Discover Artists

Shown below is a list of area artists who are members of the United Arts Council.
Please note: All images are copyrighted by the artist. Reproduction of them is illegal without written permission from the artist.

Fashion

Fiber

Muffy Clark Gill uses the Indonesian art of wax and dye resist known as Batik to create tropical motifs, Seminole Indian subjects and southwest themes.
Phone:239-434-7006
Email: MuffyClarkGill@gmail.com
Website: MuffyClarkGill.com
Online Store: MCGillTropicalArt.com

Natalie Guess has been creating in the medium of batik for more than 28 years, using Southwest Florida scenes as subjects. Shadows are a favorite compositional focus in her landscapes, along with graceful, wading birds.
Phone: 239-659-2787
Website: NatalieGuess.com

Leigh Herndon dyes silk to create wearable art and wall art. Trained in Japanese rozome (wax-resist kimono design techniques) as well as direct dye applications, batik, mixed-media, and shibori, she designs original garments (sarongs, ruanas, scarves) and other works, mixing her own colors to achieve unusual results, with designs often inspired by nature.
Phone:239-262-7932
Email: LeighHerndon@comcast.net
Website: LeighDesignsNaples.com

Pat Kumicich is a fiber artist whose art has evolved from traditional to contemporary focusing on social and women’s issues as well as self-portraits. By using a variety of fabrics, threads and techniques, she creates art quilts which are easily recognized by their vibrant colors and rich textures.
Website: PatKumicich.com

Film

Lori H. Ersolmaz is a projection mapping artist, collaborator, curator and award winning filmmaker living and working in Naples, Florida. The Good Natured. project, her most recent award-winning series focuses on nature and the environment and are projection mapped at night—onto buildings, in pop-up gallery spaces and in/on objects including a 20’x20′ dome. Her “Poetic Films” integrate classic and contemporary poetry to expand the viewer’s own contemplative reflection and interpretation of what they see. Often, the result is a meditative, spiritual, and sublime state of consciousness.
Lori’s work has been seen in New York City at Anthology Film Archives, in Minneapolis at the Weisman Art Museum, and at International film festivals and events held in Australia, Croatia, Mexico, India, Istanbul, Nepal, Slovakia and USA. Lori is an active social justice and environmental advocate with a Master of Arts degree in Media Studies and Film from The New School (2011), a university with a history of progressive thought and service to others.
Lori H. Ersolmaz
Poetic Films
City: Naples, FL
Email: info@LoriErsolmaz.com
Website: https://www.loriersolmaz.com

Glass

Stacey Pezza is a working glass and jewelry artist. She also has been teaching art for the last 15 years.
Phone: 239-431-0862
Email: ArtByPez@gmail.com
Website: ArtByPez.com and ArtelierGlass.com

Joel Shapses internationally known stone sculptor has become impassioned with the medium of fused glass. His whimsical flair has taken flight as he incorporates color with contemporary design, creating some of the most innovative sculptures as well as ornamental display pieces & jewelry. Visit his studio at Artisan’s Plaza 5760 Shirley St. Naples, FL 34109 Suite #17 by app’t.
Phone: 954-830-3156
Website: JoelShapsesStudio.com

Graphics

Christine Otis is a visual artist whose work ranges from painting, photography, mixed media, digital art, pattern designs, teaching to writing and editing. Her work incorporates many forms from graphic design to abstract to sci-fi.
Website: ChristineOtis.com
Phone: 267-265-0912
Email: Otis.Christine@gmail.com
Instagram: otis_christine

John Paul Pedraza works with many different medium including traditional materials and digital. In this current evolution of his work, John is working heavily with charcoals and graphite on close up portraits. John holds two university degrees in Digital Design & Graphics with a specialty in Graphic Design. John also teaches art.
Website: EternalCreationsLLC.com

Illustrations

Nearly 20 years ago, Carri Colvin formed The Creative Spectrum and adorning anything paintable still makes my heart sing. Inspiring others to find hope in all things and encouraging little ones to “think BIG thoughts” through picture and story makes it dance! Please visit my website where you can view an array of my art and create with me from the heART!
Website: TheCreativeSpectrum.com

Emily James is an award-winning, native-Floridian artist. Come visit Naples noted 5th Avenue artist as she paints in her gallery in the heart of Naples. This internationally known artist displays her landscapes, seascapes and contemporary pieces as original paintings, Giclee’ prints, and also notecards. She specializes in commissioned pieces, and has an impressive list of collectors.
Phone: 239-777-3283
Email: EmilyJamesArt@comcast.net
Website: EmilyJamesArt.com

Mixed Media

Lynda Fay Braun The basis of her mixed media paintings are photographs that have been distilled through the computer, carefully executed on canvas and mounted on handmade wood panels. The paintings fall in the realm of abstract minimalism, evoking a sense of light and serenity, and bringing a painters eye to photographs. Photo restoration and photoshop tutor.
Studio address: 5700 Taylor Rd. Naples (please call ahead) 239-293-8488
lyndafbraun@yahoo.com
Website: www.lyndafaybraun.com

Paula Brody‘s joyous and multi-textured mixed media paintings and collages express her energetic personality and love of nature. Paula offers daylong workshops to enable others to discover their own inner artist.
Gallery Address: 5450 B Shirley Street, Naples, FL 34109
Email: PaulaBrody@me.com
Website: www.PaulaBrodyArtist.com

Beth Crosley uses acrylics and mixed media to paint famous musicians who have impacted the world. A musician herself, Beth hopes to express the power of music through her visual art, reminiscent of the 60’s- very colorful and a little abstract.
(239) 434-0781
bethcrosleyart@hotmail.com
Website: www.facebook.com/bethcrosleyart

