Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 17th Annual “Botanicals” 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 January 2027 online group exhibition.
The gallery invites artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best botanical and/or floral art. Botanical subjects will include flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related botanical and floral subjects.
Artists should submit their representational and/or abstract best work in any media before the deadline of December 28, 2026.
Here is a link to the “Botanicals” 2026 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.
| Art Competition Opens | September 6, 2026 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2026 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | December 28, 2026 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | January 01, 2027 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | January 01, 2027 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | January 31, 2027 |
Artists provide us with your best representative and/or abstract botanical and floral art before the deadline.
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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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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Brian Hallas has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Brian Hallas is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in New Jersey, USA. He was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 29th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his artwork to be showcased in this feature.
His Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Brian’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of his abstract digital floral photographs that were submitted to this competition.
Brian Hallas is a dynamic and multifaceted artist from Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey, celebrated for his innovative approach to abstract digital photography. His work, primarily crafted using an iPhone, stands out for its vivid use of color, texture, and surreal content. By manipulating images through various apps and blending techniques, Brian creates striking, painterly abstractions that immerse viewers in otherworldly gardens and dreamlike scenes. His daily practice of creating and sharing these works is deeply rooted in a response to the chaos of modern life, offering a moment of sensory immersion and escape.
Brian draws inspiration from nature, particularly through his work as a gardener at a local nursery. This connection to the natural world seamlessly blends with his digital artistry, allowing him to continue evolving his visual style and creating works that speak to a wide audience. Through his photography, Brian Hallas weaves together technology and nature into a tactile visual tapestry, leaving a lasting impact on viewers worldwide.
As an abstract digital photographer, I create hallucinatory gardens and landscapes of the imagination - a realm of intense colors, shapes, and textures. I work exclusively with my iPhone to explore what surprises that apps, layering, and blending give me. To this end, my inspiration is the natural world of my surroundings, and I continue to evolve my visual style by weaving together technology and nature into a tapestry of sensory exploration.
My improvisations often result in painterly abstract images that give viewers a tactile visual experience. I like to entice viewers on an adventure to see the unseen, finding perspectives we don’t normally observe without wearing a very different set of lenses.
My tastes are stimulated by an eclectic spectrum of artists from every art form, era, and genre whose spirits never fail to encourage my creativity. At nearly 72 years old, I have turned to photography as my primary means of creativity, after a long, rich life collaborating in film, music, and particularly the theater, as a sound designer in NYC. I’m an Outsider and a Late Bloomer, and shaping and sharing these abstract photographs is my response to the chaos of modern life, offering both my viewers and I moments of sublime immersion and escape.
To learn more about Brian Hallas and to see more of his art, please visit his website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Nathan Wilson has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Nathan will now have a month-long solo art exhibition and he will be featured on the gallery’s front page, in the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archives.
Nathan Wilson is an award-winning artist based Iowa City, IA, USA. He will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the Gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to over 550+ major News Outlets, including Premium FOX, CBS, and NBC Affiliated Sites, with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
In addition, as part of his award package, Nathan will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, which resulted in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Nathan’s Artist Biography, his Artist Statement, along with 16 of his paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read Nathan’s information and to take a look at his beautiful artworks.
Born in the summer of 1980 in Iowa City, IA, Nathan has been interested in art his entire life. His earliest memories are of laying on his bedroom floor drawing pictures of people, nature, and copying pictures from magazines. He is blessed to maintain his childhood sense of awe and wonder when creating and experiencing art he loves.
Through studying 17th and 18th century oil painting techniques Nathan has developed the process of beginning all of his paintings with rough graphite drawings to establish scale and perspective. He then proceeds with multiple under-paintings of umber and grey tones, then finally complete the work with many thin glazes of color.
In 2011, Nathan graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in painting and drawing. Upon graduating he worked in Austin, TX and NYC managing print shops until he moved back to Iowa City to dedicate himself to painting full time. He finds inspiration in everyday people and situations, attempting to see the sublime in the mundane. Art is a way to find inspiration and to drive towards something higher than the self to access the pure bliss that lies behind prosaic surfaces. He hopes his art work offers the viewer a glimpse of that bliss.
I create my paintings as a meditation on being and non-being. I am interested in the thin grey area between diametrically opposed positions, thoughts or behaviors, the more these two objects differ, the more similar they become. Painting is a practice that opens up a space to interrogate this transcendent grey are. My primary materials are pigments, linseed oil, damar varnish, turpentine, sable brushes, a glass palette, cotton duck canvas, etc. Josef Albers' book on color theory, as well as, The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, a reference book by Ralph Mayer, became my bibles in college and I continue to use them as my fondest wells of knowledge.
