MAY 2026
ARTISTS OF THE MONTH
SAPPHIRE ARTIST OF MAY
JOHN DIEPHOUSE
**RUBY ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2024**
**CRYSTAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2023**
* Railroad Town *
Digital collage
“I am a self-taught photographer and digital collage artist and am attracted to a wide variety of subjects ranging from natural landscapes, botanicals and wildlife to images that provide either abstract expression or social commentary. I am interested in sharing images that evoke a story of some kind. Images may be simply documentary, reflect a sense of time and place or resonate on a more abstract level of color, shape or form. Others provoke an indefinable question that does not readily yield answers without further study and reflection.”
— JOHN DIEPHOUSE
RUBY ARTIST OF MAY
GERHARD KROYER
* Lumina *
Digital painting
“Seeking harmony and flexibility while the work is in progress, I create colorful artwork which comes from my intuitive inspiration and which evokes profound communication with the viewers. My work invites them to imagine a new reality behind the topic and gives them a sensual touch.” — GERHARD KROYER
CRYSTAL ARTIST OF MAY
JAN LOWE
**EMERALD ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2022**
* Young Wallaby *
Watercolour
“I paint and draw, capturing nature as I see it. My aim within art is to tell a story and encourage creativity. On catching a scene or an animal or plant, I will create an understanding of the encounter that bewildered me, by catching the vitality, the colors, the emotion and passion and by recording that moment.” — JAN LOWE
EMERALD ARTIST OF MAY
NIKOLA GOCIC
**RUBY ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2025**
* Black Pearl Of The Deep *
Digital collage/photomontage
“What is this endless house and does it even exist? Cosmos on the one side, the absence of reality on the other — but, where are up(s) and down(s)? Is it possible to leave the room and not get lost in the hallways trying to find the next door? Can the all-encompassing word be recalled? No, because it was never coined in the first place. The obviousness brings forth the illusion and the illusion dissolves into an abundance of questions. The spirits grow restless, sick and tired of waiting.” — NIKOLA GOCIC
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