Alina Eydel
239-273-7677
Alina@EydelFineArts.com
Visit Website

Robert Gagauf, since relocating to Naples in 2017, I have devoted much of my time and creativity to establishing a foothold within the Southwest Florida art community.
I work primarily in oils and mixed media and explore many styles and subjects, ranging from impressionism and abstracts to portraits and landscapes. Ideally, my pieces tell a story and are thought-provoking. My recent concentration had been the American Series, which features portraits that represent the amazing diversification within our country.
Phone: (201) 715-5065
E-mail: BGagauf@Brandwerks3.com
Website: www.RGagauf.com

Paul Gower, a contemporary artist working in oil pastel, graphite, and charcoal on paper. His work is an exploration of the “drawn line and mark making” using mixed media influenced by shapes of the human form.
PaulVGower@gmail.com

Bonny Hawley‘s large scale acrylic mixed media wall art is the large wall soultion for private and corporate clients. Local studio & gallery. Represented by galleries and design centers around the country. Commissions welcome. (239) 649-1389
bonanaples@aol.com
Website: www.bhawley.com/

Leigh Herndon dyes silk to create wall art and wearable art. Trained in Japanese rozome (wax-resist kimono design techniques) as well as direct dye applications, batik, mixed media, and shibori, she mixes her own dye colors to acheive unusual results, with desings inspired by nature.
(239) 262-7932
leighherndon@comcast.net
Website: www.leighherndon.com

Trish Zimbalatti is an American mixed media artist known for the detail in her layered photographs. Trish developed meticulous and intricate techniques that she applies to her layered photographs. Not only has she embraced her own innovative technique through countless hours of tedious work and several layers of photographs, but she also offers a supremely unique interpretation of realism and a new appreciation for abstract art.
Website: TrishFineArt.com

Jewelry

Kathleen Dennison‘s career as an award winning metalsmith began after becoming friends with Ruth S. Roach, one of the shining stars of the American Modern Jewelry movement. Ruth became her teacher and mentor in a special friendship that endured for the last eight years of Ruth’s life. Kathleen met Ruth after she and her husband Robert M. Dennison, relocated their retail shop from Maine to Naples, Fl in the early 1970s, moving next door to Ruth’s art gallery.
Website: www.KathleenDennison.com

Amanda Jaron has been designing jewelry since she was a child. Her designs are sometimes funky, often romantic & always sophisticated. After completing college and gaining her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the University of Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amanda took off for NYC and worked for fashion powerhouses Givenchy, Tommy Hilfiger, Nine West and Jones NY, before leading the design team at AVON Products. During her decade in NYC she also crafted runway pieces for exclusive couture fashion houses of Europe.
Website: www.AJaron.com

Stacey Pezza is a working glass and jewelry artist. She also has been teaching art for the last 15 years.
(239)431-0862 artbypez@gmail.com
Website: www.artbypez.com and www.artelierglass.com

Mosaic

Murals

Painters

Cynthia Adams, contemporary abstract painter – headed to our new art studio in Tanzania, East Africa, to paint with a whole new set of inspirations! Also developing art safari workshops – details available on our website. www.travelartandtequila.com – please follow us there!
Phone: 239-289-5070
Email: casaartstudio@yahoo.com
Website: www.casaartstudio.com

Steve Adams, contemporary abstract painter – headed to our new art studio in Tanzania, East Africa, to paint with a whole new set of inspirations! Also developing art safari workshops – details available on our website. www.travelartandtequila.com – please follow us there!
Phone: 239-289-5070
Email: casaartstudio@yahoo.com
Website: www.casaartstudio.com

casa | art | studio A fine art, contemporary boutique gallery. In addition to featuring the mixed media works on canvas, glass and paper of artists/owners Cynthia and Steve Adams, we also have selected artists in sculpture, glass and ceramics.
239-289-5070; casaartstudio@yahoo.com
Website: www.casaartstudio.com

Cesar Aguilera was born in Quito Ecuador, and navigated hi childhood by virtue of creative observation, learning from his first curiosities onward that imagination and ingenuity have critical roles to play within our human experiences of life. This has taken him through a vast spectrum of mediums, techniques and subject matter.
cesar@cesaraguilera.com
239-248-9063
Website: www.cesaraguilera.com

Gary Armstrong: Originality, fueled by imagination is an essential aspect of my creative work. I feel that art must speak of its age and time. My art does this through the repetition of layered forms, formative color interaction, circular shapes, technical accuracy, and the illusion of synthetic structures. Form, space and color regularly occupy my thought. My process is fabrication, where I economically build closed and open high and low relief forms. The material I work with is wood, acrylic or acrylic latex paint and a sundry of other materials like handmade paper, metal, catkins and other accessible found materials . My work is Intuitive, introspective and to the best of my ability deliberate.
Website: GaryArmstrongArtist.com

Paul Arsenault‘s impressionistic paintings of Naples and beyond are recognized for their vivid colors, unique light, and rhythmic design. His gallery, Arsenault Studio & Banyan Arts Gallery at 1199 Third Street South in Old features Paul’s work as well as other fine artists..
(239) 263-1214
Website: www.arsenaultgallery.com

Donna Babcock‘s painting styles range from the most conservative, traditional landscapes, still lifes and portraits, to the most contemporary, non-objective interpretation of life and our lovely world. She also designs posters, logos and promotional materials.
239-821-4880
fajards@yahoo.com
Website: donnababcockartist.com

Ricki Baker, “A passion for Broadway, especially musical inspires my paintings. Each original abstract is designed to evoke or interpret the live theatrical experience.”
Website: rickibakerart.com

Jack Vincent Barnhill is an oil painter and pastelist living in Naples, Florida. Jack teaches at the Naples Art
Center, and gives private classes in his art studio. Classes include painting, pastels and drawing. Jack
specializes in portraiture and landscapes.
Website: Jackbarnhill.com
E-mail: jack.barnhill@mac.com
Phone: 310-804-3423

Artful Alternatives is the unique pop-art pointillism of British Artist, Cath Branwood. The painting are inspired by travel, nature and life and are vibrant, textured, colorful, and lively. Each patient point represents all of Cath’s creative influences in a single calm peaceful moment.
Webstie: Artful-Alternatives.com

Sandi Badash – My fascination with the separate yet unified falling shapes of the kaliedescope define my work. I express myself with clean lines intertwined and separate from one another. I often outline in primary colors in order to represent our individuality while at the same time expressing our need to be a part of a whole!

