I am the owner and artist of Asheville Horizon Metal Creations. I have been working with metal for over 13 years. Having been born into a family of artists, my creative spirit was encouraged from an early age. I have experimented with many types of media but enjoy working with metal the most. With the New Horizon collection, I use mixed media to create an innovative and totally new look. These pieces resemble stained or fused glass with their vibrant colors and translucence. However, unlike stained glass, New Horizon artwork is much more durable and a greater level of detail can be achieved. I first cut images from sheet steel and detail them using a variety of tools. Heat is often applied to bring out the natural blue, tan, pink and purple colors. Each color is achieved by different temperatures of heat. Perfecting this technique is very difficult. Once the steel images are finished I make a frame and weld them into place. Then I use thin handmade paper from different countries to create a background. I tear small pieces and layer them in a mosaic style. The resin I use is a polymer based product. It is mixed and poured in thin layers. Each layer takes one to two days to set. With after each pour I usually add more paper to create dimension. The resin naturally produces a high gloss finish that shines like glass. Resin is very durable and great for high traffic areas. With the added structure of the steel this type of art is perfect for interior doors, privacy screens and windows, tables, and much more.

I came up with this process after years of experimenting with different art materials. I enjoy using materials is ways they weren't intended to be used. Often this ends in disaster but in this case I love the results and with every piece I make I learn more about what to do or not do with the next one. I receive inspiration from the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville NC surrounding my studio. I enjoy using nature as subject matter in one of a kind pieces but I am also comfortable making abstract elements to enhance existing decor.

Custom pieces are a joy to make when the clients set color, style, and motif parameters. I gladly custom create one of a kind works of art for the home, office, indoor and outdoor spaces.

Ana Bikic has been painting reefs for many years, committed to bring awareness to the public through expressing the beauty and treasures we are losing on a daily basis. She believes artists have a moral responsibility to inspire and encourage others to be protagonists for our natural wonders.

Ana Bikic was given the Golden Dolphin Award for 2009 by the international divers X-Ray Magazine, she lives in South Florida and exhibits locally and internationally. Her reef paintings are included in Governor Bush’s private collection and in her country of origin, Argentina.

Apollo is one of the World's Leading Environmental Artists. Apollo started painting dolphins and whales when he first moved to Maui in 1980. Since that time, he has developed a worldwide following and has had the privilege to work with several environmental groups and zoos to raise both funding and awareness. Apollo's images of dolphins and whales have been used for promotions and products for Fortune 500 Companies such as McDonald's (phone cards), Pacific Life Mutual (Annual Report), Hilton Corp (Dolphin Days), Crabtree Publishing (books on whales and dolphins), the Miami Dolphins (30th Anniversary 1972 Super Bowl Champs 17-0), AT&T plus more!

Apollo is best known for his Marine Life, Endangered Species, Endangered Habitat and Tropical Art. He combines the style of realism with a touch of animation. Apollo captures the essence of spirit in his subjects and reveals their beauty on canvas.

Barbara and Larry Domsky have collaborated in business and life since their first meeting in 1990. Each coming from their own diverse artistic background, they blended their talents and experience as professional artists to form Domsky Glass. Experimenting with many techniques in glass working, they are self taught in the medium of hot-glass and fusion. Together they have developed innovative techniques and a diverse style of glass making for which they have become well known. Their signature sculpture is collected throughout the Untied States and internationally.

Within the Domsky’s 5,000 square foot studio in Las Vegas, are three fully-equipped studios; two devoted to the creation of glass works (hot-glass and glass fusion) and the other dedicated to artistic metal fabrication.

“Our approach with each commission and each client is always custom tailored to their needs. We consider and respect the space, lighting, budget, environment, style and audience of each job we design and create for. Our commitment to our clients begins with the first meeting and continues throughout the design, fabrication and installation process, and as needed thereafter. It is this respect to our clients and our craft that has allowed us to pursue our passion for creating and succeed as professional artists”.

The Domsky’s careers have included both large scale installations and gallery collections. Their fine art glass and artistic metal work is commissioned by private residences and corporations throughout America and Internationally. Collections are located in New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Africa, India, Australia, Mexico, Taiwan, and throughout the United States.

Carlos Hiller, 37, is an artist dedicated to creating paintings of magnificent underwater seascapes.  He has travelled extensively throughout Latin America, finally settling down in Costa Rica, where he has been able to specialize in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and the animals that reside there. His art has quickly attracted collectors' attention due to his laboriously exquisite technique, which he studied from ancient masters through personal research and added the benefits of new modern materials. His art is periodically exhibited in Europe, North America and Latin America. He has decorated luxury boats and exclusive high-end residences with both murals and paintings. He has been commissioned by Middle East countries, been published in several books and magazines, and has created several magazine covers. But what really fulfills him is the possibility that, through his art, he is helping to educate and raise awareness about environmental issues affecting our oceans.  He does this by creating public murals and art auctions for environmental campaigns and promoting art in both the local community and abroad. Carlos Hiller lives in Costa Rica, near the ocean.

I am an Australian artist and journalist, living in London. I specialize in painting and writing about the natural world. I grew up in Sydney, Australia where I was fascinated by the tropical fish that swam down to Sydney harbour from tropical Queensland before Christmas every year; the purple neons were my favourite fish. I also love the carpet sharks-the wobegongs that hide in the rocks.

Jerry Venditti is best known for his Southwestern art; locally inspired commissioned works are to be seen in wine tasting rooms, such as the Kendal Jackson Hospitality Center, and in numerous corporate and private collections. Jerry Venditti is represented by Heritage Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and Mountain Trails Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming. Jerry is an award winning Signature Member of Artists for Conservation.

