Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the first Nature online art show for the month of March 2020. The show encompassed a range of artistic styles and mediums (photography, digital, mixed media, collage, oil on canvas, acrylics, photo print on metal, forged and fabricated iron, pencil, watercolor, scratchboard, stone, fiber and permanent marker). Each submission has been judged based on the following elements of artistic expression: orginality and quality of art, overall design, creativity, interpretation of the theme, demonstration of artistic ability and usage of medium. Out of all entries, 88 artworks were shortlisted for inclusion in the show. The competition attracted entries from many countries across the world: USA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Finland, Russia and Poland. Enjoy the show and thank you for expressing an interest in our competition.

I have a passion for wildlife, and I want to celebrate all its facets in my photography, including power, beauty, cuteness and humour. These are the qualities I want to share with people. I’m not a conservationist, so I don’t take pictures of endangered animals to put on a poster for Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth - I take them because I love my close encounters with the natural world, and I want to share the excitement and joy of being there. I obviously recognise the threat to certain species posed by poachers and diminishing habitats, and I hope that my images will give people more of an appreciation for wildlife, but what they choose to do with that is up to them."

Janne Peltokangas (1979) combines his knowledge as a traditional blacksmith, with his background as a Sámi artist. In his research, he investigates the spiritual belief system of the Sámi in relation to objects in nature. In this Peltokangas raises interesting questions, if a handmade object can contain a feel of spirit and what an object enables to express this. Peltokangas intuitively explores forms of complexity through traditional blacksmith techniques. Past ten years Peltokangas has worked as an independent artist around Europe and North-America. He has exhibited his art together with Eva Hild, Clay Ketter and Rick Smith, to name a few. Peltokangas has shown his work in art museums, galleries and Biennales. At the moment, Peltokangas lives in Finnish Lapland on his family farm on a remote island surrounded by mountains and spirits of ancestors. There he works in a smithy that has passed on in his family for generations, together with the age old knowledge of forging. Suoldni series is my abstraction of that moment between life and death, between resisting and submitting. There’s a beauty in death as there is in life but, to me, the real beauty of being is in between these two. It is a celebration of existence and peace that can be experienced every autumn when the weather turns cold and frost covers the life summer has created.

J. H. Arnold grew up in northern Wisconsin at his parents resort on Blue Lake. At the age of eight he began snorkeling with his $9.99 dime store mask, snorkel and fins adventuring out to see what was under the surface. As an adult he still enjoys going out to the local lakes to see what’s under the surface but now he has better equipment and a camera.J.H. spends his time in the water and forests photo’ing a story of art and splendor captured in a moment of time.

I am a designer and self-taught artist. Nature has always been my main source of inspiration. Complicated pattern of branches, grace of bird's wings - forms that human imagination cannot create. In my paintings, I strive to convey the dynamics and texture, to let the audience feel the roughness of the tree bark or the stress of a bird ready to take off, feel the moment one second before.