the SOCIETY OF LAYERISTS in MULTI-MEDIA

Summer Sounds

Kathleen Kuchar

10 x 8, Acrylic collage

Summer dreams include the colorful sounds of nature.

Spirit of the King and Queen of Magical

Barbara J C Stevens

24 x 36, Mixed media: snow dyed raw canvas, acrylic, pastel, ink, cheesecloth

I have been fortunate to have my grandchildren visit me in the summer time on my family farm where I grew up. The magical games we played together in the shade of the same huge cottonwood trees that shaded me when I was a child, with the hot sun glimmering through the leaves, made our imaginary worlds seem SO REAL. This painting is for my grands and all of our summer dreams!

Summer Dream Haiku

Barbara Seidel

12 x 12, Digitally altered photo

As a dream worker and artist I often engage in anchoring the substance of what I sense and feel with traditional Japanese haiku. This image expresses summer on a subtle energetic level and is a manifestation of my summer experience to express the essential.

Dream for 7 Generations

Richard C Newman

12 x 18, Digital montage

A composite image from my photographs.

Echo Water

Nancy Nikkal

16 x 24, Collage with papers on wood panel

Echo Water is part of my new Echo series with abstract shapes. It’s a collage painting on a 16x24 inch wood panel with painted papers and thin Washi paper overlays. The rolling shapes remind me of water in ripples and waves at the beach.

The Open Road

Terri MacDonald

4 x 4, Pastel

So thankful to be able to see our family this summer after this year and to see the horizon line traveling to see them. A real treasure.

Dill Dance

Carolyn S Berry

10 x 10, Wet cyanotype paint

Summer is the perfect type for botanical wet cyanotype printing. My garden gives me endless subject matter. Walnut ink and other natural dyes are also sprayed on to the surface during the printing process. Cold wax seals the mounted prints.

Spring into Summer

Sharon Eley

20 x 20, Mixed media

Free flowing and full of fun, as Spring flows into Summer bringing sunshine, breezes, and the sounds of laughter.

Summer Reflections

Peggy Wambold

24 x 24, Acrylic

Oh sweet summer how we all needed you so much this year. I love painting in the spring and summer and feeling the air in my hair and getting back to nature. I love to garden and paint outside. That's why I paint from nature because I love to be outside and feel the earth on my figures. May we all feel happier and strong after this terrible year. Sending hugs and love from Kansas.

Beach Town

Mari O'Brien

20 x 20, Acrylic on terraskin

The Gift of Silence

Liz Ruest

3:4 Ratio, up to 24 x 32, Digital collage 24 layers

A waterscape created last summer at low tide.

Revival

Jean Warren

17 x 15, Watercolor

The gift of time to reflect on past paintings in my studio has helped broaden my voice as I play with the process, and the painting is finished, when it makes me smile.

Emergence

Suzan Kraus

29 x 21, Mixed media

Ohana #2

Pam Demo

16 x 20, Assemblage: fabric, reeds, inked-paper

Spare, clean, quiet.

Magnolia Dream

Shirley Eley Nachtrieb

8 1/2 x 11, Acrylic

The magnolias is one of my favorite trees and blooms outside my kitchen window. The fresh scent of their beautiful flowers is intoxicating. They have inspired many of my paintings: this is my latest combining abstract with palette knife. Only two colors plus black and white were used.

Hop, Skip, & A Jump

Suzan Kraus

10 x 15, Mixed

This piece is full of lively, light filled colors. The gestural lines skipping through it feel enlivened.

My Secret Garden

Lisa Hughes

11 x 15, Watercolor

Getting to enjoy fresh green veggies from my garden is always a summer delight!

Springtide

Laura Pope

36 x 24, Acrylic

The Spring season and colours of the beaches of Mexico resulted in this whimsical work.

Exuberance

Ilena Grayson

8 1/2 x 11, Watercolor / mixed media

Taking Flight

Robin Brooks

15 x 20, Monotype print

Taking Flight is about the butterfly as a representation of human potential and possibility. It is also about empathy, feeling with the natural world. I am exploring this and other metaphoric images in my Foremothers Project which is ongoing.
Robin Brooks, 2021

Milford Twinkling The First Star

Cal Mahin

10 x 10, Collage

Traces of Tuscany

Sandra Duran Wilson

11 x 14, Mixed media

This summer we are seeing the world open up a bit and my mind moves to Italy. I created this piece while teaching in Tuscany. I used papers and elements found while there. I am looking forward to resume my travels and teaching again. Welcome back with Traces of Tuscany.

