By day, Emilie Hempstead, CMI, is a Senior Medical Illustrator for Anatomical Justice, creating illustrations that offer clear visual solutions to complex medical subjects. By night, she is a multimedia fine artist exploring abstract impressionism, character design, jewelry, stained glass, and more. Emilie is a board certified professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators and graduated magna cum laude from the Rochester Institute of Technology Medical Illustration program. Read on to learn more about Emilie and her art. When did you know you were an artist? I think I was born an artist. For as long as I can …Read More

“I am an artist who has been in the Lehigh Valley for 40 years. I work in various media but I am primarily a painter. This collection of bugs reflects my interest in the natural world. They are made primarily from paper and glue which I will either paint or cover with metal leaf and often both.” Our latest ART@EPL art exhibit features two talented local artists whose paths intersected when Drew Tilton, a former U.S. Marine transitioning back to civilian life, decided to try out some ‘creative therapy’ by taking a class at The Baum School of Art — …Read More

I am intrigued with making meaning out of the unrelated and chaotic and turning personal experience into a mark, shape or gesture. The shapes and edges I draw are combined with abstract mark making to expand upon the arbitrary. Using pieces of torn paper as stencils, I create images that suggest an abstract puzzle whose pieces are overlapped and misplaced. The continuity in these images lays in the repeated shapes which are a metaphor for the chaotic or random event and our attempts to instill a kind of meaning to it or just create a design. This series of images …Read More

View David’s bio and artist’s statement [PDF]. See bottom for links to David’s shop and websites. When did you know you were an artist? I think I must have known something as a young child, but it got bludgeoned out of me by a very poor middle school art teacher. Five and a half years ago, I rediscovered my artist self when I began taking classes in the ArtsQuest Glass Studio. After a few months of classes, I took back the identity of artist that had been taken from me years before.  I spent most of my life identifying as …Read More

When did you know you were an artist? ELY knew he was an artist at 4 years old in Dublin, Ireland, while studying painting and drawing with Pauline Bewick at the National Gallery Saturday children’s art classes. ELY emigrated to Allentown from Dublin at age 5 with his single American mom and five siblings, escaping domestic violence and street bombings in autumn 1969. Why did you decide to pursue it as a career? For ELY, pursuing a career path in the arts was intuitive — at age 11, taking ceramics classes at Baum Art School in the basement underneath the …Read More

When did you know you were an artist? I’m just starting to feel like an artist after doing art seriously for years and taking a ton of courses. The question still makes me uncomfortable. I’d prefer to say that I’m someone who spends a lot of time making art and thinking about making art. Why did you decide to pursue it as a career? I jokingly refer to it as a third career, but it’s more of a retirement passion. I was ‘bad’ at art as a kid and enjoy the challenge of  working on things that don’t come naturally or …Read More