Joyce McCarten has lived in Northern Virginia all of her adult life. Though her studio is in Falls Church, Virginia, she has traveled the world in search of the colors, surfaces, and structures that satisfy her artistic eye. She has painted and taught art classes in Africa, China, Europe and all over the U.S. From small plein air paintings, McCarten uses her imagination and her skills as an experienced artist to make large abstract oil paintings. Her intention is to convey a sense of place or a feeling.

Leslie Banta is a Staunton, VA-based artist and educator. She is fortunate to live in the idyllic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where she can always see the clouds and minimalist landscapes she loves to paint. She finds the landscapes and color compositions are a great way of keeping nature’s beauty close at hand.

JoEtta Deaton has a B.A. in Art and an M.A. in Theology. Married to Michael for forty-four years, a mother and grandmother, she's taught art to children and adults. She blends all these experiences with a heart and hunger for nature and our Creator God, to paint landscapes, townscapes and figures in oil, exhibiting primarily in the Shenandoah Valley.