Visual Art

Alston Cobourn was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina and lived in the Chapel Hill area while earning her BA and MLS degrees.  After several years in Virginia and Texas, she returned to NC, where she resides with her husband Eric, son Julian, loyal dog Lady, and mischievous cats Powder, Truffle, and Tulip.  Alston writes and creates art as a means of exploring her relationship to the external world and the collective human experience. Her poems have been published in defunct college literary magazines, The Blotter Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic.  Her artwork has been shown in various coffee shops, a church, East Carolina University, and the Greenville Museum of Art.

My practice involves the creation of subtle order through the use of strong patterns and grids. Working with a wide range of media on canvas, paper and wood, I create a unique visual language through an ongoing process of exploration and experimentation.The work is built on an evolving set of interrelations, rather than just a […]

Darcy Marie Melton is an award winning oil painter, illustrator, and the art editor of Pigeon Review. Splitting her time between the U.S. and Italy, her practice since 2020 has focused on climate action and human rights. She is the recipient of the Best of Bonfire Empowering Women Award and has recently participated in shows with Las Laguna Gallery, Milostka Center for Exhibitions, and Savannah Gallery of Art.

Karen Burnette Garner is a native of Georgia, a state in the American South, and has painted professionally since 1983. Her paintings of Charleston, SC scenes and the American lowcountry are highly collected. As she explores a variety of art media, she has been led to new experiments in multimedia abstractions to ceramic sculpture. A published literary reviewer and essayist, artist and illustrator, and an award-winning, published poet, she continues to evolve as a true renaissance woman. Ms. Garner currently creates from her new studio in Robesonia, Pennsylvania.