Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Sharon DeLuccie Pogar 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.
Sharon is an award-winning artist based in Florida, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 33rd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her work to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. 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 Sharon’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 acrylic on canvas paintings submitted to this competition.
Sharon DeLuccie Pogar is a contemporary artist whose work is hard to ignore. Bold color, geometric composition, and expressive, stylized forms define her visual world, one that sits comfortably between abstraction and figuration, exploring emotion, identity, and storytelling through fragmented human and animal imagery.
It all started in childhood, when a summer art school enrollment lit a creative spark that never went out. Over the years, Sharon developed an approach that feels entirely her own: precise yet spontaneous, structured yet free. At the heart of it is a belief she holds firmly: in abstract art, there are no mistakes, only evolution. That mindset gives her work its energy, its sense of discovery, and its strong design instincts.
Her paintings move across a wide range of territory. Multi-perspective faces, symbolic animal forms, and whimsical characters are all fair game for Sharon, who shifts freely between themes of transformation and duality and moments of pure playfulness. What ties it together is her fearless command of color. Bright, contrasting hues do more than decorate; they create movement, set a rhythm, and carry an emotional charge that hits before the viewer even has time to analyze it.
For Sharon, art has never been just about what's on the canvas. She sees creativity as something genuinely connective, a language that transcends barriers and has real power to heal and inspire. That conviction shapes her broader vision of bringing art into the lives of underserved communities and individuals with special needs, where expression and empowerment go hand in hand.
She keeps painting, keeps pushing, and keeps growing. Sharon's work remains vibrant, personal, and alive, an open invitation into a world where color, form, and emotion tell stories that are as universal as they are her own.
My work explores emotion, identity, and storytelling through bold color, geometric pattern, and stylized form. I'm drawn to the space between abstraction and figuration, where recognizable subjects begin to fragment and shift into something more expressive. By breaking down human and animal forms into structured shapes, I build layered compositions that hold multiple perspectives at once.
Color is central to everything I do. Vibrant, saturated hues communicate feeling as much as they create visual impact, forming a language that invites emotional response over analysis. Contrast, balance, and repetition guide the eye while generating tension and movement throughout each piece.
My process lives between intention and intuition. I care about composition and structure, but I leave room for spontaneity, rooted in my belief that in abstract art, there are no mistakes, only evolution. That freedom allows each piece to develop naturally, through a dialogue between control and release.
My imagery ranges from fragmented faces and stylized animals to narrative-driven scenes, moving between deeper themes of transformation and duality and moments of pure whimsy. My artistic journey began in childhood at summer art school, a spark that never left me and continues to shape how I work and why.
At its core, my art is about connection: between color and form, artist and viewer, emotion and expression. I want my paintings to make people pause, feel, and find something personal in what they see. Through geometry, color, and intuition, I strive to create work that is both visually alive and genuinely meaningful.
To learn more about Sharon and to see more of her artwork, she can be reached via Email.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Connie Rogers 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.
Connie is an award-winning artist based in Florida, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 32nd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her work to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. 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 Connie’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her mixed media artworks that include photography with oil painting, acrylic painting & digital painting submitted to this competition.
Connie Rogers is a self-taught photographer and acrylic artist whose work centers on translating atmosphere and motion into visually immersive imagery. Her art reflects a deep attentiveness to light, shadows and land capturing moments that feel both fleeting and timeless. Through her work, Rogers transforms natural and everyday scenes into expressive visual stories that invite extended viewing and contemplation.
Much of Rogers’ imagery originates from her travels and time spent in Colorado, NY, Georgia, California, and the Mediterranean region of France. These locations provide varied terrain, climate, and tonal character, all of which influence her creative direction. Rather than staging scenes, mostly, she responds intuitively to her surroundings—observing shifts in light, subtle movement in water or foliage, and the quiet tension between stillness and motion. These observations guide how each image is framed and later developed.
Her creative process often begins with photography, which conveys mood through balance, scale, and natural contrast. She then refines her imagery using digital processes that deepen tonal range, enhance spatial presence, and strengthen visual impact while maintaining the integrity of the original scene.
Recently, Rogers has expanded her practice by incorporating acrylic paint over photo prints on paper. This layered approach introduces texture, color, and movement, allowing her to reinterpret the image while preserving its foundation.
A blending of mediums creates work that exists between realism and mood. This stems from her painting by numbers as a child, dedicating cherry reds where yellows were indicated, a more favored flavor.
With the flow of water, the direction of wind, or the rhythm of clouds, she adds a sense of drama. Each piece evolves slowly, shaped by multiple stages of refinement and artistic response rather than a fixed endpoint. Most times beckoning hours of concentration.
Rogers’ completed works are designed to feel inviting and immersive, encouraging viewers to slow down and engage with the image on a deeper level. Rogers is Influenced by the dramatic tonal depth of Ansel Adams and the expressive waterscapes found in Wyland’s work, as she continues to explore how imagery can convey presence, movement, reflection, curiosity, and an enduring appreciation for the outdoors. Her happy place, indeed.
I am a self-taught recognized and award-winning photographer whose creative practice has developed through years of dedicated observation, experimentation, and personal exploration. My work emerges from an ongoing dialogue between environment and emotion, where visual experience becomes a means of translating what I see into form. Each finished piece represents an internal resolution reached through sustained engagement.