Sue Boydston is a visual artist who maintains her studio and private residential gallery in Naples Florida. Her narrative abstract paintings come from ideas clipped and manipulated from photographs of places she has visited and lived.The materials she uses; paint, ink, mediums collage,and surfaces; canvas,wood, metal, paper are chosen for and inform each developing piece.
Website: SueBoydstonArt.com

Andy Browne, a painter/printer, steps into her garden for inspiration. Her subject matter shifted after a move from New England to Florida, offering an “entirely new and alien ‘garden’ that demanded a fresh look.”
(239) 590-9187
abrowne@uaccollier.com
Website: www.andybrowneart.com/

Mexican American Portrait artist Martha M. Cantu works in graphite, Colored Pencil Acrylic and Oil. The fresh and crisp lines on her portraits contain a modern photo-realism and her handling of detail does not distract from her bold color choices and composition. Cantu describes how she has always been attracted to peoples’ eyes and faces. Mesmerized by the imperfections that make people “Perfect.” There truly are no borders when choosing her muse; drawn to people of all ages, races, and backgrounds. Her portraits of wrinkled, aged faces nestled among works she’s done of her 6 children and butterflies/botanicals will indulge any nature and art lover alike. Her latest work, a mural which serves as Welcome signs can be seen form two entry points as one drives into her hometown of Immokalee and often serve as backdrops for tourist and locals stopping to take pictures.
Instagram: @_marthacantu

Michaela Castaldi‘s love of vibrant colors and realistic design is reflected in her work, and what once was a hobby has blossomed into a career. She loves meeting people and exhibits her original watercolors, prints and colorful greeting cards at the Naples Artcrafters shows in Cambier Park.
Website: sites.google.com/a/artworkbymichaela.com/art/

Judith Chinski strives to record the beauty of things around her. She is drawn to light and shadow, visually stimulated by color. She paints in both transparent watercolor and acrylics.
Website: jchinskiart.com/

JoAnne Crowson
JoAnne Crowson is an abstract impressionistic artist who loves utilizing vivid colors to convey emotions and take the viewer on a mystical journey. Her pieces are inspired by the world around us, from the majesty of the mountains to the calmness of the ocean. Most of her work is created in acrylic, ink or resin and I love to combine the mediums in mixed media pieces.
Website: www.JoanieCArt.com

Giampaolo Curreri was born and lived in Milano, Italy, he frequented art schools concluding with advertising and marketing degrees his professional education and becoming an advertising executive. With his family, he resided in San Francisco, California for 37 years before relocating in 2018 to Naples, Florida.
Website: https://bit.ly/GECpaintings

Arturo Correa is an American-Venezuelan artist based in Naples, FL. Flat, frontal and with no concern for perspective or horizon to ground the viewer, Correa’s paintings combine figures and text as well as contemporary and historic iconic imagery. Materiality and spirituality, pain and love, yearning and hope are all reflected in the work.
Website

Sandy Cox is a native Georgian who paints fresh and colorful impressionistic landscape and figurative oil paintings of the joys of our lives-those special people and places that fill our days with so much joy.
Website: www.SandyCoxArt.com

Nelly Dastain: Starting a new painting is like entering an unknown universe. Then, after a few strokes, the colors and the shapes decide for themselves. They lead me. I only bend them to my preferred shades and make it look to satisfy my own personal tendencies. Abstract art is about creating a visual experience, sparking emotions and let the viewers’ imagination do the rest.

Jan Deswik works primarily from mental images, memories and impressions. “I aim for an ethereal, dreamlike quality to convey an emotional experience rather than a snapshot of the subject. While my subjects are based loosely on scenes and experiences from the natural world, this abstract, interpretive style sharply diverges from the photorealistic portrayals more typical of watercolor artists.

What is important to me is what the viewer sees in a painting, what I could think about it is not remotely as interesting to me as what you tell me you see.
What I look to provide a student of watercolor is the joy that comes in putting paint on paper and sharing the delight I feel in that process, whether it’s paper, canvas or moose antler.”
Website www.dagroup.com
Phone: 239 2987911
Studio address: 5880 Shirley Street, Suite 206, Naples FL 34109

Maggie DeMarco is an abstract artist. She paints in acrylic, oil, and mixed media. Her art can be viewed at Sweet Art Gallery or at her studio: 5880 Shirley St. Ste. 206
maggiedemarcoart@aol.com
401-527-6554
Website: www.maggiedemarcoart.com

Juan Diaz, is a multidisciplinary artist known for his visual and performance work. His art is easily recognized for his compositional skills, outstanding use of geometric planes, understanding of perspective and color, but best known for his unique use of lightVisit his website for more information (juandiazart.com) or contact directly at diazjuan@me.com or (239) 248-6689

Trevor English‘s work explores the interplay of color, and the perception of color through variations in size and juxtaposition. Their Linear Impressionism series, is inspired by nature with a variety of large-scale landscapes and seascapes using individual lines of color. The technical aspect is an excercise in precision, while the color exploration is more intuitive- mixing paint on the spot, making each piece impossible to recreate.
For more information about Trevor English, call the UAC 239-254-8242

Emme Eve started painting like many of us, as a child. That is when she fell in love with the process of creating. “I have a hard time choosing one medium because they all excite me, I’d love to try glassblowing, and even something like metal sculpture.
Primarily a self-taught artist, taking classes and workshops around the world: Tokyo, Italy, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Bali, France, Mexico, and spending a lot of time in museums. Emme loves an artistic challenge and is always pushing herself to be a better artist. Inspired by Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Frida Kahlo, Picasso, and so many unknown artists around the world. @emmedoodles.

