STEPHEN MOSCOWITZ

Still, Moscowitz had an insatiable need to keep learning. He took part-time courses at local art schools, where he was introduced to the wonders of illustration—and the success that could come from it. After getting an agent, he began taking assignments with ad agencies and publishers, eventually becoming known on a worldwide scale for his work.

The advent of computer illustrations was, unfortunately, the end of Moscowitz’s boom, but serendipity intervened and brought him a new medium: motorcycles. Beginning with his son’s motorcycle, the paintings he created on the bike’s gas tanks were a rolling advertisement for his work. Since then, he has painted hundreds of motorcycles, many of which have won awards at bike shows.

What the motorcycles proved to Moscowitz was that he could paint. And paint, he did, creating fine art pieces that depict the Lowcountry scenery and wildlife that he has fallen in love with since moving to the area. “Life is the inspiration for my work,” he says. “Something is happening, and I want to create the image.”

Moscowitz is represented by the Perspective Gallery in Mount Pleasant.

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THERE’S a poetry to the paintings that Jenan McClain creates, a fluidity and abstraction akin to the lines of a poem. She lets her emotions and soul guide the brush and follows the dictates of the words on her heart, both written and unwritten. And that is why her work speaks as powerfully as it does to the viewer, drawing out emotions and stories that create a personal connection to the work on the canvas.

“I realized that there is some emotional undertone in my paintings that resonates on another level with people,” says McClain. “It became apparent that my purpose is to translate healing, joy, light and hope, and that emotion has been felt by people—especially women— across the country who see my work.”

Knowing McClain’s back story and how her art evolved as the result of a period of grief and struggle during her daughter’s health crisis as a child, one can understand how her work would hold such force. Her art comes from that place of pain and fear over the unknown, that place where struggle gives way to surrender and spirituality. Having come through that dark time, there is a depth in her work that conveys so much—all without words.

Words are important to McClain, however, as she expresses herself through poetry just as she does through paint. And the two frequently go hand in hand. “Poetry is a big part of