Summer Weather

Linda C Dumas

16 x 12, Watercolor on Yupo, digitally altered

Hot days, cool rains, things growing — in Summer Weather.

Summer Dream

Renee Amitai

30 x 24, Oil on canvas

In a submarine depth, a cosmic darkness a beautiful vegetation, a bright sun emerge symbol of enlightenment, hope and dreams.

Evening Sail

Mary Kottmann

5 x 7, Watercolor and ink

My husband and I saw this dreamy summer scene in Burlington, Vermont as we looked across Lake Champlain two summers ago. People gather in the city park and waited for the sunset, the main attraction of the evening.

Pupukea

Carolyn WarmSun

24 x 30, Acrylic

Pupukea is so named because it reminded my husband of snorkeling in the coral reefs at Pupukea in Hawaii. It is one example of the highly textured paintings I love to create.

Wondrous Sea Jelly

Pamela McKinnie

16 x 20, Mixed media digital painting

The mysterious, illusive jellyfish with its beautiful trailing tentacles is one of our most beloved Northwest sea animals. Whether in an aquarium or the ocean, the slow swaying of the undulating sea jelly is mesmerizing and wondrous.

Along My Garden Path

Judie Bordic

5 x 7, Photography

Sailing Summer Dreams

Barbara L. Chapman

16 x 20, Acrylic on canvas

Breaking free from the cocoon of winter and feeling the warmth of summer and imagining the healing of sailing. This work invites cool breezes against the warmth of the sun. Untethered and dreaming of possibility.

Summer Sands

Vicky Lennon

20 x 16, Acrylic on canvas

Summer Days make it easy to escape the everyday hustle-bustle and daydream while watching the sand, sea and sky.

Summer Sounds

Kathleen Kuchar

10 x 8, Acrylic collage

Summer dreams include the colorful sounds of nature.

Spirit of the King and Queen of Magical

Barbara J C Stevens

24 x 36, Mixed media: snow dyed raw canvas, acrylic, pastel, ink, cheesecloth

I have been fortunate to have my grandchildren visit me in the summer time on my family farm where I grew up. The magical games we played together in the shade of the same huge cottonwood trees that shaded me when I was a child, with the hot sun glimmering through the leaves, made our imaginary worlds seem SO REAL. This painting is for my grands and all of our summer dreams!

Summer Dream Haiku

Barbara Seidel

12 x 12, Digitally altered photo

As a dream worker and artist I often engage in anchoring the substance of what I sense and feel with traditional Japanese haiku. This image expresses summer on a subtle energetic level and is a manifestation of my summer experience to express the essential.

Dream for 7 Generations

Richard C Newman

12 x 18, Digital montage

A composite image from my photographs.

Echo Water

Nancy Nikkal

16 x 24, Collage with papers on wood panel

Echo Water is part of my new Echo series with abstract shapes. It’s a collage painting on a 16x24 inch wood panel with painted papers and thin Washi paper overlays. The rolling shapes remind me of water in ripples and waves at the beach.

The Open Road

Terri MacDonald

4 x 4, Pastel

So thankful to be able to see our family this summer after this year and to see the horizon line traveling to see them. A real treasure.

Dill Dance

Carolyn S Berry

10 x 10, Wet cyanotype paint

Summer is the perfect type for botanical wet cyanotype printing. My garden gives me endless subject matter. Walnut ink and other natural dyes are also sprayed on to the surface during the printing process. Cold wax seals the mounted prints.

Spring into Summer

Sharon Eley

20 x 20, Mixed media

Free flowing and full of fun, as Spring flows into Summer bringing sunshine, breezes, and the sounds of laughter.

Summer Reflections

Peggy Wambold

24 x 24, Acrylic

Oh sweet summer how we all needed you so much this year. I love painting in the spring and summer and feeling the air in my hair and getting back to nature. I love to garden and paint outside. That's why I paint from nature because I love to be outside and feel the earth on my figures. May we all feel happier and strong after this terrible year. Sending hugs and love from Kansas.

Beach Town

Mari O'Brien

20 x 20, Acrylic on terraskin

The Gift of Silence

Liz Ruest

3:4 Ratio, up to 24 x 32, Digital collage 24 layers

A waterscape created last summer at low tide.