Delores Fell: I work primarily in watercolors and acrylics. I find nature and people to be a perfect subject for my art work. I have painted many years individually with elderly handicapped individuals helping them to stimulate mental activity. Currently painting with small groups in a Memory Care Facility and so rewarding for them and myself to see their thoughts onto canvas.
For more informations about Delores Fell, contact the UAC 239-254-8242

Popo Flanigan paints Fauvism/expressionism in a manner of horror vacui.
510 3rd Avenue South
Naples, Florida 34102
Email: popogirls@me.com
Website

Anna Franklin – “My inspiration comes from the beauty of Nature. Land, sea, sky and anything related, are my muses. My relationship with my them is very emotional. It creates a visceral desire to express my emotions in the best way I see fit at the moment and what I think best represents them. Therefore, my form f expression varies
and I am equally at home with abstract and representetional painting. I refuse to stagnate by repeating the same art formula.”
Website: AnnaFranklinArt.com

Jane Frendberg paints in acrylics in a photo-realistic style from photos she has taken in her travels. She likes to capture the unique beauty of each subject- painting interesting architechture, intriguing angles, reflected light, colorful fauna, fountains and archways- inviting the viewer to step inside each painting.
Phone: 614-214-6179
Email: jane.frendberg@gmail.com

West Friedman
westfriedman@gmail.com

Gerhson J. Pernia (Gerhpe)
Known in the artistic world as Gerhpe, a plastic artist with more than 30 years of experience specializing in oil and acrylic on canvas with styles that range from abstract to impressionism Gerhpe’s technique with brushes and spatulas captures vibrant colors and movement that are felt in each artwork.
Phone: 239-297-7805
Email: Info@gerhpe.com
Website: Gerhpe.com

Valerie Ghoussaini‘s light-filled paintings express a range of emotion that stimulate the eye and the mind. There is a humanistic narrative reflective of her life that runs through her paintings as she tries to tell a story with her art, a visual reconstruction.
248-996-7292
ghoussaini@aol.com
Website: www.valerieghoussaini.com

Muffy Clark Gill uses the Indonesian art of wax and dye resist known as Batik to create tropical motifs, Seminole Indian subjects and southwest themes. (239) 434-7006
batique@earthlink.net
Website: www.muffyclarkgill.com/

Tanya Trinkaus Glass is a contemporary artist who tries different media on a regular basis but has been primarily painting with pastels and oils. Through her inspiration from nature’s colors, patterns and rhythms, she experiments to create exciting works of art- some become impressionist while others become abstract. Art is always an adventure with Tanya.
Phone: 239.248.8586
Website

Maureen Golgata | Acrylic/Oil/Mixed Media | Living and working in Naples, Florida
I am a painter working in a fluid, emotive form drawn from abstraction and observation of the visual world. My work is led by an expression of the fragility of life, reflecting sublime moments with nature entwined with societal dynamics and tensions. The possibility of freeing oneself from misconceptions that isolate and imprison is of great interest to me. My painting express the dichotomy of life, foregrounding the contrast of beauty and light against darkness.
To get in touch with Maureen Golgata, call the UAC 239-245-8242

Leigh Greco‘s work reflects her lifelong love of vibrant, intense colors interacting with light in tropical landscapes and foliage. She has lived and taught in Naples for the past 40 years.
Leighsgreco@gmail.com
239-398-8756

Terra Guitarra® is the original painting style of musician Bruce Hecksel. These paintings are created using the guitar shape as a symbol to imagine the whole world is singing. The Guitar shape also contains the infinity symbol. Vibrations are infinite and the paintings are positive vibration symbols as well as meditative tools. Terra Guitarra® is also a world touring, award winning, chart topping guitar duo and 2018 Winner “Instrumental Album of the Year”. They have performed over 4,500 concerts, released 22 albums, toured over 1 million miles, and have an international concert production titled “The Landscape of Guitar” featuring projected animations of the paintings in concert with live music!”
Website: https://terraguitarrafineart.business.site/

Leigh Herndon dyes silk to create wearable art and wall art. Trained in Japanese rozome (wax-resist kimono design techniques) as well as direct dye applications, batik, mixed-media, and shibori, she designs original garments (sarongs, ruanas, scarves) and other works, mixing her own colors to achieve unusual results, with designs often inspired by nature.
239-262-7932
leighherndon@comcast.net
Website: www.leighherndon.com

Maggie Hofmann is a pastel artist working in Naples. Vibrant color and the joy of nature are found in all her work. Contemporary floral painting and landscapes are the focus of her current work.
For more informations about Maggie Hofmann, contact the UAC 239-254-8242

Inez Hudson: Through detail, vivid color, and composition, a story is created on her canvas. Inez’s subjects are varied and her work collected internationally. She in an instructor and event painter (painting live at weddings, etc.) Commissioned work is a large part of her portfolio.
Website: www.InezHudson.com

Emily James is an award-winning, native-Floridian artist. Come visit Naples noted 5th Avenue artist as she paints in her gallery in the heart of Naples. This internationally known artist displays her landscapes, seascapes and contemporary pieces as original paintings, Giclee’ prints, and also notecards. She specializes in commissioned pieces, and has an impressive list of collectors.
(239) 777-3283
emilyjamesart@comcast.net
Website: www.emilyjamesart.com/

Dan Jensen: “My work is influenced by painters I’ve admired for years from Holbein to Koons. Van Eyck to Freud.
I’m also very fond of the painters that I studied as a young man. Painters like Motherwell, Stella, Riley, Johns, and Rothko.
In some ways their type of painting is much more honest and the essence of painting. Rather than a fake attempt to suggest a three dimensional world on a two dimensional canvas.”
Email: DanKJensen@gmail.com
Instagram: @DanJensenArtist

