Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 7th Annual “Patterns, Textures & Forms” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s October 2023 online group exhibition.
The gallery encourages artists (including photography & digital arts) regardless of where they reside to apply to this competition by submitting their best interpretation of the “Patterns, Textures & Forms” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of September 26, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Patterns, Textures & Forms” 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of next month (August 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $10.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $20.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D & 3D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of the top twelve finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of October 2023. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | June 26, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | August 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | September 26, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | October 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | October 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | October 31, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 7th Annual “Patterns, Textures & Forms” Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000+ page impressions per month, 280,000+ website visitors per month and has 30,000+ newsletter subscribers.
Winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000+ page views per month, 35,000+ monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. In addition, there will be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital award certificate, digital award ribbon, digital event postcard, and press releases for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best “Patterns, Textures & Forms” representative and/or abstract before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Elizabeth Darlington has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Elizabeth is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom. Elizabeth was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 25th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Elizabeth’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Elizabeth’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Elizabeth Darlington grew up in a rural environment where clear night skies prompted her fascination in space. Her natural inquisitiveness grew to explore how all things in the Universe are connected. The natural world was also a significant part of her development; her appreciation of this was an important part of her life.
As a teenager, Salvador Dali was her favourite artist, but studying the Great Masters at A Level and for her Degree, she became particularly interested in the hidden symbology and use of geometry by Leonardo da Vinci. Another significant influence was Turner and his revolutionary use of light.
Elizabeth rarely paints in full light, preferring to lead the viewer from the shadows into the work where the focal point is illuminated. Since early childhood, Elizabeth has experienced ‘visions’. These experiences have imprinted her mind with extraordinary colours, feelings and energy.
In 2014, she opened her own gallery, but after just 12 months, she had to close the doors to overcome cancer. Elizabeth has had near-death-experiences several times during her life. One time was during childbirth, when both she and her daughter nearly died. The most recent was in August 2021, when she suffered severe Covid complications, pneumonia and sepsis. During her time in ICU, she experienced many powerful visions assisting with her healing. She has endeavoured to portray these in her artwork since her remarkable recovery.
Each picture is providing the connectivity with nature, each other, and the wider Universe. Over the years, I have experimented with a variety of media including soft pastels, oil pastels, acrylic paints and inks, oils, encaustic wax, poured acrylic medium and texture gels. One of my favourite materials to work with is gold leaf – this is representative that all gold found on Earth (and in her paintings) was once an exploded star, billions of years ago.
I’ve developed my own painting medium by combining acrylic inks with other acrylic based substances, enabling her to vary the viscosity and texture. Words – which I believe have energy - are very much an inherent part of my creations. Many paintings start with words embedded onto the canvas, before I start painting over them. These words are symbolic and emotive. They are never seen as part of the finished work, but their energy becomes part of the work as they are the intentions and emotions felt during the initial creative process.
Each painting is intended to prompt an emotional feeling in the viewer, according to their own mental/emotional state. They are designed to remind the viewer of forgotten aspects of themselves, and open doors in their minds to everything that they need, right there within themselves.
Elizabeth’s art can be found on her website.
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“Blue Nebula No 1”
“The Path of Unexpected Pleasures No 1”
“Enlightenment”
“Heaven No 1”
“Passage Through the Veil”
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition for the month of October 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s November 2023 online group exhibition.
There is No Theme for this art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of October 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Open” (No Theme) 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition (10th of the month) until the 1st day of next month (October 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $12.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | August 28, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | October 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | November 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | November 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | November 30, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000+ page impressions per month, 280,000+ website visitors per month and has 30,000+ newsletter subscribers. Winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000+ page views per month, 35,000+ monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. There will be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital award certificate, digital award ribbon, digital event postcard, and press releases for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best representative and abstract art (Any Subject Matter) before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 13th Annual “Nature” Online Art Competition for the month of November 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s December 2023 online group exhibition.
The “Nature” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of nature art. Nature subjects include geographical subjects, landscapes, natural objects, wildlife and natural environments.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of November 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Nature” 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of next month (October 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $12.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | September 14, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | November 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | December 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | December 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | December 31, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Nature” Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000-page impressions per month, 280,000 website visitors per month and has 30,000 newsletter subscribers. Winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000 page views per month, 35,000 monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will also be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. In addition, there will also be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital Award Certificate, digital Award Ribbon, digital Event Postcard, and Press Release for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best representative and/or abstract art before the deadline.
The Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce the winning artists of the gallery’s recent 25th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition.
The “Solo Art Series” competition closed on September 5, 2023. 12 artists were selected as finalists. From that selection, 4 artists were chosen to receive individual month-long solo art exhibitions. The remaining 8 artists were awarded Artist Showcase features.
The Solo Art Series took place within an extremely competitive atmosphere. The task of selecting only four top winning artists from the 69 artists who entered was extremely challenging. The high quality of submissions made creating the final rankings extraordinarily difficult.
The competitive process considered not only the quality and depth of the artist’s work but also the overall entry presentation, including the artist’s biography and artist’s statement. The following are the 4 winning Solo Series Artists and the schedule of their solo art exhibitions.
| Adam Strange | September 15, 2023 to October 14, 2023 | |
| Xiong Yanteng | October 15, 2023, to November 14, 2023 | |
| Nic Tibo | November 15, 2023, to December 14, 2023 | |
| Robert Bolla | December 15, 2023, to January 14, 2024 |
As part of the selection process, the other 8 artists who were in the top 12 have been awarded an Artist Showcase feature. The artists who were selected for the Artist Showcase features (with one Artist Showcase being be posted every 2 weeks beginning on September 15th are:
| Elizabeth Darlington | September 15, 2023 to September 30, 2023 | |
| Brian Binder | October 1, 2023 to October 14, 2023 | |
| Gwynneth Green | October 15, 2023 to October 30, 2023 | |
| Gabiko IoMo | November 1, 2023 to November 14, 2023 | |
| Xie Zheng Xian ASen | November 15, 2023 to November 30, 2023 | |
| Tom Mulqueen | December 1, 2023 to December 14, 2023 | |
| Bob Whitcomb | December 15, 2023 to December 31, 2023 | |
| Jai Keller | January 1, 2024 to January 14, 2024 |
Out of the 69 artists who submitted to this Solo Art Series art competition, 23 were eliminated due to deficiencies in their Biography, Artist’s Statement or with their art. From the 46 artists who were left, 21 artists were then selected as finalists. 12 artists were selected from the 21 final artists and any of the finalists could have been included in the final 12.
For each solo art exhibition, the gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to hundreds of major News Outlets, art news websites and social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
Each of the 8 Artist Showcase feature artists will also be promoted to hundreds of major News Outlets, art news websites and social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
Winning artists will have their solo art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtWeek. Artweek produces 800,000-page impressions per month, 280,000 website visitors per month and has 30,000 newsletter subscribers.
Winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000 page views per month, 35,000 monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning solo artists receive a YouTube Video presentation of their Body of Work, Event Postcard and a Press Release for their art portfolio. There will also be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package.
Here is a link to the gallery's Solo Art Series Archives. The gallery’s next Solo Art Series competition will open for entries in November 2023.
Thank you for everyone's participation and interest in our Solo Art Series and congratulations to the winners.
The gallery’s exhibition for September 2023 is the 13th Annual “Landscapes” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Landscapes” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 546 entries from 29 different countries from around the world, as well as from 32 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into two media categories - Painting & Other Media and Photography & Digital categories. Due to a limited number of 3 Dimensional entries, these artworks have been included in the Painting & Other Media category. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Landscapes” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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