Webster's Dictionary defines symbology as
1) the art of expression by symbols
2) the study and interpretation of symbols

In this show, Elle Nicolaï and Mervyn Seldon have approached symbology from different perspectives but share a love of artistic expression through symbols and color.

Elle Nicolaï is a Transcendental Artist whose Visionary Art comes from dreams and meditation. Her Inner Eye visions, captured during dream and meditation states, have helped place her work within the related genres of spiritual art, transcendental art, esoteric art, dream art, or symbolic art.  In the tradition of Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Bisttram, and the Transcendental Painting Group, she presents us with images of geometric abstraction and symbology as a possible path toward spiritual connectedness and transcendence beyond perceived reality.

Elle is a member of the Society for Art of the Imagination and the Society of Layerists in MultiMedia (SLMM). Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout North America, as well as Europe and Asia.

Mervyn Seldon's paintings flow from an awareness of nature's many forms and hues, a love of color, and an interest in human interactions.  While painting, she realized that the symbolic use of forms and colors could also represent the complexity of relationships at the individual and community levels.  Her new work has emerged from widely shared concerns about today's civil wars, terrorism, migrations, climate issues, economic and political failures, and the inability of individuals to resolve them. She uses geometric forms to symbolize the structures within which we live, while colors express emotions about our world.  Her paintings send an alert about our endangered civilization but also express a continuing delight in design and color in art.

Although her college major included art history, Mervyn earned her M.F.A. only after completing a career as a book editor in Asian studies and a fundraiser for educational institutions.  She has served as treasurer and later director of 57 Underground while exhibiting widely in California and the West.  Like Elle, she is a member of SLMM.