Michelle Kaytaz My gallery is a working studio and personal “gallery” space. I enjoy
studio visits by appointment only. I paint mostly with oils on canvas
in a colorful and loose interpretive style. I attempt to depict nature in motion and I use color to create vivid loose compositions.
Phone: 817-944-2407
Email: MichelleKaytaz@hotmail.com
Studio/Gallery: 6230 Shirley St. Unit 204, Naples, FL 34109
Website: MichelleKaytaz.com

Elizabeth Keigler, “I work in oils and although I paint primarily landscapes and florals, some of my favorite paintings have been of pet pups. As an octogenarian, I am so fortunate to have such a wonderful and challenging activity that adds such joy to my life.”
To Contact Elizabeth Keigler,
call the UAC 239-254-8242

Shirley Kelley‘s work reflects the ongoing exploration of the abstract in nature, moving between the accidental and the conciously structured. I strive for a sense of order with nature and line, one layer of color and texture influences the next.
Phone: 239-269-4319
Email: ShirleyKelley39@gmail.com
Website: www.ShirlKelley.com
Studio/Gallery: 5760 Shirley St., Naples, FL 34109

Mally Khorasantchi creates large oil and mixed-media abstracts from nature.
(239) 598-1742
Website: www.mallykhorasantchi.com/

Dora Knuteson is a Naples artist specializing in tropical, floral and coastal themes. Her work – inspired by the sunshine and beautiful beaches of southwest Florida – is characterized by its lively brushwork and complex layering of unique color. Artwork can be purchased online at doraknuteson.com or in person by appointment.
Website: www.DoraKnuteson.com

Merrilee Langton paints a variety of subject in oil, including birds – especially Florida shore birds, flowers and landscapes.
(239) 594-8464

John Carroll Long is an artist whose mission is to stay in touch with the now, embrace contemporary culture yet maintain his inner dinosaur. Channeling concepts while balancing aesthetics, John’s artwork exudes seriousness, humor and social commentary, sometimes all evident at once. While often whimsical, witty and supremely clever, his artistic objective is to encourage his viewers to “Think, unThink, reThink and Think again.”
Website: JohnLongArtist.com
Phone: 239-641-3898
Gallery: 340 8th St. S., Naples, FL 34012

Chrissy Lush
Photography and pastel work that explores the human relationship to the natural environment.
Website: ChrissyLush.com

Holly Manneck is an award winning American Pop Artist represented and collected nationally and internationally.
Her studio/gallery is open to the public daily. Please visit the studio, or call for an appointment. Commissions are also welcome.
Phone: 239-404-8019
Website: ManneckArt.com
Email: ManneckArt@hotmail.com
Studio: 6360 Shirley St. Studio 607
Naples, FL 34109

Deborah Martin‘s current medium of choice is Encaustic. My encaustic surfaces are labored and develop over time. I try to preserve what’s underneath while creating something new with each layer. By scraping wax away, my process turns into an excavation, discovering colors, textures and images.
(518) 791-0251
deborahmartin01@comcast.net
Website: www.deborahmartinartist.com

Ying McLane is a contemporary realist oil painter live in Naples, Florida.
Ying loves to intertwine realistic portraits within unusual and often abstract settings to appeal to viewers’ imaginations. She also enjoys exploring landscape art. Her landscape paintings combine realistic details with abstract light and shadow, inviting the viewers to discover new vantage points of the world around them.

Website: www.yingmclane.com
Email: artistymc@gmail.com

Rachelle Meagher, All original contemporary, textural, abstract paintings. Modern to transitional coastal themes/color palette.
Website: RMArtsStudio.com
Studio: 6230 Shirley St. #925, Naples, FL 34109

Peter Meehan is a member of Naples Senior Center, where he attends watercolor and acrylic classes. He uses the pen name of “Birdman Pete”.
To Contact Peter Meehan,
call the UAC 239-254-8242

Adorable Monique. In my bold, vibrant palette, my work invites you to look for meaning beyond color. The themes are a recurring focus on identity and cultural heritage, tangible and not tangible. In my art, I intend to convey the core value of the spirit of nature, my inspiration through the beauty found in each context, and the appreciation of the noble values of life.
art.adorablemonique@gmail.com
Website: http://adorablemonique.jimdo.com/

Varick Niles paints in oil, watercolor and acrylic. Like Impressionists she prefers plein air painting to studio work and strives to portray the essence of the subject with loose brushstrokes and expressive colors. She tries to capture the transitory mood of the time and place. Niles’ work is available in the form of greeting cards representing the beautiful flora and fauna of Florida.
(239) 261-9592
Website: www.varickniles.com/varick/

Christy Noonan I think of myself as an abstract painter. My vision in painting is to bridge the physical forms in Nature with the formulas of movement and light on canvas.
I studied Art at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and later continued my formal studies through the N.Y. Studio school workshops, in Naples and with Hollis Jeffcoat, once Director of the Paris Division and founder of The Silver Tree School of Painting and Drawing.
As an artist, “The need is for the connection to nature within ourselves; only then can we understand how to act towards nature outside ourselves.”
Website: ChristyNoonanArt.com

Nancy Nowak is an impressionistic landscape painter working in pastel and oils. Both a plein air and studio painter, Nancy is known to creatively paint a variety of subjects, from boats and beaches to outside markets and cityscapes. She is best known to take mundane everyday scenes and elevate it to bring out it’s intrinsic beauty. Based out of Naples, FL and is a highly sought after instructor.
404-630-5563
Email: nancy@nancynowak.com
Website: www.nancynowak.com

Julie Siler Olander is inspired by nature. She paints landscapes, seascapes, still life, portraits and even abstraction. Her work is known for its beautiful color and composition.
(239) 948-9695 julieolander@comcast.net
Website: www.juliesilerolander.com

Tara O’Neill is an oil painter whose pieces depict regional scenes created with bold brush strokes and vivid colors.
(239) 642-0528
Website: www.taraogallery.com/

Kathleen Owczarski (KO), a pastelist, developed a style that renders the subject in a realistic yet impressionist manner. Delicate, soft-blended vivid colors and various tonal values present a gentle romantic elegance to her images. Her goal: to create intrinsic value on an emotional and artistic level to the viewer. In addition to art, “KOPINZO” is the brand for her unique line of ladies custom clothing & accessories. She designs and sews at her Naples home.
With an MBA in Marketing & Arts Certification, The Kopinzo Group, LLC offers marketing strategy & creative services.

