Jason Mowry is the 2nd Prize winner of RAYMAR Traditional Art Award 2023, Jason grew up between the local art museum and comic book shops, combining the rhythms of each walking the line between formal art and the fantastic space. Jason calls Ohio home, where he keeps a studio and teaches at a local art college. When Not in the studio, Jason can be found Sketching at a cafe or wandering the nature preserve near his home studio.
Hannah Tjia is the 3rd Prize Winner of the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders' Emerging Artist Award 2023; she is a painter and draftswoman who combines figurative studio painting with illustration and decorative design inspired by her love of folklore and fairytales. Her work explores otherworldly creatures and motifs representative of her imagination and perception of reality.
Stephanie Rew is the 3rd Prize winner of RAYMAR Traditional Art Award 2023, she is born in 1971, Stephanie Rew was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland leaving for Dundee in 1990 to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, graduating in 1994. She curated the first Women Painting Women Exhibition in the UK as part of the WPW (Revolution) movement in 2013.