Revival

Jean Warren

17 x 15, Watercolor

The gift of time to reflect on past paintings in my studio has helped broaden my voice as I play with the process, and the painting is finished, when it makes me smile.

Emergence

Suzan Kraus

29 x 21, Mixed media

Ohana #2

Pam Demo

16 x 20, Assemblage: fabric, reeds, inked-paper

Spare, clean, quiet.

Magnolia Dream

Shirley Eley Nachtrieb

8 1/2 x 11, Acrylic

The magnolias is one of my favorite trees and blooms outside my kitchen window. The fresh scent of their beautiful flowers is intoxicating. They have inspired many of my paintings: this is my latest combining abstract with palette knife. Only two colors plus black and white were used.

Hop, Skip, & A Jump

Suzan Kraus

10 x 15, Mixed

This piece is full of lively, light filled colors. The gestural lines skipping through it feel enlivened.

My Secret Garden

Lisa Hughes

11 x 15, Watercolor

Getting to enjoy fresh green veggies from my garden is always a summer delight!

Springtide

Laura Pope

36 x 24, Acrylic

The Spring season and colours of the beaches of Mexico resulted in this whimsical work.

Exuberance

Ilena Grayson

8 1/2 x 11, Watercolor / mixed media

Taking Flight

Robin Brooks

15 x 20, Monotype print

Taking Flight is about the butterfly as a representation of human potential and possibility. It is also about empathy, feeling with the natural world. I am exploring this and other metaphoric images in my Foremothers Project which is ongoing.
Robin Brooks, 2021

Milford Twinkling The First Star

Cal Mahin

10 x 10, Collage

Traces of Tuscany

Sandra Duran Wilson

11 x 14, Mixed media

This summer we are seeing the world open up a bit and my mind moves to Italy. I created this piece while teaching in Tuscany. I used papers and elements found while there. I am looking forward to resume my travels and teaching again. Welcome back with Traces of Tuscany.

Summer Weather

Linda C Dumas

16 x 12, Watercolor on Yupo, digitally altered

Hot days, cool rains, things growing — in Summer Weather.

Summer Dream

Renee Amitai

30 x 24, Oil on canvas

In a submarine depth, a cosmic darkness a beautiful vegetation, a bright sun emerge symbol of enlightenment, hope and dreams.

Evening Sail

Mary Kottmann

5 x 7, Watercolor and ink

My husband and I saw this dreamy summer scene in Burlington, Vermont as we looked across Lake Champlain two summers ago. People gather in the city park and waited for the sunset, the main attraction of the evening.

Pupukea

Carolyn WarmSun

24 x 30, Acrylic

Pupukea is so named because it reminded my husband of snorkeling in the coral reefs at Pupukea in Hawaii. It is one example of the highly textured paintings I love to create.

Wondrous Sea Jelly

Pamela McKinnie

16 x 20, Mixed media digital painting

The mysterious, illusive jellyfish with its beautiful trailing tentacles is one of our most beloved Northwest sea animals. Whether in an aquarium or the ocean, the slow swaying of the undulating sea jelly is mesmerizing and wondrous.

Along My Garden Path

Judie Bordic

5 x 7, Photography

Sailing Summer Dreams

Barbara L. Chapman

16 x 20, Acrylic on canvas

Breaking free from the cocoon of winter and feeling the warmth of summer and imagining the healing of sailing. This work invites cool breezes against the warmth of the sun. Untethered and dreaming of possibility.

Summer Sands

Vicky Lennon

20 x 16, Acrylic on canvas

Summer Days make it easy to escape the everyday hustle-bustle and daydream while watching the sand, sea and sky.

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The Society of Layerists in Multi–Media (SLMM) is a network for artists who express a holistic perspective in any style or medium. Layering is not a label for a specific technique, such as collage. It is a way to think about creating art as a synthesis of ideas from many sources: the sciences, philosophy, metaphysics, experience, and imagination. The layers in Layered art are the references and meaning that the artist brings to the work rather than the materials used to create it. As a society, we are focused on the intentions of the artist.

Layering is an evanescent metaphor that grows like moss from living and learning. Often there is a sense of something "other" than the visible in Layered art. The kinship among Layerists is their openness to inspiration from all aspects of their lives and their shared perception of an underlying connectedness to everything.

— Mary Carroll Nelson,

SLMM founder

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