Outside art magazine issue zero
Issue One Selected Artists
B. Lucy Stevens – Providence, RI Instagram B. Lucy Stevens is an internationally recognized, self-taught artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lucy paints intuitively, her work is vibrant and expressionistic, daily life imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern. She is inspired by primitive and outsider art and her far-flung travels, from South America, to Indonesia to the…
I’m Amy O’Hearn, a New Orleans artist who works from home. Art has saved my soul. For years, I felt I had no inspiration, I was restrained by a rigid job and completely drained every day. Until I started painting. Through a meditative and intuitive approach, I have ignited my passion and unleashed my creativity. I thrive on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before I start to paint, I clear my mind and let the colors and the brush take me away. I find it very fulfilling when other people interpret my art, noticing things I haven’t. When possible, I like to name my paintings after the visions others see.
Kathy S. Copsey is a self-taught artist and has been a serious artist since the age of 8 years old. Her focus is on pencil and digital drawings and acrylic and oil paintings, but she works with other mediums as well including computer graphics and minor video editing and production. Kathy’s purpose as an artist is to share, convey, and recreate the love and passion that she feels in whatever the subject matter is that she is working with. Through the creation of art, one is able to explore one’s passions, perhaps creating inspiration and the drive within others to strive for their own goals.
I paint because I must. I paint for the memory of my daughter who loved animals.