We are a cooperative, member-owned gallery. Our member artists are all professional, working artists… many are award-winning! Please take a look at their portfolios and contact the gallery if you would like to see more of their work.
“I started painting with oils and, occasionally acrylics, in 1967. As a self-taught artist, I focus almost entirely on traditional representational landscapes and seascapes, with a strong leaning toward realism done exclusively in oils.”
Career experiences in graphic design, advertising, and photography provided me the foundation to express my creativity in several mediums including oil, pastels and digital art design. I love to reimagine my original photographs into a work of art that may evoke an emotion that resonates within.
Vicki is a Florida native an award-winning fine artist and graphic designer. After studying with several local, published, and internationally known artists, Vicki has developed her own unique impressionistic abstract painting style. She enjoys applying dramatic light and bold colors to her landscapes along with subtle reflected light and mysterious darks that make her night scenes dramatic and exciting. Recently she has been focusing on photographing then painting local wetlands, giving an abstract edge to them.
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Nancy Crawford, a native of Ohio, has lived in Florida since 1948. She began her art career in 1970 after attending Brevard Community College and the Eliot McMurrough School of Art. Later, she was the Faculty Director and Instructor at the Eliot McMurrough School of Art.
“There is no better feeling than when someone makes a connection with your artwork. They may share your love of color or interest of subject matter or may not be able to explain their excitement at all. “Successful” art should excite the senses of the viewer…it does for me.”
“I am currently working in all forms of encaustic art and loving it. I have discovered encaustic monotypes and am enjoying the spontaneity, depth and the rich colors.”
“I look at everything in life as though I were going to paint it. Shadows, color, subject matter, how I can kick it up a notch? I love painting from nature and studying how sunlight and colors are really a combination of interacting abstract shapes creating a beautiful object. “
I love to paint a variety of subjects. Some of my paintings have real heart felt meaning. Some contain hidden images. Some are for the pure joy of expressing my love for nature, and her many magical colors. You will also find the reoccurring theme of water and the ocean in most of my work. Being a lifelong surfer, it’s what I know and love.
Lori enjoys painting realistically using bold colors and creating a sense of drama. She intensifies the use of color and contrast to create exciting works. Lori is an award winning artist and signature member of Florida Watercolor Society and Southern Watercolor Society.
A Wisconsin native, Jim previously lived in Florida, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, California. Brevard County became home in 2005. Photography and travel are two of the great passions in his life. As a result, he has covered much of the globe in well over forty years, always with camera in hand. While much of his work is travel inspired, most recently he has started capturing the beauty of his Florida home.
“As an artist, my focus is to try to capture the beauty of the world around us and interpret it according to my sensual and spiritual awareness. Whether representational or abstract, I would like my viewers to find a pleasant sanctuary in my paintings, where they can quietly reflect and discover a sense of relaxation and peace.”
“I am a figurative sculptor who likes to work in portraiture and the human form. Working in clay, plaster, stone or wax, the figure is my vehicle of expression. My goal is to utilize a creative language to express clearly my emotional response to the human condition. Approaching the human figure with great respect, I enjoy all stages of creation including the search, struggle, and discoveries.
