Emerging Artists

Art collectors interested in learning about today’s top emerging artists can find everything they need right here. These hot, new emerging artists encompass a wide variety of styles and genres, including plein-air painting, landscapes, still lifes, wildlife, western paintings, and more. Many of these emerging contemporary artists have won awards in highly respected art competitions. You’ll also learn about the many galleries for emerging artists—a great source for purchasing artworks by these rising stars.

Aruna Rao, Foothills of Westcliffe, oil, 18 x 24.

Emerging Artists | Aruna Rao

Landscape artist Aruna Rao enjoys portraying natural and man-made components together in the landscape, often turning to the rural pastures and quaint mountain towns near her home that reveal signs of human life, sometimes subtle, sometimes bold.
Anton Nowels, Morning Still Life, oil, 18 x 24.

Emerging Artists | Anton Nowels

Anton Nowel's outdoor still-life paintings are not an homage to his subjects so much as a vibrant tribute to the dynamic color relationships they display beneath the Copper State’s brilliant sunshine.
Aron Belka, Louisiana Fairy Tale, oil, 24 x 24.

Emerging Artists | Aron Belka

New Orleans artist Aron Belka has portrayed everything from racehorses and their jockeys to shrimpers and their workboats, and some of these oil paintings measure more than 7 feet tall.
Kathryn Alexander, Velvet Eyes, oil/acrylic, 48 x 22.

Emerging Artists | Kathryn Alexander

A dash of fiery red here, a stroke of cerulean blue there: In a signature painting by Kathryn Alexander, it’s nearly impossible not to feel a burst of energy as you soak in the bright, jewellike colors that fill her canvas.
Joshua A. Martin, Rabbit in the Woods, oil, 10 x 8.

Emerging Artists | Joshua A. Martin

In his lifelike representations of critters both big and small, Joshua A. Martin enjoys intensifying color and creating texture on his canvas. These painterly effects help amplify the details he meticulously captures in everything from a turtle’s ribbed shell to a lizard’s leathery scales.
Lisa Taylor, Slices, oil, 6 x 6.

Emerging Artists | Lisa Taylor

Tennessee artist Lisa Taylor paints it all: Among her diverse oeuvre of oil paintings, you’ll find portrayals of landscapes, still lifes, figures, and animals, including her two cats, Jaxx and Jed, and other felines, too.