Morgan T. Paine paints with clear acrylic medium on found objects and air. He is program leader and associate professor of art at Florida Gulf Coast University, and founding member of the university’s art department.
(239) 590-7164
mpaine@fgcu.edu

Gilles Peltier – Acrylic Sculptures Expressed in 2-D Art, on the computer, with a pad and pen, Gilles had created a landscape and environment using Digital Art. He then incorporated his birds, fish and other subjects that he had previously carved in Acrylic over the ears creating a new and impressive 2-D image reminiscent of his popular and well know Acrylic creations. These memorable and unique images are printed on Aluminum, Canvas, or Acrylic. This is a complement to his sculptures and it opens a new market in his memory. A limited edition of only 150 prints will be made of each of his drawings.
Email: huguette@gillespeltier.com
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NiMara Price‘s artistic endeavors encompass multiple mediums and styles from representational oil on canvas still lifes, portraits and landscapes to abstract acrylic on canvas contemporary pieces to charcoal and pencil portraits. NiMara’s inspiration for painting springs from the character and stories of people and settings around her and the classical techniques of the old masters; Da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio. Her great joy is to research and learn to use time tested techniques of these masters to capture inspiration in oil on canvas. She has received instruction and education at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Vitruvian School and the Palette and Chisel Academy of Art in Chicago as well as under the tutelage of David Leffel, Diana Rath and Toula Vivilakis.
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Gail Trent Risner‘s newest passion explores shape, color and composition in bold abstract acrylic paintings. She spent years as a muralist in Chicago, then moved to Naples and began painting landscapes, seascapes and quaint cottages, along with large scale florals. You may see her in action during Third on Canvas in February 2019.
For additional information or to schedule a visit to her private studio cal or email.
Phone: 239-398-9920
Email: GailRisner@yahoo.com
Website: GailTrentRisner.com

Gareth Rockliffe: “There is a distinctive style that threads its way through Gareth’s work which is a mix of both beauty and emotion and invites the viewer to that exact spot…that suspended magical moment in time.”

Whit Harris Robbins: Winner of Georgia’s Bicentennial Medal, Whit Harris Robbins was born in Ohio and has been drawing and painting from an early aage. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and studied toward a Masters at Carnegie-Mellon, with extra studies at Cleveland Art Institute and Atlanta College of Art.
Contact the UAC to get connected with Whit Harris Robbins

William Patrick Saladino

Arturo Samaniego is an internationally recognized visual artist working in a range of media and styles, ranging from Contemporary realistic figurative, to mix media Abstract. He is the recipient of many national awards, and his work has been published by International Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, Juxtapoze, Florida Design Magazine and more.
Website: www.SamaniegoAbstract.com
Gallery: Samaniego Art
2220 J and C Blvd unit 6
Naples, FL 34109

Jo-Ann Sanborn‘s acrylic paintings focus on the Florida landscape. Her strong
compositions and uncommon colors bring simplicity and integrity to her work.
(239) 404-9179
Website: http://joannsanborn.com

Patrice Schelkun is a contemporary realist painter working in oils. Her work is informed by a professional background as a muralist and stained glass window designer. Her recent work focuses on portraiture and the costumed figure in nature.
Website: patriceschelkun.com
Instagram: @schelkun_studio_art

Laurél Schmid is an International Fine Artist and loves to express her connection with nature through her artwork. Wether the paint is applied thin and translucent or thick with a palette knife she allows her instincts to take over until the right balance of depth and intrigue is achieved.
Her work is represented by Galleries in Grand Cayman, and can also be viewed at her Gallery/Studio in the Naples Art District located at 5760 Shirley St. Studio 15 Naples 34109
Email: Laurel@LaurelSchmidArt.com
Website: LaurelSchmidArt.com
Phone: 239-789-3823

Ruthe A. Sholler, It has always been my passion to interpret my view, of everything I enjoy, through the process of painting and teaching. The process excites me, whether it’s Painting with Pastels,Oils,Water Colors or Monotype Printmaking. Sharing these different experiences with my students, of all ages, has been my goal and distinct pleasure for many years. My paintings and Monotype Prints have received numerous awards from Massachusetts to Florida and are in many private collections.They have been viewed in a variety of publications.

Ruthe A. Sholler
rasholler@gmail.com
239-221-7183

Tammra Sigler‘s Expressionistic oil paintings and prints feature figural, floral, dogs, abstract dreamscapes and conceptual themes. This award winning artist’s work is collected by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. She works and teaches in Naples and Baltimore.
(239) 593-4588 or (239) 821-1017
Website: www.tammrasigler.com

Beth Sistrunk’s oil paintings are full of wonders that fool the eye. A delicate balance of contrasting light and shadow set a dramatic stage where three dimensional frills and wispy colors of beautiful seashells are revealed. We invite you to closely examine her paintings; you never know what you might find.
239-293-4904
Website: www.bethsistrunk.com/

Sandy Smyth After giving away all of my art supplies to a devastated school Louisiana, I began to paint with digital tools on my computer. I love to play with colors and enjoy painting digital abstracts, tropical landscapes and people’s faces. Eleven of my digital works have been shown at the East West Fine Art gallery at Bigham Galleria in Naples.
E: sandy.smyth70@gmail.com
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Karen Stone. Impressionistic landscapes, both en pléin air and in the studio. Colorful, interpretive paintings executed both in soft pastel and oil. I’m recognized as a “beach painter” and express my enthusiasm for that subject and others that take me outdoors.
239-560-9569; ksstone8@earthlink.net
www.artgalleryoldnaples2.com

