Artists – thMTHRshp Gallery

MEET OUR ARTISTS

Sarah Creasman Barnett

Sarah Creasman Barnett is the Inspiration for thMTHRshp. Originally from Arkansas, she is a mother of two and a practicing attorney in addition to a highly sought-after commission artist. She has been featured in many local and national arts publications. Sarah’s art is technically excellent and stylistically unique while invoking the influence of modern masters like David Hockney, Edward Hopper, and Marc Chagall. She is skilled within a variety of media including digital, acrylic, and mixed media. Her work often focuses on domestic scenes, a subject close to her heart. Sarah is inspired by atmospheric, ethereal subjects as well.

Christianne Green

Christianne Green is originally from Toronto, Canada, now living in the United States. She is a mother of two and like all MTHRshp artists, finds that parenthood inspires much of her current work. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and works as a comprehensive multidisciplinary artist. Her diverse portfolio features works in oil, watercolor, and archival inks, as well as upholstered furniture and fabrics. Christianne is adept within a variety of styles and subjects ranging from classically realistic portraiture to stylized conceptual art with raw social commentary to sweetly contoured nursery and maternity pieces. Her series Welcome Home explores homelessness, addiction, and domestic abuse via nontraditional watercolors whose images also appear on bespoke upholstered furniture and drapery fabrics. New works focus on highly conceptual installation experiences, primed to have a profound effect on collectors. Christianne is one to watch.

Shelley Smolen

Shelley Smolen is a Houston-based artist who specializes in intricate collages using various materials including: drawings, wood veneer, painted paper, and various ephemera. Shelley holds an MFA from the University of North Texas and has created numerous commissions. Shelley works full time as an art educator and has three young daughters, including twins.

Shelley constructs her artwork by piecing together small sections of drawings, paintings, wood scraps, and even her daughters’ doodles. The patchwork quality in quilting, marquetry and similar crafts has always appealed to her aesthetically. She loves the challenge of using forgotten or unwanted remnants. Conceptually, Shelley enjoys upcycling or elevating overlooked scraps into a new work of art. It has also become a fun tradition in her family art studio for her daughters to make “pieces for mommy”. Shelley loves finding where to best incorporate them in her collages.

Shelley’s art requires a lot of time and patience as she puzzles handmade pieces together, creating both non-objective and representational imagery.

Dawn Elise Edelman

Dawn Elise Edelman is a mother, acupuncturist, budding singer, and artist who loves her family, friends and Nature. She seeks out those moments when she can sink into the creative slipstream, where time does not exist and one can feel the forces of nature at play. Dawn has no art degree, takes classes intermittently and draws large. Originally from New York, she holds a Masters of Asian Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has been practicing in East Dallas since 2007. Her acupuncture practice has been rich and satisfying, inspiring continued wonder and awe. The theory of the Asian medical system infuses every aspect of her life.

Dawn has a privileged relationship with the human body in all its forms. Her portraits reveal the seen and unseen-the geometric and organic anatomical forms that reside within and around her subjects-the systems seeking balance. She is a gifted healer and brings this perspective to her charcoal and pastel portraits with a surrealist twist. Dawn lives in Dallas with her daughter, Indigo, and their furry pack.

JOSHUA DAVID SAMPLES

Joshua David Samples is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in floral sculptures, installations, and fashions. He attended Art School at the University of Kentucky and has an extensive body of work in large scale cut paper sculpture, ceramics, fiber and wood art, as well as 2D painting which have been exhibited in museums and universities in the United States. He has designed floral fashions for and styled Max from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Josh has worked on a variety of artistic projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Paris and is a native of Kentucky where he manages his idyllic Oak Hill Gardens. His living walls have been featured at The World Equestrian Games, at hotels and restaurants across the US, and held and in private collections. He attends the renowned Catherine Muller École de fleuriste in Paris. His work incorporates live plants and flowers into sculptural creations ranging from dresses constructed from cut flowers, living vertical wall garden installations, to vases made from paper and eggshells. His works are always in transition from conception to their eventual, natural destruction. The pieces evolve into performance art as we witness the cycle of birth, life, decay, death, and renewal. Time is always unfolding and is an essential part of experiencing his art. The collector will eventually be required to interact with the work-to care for it, or to dispose of and bury it, so that it can return to the cycle and be reincarnated as soil, a plant, or consumed by an animal. It celebrates life in all its forms and metamorphoses.

Due to the nature of Josh’s work, his living installations will be featured at popup exhibits, art fairs, and demonstrations at our workshops. Photographs of past works will also be displayed as art in their own right.

Shelley constructs her artwork by piecing together small sections of drawings, paintings, wood scraps, and even her daughters’ doodles. The patchwork quality in quilting, marquetry and similar crafts has always appealed to her aesthetically. She loves the challenge of using forgotten or unwanted remnants. Conceptually, Shelley enjoys upcycling or elevating overlooked scraps into a new work of art. It has also become a fun tradition in her family art studio for her daughters to make “pieces for mommy”. Shelley loves finding where to best incorporate them in her collages.