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MEMBER GALLERIES

Sandie has lived eleven years at Lake Norman in Mooresville with her husband Tom and their cats. Sandie is an active member of MAG and the Lake Norman Art League. She attended Columbus College of Art & Design Ohio. She attended workshops/classes with Zoltan Szabo, Sterling Edwards, Linda Kemp, and Phil Garrett. She studied pastel painting with master pastelist George Thompson. www.sandiebellart.com

Ginny Boyd

Ginny is an artist and instructor, and has worked in many mediums. Her current media is monoprinting with sewn collage elements. Her latest hypostasis is based on the stereotypes of Southern women. Why are Southern women considered simple, sweet, and “given to the vapors” when, if fact they are complicated, tart, and as subtle as barbed wire? Visit Ginny's site www.silvermosquito.com

Stan Coveleski

Stan Has been sketching and drawing for as long as he can remember. He enjoys graphite pencil, colored pencil, and pen & ink. He especially enjoys drawing intricate detail and has a penchant for abstract. He has been experimenting with collage and watercolor and is happily translating his view of the world from pen to paper.

Susan Damico

Susan is mostly self-taught but has studied with many artists including John Salimenien, Sterling Edwards, Brenda Mattson and Mooresville’s own talented artist Tiffany Fox. “I am very detail oriented and have immersed myself into learning everything that I can to improve and add to my artistic ability. I love to paint anything that provokes an emotion and reaction within me”.

Barbara Earnshaw

Barbara is a full time artist working in watercolor and oil. A great influence on her work has been her association with Jeff Webb, an acclaimed artist and personal friend. She is a past member of several art organizations in New York, Florida and Mississippi and is currently a member of both the Ocean Springs Art Association and the Singing River Art Association in Mississippi

Janie Gaylord

Janie was born in Wilmington NC, and attended UNC Greensboro with a BSHE. Her career in art began in NJ. She moved with her husband, and daughters to PA where she discovered watercolors with artist Dennis Minch and acrylics and oil with with Marge Andruk. In NC Janie attended workshops with Pat Weaver, Barbara Nechis, Susanne Peck and Sterling Edwards. Janie has been an active MAG member since 1996

Leo Gordon

Leo is a self-taught oil painting artist.
He started painting about 25 years ago after injuring himself while playing basketball. He was required to stay off his feet unless using crutches. Because he would not stay off his feet, his wife took away the crutches. Confined to sitting, he started watching Bill Alexander on TV. Leo quickly found he had a natural touch
Leo paiints wild animals, birds, friend's pets, floral arrangements and landscapes. Visit www.leogordonart.com

Angela Van Every Johnston

Angela resides in Mooresville, North Carolina and New Mexico, both places she is passionate about. The water at Lake Norman gives her tranquility and the open space in New Mexico gives her inspiration. She has studied under many well know artists and sold her work throughout the United States. Angela is married and has five children and five grandchildren who give her an enormous amount of inspiration and support. Visit www.vaneveryart.com

Tom Klumb

Tom has been messing around with digital photography since 1985. He is a retired Engineering Technology Teacher. One of his subjects was Auto Cad and that kind of launched him off in the digital direction. "I like taking pictures of mountains and sunsets. Its great to get up in the morning and catch a sun rise casting all its long shadows across a valley of trees. We are truly blessed to live in a state like North Carolina that gives us so much to be thankful for."

Nell Landers

Nell was born and raised in Pennsylvania and spent many years in West Virginia as a High School Art teacher. Her interests are varied and she has enjoyed working with stained glass, watercolors, and oils. Her new loves are wood turning and pastels. Nell moved to the Lake Norman area several years ago and enjoys the Mooresville Artist Guild and Wood Turning classes at the Ice House in Davidson

Mary Luke

Mary is basically a self-taught artist working in Oils since 1965, in Acrylics since 1978 and Watercolors since 1980. Watercolor has been her main media ever since. She has also studied under many well known local, regional and nationally known artists. Her current interests are structures with textures, old doors and her current favorite, windows. Mary also enjoys regional scenes.

Dino Maglic

Dino, born in Ljubljana, began drawing at a young age and began entering his art into art shows at the age of eight. He won first place at the MAG Youth Art Show three years in a row. And first place in the Women’s Club Student Art Show and the Statesville District. His drawing “Pacino” won first place in the state. Last year he won first place in the state and went on to win second place in the nation for “Reflection.” He is currently a student at East Carolina University majoring in Biochemistry with a minor in Math.

Goran Maglic

Goran has been painting and drawing since early childhood. In 1997 Goran began working with copper relief and found he had a passion for the medium he also paints in oil and acrylic. Goran came to the United States with his family in 2000 in search of a better life. He says that adapting to the American environment was hard and getting his art back on track was even harder. Today Goran specializes in copper relief. His subject matter ranges from landscapes to abstracts.

Pat McGuire

Pat is part of the McGuire team. Both avid photographers, they agree that Pat is the more artistic half of the duo. She enjoys a fledgling career as wedding photographer, a passion discovered when the daughter of a friend found herself without a photographer less than a week before her wedding. Pressed into service at the last minute, Pat and Wayne did their best. To their utter amazement, the resulting album was a huge success and they found themselves launched into a whole new world of opportunities. www.heritage-dr.com

Michael McNeilly

Michael was born in NE Ohio and has lived in North Carolina for the last 21 years. He has enjoyed wood working for over 15 years. In 2005 he was introduced to wood turning by David Kaylor and has been turning ever since.

