The wonderful artists who grace this issue are:

Lauren Raine

Cover Art for Roses & Wildflowers Spring 2025

“Vision”

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

Sharon Knight

Audio Offering, Illustration, & Web Design

“White Rose” & “Siren Moon”

Sharon Knight is an internationally touring musician in the mythic-Celtic vein. She and her partner, Winter, have logged many hours as touring musicians, sharing stages with Wardruna, SJ Tucker, Faun, Stella Mara, Wendy Rule, and many more.

Neofolk Romantique –
Celtic inspired songs for poets, adventurers, and
lovers of mystery

Sharon can be found at: www.sharonknight.net, and https://sharonknight.bandcamp.com/

Dara “Maverick” Napoli

Graphic Layout

Dara (or Maverick) is a freelance Graphic and Instructional designer, with work spanning across a variety of industries. She started her journey as a Graphic Designer in 2002, when she created banners and background images for friends on an early social media platform called Xanga. At this time, she also developed a passion for web design too. Follow her on Instagram @the.autonomous.ghost!

Stephanie O’Hanley

Web Development

Stephanie started using WordPress in 2011 and took Skillcrush’s WordPress Developer Blueprint course in 2019. She’s been building and supporting websites for individuals and nonprofits ever since.

http://stephanieohanley.org/

Jack Ruttan

Artist in Residence for 2025/6

“Recycling Can Be Heroic“

Jack Ruttan is a Canadian TV scriptwriter, freelance journalist, and illustrator with a sense of humor, and a fresh take on the world.

Jack is the artist for our icon for “Buy Us a Cuppa Coffee”

Feel free to investigate his site and find out more about him and his work. Jack Ruttan is at: https://mruttan.ca/

Sonali Roy

“Another Time, Another Place“

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!

Denita Benyshek

Artist in Residence, Botanica Gardens in Wichita, Kansas, 2024. 

“Bird of the Blizzard”

“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: http://www.denitabenyshek.com
https://www.instagram.com/denitabenyshek/

Helena Domenic

Arts Advisor
2024 Artist in Residence for
the Society for Ritual Arts

“Tam Lin”

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.

Visit Helena’s Linktree.

Joel Bisaillon

“The Northern Lights are Music” & “Riders in the Sky“

“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.”

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