The Wonderful and Talented Artists Featured in This Issue
Portfolios may be sent to Arts Editor, Sonali Roy at sonali.roy60@gmail.com
Roses and Wildflowers Cover art
Budgie Tereborn
“Eclipse”
Budgie Tereborn lives in Seattle with their service dog, Siks. They enjoy making art using many different mediums and strive to have fun with everything they make. When not making art, they work at a library to help provide the type of safe space for others that they loved as a child. They feel that any form of learning or artistic expression makes the world a better place.
Coreopsis Journal Cover Art
Kerry Mairie
Cover Art Coreopsis journal, “The Star Goddess”
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
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Sonali Roy, Arts Editor
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!
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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
Jack Ruttan
Artist in Residence for 2025/6
Jack is the artist for our icon for “Buy Us a Cuppa Coffee” 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.
Interior Art
Eclipse Photography and Starfields Courtesy of NASA
Kevin Kihn
Featured in “The Fathoming”
“Shapes”
Background art
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.
Lauren Raine
“The World”
Lauren Raine MFA is an interdisciplinary mask artist and sculptor, best- known for her 20-year Community Arts Project “The Masks of the Goddess”. She also writes and is fascinated by the inherent power and sanctity of sacred places around the world. Visit her website at www.laurenraine.com
Masks of the Goddess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wqoxJr8_vU
Seren Derryth
… is a Witchy Artsy Whimsical Fae!
Creating mirth and magic in a multitude of artsy and craftsy ways, Seren likes to work with a multitude of mediums, including spectacular semi-precious stones and gems, sparkly crystals, fantastic pendants and charms, her beloved iPad for digital art, ever trusty colored pencils, gorgeous gouache, and more!
Lannie Pihajlic
“Totality”
Lannie lives smack dab where the Great Plains meet the Rocky mountains with his wife, two poodles and two cats. He is a former college biology teacher (shudder) and current art teacher (chef’s kiss). When not writing or making art, he likes to find inspiration in Nature.
Explore Lannie’s art here: https://myworldof.art/
Susan Matthews
“Día de los Muertos installation” Featured in “When the Bees Fell Silent”
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 State University, has exhibited in the SF Bay Area, Alaska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ghana, Senegal, Cuba. Learned the rules of the game in Oakland.
Joel Bisaillon
Featured in The Enclave
“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.”
T. K. Rex
Photography featured in “Swimming Through Totality”
T. K. Rex is a Pushcart-nominated science fiction and fantasy author from the western states, whose stories can be read in numerous publications, including their debut collection, The Wildcraft Drones, on shelves May 2026. They’re an alumni of the Clarion, Taos Toolbox and Futurescapes workshops; a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, the Authors Guild, and the Writers Grotto; and the co-host of Stir, a seasonal reading series in San Francisco. https://tkrex.wtf
Wingdings and Incidental Work
Joel also created gothic roses, gargoyles and other magical things to make our pages beautiful.
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
She accepts donations for her shares, if you’d like to donate:
Venmo: @journeyhawk
Artists Features in the Spring 2027 Writer’s Challenge “Yellow Kings Red Queens and Broken Things” are Lauren Raine, Kurt Komoda, Susan Matthews, and Helena Domenic
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