The Collective

Artists

NERI is not a solo studio. It is a curated collective — a group of makers brought together by shared values around material, craft, and honesty. Each artist here is represented because their work belongs, because it contributes something the others cannot, and because we believe in it completely.

The Artist showing her work

The Weight of Water

Fractured Azure

he Last Hour of Amber

Paintings in Acrylic & Oil, Glasswork, Jewelry

Karina Mott

Karina Mott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work in oil, acrylic, glass, and jewelry explores the movement, depth, and quiet power of water. Her pieces balance technical precision with emotional resonance, capturing fluidity in forms that feel both natural and intentional. Through NERI Gallery, she brings together her own work and a broader community of artists, shaping a space where craftsmanship, story, and material all converge.

Selected works

The Artist showing her work — Showing a selection of paintings
The Weight of Water — A horizon dissolves beneath a sky that cannot quite decide whether to break or to hold. The sea moves in long, restless breaths — not violent, but heavy with memory — as if carrying something unspoken just below the surface. Light struggles through the cloud cover in muted bands, brushing the water with a quiet, silvered tension. This is not a moment of storm, nor of calm, but the suspended space between — where emotion gathers, deepens, and waits.
Fractured Azure — A restless sea of deep teal and cyan shatters across the canvas in delicate craquelure, evoking the tension between calm surface and hidden turbulence beneath.
he Last Hour of Amber — In the suspended hush before dusk claims the world, a single, radiant band of pure yellow-gold ignites the horizon. Below, the ocean holds its breath in velvety ultramarine and teal; above, tender streaks of peach and rose linger like a memory. Painted with deliberate, tactile strokes, the canvas becomes both mirror and window—an elegy for light that is already slipping away.

The Artist at Work

Jade Toki

Strata of Still Water

Tiffany Stone Cabochon

Out-of-phase Smoky Citrine

Lapidary Art

Luke Wilcox

Invited artist — Monterey Bay Jade Festival

Luke's work begins underground — in the rough, raw world of mineral extraction — and ends in objects of quiet precision. A classically trained lapidary, he cuts and polishes stones sourced directly from miners he knows by name. His invitation to the Monterey Bay Jade Festival marks recognition of his mastery at a national level.

Selected works

The Artist at Work — Luke carefully studies each stone to decide what the stone wants to be
Jade Toki — A tribute to Mayan culture. A nephrite jade 'tool' worn about the neck
Strata of Still Water — Jade intarsia. A layered composition of five distinct jades, shifting from deep green to pale mist, evokes a quiet landscape shaped by time. Fine silver inlays divide each stratum like geological memory, while the twisted frame echoes the slow forces of nature. More than ornament, it feels like a fragment of stillness—calm, grounded, and enduring.
Tiffany Stone Cabochon — An incredibly rare cabochon from the Tiffany Mine
Out-of-phase Smoky Citrine — An incredibly rare cabochon, cut from a stone suitable for the Smithsonian.

The Artists

COMING SOON

Resin Art

Francis & AJ

Mother-daughter collaboration

Francis and AJ are a mother-daughter duo whose resin work pulses with color, movement, and an unmistakable warmth. Working side by side, they layer pigment and resin in a process that is equal parts intuition and chemistry. Their collaboration is the art — the conversation between two sensibilities, one generation apart.

Selected works

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The artist and her work

$Chromatic Convergence — A quiet explosion of color held in perfect tension, Chromatic Convergence transforms simple folded paper into a radiant, geometric bloom. Each facet catches and refracts hue like a miniature spectrum—warm ember tones colliding with cool marbled blues—suggesting motion within stillness. At its core, a single point gathers the energy of every fold, evoking the delicate balance between precision and spontaneity, where craft becomes something almost elemental.$

Chromatic Convergence

Emergence in Four Directions

Origami & Paper Art

Michaela

Michaela transforms a single sheet of paper into worlds of architectural precision and organic beauty. Her practice bridges the meditative tradition of Japanese origami with contemporary fine art sensibilities — treating paper not as a craft material but as a primary medium. Each piece is folded, never cut, never glued.

Selected works

The artist and her work — Coming
Chromatic Convergence — A quiet explosion of color held in perfect tension, Chromatic Convergence transforms simple folded paper into a radiant, geometric bloom. Each facet catches and refracts hue like a miniature spectrum—warm ember tones colliding with cool marbled blues—suggesting motion within stillness. At its core, a single point gathers the energy of every fold, evoking the delicate balance between precision and spontaneity, where craft becomes something almost elemental.
Emergence in Four Directions — single sheet of paper unfolds into a quiet geometry of expansion—four wings, four thresholds, a moment suspended between symmetry and motion. The gradients of green to blue evoke growth at its most fragile stage, like a form just beginning to understand its own structure. At the center, tension gathers and releases, suggesting both a point of origin and a pulse outward—an object that feels less folded than awakened.

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NERI selectively represents artists whose practice aligns with our material values and curatorial vision. If you believe your work belongs here, we'd like to see it.

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