JUNE 2026
ARTISTS OF THE MONTH
CRYSTAL ARTIST OF JUNE
NORMA RUFFINELLI
**CRYSTAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2024**
* Whispered Grace *
Mixed media
“My art is an exploration of emotion, resilience and the quiet strength that lives within each of us. Through contemporary mixed media, textured surfaces and expressive imagery, I create works that invite viewers to pause, reflect and connect with their own life journey. For over three decades, I have studied and practiced art, developing a distinctive style that combines painting with sculptural elements. Many of my pieces incorporate hand-crafted textures, dimensional flowers, birds and symbolic forms that represent growth, hope, transformation and renewal.” — NORMA RUFFINELLI
SAPPHIRE ARTIST OF JUNE
LINDA NEIL
* Torn *
Photography
“This digital picture is from the photograph collection, Detritus. I found the subjects of these pictures in debris, trash and mulch after the rain. I used only light filtering to transform them into strange and lovely pieces of art. Finding beauty in detritus has enabled me to develop a kind of visual philosophy that has helped me to look and see the world differently. The collection is an invitation to look more closely at the things around us that are considered useless and imagine how they can be repurposed or re-visioned into something beautiful and inspiring.”
— LINDA NEIL
RUBY ARTIST OF JUNE
JOHN DIEPHOUSE
**RUBY ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2024**
**CRYSTAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2023**
* Cinematique *
Photography
“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
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