Jadyn Firehawk Photography - Christmas in July Exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery

Jadyn Firehawk is a professional geographer & amateur photographer. Born in the Philippines she now lives in Texas.

She believes the mind behind the camera is more important then the quality of the camera. Her photos are taken with a Canon PowerShot point-n-shoot digital camera. She's tried a better camera but keeps reverting to her trusty point-n-shoot. She's concluded it's better to have a small camera in her purse at all times, than a fancy camera at home when she needs to capture a spontaneous shot the moment it catches her eye.

Living with bipolar disorder has given an intensity to her vision of the way she sees the world.  Most people see things in pictures, she sees pictures in things. She loves to photograph things in daily life "as is" without any staging. Once she started looking for "as is" pictures, the world around her got more interesting and beautiful.

Visit her Christmas in July exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of July and take home the free gift that Jadyn has made!


NEW - OZLAND Picture Story Challenge - What does this picture say to you?

Are "You" ready to challenge your writing skills? Then participate in our OZLAND Picture Stories writing series.

Each month a new picture will be picked, from our OZLAND Artist of the Month collection, with different themes. Your goal is to write a 500-1000 word... poem... essay... or story about the picture picked. This is a chance for you to challenge your writing skills each month. Story can be written in ANY genre... sci fi... romance... ghost... fantasy... fiction... non-fiction... biography... mystery... historical... whatever your writing genre... feel free to experiment. >More Information

Satu Gustafson Doodles at the OZLAND Art Gallery - June 2010

Satu Gustafson lives and works in the North West of Germany. Her artwork is all about experimentation with different materials, textures, media and techniques. Though her preferred medium is acrylic paints she has discovered black and white doodling as a form of art that is especially striking when imported into SL.

Satu is fascinated by colour and contrasts, simple shapes that carry powerful emotionality. So she often uses different shades of one single colour using a painter's knife to shape the pastous paint allowing for dynamic, curved shapes and forms. The black and white inks take this a step further, taking out the colour and working with very basic shapes and patterns.

By bringing her art into Second Life, she would like to make people curious, inspire them and encourage them to just take whatever material they can find in ther RLs and express themselves artistically.

Visit her exhibit at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of June and take home the free gifts that Satu has made!


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Josina Burgess' Acrylic Bronze Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery - May 2010

Josina Burgess studied at famous Art Schools in America and graduated in illustration, advertisement, free painting and drawing, then decided to become a singer.

During her years of traveling as a singer she continued painting and drawing. Her work has many facets. Josina uses mixed techniques she has developed herself. With acrylics she has developed a very personal style. Abstracts, flowers and landscapes are recognizable with her free expression.


The exhibit this month features Josina's RL Acrylic Gold Bronze on Canvas and some painting that have been reworked into SL. Her paintings are "beautiful", not boring, and always a pleasure to look at.

Visit the OZLAND Art Gallery during the month of May to see Josina's most unsual artwork... and make sure you take home the FREE GIFT that Josina has made.

Faustine Pau's Second Life Fantasy Artwork - April 2010

Living in the south of France, Faustine Pau has loved drawing ever since she was a little girl. She says she is "an artist in her soul." She loves meeting new people, music and even writes poetry.

Having no formal art training she is self taught and works with Photoshop 7 to create magical Second Life artwork. She is very good with colors and her artwork is the dreams of children, faerylike and full of fantasy.

The OZLAND Art Gallery will showcase Faustines art during the month of April. Come see for yourself some of Faustine's most unique Second Life Artwork and see if you too don't get pulled into her fantasy worlds.
Make sure you take home the FREE GIFT that Faustine has made.

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SkyBlue Earthboy's Watercolour Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery March 2010

Living in Switzerland, SkyBlue Earthboy is a watercolour painter who paints many different themes of nature and angels, but he always paint the light.

SkyBlue loves water and only paints with watercolour. The light, flow and transparency of the medium fascinates him. He's been an artist for over 20 years, and his art has spread out to clients in England, Germany, Holland, Switzerland... and now SL.

His pictures are active. They radiate light and energy and have a positive effect on their surroundings. He invites you to step into your own world and discover your soul through his pictures. After all... Art is nourishment for the soul!

SkyBlue's Watercolour Art will be showcased at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of March. Visit this most unique exhibit and make sure you take home the special FREE gift that SkyBlue has made.

Maria Binder's Enkaustik Artwork at the OZLAND Art Gallery - February 2010

Living in Germany with her husband and 2 children, Maria Binder was searching the internet one day and read about the ancient art of Enkaustik wax painting... A week later she had all the tools and was experimenting for herself.  That was 20 years ago!  She still enjoys creating and exploring new arts.  It's her RL hobby!  Now a days with the help of her computer and various software programs, she creates other kinds of art too...including fractals, photoimpressions, and more.

Enkaustik-wax painting is an old Egypt and Greek art that is over 3000 years old.  In the middle ages it was put aside for oil painting.  Today the art is revived with molten wax colors and electric heating tools.

Maria's enkaustik artwork will be showcased at the OZLAND Art Gallery for the month of February.  Visit this most unique exhibit and make sure you take home the special FREE gift that Maria has made.

ALEXANDRA MENSING's Kaleidoscopic Art - OZLAND Visiting Artist January 2010

ALEXANDRA MENSING's Interactive Kaleidoscope Lightworks Art Exhibit in OZLAND

Kaleidoscopes have always facinated Alexandra Mensing and she's been making them since her first day of building in SL. Although her RL home in New England showcases a small collection, in SL she's created hundreds. She loves the combination of randomness and fixed reflections and the balance of science of optics and the esoteric beauty of shifting colors.

Since that first day of building, in 2006, her "scopes" have gone from classic prim to sculpty, from simple scripting, to orchestrating various movements of the textures and the prims randomly. Try touching them to see how they interact with you.

Textures are a big part of her scopes. She finds inspiration in RL and SL from telescope imagery and microscopy to fine art from the masters... she's even used coastlines from the google earth maps, for each kaleidoscope has between 12 to 50 different textures in them!

Alexandra will debut a whole NEW collection of Kaleidoscopes for the month of January at the OZLAND Art Gallery... and she's made a special gift for everyone who visits.