My current painting project is “Liza’s Reef”, a ten-year series of paintings of an imaginary coral reef that began in 2005. My work is a fusion of realism and fantasy, and my focus as an artist is to use my art to help protect endangered oceanic habitats, especially coral reefs from further destruction, and to raise awareness of the environmental issues facing us all. My paintings are all acrylic on canvas, finished with Soluvar varnish, and are done in two stages, the first is horizontal work with the canvas laid flat, using diluted, highly viscous paint and then vertically with the painting on an easel where more detail and figurative work is added. I name each piece only after it is finished. My work is in hundreds of private and corporate collections.

I’ve been using a camera almost my whole life to capture what I think are either nature’s best side or worst side. Trained by my father at the age of 8, I still use some of his cameras whilst I shoot. I relocated to the west coast in 2005 and got certified to dive 3 months later, advanced certified 2 months after that, and scuba master certified a year later. I began shooting underwater almost immediately with a 3.1 mp camera and slowly graduated to using my DSLR under the sea.

Over the past 4 years I’ve been published in the Underwater Photo Magazine based out of England 4 times, and reviewed equipment for Akona. I’ve placed in the top 4 positions of DigiDiver.net’s weekly international theme of the week contest 5 times and have had images selected to be used in the 2010 National Wildlife Federation’s Calendar. Most recently I had an image used in a presentation to Congress for IFAW’s Tails For Whales campaign. I can be seen shooting pro bono for events at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Paul Harrison Hunt is a fine artist, open water swimmer and scuba diver who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Southern California and in the Pacific Northwest. He studied Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Hunter College of New York. Subsequent to his education at SAIC, he attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Black Hawk Landscape Painting and New York Studio Residency Program. He worked as a professional scenic painter for Equitable Production Group in New York City for 7 years. He received grants from Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Asarco Corporation and TRIARC Corporation. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Seattle, Chicago, Boston and New York City. His hobbies include long distance open water swimming, and teaching others how to swim.

Szilvia Gogh is a Renaissance Woman. She has so many talents, and she has achieved so many things that most people do not do in a lifetime. She travels the world making a living from her passions: scuba diving and creating one of a kind jewelry inspired by her experiences along the way.

Gogh was the youngest female in the world to become a PADI Course Director back in 2000. She has been teaching scuba diving for beginners to dive instructors for over a decade in Malta, UK, Thailand and now in California.

She works in front of the camera as an adventure show host as well as a Stunt Woman in blockbuster Hollywood movies and TV series. She provides Water Safety and trains talent to breath underwater when she works behind the scenes. One of her favorite jewelry pieces was inspired by her constant reminder to students: BREATHE. She has created several variations of this theme over the years.

Szilvia's mission in life is to find ordinary people and crack open their tiny view of the world. She does that as a scuba instructor as well as through her artfully created jewelry. By showing people what the underwater world has to offer she changes lives and gets the average Joan to visit the middle east, Philippines and other places they might not otherwise visit. Szilvia encourages everyone to challenge themselves with her "Do One Thing Every Day that Scares You" necklaces – go someplace where no one speaks English but everyone understands the universal language of diving and travel.

She started making jewelry in her late teens out of frustration due to the lack of silver accessories for the adventure hungry traveler.
Szilvia gets materials she uses to create the unique jewelry during her travels. She pairs silver with semi-precious stones, like garnet, turquoise and carnelian with reclaimed wood, sea shells and beach glass.

Actors, Actresses, TV Hosts like Holly Robinson Peete and Elizabeth Espinosa, and Fashionistas around the world rock our unique Gogh Jewelry Design pieces during this Summer's Red Carpet Events. The collection of bracelets, necklaces and earrings are crafted locally using metal smithing techniques she acquired from the prestigious Budapest Art Institute.

Shop her pieces at selected Lifestyle Stores, WholeFoods, Yoga Centers, Scuba Shops around the world, and even at the Fairmont Santa Monica.

Marine life artist Wyland has earned the distinction as one of America’s most unique creative influences and a leading advocate for marine resource conservation. An accomplished painter, sculptor, underwater explorer and educator, he has traveled the farthest reaches of the globe for more than twenty-five years, capturing the raw power and beauty of the aquatic universe.

He is perhaps best known for his monumental Whaling Wall mural project — an epic series of life-size marine life murals that spans fourteen countries on four continents and is viewed by an estimated 1 billion people every year. The artist’s efforts for conservation awareness, moreover, have been recognized by the United Nations, Sierra Club, Rotary International, the Underwater Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is listed among its Diving Hall of Fame, and private and public institutions throughout the world.

Hailed a "Marine Michelangelo" by USA Today, Wyland’s work is sought by millions of collectors and his equally successful Wyland Foundation, in partnership with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is actively engaged in teaching millions of students around the world to become caring, informed stewards of our oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands.

Internationally recognized as an official artist for the 2008 United States Olympic Team, he has been further honored in the Guinness Book of World Records, Who’s Who in American Art, the U.S Department of Commerce / NOAA’s 200th Anniversary Celebration, the Natural World Museum’s "Art In Action" Campaign, and many national and international publications. His final 100th Whaling Wall, a 24,000 square foot series of murals with student artists from 110 countries, was displayed in October 2008 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and honored by the National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The multi-faceted artist has hosted several television programs, including, "Wyland: A Brush With Giants" on the Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet Network and "Wyland’s Art Studio", a new series for public television. Today, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the 21st Century, with artwork in museums, corporate collections, and private homes in more than one hundred countries.