Artist Profile Lolita Dickinson is a native of South Alabama and currently resides on Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama.  She works in various mediums and produces both realistic and semi-abstract works of art.  Having grown up near the Mobile area, her work often

Artist Profile Sherry grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi where she was encouraged by family and teachers to pursue a career in art. After studies and a degree in graphic design from USM and UAH, she worked in the printing and magazine industry, then on

Artist Profile EDUCATION: University of North Carolina MFA and BFA (Drawing, Painting, Printmaking) Vermont Studio Center, Arrowmont Arts and Craft, University of Tennessee. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Adjunct Professor High Point University NC, Adjunct Professor University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Artist Profile Stig has been a professional, dedicated artist creating original works in pen and ink and watercolors for over 20 years. His prints are some of the most popular works at festivals, and when he sells his watercolor prints he hand paints each

Artist Profile Individuals shaped and molded by life’s joys as well as trials-individuals characterized by their permanence, by their ability to endure-it is these individuals who inhabit the artistic world of Dale Rayburn’s paintings and etchings. Although the artistic world inhabited by these

Artist Profile Billy Solitario was born in Manhattan Beach, California in 1972. His family then moved to Gautier, Mississippi located on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1994, Billygraduated from the University of South Florida with a B.F.A. in painting. After graduation he moved to New

Artist Profile My Pieces use a loose approach, colorful palette, and a depth of perspective-allowing viewers to be drawn into the painting. I’m equally comfortable painting landscape, seascapes, or abstract expressionism. Raised in Mississippi, one of two children, it was there I first

Artist Profile Realist painter Curtis Stewart Jaunsen was raised in Atlanta, Georgia.  He attended  the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was awarded both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Architecture. For many years, Curtis worked as both an architect and an artist, moving

Artist Profile A longtime resident of New Orleans, multi-award-winning, representational artist Glinda Schafer has fallen in love with the beauty of the surrounding marshlands and landscapes. A love of water has always been a major source of inspiration and a recurring theme in

Artist Profile Louisiana native Lue Svendson is a painter and a landscape architect. Lue’s work in paint and nature exist worldwide in Dubai, Costa Rica, and the United States. Born in 1952, Lue was influenced to think creatively from a young age. Since

Artist Profile Born in Northeast Texas, I spent most of my life in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and have since retired in Biloxi, MS with my wife, Belinda, who is from Ocean Springs, MS.  I believe I have been blessed with a God-given

Artist Profile Linda Dragonette -Is an award-winning artist whose work is in many private and corporate collections. Having lost most of her vision due to a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa, she has had to change the way she paints many times.

Artist Profile Frank Janca is a modern—day master in the truest sense. His impressionist canvases display an emulation of the Baroque and Renaissance Masters married with a refined individual style. Janca insists on personal involvement in every aspect of his paintings. Dissatisfied with

Artist Profile Bruce Seabolt is a resident artist of Ocean Springs. His paintings depict the life and scenes of Mississippi and the Gulf Coast in general. They have won awards from the Ocean Springs Art Association Exhibitions as well as the Singing River Art Association

Artist Profile  Fascination With Light Against Dark “I was born and raised in the Gulf South.  We wrote the book on summer:  crushing humidity that plumps our wrinkles and keeps us good-lookin’ past our time; billions of bugs that attract an amazing diversity

Artist Profile Being a first generation American Chinese, Mamie Joe was originally encouraged to be an artist by her grandfather, who was an artist himself. Her parents, however, wanted her to be involved in a more lucrative field such as science or medicine. But

Artist Profile She cannot remember a time when art was not a part of her life… Now Dot Courson is a full-time artist whose award winning paintings can be found in fine art collections all over the US and abroad. In 2014 Dot has been asked

Susan Patton is a professional artist residing in North Mississippi. She is also a Registered Physical Therapist but has put that profession aside for a season to pursue her passion for art. Susan and her mother, artist Dot Courson, represented Mississippi artists at the 2008 Presidential Debate media reception at Oxford, MS,

Artist Profile I was born in the Mississippi Delta and spent my youth in a small city bordered by two rivers that run in opposite directions, Greenwood. Most of my life has been spent in the Mississippi Delta, the Jackson area and the

Artist Profile Plein Air Artist Phil Sandusky is a nationally renowned plein air impressionist landscape and cityscape painter who has had more than 30 solo exhibitions in New Orleans and across the country. Though he is also an accomplished portrait and figure painter,

Artist Profile 1943, I was born… in a small farm community near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I spent my childhood with both parents and four brothers. I was the middle child. My farm chores consisted of the usual daily stuff for kids: Feed the 500

Artist Profile "Although my paintings are representational, they are often not literal translations of their subject matter. The subject can also be a metaphor for an emotion or memory from my own particular and distinctive experience as a woman – wife, mother as

Artist Profile Watercolor Artist I began painting at around age 15, with a lot of encouragement from my Mother. At age 17 she enrolled me in a class taught by Prof Charles Ambrose from our local university (The University of Southern Mississippi) The class

Artist Profile Johannes Vloothuis is an award-winning artist who has been published in numerous journals and magazines such as Pastel Journal, Artists Magazine, and Watercolor Magazine. He has taught live online art workshops and has published several art magazines as well as a book entitled Landscape

Artist Profile Gulf Shores based abstract artist, Missy Carey, has been honing her artistic skills since 2013. Originally an Interior Decorator from Tennessee, Missy blended her artistic abilities with her love for decorating, and created her dream career. Growing up in West Tennessee,

Artist Profile BFA Auburn University Faith graduated from Auburn in 1983. After graduation she spent the next twenty years traveling the country with her husband and three sons. She and her family have settled here in Ocean Springs. Faith uses her talent by