Madeline Sugerman, use of encaustic, oil, mixed media, arcylic, watercolor and photography creates an juxtaposition of color, movement and pattern creating a composition that is vibrant and thought provoking. 404-275-3245, madeline@madelinesugerman.com, Website: http://MadelineSugerman.com

Vicky Tesmer is a well known contemporary artist who chooses nature as subject matter whether it be landscape, still life, or figurative. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a scholarship and fellowship to study in Versailles, France at Ecole de Beaux Artes. Trained classically, she searches for the mystical essence of life and in the mand subject matters she stages.
Website: VickyTesmer.com

Gloria Cocco Topczynski enjoys using acrylics with sometimes loose or precise brushstrokes to interpret her subjects. She finds her inspiration from the beach, landscapes, flowers and sill life. Her goal is for the viewer to be excited by the color and subject matter.
(239)262-5748

Deborah Vahab – “After moving to Florida from NY, I began adding florals and nature into my repertoire but my style varies with my mood and what’s happening in and around me. Lack of a consistent style and subject matter has been an obstacle in the past, now I see it as an asset.”
Website: ArtDeborahVahab.com

Margie White is an oil painter with an eye for color and light in her impressionistic landscapes and portraits. Margie serves on the Board of Directors of Naples Art.
Website: MargieWhiteArt.com

Wendy Wagner is an artist who finds truth and inspiration through realism. Her aim is to strive for honesty~ to portray what is sincere, felt, poetic. Through portraiture, her goal is to capture the essence of the sitter, either with red chalk, or paint. She has been recognized by both the Portrait Society of America and the Art Renewal Center. She teaches online and in person. Her private studio is in Naples as part of the Art @ Amaze Gallery. 6210 Shirley St. Suite 108

Website: http://www.wendywagnerart.com
Email: wendywagnerart@yahoo.com

Lynne B. Wilcox. Pastels create paintings of intense color, dramatic light, and subtle shading. Finding nuances of light and intricacies of pattern thrill me as I work in my studio in Old Naples. Still life, flowers, landscapes….truly, the joy is in the creating!
941-587-4040, lbwai@embarqmail.com
www.artgalleryoldnaples2.com

Photographers

Col. William C. Boling, three plus decades of service in the US Air Force helped me pursue two lifelong passions, photography and travel. Photographic specialties include landscape, wildlife and macro. I have been fortunate to exhibit and present my work to groups here in Naples and elsewhere. Plans are underway for a website and commercial venture in the near future. The accompanying photograph was taken in the Serengeti, East Africa while on safari, 2019.
For Col. William C. Boling’s contact information, call the UAC: 239-254-8242

Clyde Butcher‘s black and white photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment. For more than 40 years, he has been preserving on film the untouched landscapes. His images are captured with an 8×10, 11×14 and 12×20 view camera. His photographs range in size from 8×10 inches to 5×8 feet.
(239) 695-2428
Website: www.clydebutcher.com/

Christine Cook‘s award winning photographic art is known for its dramatic scenes and fascinating characters, both human and animal. Her images evoke thought and emotion from the viewer. Enjoy longed-for vistas, interesting characters, imaginary places and intense beauty.
216-536-3343
cliffchristine@gmail.com
www.christinecookphotography.com

West Friedman‘s photography shares views of nature and the world around with an emphasis on different ways of seeing the usual. westfriedman@optonline.net

Piotr Gorski – “My photography is about being present. My photographs will take you on the journey through moments which I had amazing opportunity and a privilege to experience and capture. I am known for black and white landscape photography with dramatic looking clouds, amazing sunsets with vibrant colors and wildlife which shares with us every moment on this amazing planet. Trees are also another big subject which viewer will have opportunity to experience in my photographs. Tree as a life and growth, wisdom, the ancient symbol to represent physical and spiritual nourishment.”
Website:www.piotrgorskifineartphotography.com

Marc Harris, wildlife photographer known for his extraordinary portrayal of wildlife in the “wild”. His depictions of nature, animal behavior and cycles of our natural world reflect a rare insight into the biodiversity of life that exist in varied habitats and ecosystems, most notably throughout Florida and the Everglades.
Website: MarcHarrisWildlife.com

Chrissy Lush
Photography and pastel work that explores the human relationship to the natural environment.
Website: ChrissyLush.com

Mory Machado, is an amateur photographer who enjoys capturing, A MOMENT IN TIME! This hobby allows her to stay present and relish what the earth has to offer. Favorites are wildlife, nature and landscapes. Her biggest reward is to create a print that captures the eye of the beholder and transcends their senses.
Custom sizes on Canvas, Acrylic or Framed. Contact
Instagram: @picollexion
Email: morymachado@gmail.com

Michael McLean‘s main focus in his photography is in creating images of the natural world, wildlife, landscapes and natures. Any time I can be out in the swamp, woods, or mountains, I am in my happy place. His more recent works are beginning to include abstract imagery and city scapes.
www.MaxPhotoAndImaging.zenfolio.com

Doug Poe “My photography journey has taken me from a simple hobby as a kid to the present digital age and social media outlets where I can share my photography vision with others to enjoy.”
Website: www.DougPoePhotography.com

Gary Roche
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Dr. Jane Ruprecht‘s photos cover a variety of genres. Landscapes, macro, flowers and many “decorator” ioeces are available. Outstanding shots that are represented in many shows, NCH hospital and many homes in and around Naples.
239.860.5851
drjane@earthlink.net
Website: www.drjanesphotoadventures.com

Miguel Salas, a dreamer and creative visionary, originally from Puerto Rico, began his early professional stages in television and broadcast production. He started as a News photographer for ABC, Telemundo, Univision, and The Golf Channel, among other television networks. He then ventured to the seven seas where he worked as Head Broadcast Technician for Royal Caribbean Cruise lines. Currently, he is a Miami based Photographer and Filmmaker.
Website: www.MiguelSalasPhoto.com

