing of Jack Ruttan copyright Patrick Hènaff, 2008.
Susan Matthews
“Cat Lady” featured in Cats and Other Strays
Susan Matthews was born in the Arizona desert, raised in the Republic of East Oakland, and now lives in the New Mexico desert. Artist, teacher, drummer, traveler. Studied drawing and painting at UC Berkeley and San Francisco StatUniversity, has exhibited in the SF Bay Area, Alaska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ghana, Senegal, Cuba. Learned the rules of the game in Oakland.
Warren Muzak
Rainy Days and Sun Rays
How a Phoenix Comes Back
I’m a self-taught creative. Drawing has been a means of escape, self-expression, and a way to entertain my friends and I’ve been drawing ever since I was 6. When I’m not drawing in a sketchbook or on a tablet I’m riding a mountain bike, or playing my guitar, OR playing with and repairing antique Lionel Electric trains. I am a huge train fan and started a Youtube channel dedicated to my hobby. You’ll find a link to my channel in the “more” section under “Lets Talk About Lionel Trains”.
A seasoned commercially published 2D illustrator and cartoonist, I have collaborated with editors, creative and art directors for publishers like Cambridge University Press, Liturgy Training Publications, Stone Ridge, and FriesenPress, to name a few.
Award winning 2D animator, I’ve collaborated with filmmakers and studios like Jacob Reed, House of Gorey, Fitz & Martin, Madison House Designs, and Hallman Animation, my animation experience includes 2D animated short films, animated title cards, commercials, app loading screen animations and music videos. I’ve taken projects from concept storyboarding and editing (video and audio) right through to final production. Traditional animation, 2D and 3D, and motion graphics.
Kerry Maire
Tunnel to Forever
Kerry Mairie is a mixed media painter, illustrator, and museum educator hailing from the banks of the Delaware River. Her work explores mythology, folklore, and magic in art. She loves storytelling and all things weird and wonderful. More of her art can be found at DrawingDownLore.com
Sonali Roy
Poetry this issue:
“Hope”
“Tikkum Olum”
“In Search of a Shore”
Featured in Coreopsis: “Transformation, Butterflies and Goo Dealing with Changes”
A freelance journalist and photographer, Sonali Roy, wears several other hats including a painter, 3-D art designer, passionate traveler, singer, music composer, lyricist, and guitarist. Roy is a lover of art and architecture. While not working, Sonali enjoys creative writing, watching and feeding birds, and listening to music. She is devoted to vegetarian diet and practices yoga & meditation regularly. Sonali very much misses her canine friend (and best friend) Fuchoo, who left her forever at the age of eight in 2023.
About my work: I very much love creating 3-D Paint. I enjoy weird and fantasy artworks though I always crave for conveying some reality through my creation. Yes, I’m weird because I think outside the box. From the very childhood, I’ve been feeling something one may call ‘individual vs society’, which I later realized is one of the popular themes of European literature. So is my art- whether science fiction or fantasy- uncanny always accompanies me. Maybe I find inspiration in it. Maybe fondness for the weird springs from the excess of tough realities you face. Some say those finding solace in fantasy are escapists. But, trying to find harmony with the wings of imagination is a tough reality, which, more or less, happens to all of us, and we cannot deny it- that’s all!
Thana Meejinda
Wet Socks Drying in the Tide
Captain Ahab’s Seafood Galley
“Hello! I’m Thana or Lena, I’m a lover of any form of the arts and additionally an enthusiast of combat arts, historical Asian artwork and birds.”
Joel Bisaillon
Flight of the Synths
“I am a self-taught freelance digital artist from Canada who focuses on dark and dramatic, bold and colorful imagery with a flair for the fantastical. One can see I appreciate the darker aspects of fiction genres holding close to horror and fantasy. This could be a throwback from my old days playing P&P RPGs. I have over the years worked with several renowned roleplaying, tabletop gaming, and publishing companies trying to bring the unreal to life.”
Wingdings and Incidental Work
Carly J.J. Turner
Carly J.J. Turner (aka Mede Potawatomig Ikwe) is a Pipe Carrier and medicine woman, O’Jibway from The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, The White Earth Indian Reservation, and Wisconsin, The Bad River LaPointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Her Clan is Mukwa-Bear.
When Carly isn’t skipping through a pink-glittered desert speaking with her animal friends, she’s likely to be away fasting and praying or simply enjoying a cup of pu erh tea and creating art.
Carly has an Associates Degree in Art and a Journalism and New Media CCL. She hopes to spread her words, art, and healing to many.
For consulting work or to see her ritual art visit: Phosphenesandaether.com
She accepts donations for her shares, if you’d like to donate:
Venmo: @journeyhawk
