Guest Artists
Chosen by the artists themselves.
As part of The ARTs Festival 2026, each resident at Cloud Galleries was invited to extend the circle — to bring one guest.
Not randomly selected.
Not curated from afar.
Chosen by the people who know the work best.
This is that circle.
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The corridor feels different during the Art Walk.
Work steps outside the galleries. Easels line the path. Visitors slow down. Artists install their pieces by hand.
The sky stays open. The conversation moves outward.
Outdoor seating, quiet corners, and art displayed along the path create a slower rhythm than a traditional gallery opening.
Walk with me through the April Art Walk.
Christian Carter
Invited by Lizzy
Christian Carter moves between physical and virtual photography, drawn to the quiet narrative power of image. His work centers on mood and emotional resonance — using light and framing to say what language sometimes cannot. Through exhibition in Second Life, he seeks connection: moments that linger softly with the viewer.
Mary Zimmer
Invited by Michiel Bechir
Mary has lived in Second Life for over seventeen years. Photography came later — first as reconnection, then as discipline.
With a background in graphic design, she composes with structure and clarity. Recently she has leaned toward advanced lighting techniques and portraiture — turning her lens toward people — an evolving chapter in her work.
AshPrestogard
Invited by Starz
After stepping away from her long stewardship of Chateau de Roissy, AshPrestogard entered a more contemplative season in Second Life. She now photographs the creativity of others while building intricate fractal work of her own. Her practice reflects reinvention — and the long friendships that shape a life on the grid.
Rita Glad
Invited by Stephen Venkman
Rita’s Second Life journey began in 2007, eventually settling into photography as her clearest language. She moves fluidly between playful, experimental, and beautifully chaotic themes. Curiosity leads; the gallery follows.
→ Flickr
→ Read: Rita Glad’s Butterfly Effect
Boo Doolittle
Invited by Lotus Li
In Second Life since 2005, Boo Doolittle photographs what catches her eye — and what catches her feeling. She shares regularly on Flickr and Primfeed, documenting moods and spaces that stay with her. Outside the grid, she paints in watercolor and revisits images rooted in childhood memory.
→ Flickr.
Marnie Ansar
Invited by Kayly Ialy
Marnie Morningstar works in narrative abstraction, primarily acrylic on canvas. Pieces such as Sunlight and Twilightreveal her layered, color-driven approach. Newer works like The View Through the Bars lean closer to form while holding their abstract core. Palette leads. Emotion structures.
Veyot
Invited by Giselle Seeker
Veyot gathers moments. In Second Life, she delights in framing the right shot and sharing it within her café and gallery spaces. Exploration fuels her lens.
Marqs DeSade
Invited by Dimivan Ludwig
Marqs DeSade moves between music, photography, and writing — describing his visual work as “writing with light.” His images carry cinematic atmosphere shaped by rhythm and restraint. Whether intimacy or landscape, he frames what matters and lets the rest dissolve. Across mediums, he circles the same center: connection and transformation.
→ Flickr
→ First Coffee: The First Cup
JueL Resistance (Suzen)
Invited by Lyric Moonchild
Suzen paints intuitively across watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, pencil, and AI — often blending mediums within a single work. Self-taught and instinct-driven, she follows feeling first. She is also a songwriter and musician, bringing sound into the bones of her visual practice.
Alex Riverstone
Invited by Rosie Riverstone
Photography has been a lifelong thread for Alex, beginning with an instamatic camera at age nine. In Second Life, he explores angles and scenes impossible in the physical world. Recently, he has leaned into black-and-white work — discovering how much depth lives inside shadow.
JudiLynn India
Invited by Milly Sharple
With formal training in commercial art and graphic design, JudiLynn moved into acrylic and digital painting after the turn of the century. In Second Life since 2009, she shares textured, intuitive work shaped by color, layering, and energy. Abstraction and figurative suggestion coexist — order emerging slowly from motion.
→ Visit In-World Galleries
Antu (antuhthetikhul)
Invited by Clyte
Antu is a multi-medium expressionist whose work moves through mental health, symbolism, religion, politics, and dream-state narrative. His “Cutups,” inspired by Burroughs and Gysin, introduce randomness into image-making — reshaping printed fragments into layered, unpredictable compositions.
Claudia dameklaudia
Invited by April Acorn
Claudia builds fantasy worlds shaped by mythology and narrative imagination. Beginning in Second Life as a roleplayer, she later turned toward photography, constructing immersive scenes that stretch technical limits. Her images feel like stories paused mid-breath.
Zaara
Invited by Ceakay Ballyhoo
Zaara approaches photography as a way of holding a moment a little longer. Since arriving in 2021, she has been drawn to capturing quiet poetry in place and light. Her images invite the viewer inward — where sky becomes sea, and sea becomes sky.
Ziravyn
Invited by Ceakay Ballyhoo
Ziravyn creates fantasy worlds where dragons, shadow, and moonlight share space. Her work blends whimsy and dark romance, treating art as doorway — a passage into realms that feel almost tangible.
Mareea Farrasco
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Founder of IMAGO Land and IMAGO Art Galleries, Mareea curates while continuing her own photographic work. Her images move in soft tones — reflective, painterly, attentive to atmosphere.
Carelyna
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Carelyna photographs as if painting — replacing canvas with camera. She works intuitively, allowing emotion to guide the frame. Each image feels like a study in light and memory.
Lori Bailey (Ishtara)
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Lori has photographed since her earliest days in Second Life, drawn to sea and sky. Music and poetry guide her eye. She keeps editing minimal, allowing mood to rise naturally through shadow and composition.
Rissa (Carissa Triellis)
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Rissa lets music lead her lens. Each image begins with a song and carries that melody forward. Shadow and restraint shape her quiet, resonant scenes.
Pagan Lane
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Pagan Lane explores philosophy and the human condition through multimedia practice. Moving between digital manipulation and traditional painting, she ranges from abstraction to mythology. Second Life serves as both studio and collaborative ground.
Alsatian Kidd
Invited by Owl Dragonash
Rezzed in 2007, Alsatian Kidd is an old-school builder and sim developer whose eye for space began in architectural photography. In 2019 he co-opened Green Acres — a public sim built for exploration. What began as documentation evolved into a renewed photographic practice rooted in landscape and story.
→ Flickr
→ Visit Green Acres
That completes this year’s invited circle.
Twenty resident artists.
The guests they chose.
A constellation built from trust.
On view throughout April as part of The ARTs Festival 2026.
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