Landscape and waterscape subjects dominate my portfolio, shaped by a preference for motion, openness, and unrestrained expression. I am drawn to scenes that suggest momentum rather than stillness, where wind, water, light, or terrain appear unstable. (i.e. a bird lands in a tree and in a split second, disappears, OR avalanche control, using dynamite, can change the mountain terrain) These environments offer endless variation, allowing imagination to evolve without confinement or repetition. I respond intuitively, and impulsively to guide framing, perspective, and eventual interpretation.
For this showcase, I present work spanning multiple materials and methods, unified by a focus on the natural world. While my imagery originates in what lies before me, the final result extends beyond me. Color becomes my universal language. Undertones reflect my inner response. The scene transforms according to the feeling present at that precise instant, resulting in imagery shaped as much by perception as by location.
Here, my intention remains consistent: to create work that honors harmony, visual balance, and a sense of quiet connection. Whether applying paint or capturing a fleeting instant through a lens in the Rocky Mountains, or the Pacific Ocean, I work from the conviction that solitude outdoors carries profound meaning. Being immersed within open spaces offers me clarity unavailable elsewhere, shaping both subject matter and my artistic direction.
My hope remains simple yet enduring—to encourage viewers toward deeper awareness, inviting recognition of the remarkable presence surrounding them daily. Art, for me, serves as an invitation to slow down, speed up, or change perception, to reconsider familiar surroundings, and rediscover beauty already waiting in plain sight.
To learn more about Connie and to see more of her photography, she can be reached via her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Linda McCord 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.
Linda is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in Longview, Washington, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 30th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. 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 Linda’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her abstract paintings submitted to this competition.
McCord, a self-taught artist, has produced a new body of abstract acrylic art by experimenting with paint formulas to create unusual cells, lacing, textures and sensual colors. The scientific process and new discoveries are what makes her work stand out.
McCord is best known for figurative paintings in watercolor and acrylic. Of her abstracts she says, “The compositional concepts and color theory work the same way regardless of subject matter. What’s different and so addictive is the freedom creating abstract art gives me.” She was a gallery owner for 10 years, and taught painting and printmaking at her local college.
She has taken international awards too numerous to list including the prestigious MiKiHASi Memories Gold Award, an exhibit for her watercolor series, In the 90's. Her art is in private and corporate collections throughout the world.
She is a signature member of ISAP, NWWS, GWS, and CWA. About her work she says, “I design my work around mathematical concepts rather than emotion.”
Making the switch from realism to abstraction has opened an entire new world for me. To be able to create entirely from my inner creative mind rather than relying on props has been such an expressive high, and the adrenaline flow keeps it exciting. Programmed from many years of doing art is color theory, composition, rhythm, and those elements have not changed in my work.
My most recent work is about the thrill of experimenting with acrylic formulas to create the lively movement of bubbles, cells, and carbonation. I like taking risks and looking for new combinations of paint formulas I have never done before. I have discovered acrylic formulas to create even larger more luminous cells, lacing and bubbles and sensual colors. What I love about abstract painting is the freedom it gives me. I often ask, what if I try this? Or maybe if I…
To learn more about Linda and to see more of her art, please visit her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Irina B. 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.
Irina B. is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning Ukrainian born artist currently based in Naples, Florida, USA.
She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 29th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. 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 Irina’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her Ode to Nature series of botanicals paintings that were submitted to this competition.
Irina B. is a Ukrainian-born artist whose journey is defined by resilience and transformation. Born in 1984, Irina discovered her passion for painting early. After her father’s untimely passing, she began working to support her family at just 13. Despite these challenges, art became her solace, fueling her strength during difficult times.
For over 20 years, Irina worked in the legal field, gaining a multidimensional perspective that taught her to observe the world through both broad and detailed lenses. A self-taught artist, she trained under Ukrainian painter Mykola Tarpan for seven years, building a strong technical foundation. After moving to the U.S. in 2023, she furthered her artistic education under artist and educator Gabbie Hirsch.
Irina’s early work focused on watercolor, a medium she mastered over a decade to capture light, texture, and fluidity. She later explored oil painting before transitioning to acrylics, whose fast-drying versatility opened new creative possibilities.
In 2024, after relocating to Naples, Irina debuted Ode to Nature, a series of six 36x36-inch acrylic paintings reflecting her deep connection to the natural world. This series marked the start of her professional career, showcasing vibrant colors, dynamic compositions, and an understanding of form.
Today, Irina’s work continues to evolve, exploring the interplay of emotion, nature, and technique. Her art invites viewers into a world where color and form resonate with the soul.
Ode to Nature is a heartfelt tribute to the wisdom, beauty, and harmony of the natural world. This series of six 36x36-inch acrylic paintings celebrates nature’s complexity, diversity, and unity. Inspired by nature’s versatility—from its wild chaos to its exquisite balance, the works delve into the truths of the natural world and the mysteries of the human inner self.
Through vivid colors and organic forms, the series seeks to evoke awe and inspire a deeper connection to the environment. The main goal of this art is to foster unity between people and nature, encouraging conscious development and a renewed commitment to preserving the planet’s fragile beauty.
To learn more about Irina B. and to see more of her art, she can be reached via Email.
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