Our Artists

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Judi is British born, Canadian raised and after much traveling now resides where she'd dreamed of for 40 years, namely Venice, FL.  She is a featured artist at the Marietta Museum of Art & Whimsy in Sarasota, Fl. and is a founding member of the Cottage Gallery.

After a lifetime of drawing fantasy characters and sculpting, Judi now creates whimsical characters and florals full time for the purpose of inspiring, uplifting and " Ramping up the Happiness Factor."  

She works in ink pointillism, or stipple, watercolor and some mixed media.  She is inspired by what she calls her "Up-line Connection", comes from her heart and hopefully stirs the joyful magic that lives in us all.

Website: www.lighttouchart.com

When Mary retired as an executive she discovered her passion and talent for painting. Her nature-inspired creations radiate color and energy.  She delights in mixing inks, acrylics, texture, paper, resin and metal for unique, vibrant effects.  

Painting is a spiritual expression for Mary. Her favorite pieces start with meditation for concept and allowing details to emerge via Spirit.

Art Totems, Ladders and Trays are just a few examples of her art that delight customers, who often say, "I have seen nothing like these pieces before!"

  www.HallerGallery.com

Email: mhaller529@gmail.com 

Deb says "Art is the human spirit made visible in whatever way it is expressed " (c)  She has worked with many mediums over the past five decades. 

Deb creates  a design and traces it onto sheets of aluminum.  She then cuts it out with a plasma cutting torch or sends it to the water jet.  She then grinds, forms, welds or fabricates to support the design.  She paints with automotive or acylic paints and seals so that her art is suitable for indoors or outdoors. 

www.dmaruccidesign.com

Passionate about color and working with her hands, Margaret started out creating mosaics.  Once she found polymer clay, she became even more expressive and experimental in her art.  

Now retired from the vacation rental business, she divides her time between New Hampshire and Venice. Margaret's full time artistic focus is in creating with polymer clay. 

Before curing, Margaret blends the clay into the desired colors.  She then rolls, shapes, twists, cuts and forms her designs.  Her designs are so detailed they are sometimes mistaken as painted works! 

 www.MargaretLacosteDesigns.com

Born and raised in Germany, Rita came to the US as an exchange student and earned her BFA from USF and MFA from FSU. She has been a professional artist for more than 40 years.

She is a show artist, an educator, a mother, a grandmother, a gardener and amateur musician.

Rita creates mixed media paintings applying textured compounds as an under layment, adding found objects for depth and sealing with resin.  She works with oils, acrylics and enamels  in combination with natural pigments such as sand, ground bark or floral extracts, cutting her own tiles and building her own wood frames.

Website: www.ritaschwabfinearts.com

For over 5 decades, Terrance has explored through his artwork, man's  part in the universal scheme of things. He says his "color soaked paintings seek to draw the viewer to that joyful plane our DNA brought us to exist on, between Earth and Spirit.  Between Myth and Mystery."

Terrence's oil or acrylic artworks often use big scoops of paint richly applied to canvas with combination of pallet knife and brush strokes. He teaches his students to be aware of each inner artist feeling while being aware of each outer artist brushstroke.

www.Terrencejoycegallery.com

Allyson calls Nokomis home, Connecticut her birthplace, but her hikes across America the place where she was reborn and inspired.

Allyson's photography reflects her spiritual connection to the natural world.  She is inspired by wide open vistas down to tiny hidden environments beneath our feet in the form of abstract photos.  Participating in conservation is one way she protects and preserves natural environments for all to enjoy them.

Agaluskaphoto@comcast.net