Meet Our Artists
Adele Moore Yonchak holds a BA in Studio Art from Hollins University (Virginia) with additional coursework from Lorenzo de’ Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy. While her formal training focused on oil, she now primarily uses acrylic after discovering it was better suited to her technique of layering texture and color. Yonchak enjoys keeping her subject matter familiar but with a unique point of view and is known for her abstract trees and bold uses of color. Her goal is to produce work that feels at home but in an unexpected way. Yonchak is attracted to abstracted landscapes and simple scenes illustrated in unique ways. She lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Adele Moore Yonchak holds a BA in Studio Art from Hollins University (Virginia) with additional coursework from Lorenzo de’ Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy. While her formal training focused on oil, she now primarily uses acrylic after discovering it was better suited to her technique of layering texture and color. Yonchak enjoys keeping her subject matter familiar but with a unique point of view and is known for her abstract trees and bold uses of color. Her goal is to produce work that feels at home but in an unexpected way. Yonchak is attracted to abstracted landscapes and simple scenes illustrated in unique ways. She lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Julian Cardinal’s expressive oil paintings bring a dreamy, nostalgic sensibility to scenes of feminine figures, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered with loose brushwork and a muted, earthy palette. Born in 1988, the artist is from the tip of Cape Cod in North Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his work at prominent galleries in New York City, Bridgehampton, NY, East Hampton, NY, Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, Burlington, VT, Manchester, VT, Chatham, MA, Charlestown, RI, and Provincetown, MA, where his parents have owned Kiley Court Gallery since 1991.
His work blends the romantic haze of Impressionism with a contemporary fascination for fashion, identity, and form, resulting in compositions that feel both timeless and distinctly modern. Often drawing from vintage black-and-white photographs, Cardinal reinterprets historical imagery through a personal lens, breathing new life into 20th-century silhouettes and quiet moments. Whether painting “The Running Girl” — a recurring, enigmatic figure in over fifty iterations — or intimate bouquets arranged in his studio, Cardinal creates works that hover between presence and memory. His figures rarely meet the viewer’s gaze; their vague features and fluid gestures suggest not anonymity, but invitation for interpretation and emotion.
Informed by a lineage of French Impressionists like Monet, Cézanne, and Degas, as well as neoexpressionists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Provincetown painters such as Anne Packard and Cynthia Packard, Cardinal’s work resists technical precision in favor of mood, rhythm, and atmosphere. He paints quickly, deliberately, preferring spontaneity over control in pursuit of an honest and immediate connection with his subject.
As the son of renowned Cape Cod landscape painter and gallery owner Robert Cardinal, he grew up watching his dad work in his studio. At the age of 19, while enrolled as an English major with an Art minor at the University of Vermont, Cardinal began following in his father’s footsteps. Cardinal currently works out of his studio in Shelburne, Vermont.
Carolyn Ridsdale is an award-winning artist who creates mixed media collages of breath-taking detail. Her works are a whimsical call to adventure and a celebration of life. while never forgetting its at tendant shadows. She weaves together historic and contemporary material, juxtaposing visual references with wit and insight that can be contemplated and appreciated by the viewer repeatedly.
Ridsdale finds inspiration in mankind’s deepest myths and cultural expressions from Ancient Greek sculpture to Persian carpets to the flash of today’s celebrity culture, and in the beauty of the natural world, from the oceans to the forests and the human form.
She has a degree in English Literature from Curtin University where her artistic journey began. Her unique visual style has evolved from the written word via theatre design, graphic design and underground comics, but her love of strong narrative themes remains evident throughout her body of work.
Ridsdale spent twenty years living and working in London and Amsterdam before returning home to Sydney in 2008 to raise her family.
Product designer and contemporary artist Brian Chaffin has loved all things art and design for as long as he can remember. He took an especially keen interest in fashion during his early teens, thanks in part to GQ, Vogue and CNN’s STYLE with Elsa Klensch.
His creative talents led him to winning a Geoffrey Beene design contest in high school (Mr. Beene personally selected the winning designs), a fashion design degree with honors from Baylor University and a coveted New York design internship with Marc Jacobs. These experiences would further support Brian in his solid design career with established fashion brands Todd Oldham, Billy Reid, Fossil and western lifestyle brand Tecovas.
In late 2016, Brian’s art journey began from a casual conversation, which set an idea in motion of using shredded paper as the focal point for sustainable, textural works. Thus, a new artistic passion was born.
Now, the Longview, Texas, native scouts for paper material – think travel visitor centers, antique stores, flea markets, estate sales – that catches his eye, has an interesting element, a cool backstory or all three. This material in its shredded form is then combined with loads of glue on canvas, tons of drying time and a lot of patience. The results? Works – often described as wall sculptures – that come to life through hundreds or thousands of tiny paper pieces on canvas, creating compelling and conversational experiences for the viewer.