John Melius

John is originally from Richmond, Virginia, and besides woodturning, is an independent insurance agent in Mooresville, NC. He has been woodturning for three years. He studied under Alan Hollar, a professional woodturner from Crossnore, NC. At the Klingspore Expo in October, 2005, he won a blue ribbon for pens and a yellow ribbon for bottle stoppers. John's work "Double Jeopardy" won first place in the MAG 25th Annual Artoberfest in October.

Bart Mauceri, Jr.

Bart was certified as a photojournalist and worked as a stringer photographer for local newspapers. As a photojournalist, Bart says, “ I found photographing an assortment of subjects ranging from community events, private functions, adver- tisement for small businesses, and even lighthouses and maritime subjects...fulfilling." Bart released “The Mauceri Gallery” available here.

Jeremy Morgan

Jeremy was born and raised in Dalton Georgia. In High School Jeremy trained in the areas of advertising design, silk screening, illustrating, and photography. He learned the aspects of preparing for reproduction, computer graphics and desktop publishing. He was art Director and Instructor at BRICK by BRICK, a community organization. Jeremy also taught illustration, art concepts and cartooning to 6-8 grade students. http://jerostmayhem.deviantart.com

Penny Overcash

Penny's love of nature and the complexity of the human experience keep her pushing beyond beauty and common imagery to more spiritual and fantastical, mythological avenues of exploration. Her focus is to create sculpture that stirs the soul and reminds us of how beautiful and magical the world around us can be. The desire to have a very individual voice through clay keeps her work evolving as does all life around her.

Ellen Patterson

Ellen studied art at the University of Arkansas at Monticello with an emphasis in metal/three dimensional work in silver and gold and copper enameling. Recently she has studied watercolor painting locally with Carol Ann Whitmore-Herring and Edrie Knight and at Springmaid Beach Watermedia Workshops with Jean Grastorf and Alex Powers.

Judy Rider

Judy is a watermedia artist living in Hickory. Currently she is a watercolor technique teacher for Catawba Valley Community College and Hickory Museum of Art. She is a member of WSNC, SWS, Piedmont Painters and MAG. Although Judy works mainly in watercolor, she also creates mixed media and collage.

Leena Rosentreter

Leena was born and grew up in Finland. She moved to the U.S. in 1984 when she married her husband Eric. Leena is mostly self-taught in art although she has taken a few drawing and watercolor classes over the years. She likes to draw portraits in graphite and lately also in colored pencil. I also paint still life and landscapes in watercolor and pastel.

Cathy Sigmon

Cathy is a self-taught artist, and works from her studio in Faith, NC. She works in colored pencil, WC and acrylics. Cathy is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, and has participated in CPSA international exhibitions in San Diego, Detroit and Houston. Her work is included in "The Best of Colored Pencil 4", published by Rockport. www.cathysigmon.com

Mary Setzer

Mary Setzer has lived and worked in North Carolina most of her life. Primarily self-taught, Mary has taken classes and workshops with area artists and studied various media at Central Piedmont Community College.
Mary’s choice of subject matter and her choice of the medium for each work is determined by the subject. She has won awards in both painting and photography.

Cheri Simmons

Cheri says her days are filled with taking care of her home, yard and gardens, helping friends and neighbors and volunteering at MAG. In my spare time, I paint with oils. I’ve experimented with other mediums but my first love is oil. I love everything about them; the smell, the feel, the movement of the paint on the canvas. It’s a very freeing feeling to create just for creation’s sake. Visit www.cherisimmonsart.com

Lois Smith

Lois never took art classes, but accepted an invitation to go to an oil painting class in a nearby High School in Long Island, NY and got hooked. She studied watercolor under the well-known artist, Elaine Kane. When she moved to NC, she joined the Mooresville Artist Guild. Lois has been in the Guild for over 10 years and have served in many capacities throughout that time.

Rob Steele

Rob is a self-taught artist using primarily acrylics on canvas. He applies paints in unconventional methods rarely involving a brush. Inspired by Jackson Pollack, he prefers non-uniformity and wild imagination. Rob aspires to achieve true abstract pieces where colors and shapes bring appreciation as opposed to formal interpretation. “To me it’s all about pure enjoyment for the eyes.”

Roberta Tindall

Roberta was drawn to pastels because of the brilliant color and flexible nature of the medium. Her works generally reflect still-life subjects with bold, close-in design and bright use of color. Compositions hope to portray common objects uniquely, capturing the image in a modified “photo-realistic” manner. Roberta is semi-retired and works as a consultant for non-profit organizations.

Tony Walters

Tony displayed 20 of his watercolor paintings at the Depot. He received praise from family, friends and people who viewed his work. Tony started painting in 1996 after a couple of back surgeries forced his retirement. His doctor suggested he find a hobby. His daughter provided watercolor paints and paper and said "Paint!" So he did.