Wayne Sakamoto is an avid photographer and former United Arts Council board member. He worked as photo editor for several newspapers in Southern California. In 1984 he served as Photo Marshall for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Wayne also organized a photo essay and exhibit called “A Day in the Life of Chico, California” and donated all photos to the City of Chico. He is a prolific photographer sharing his work on Instagram. He has printed his photography on paper, fabric, glass and metal.
To get in touch with Wayne, contact the UAC 239-254-8242

Jane Saull‘s mission as an artist is to take her viewer on a thought provoking journey into the underwater realm. The medium of underwater digital photography challenges the eye and brain to perceive the familiar and unfamiliar in extraordinary ways.
261-379-9123
jsaull9519@aol.com

Karen Shulman‘s portfolio called “Window Dressing ” is a blend of creativity and imagination that forms a unique piece of art. She uses the reflection off the glass to form a combination of the interior of a window and the exterior world outside.
Her other portfolios reflect her desire to freeze the light and capture the beauty of the world in front of her. Once the camera is in her hands she slows down and falls captive to the world of observation.
www.KShulman.com

Jeremy Sterk has found a way to express his lifelong interests in the ocean and its environs and photography. An avid scuba diver and environmental consultant, he photographed landscapes and wildlife for many years but really fell in love with underwater photography about five years ago.
Website: www.JeremySterk.com

Cynthia Taft looks for human connections in her street and urban scenes, celebrating moments of shared emotions. Whether in Naples or New York City or other cities, her photographs capture interesting light, urban design, and architecture to highlight the beauty of the scene and convey the emotion of people connecting and living their lives.
Email: ctaft430@gmail.com
Website: www.cynthiataft.smugmug.com

RJ Wiley is an award winning wildlife, landscape and portrait photographer. Fine art Photography as well as photographic artwork highlighting scenic places and wildlife in SWFL. Wiley’s work is carried in over 20 outlet as well as the areas largest stock images website.
(239) 992-6367
RJWileyphoto@comcast.net
Website

Ceramics

Tracy Gurdian creates hand made one of a kind functional art (Tovari Platters), Raku and melted glass eccentricities. She uses lace from her European travels for texture and then carefully glazes the pieces by adding or subtracting glaze from the relief. She also creates large Raku vessels and uses recycled melted glass.
Website: www.tovaridesigns.com
tovaridesigns@gmail.com

Karen E. Harris: I sculpt in clay and paint with alcohol inks/pastels. Clay allows me to manipulate into gestures or impressions, hoping you will have your own story or interpretation.
Phone: 239-398-4595
Emai: Tootsie4753@yahoo.com

Dusty Holmes works with stoneware clay. Her pieces are hand built, using a slab which she painstakingly molds and shapes using various tools and techniques, giving her pieces form, function and beauty. Dusty says ” my work is greatly influenced by Mother Nature. I find the lines and textures found in nature are very complimentary to the clay itself.”
239-304-5258
Website: www.dustyholmes.vpweb.com
dusty.beck@gmail.com

Annabelle Johnson is a potter who creates usable art – including dinnerware, mugs, pitchers, bowls, vases, baskets and candle holders. She is known for her tropical designs.
(239) 598-2529
annabelle@clayland.com
Website: Facebook

Jim Rice creates environmental pieces such as fireplaces, tiles, fountains, animals planters; place settings and serving bowls; and decorative pieces. he is well known for his colorful fish platters.
(239) 775-1078
Website: www.naplesclayplace.com/

Prints

Sculpture

Joan Eshkenazi‘s work is inspired by the mysteries and excitement inherent in the beauty of nature. She paints with oils or watercolors and sculpts with stoneware clay. I seek natural hues suggestive of the organic nature of the flora and fauna expressed in my forms.
(239) 592-6345
eshkenazi@aol.com
Website: joansart.weebly.com/

Angelika Kade. Sculptor & Painter.
(239) 304-5950
W4212@embarqmail.com
Website: www.carvetta.com

Jo-Ann Lizio, nationally respected and award winning abstract artist uses the physical aspects of flight and birds as influences in her work. You will find an investigation of the powerful force of flight with an expanded palette of abstract air and air-worthy subjects.
239.404.0475
atelierlizio@aol.com
Website: Biography

Michael McClellan opened 2 small galleries in Lakeville and New Bedford, MA to show his coastal Zen gardens. He calls it ‘interactive art’, as owners can recreate and style the pieces on a regular basis. Very therapeutic, the VA hospital is considering his gardens as therapy for vets with PTSD.

Gilles Peltier creates colorful, acrylic carvings of songbirds, waterfowl, wildlife, natural scenes and more.
(239) 775-7041
huguette@gillespeltier.com
Website: www.gillespeltier.com/

Richard W. Rosen is an award-winning, internationally-collected artist who creates vibrant raku clay abstract and figurative sculpture. Wall and pedestal sculpture on view at Rosen Studios, North Line Plaza, 2172 J&C Blvd., Naples, FL.
(239) 821-1061
rictra@earthlink.net
Website: www.facebook.com/richardwrosenart

Joel Shapses takes the classic art form of stone sculpture and transcends periods of time through his creative ability to meld contemporary design with whimsy and grace. His works are executed in marble, alabaster and mixed media works that combine neon and alabaster and can be seen at his studio & gallery at 6240 Shirley St. Naples, FL 34109 Suite #102 by app’t.
(954)830-3156
Website: www.joelshapsesstudio.com/

Carve Stone creates stone sculpture from marble, chlorite, and alabaster, having various bodies of work… women’s high heel shoes, pointe ballet slippers, female torsos, as well as continued collections of flowers, heart, and people.
Instagram: @CarveStone

Wood

Tollon Hines– My work is wood sculpting. My father was a sculptor and he taught me wood sculpting whine I was a child. After he passes I continued wood sculpting because it is my passion and it helps me to continue my father’s legacy.
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