Aside from his art passion, Brian channels his creative momentum through boutique-brand design projects and eye-catching iPhone photography.
Janesko believes in a modernist approach to her work. Each stroke of the brush or pencil is deliberate and communicates a story that begins with the artist and is completed by the viewer. Janesko’s goal is to transport the viewer to a destination where lines blur and reality slowly slips away.
Jennifer utilizes acrylic, oil, charcoal, pencil, watercolor and ink. Images are created on board, paper and canvas. The artist chooses the best material for expressing each individual concept.
Janesko has displayed and sold her fine art nationally and internationally. Recently, the artist has been collaborating with General Public in Los Angeles, resulting in a collection of prints chosen by Portia de Rossi for Restoration Hardware. Her work has been featured in hotels and restaurants, and on wine bottles and Gibson guitars. Janesko’s most recent collaboration is with Geometry House in San Clemente, CA.
When she is not pursuing her love of travel, Jennifer Janesko currently resides in Kansas, where she creates art in a peaceful environment before heading off to a new and inspirational destination.
Tomas Ramirez infuses rural Mexican life into his artworks. Ramirez uses a special material as a canvas for his art, which adds significance to the piece. The material of the paper is Amate Paper, which is a traditional handmade paper from bark of amate, nettle and mulberry trees and bushes. This process is unique to Mexico and was an indigenous paper-making practice. Now, the practice lives on through the artist.
By adopting an empirical attitude of «quest», Edith Baudrand has invented a process of her own that allows for a freedom of intrinsic poetry in painting, invariably guided by the movement of invisible lines, those contained in the reflections of the earth, water or glass.
Her recent series, which she began working on in 2020 during the first confinement, is called «Albédos,» named after the reflective power of one light absorbant surface over another. In the series «Albédos», the artist goes beyond the constraints of engraving and lithographic stone.
All that remains is ink and paint, whose lines and shapes are under control in the memory of water. A undulating memory in which the artist’s eye dives into it to detect, more than a color or a drawing, the reflection of her body and its internal arcana. We are talking here about the vibrating and poetic power of matter, the projection power that the work of art could have to make visible what is not, namely here, the mystery of intimacy and sex. This painting, which could be described as «physiological» operates a mimesis of the living to try the challenge of representing the informed of our invisible world. The infinite reverberations of matter would then be the infinite non-colors of our emotions.
Melanie Biehle is an abstract painter whose work explores the emotional and sensory experience of place.
Born in Louisiana and now based in Seattle, Melanie studied abstract painting at Gage Academy of Art. Drawing on a background in psychology, writing, and photography, she creates layered compositions that blend memory, architecture, and nature into abstract interpretations of travel and landscape. Her paintings explore both fluid, expressive forms and precise, composed structures, reflecting the balance of freedom and intention that travel inspires.
Melanie often distresses her surfaces with natural materials like shells and stones, grounding her work in the physical textures of the landscapes that inspire her. The ocean is her deepest well of creative energy. Whether shaped by the misty tones of the Pacific Northwest or the warmth of Southern California, her paintings invite calm, curiosity, and connection.
Amy Berlin (b. 1976) is a self-taught, Dallas-based artist known for her whimsical abstract collages and mixed media works. Drawing inspiration from her background in English Literature, Berlin incorporates aged book pages and found materials into her art, imbuing each piece with a narrative quality and a deep appreciation for the written word.
Her work debuted at the Hampton Designer Show House in 2019 and was subsequently featured in the Kips Bay Show House Dallas in 2020 and 2021. Berlin’s art is part of the permanent collection at Parachute Home in Houston, and archival prints of her work are available through Four Hands Studio. She has also exhibited with Uprise Art and Boll & Branch, and created commis sioned pieces for the Magnolia Network.
Before fully dedicating herself to her art practice, Berlin spent 14 years managing operations at a branding, design, and interactive agency she co-owned. Earlier in her career, she worked at New York Times Digital. She holds a BA, cum laude, in English Literature, with a minor in Women’s Studies, from Rhodes College.
Berlin works from her studio in Dallas, Texas, where she lives with her two children.
Carolyn Joe Art – Carolyn grew up in Dallas where her love for whimsical illustration began as a child. She earned a BA in Studio Art and Art History at Wake Forest University and was fortunate to experience art while traveling and working abroad as a curatorial assistant in galleries in Sydney, Australia. A sense of exploration and adventure can be felt in her vibrant and playful use of color.
Carolyn grew as a painter and shared her enthusiasm while teaching and developing children’s art curriculum at Providence Christian School of Texas. Today she enjoys creating works for residential and commercial spaces while collaborating with designers and retailers. Her work has been adapted to fashion and commissioned by Roma rain boots, athleisure leggings, home decor textiles, and she was recently commissioned to create brand assets for Bertolli’s new line of organic Carapelli olive oil. She paints in her home studio alongside two mini muses and budding artists.