2025 Featured Artists

As a visionary artist, photographer, and dedicated yoga teacher, Gloria Owens explores the intersection of art and spirituality, weaving together her lifelong passions in each creation. Raised in New York City and a graduate of The State University of New York at Purchase with a BFA, Gloria’s award-winning graphic design career spans over 35 years, encompassing branding, packaging, and marketing for clients both large and small. However, it is her profound journey through yoga and meditation that has unveiled layers of consciousness, awareness, and dreams that ignite her personal art.

Gloria’s work, rooted in photography, emerges as intricate mandalas, collages, and surreal landscapes that interlace sacred geometry with her original images. Her art reveals themes of growth, transformation, creation, and serenity, capturing the raw beauty and harmonious energy of Nature. Often described as “transcendent,” “luminous,” and “evocative,” Gloria’s work draws viewers into a kaleidoscope of inner and outer worlds. Her creations invite viewers to pause, breathe, and experience the present moment as a meditative experience.

In her latest show at SOBA, Elemental Alchemy, Gloria weaves the five elements—Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether—as metaphors for the intricate balance of emotions, thoughts, and energy dancing between the physical and the Divine. Her intent is to inspire the imagination, open the heart, and soothe the soul. “In times of uncertainty, my art reconnects us to awe, peace, possibility, and a sense of something greater than ourselves,” she shares.

Along with her photographic mandalas and collages, Gloria also loves classic black & white photography. Whether it’s the play of light on a flower, the patterns of tide & sand, reflections on the water, or the dance of dune grass shadows, she is fascinated by texture, composition, and light. Her fine art photography often captures the delightful moments we might miss, and her deep reverence for the natural world.

About Gloria’s Technique:

While skilled in traditional drawing, painting, and photography, Gloria’s current tools of choice are Photoshop, a stylus, and tablet, allowing her to “draw” and manipulate visuals digitally. Though some artists resist technology, Gloria has fully embraced it. “The computer allows me to experiment with imagery in ways that offer more creative freedom than ever before,” she explains. “I don’t use A.I. or filters in my work; each piece is a unique photographic creation, crafted with my eye and refined techniques honed over decades as a graphic designer.”

Once a piece is complete, Gloria prints her work on various substrates—such as canvas and metal—in a range of sizes for limited edition prints. She notes, “This process is not unlike how we used to create photographic prints from an original negative in the darkroom.” Each print is signed and numbered, adding a personal touch to every piece. 

About Gloria Owens

The daughter of an electrical engineer and a highly creative spiritual seeker, Gloria Owens found her unique path by blending math and technology with mysticism and art. From her early days of drawing and painting, she pursued visual arts at SUNY Purchase, known for its creative curriculum, and later worked in New York’s high-pressure graphic design industry. It was during these demanding years that she discovered yoga, which led her on a lifelong journey exploring stress-reduction techniques, meditation, natural wellness, and Eastern philosophy. Gloria trained at the renowned Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA, becoming a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, and later co-owned YogaSpace, a beloved yoga studio in Connecticut, where she was an integral part of its growth for 15+ years.

In 2010, Gloria was honored to present her visionary artwork at the United Nations’ Culture of Peace symposium during the Week of Spirituality, Values & Global Concerns. Her inspiring 4-minute multimedia presentation can be viewed here.

After 3 decades in CT, raising a family, running multiple businesses and shoveling snow, Gloria and her family, moved to Bluffton, SC in 2020 where she joined the Society of Bluffton Artists and continues to teach Gentle Yoga classes tailored for beginners, boomers, and seniors. Balancing a semi-retirement that is anything but boring, Gloria remains immersed in the physical, spiritual, and artistic realms, whether on the yoga mat, at church, or exploring nature’s wonders.

Gloria’s art is ideally suited for yoga studios, spas, retreat centers, and personal spaces, bringing an essence of the sacred into any environment; for contemplation, inspiration and illumination.

Learn more at GloriaOwens.com, where she showcases her unique blend of yoga, graphic design, and visionary art. Gloria is available for interviews, podcasts, and her enlightening presentation on Sacred Geometry as it appears in nature, architecture, art, and consciousness.

Gloria will be giving a special talk “”Wonders of Sacred Geometry”