Nathan’s work can be viewed on his website.
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The gallery’s competition for December 2023 was the 13th Annual “Botanicals” Online Art Competition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s January 2023 online group art exhibition.
Artists were asked for their interpretation of the “Botanicals” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. The submission process and competition for the artists began in September 2022 and concluded on December 27, 2022.
The gallery received 655 entries from 21 different countries from around the world, as well as from 40 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional categories. 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 and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Botanicals” 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.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Please go to the results of the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 20 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 20 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Top 4 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the 3 Dimensional artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “3 Dimensional Art Category” here.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Judith M Orcutt 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.
Judy is an award-winning artist based in Savannah, Georgia, USA. Judy was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 22nd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Judy’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to over 350+ 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 Judy’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
Judy Orcutt is a photographer from York, Pennsylvania. It is a lovely scenic area surrounded by Pennsylvania Dutch influence and rural beauty. She is a mainly self-taught artist. She has had art experience in calligraphy, pressed flower art, encaustics, and cold wax art. Her photography experience has been in the studio and with landscape work. Her delight is in photographing flowers and she has specialized in scanography which is what she is submitting here.
The flatbed scanner gives high resolution detail and consistent light and depth of field and shows great detail. It almost creates a 3D look. She finds this to be dramatic and enticing. She combines different botanicals and when the image is completed, there is an intense period of cleaning it up in PhotoShop as there is much debris. Her work is currently hanging in the Penn State Medical Health Hospital in Lancaster, Pa. Her work is also in many private collections. She now lives in Savannah, Georgia where coastal photography is calling her.
All of her art comes from the heart. She is a 25-year breast cancer survivor!!
Artist Statement
I fell in love with plants and botany when I studied them in Pharmacy School. The intricacies in design and the beautiful colors and the interactions with insects have fascinated me. Of course, the sheer beauty; and the gift we have been given fills my heart. I want to capture that to the best of my abilities. I have found that scanography (using the flatbed scanner as if it were my camera) is the best tool for me to accomplish this. The depth of field is shallow and that gives exquisite detail. It is almost as if the flower were in 3 dimensions. I hope you love my flowers as much as I do!
Judy’s website is www.quilligraphy.com.
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The gallery’s competition for March 2022 was the 12th Annual “Botanicals” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D, artists, (including photography & digital art) from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s April 2022 online group art exhibition.
Artists were asked for their interpretation of the “Botanicals” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art for this competition. The submission process and competition for the artists began in February 2022 and concluded on March 27, 2022.
The gallery received 784 entries from 22 different countries from around the world, as well as from 33 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories. Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Art categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the ten (10) 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 for the month of April 2022. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 12th Annual “Botanicals” 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.
Overall Top 10 Winning Artists & Artworks
Please go to the results of the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 15 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 15 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Top 5 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks
To see all the 3 Dimensional artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “3 Dimensional Art Category” here.
Special Merit Award Category
These are the artists and their artwork which we felt could easily have been placed higher but due to the size constraints in each media category, this art was placed in this special category. Any of the Special Merit art, in many cases, is interchangeable with the best art that we selected for the top tiers. To view these artists and artwork, please go to the results in the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Special Merit Award Category” here.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that BeeHoon Lim 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.
BeeHoon is an award-winning artist based in Malaysia. BeeHoon was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 19th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
BeeHoon’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to over 350+ 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 BeeHoon’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
BeeHoon Lim is a self-taught artist, retired teacher, mother and grandmother with a history of passion for art. Denied of the opportunity to pursue this love due to finances, work career, marriage and caring for her children, she finally got time upon retirement to indulge in this passion. Now she devotes her time creating works of art and craft. It is never too late to achieve one's dream. She wants to inspire and share with all her genuine works of art.
Artist Statement
A significant feature in my paintings is FLOW. I love to demonstrate a FLOW in everything I draw. Each flow tells a story. Drawn with intention, each smooth and graceful twist and turn leads to a certain direction. This is to tell the viewers that the flow that we choose to follow always ends with a mission. Either we achieve the aim we want or we let it continue until it meets its fate. I compare this flow in my paintings to our journey through Life. Life ahead is unpredictable, a mystery and when one sails through, one meets challenges. We have the option to maneuver our way through and let it flow in a positive direction. Adding flow to my paintings give a softening effect to whatever I draw, erasing the harsh lines and edges. When my paintings are hung on the wall, it never fails to soften the hard walls behind bringing forth a calm and soothing effect to the area.
BeeHoon can be reached via her Email.
