Let Our Featured Artists Gallery Transform your Space through Canvas

Angela Zappala
Angela is a extremely talented emerging artist on the Raleigh scene. Her paintings evoke feelings of comfort, beauty and awe. Come in and see for yourself!

Paul Nikitchenko
Mr. Nikitchenko currently lives in Wilmington, NC. His beautiful paintings can be seen at our gallery through the summer! Please stop in to see our inventory.

Lisa Mathis The process of becoming one of the most well-known and beloved artists in her community, Lisa Mathis has inspired hundreds of adults and children to tap into the “inner-artist” that she truly believes we all possess. While Lisa takes pride in the many blue ribbons and accolades her work has garnered from local and regional art shows, it is through her teaching that she derives much satisfaction. Lisa states, “artists have been so kind to me to share what they have learned and it is my privilege and honor to pass that along to the other artists coming behind me.”

Michelle Snead
Raleigh artist Michelle Snead balances her painting time between commissioned portraits and other works, including landscapes and florals. Portraiture became her passion more than twenty years ago because of her fascination with people of all ages. Though her commissions include distinguished professionals, judges and ministers, she is best known for her sensitive paintings of children, capturing their expressions from innocence to playful exuberance. Snead was a recent finalist in the Portrait Society of America’s tri-state competition, and she keeps a steady backlog of direct commissions and referred projects by her national representative, Portraits South. Between portraits, Snead receives inspiration by setting up her easel outdoors and painting landscapes. Her portrayals of nature are rendered in both oil and pastel and are characterized by vibrant color and expressive brushwork. Her most recent solo show this spring, titled “Nature Unfurled”, was very successful and consisted of approximately fifty paintings. “As an artist I am privileged to present the splendor, the harmony and the mystery of God’s canvas,” she said.

Lloyd Skidmore
The late Lloyd Skidmore was a multi-media Renaissance Man. He recalls painting and drawing among his earliest memories. As a teen, he drove headlong into the music scene as front man for a Georgia rhythm and blues band. And now following an eclectic legacy of restaurants, nightclubs, assorted environments, pageants, parades and other special events, he has come full circle to vent his artistic imagination with the basic tools of paint and canvas. Armed simply with a half-inch brush, he’s declaring war on boredom, drab-ness and mediocrity.

Martha Cristel
Cristel is a self-taught artist that developed her technique through the use of unorthodox tools, including knifes and self made brushes that allow her to create special effects. Martha was born in Lima, Peru in the sixties, and spent most of her life in the capital. She is the sister of another renowned contemporary painter, with whom she shares her professional secrets. Her work evoques the clarity and freshness of a watercolor. Her technique allows her to be prolific; however, she tends to go through “dry periods” quite often. Although she recently started showing in the US, the acceptance of her work has been grandiose.

David Taylor
David C. Taylor is a realist painter who plans his paintings with particular attention to the play of light and shadow and perspective. He enjoys painting all subjects and his body of work includes portraits, pet portraits, interiors, still lifes, and even an abstract or two. During the last year, he has had the good fortune to create a series of dance paintings and drawings of the fabulously talented dancers of the Carolina Ballet. David was a librarian for thirty-six years, but in his heart he has always been an author and an artist. When he retired in 2002, he began to devote full time to painting, taking classes and lessons from Jane Filer, Steven Silverleaf, Lorrie Callahan, and Erick Davis, at the Arts Center in Carrboro, North Carolina. Examples of David C. Taylor’s work may be seen at www.davidctaylorart.com. David works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife, Betsy Taylor. David C. Taylor 422 Ridgefield Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27517 919 967 7697

Yvonne Mora
Yvonne Mora was born in Lima, Peru, in 1959. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1985 and has held a very active career since. She considers herself an expressionist painter with a strong influence from the masters, Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Sorolla. A very secure brushstroke and a rigorous composition characterize her expressionism. Her painting is full of color, light and life, according to her. Yvonne Mora has always been known for her independence. She had to struggle during art school because of her originality. Subsequently, she had a hard time with local dealers because of her singular style. But well deserved recognition did not take long to arrive. As soon as art dealers from the United States and Japan began to pay attention to her work, she was in hot demand. Mora claims that her travelling to Japan and the USA has enriched her painting with universal elements that allow her to transcend the barriers of a regional expression. Mora has visited North America several times and affirms she has not seen so much interest in art as in the US.

Patricia Pittman
Native of Atlanta , GA. Attended Stephens College, Columbia, MO and a Mississippi State Alumna. She works in Colored Pencil, Pastels,Acrylics, Water Colors, Oils and has studied the Classical Approach to Oils by the Masters. She is a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, the North Carolina Colored Pencil Society Chapter 114, Pastel Society of North Carolina, Water Color Society of North Carolina, the Portrait Society of America, Visual Art Exchange, The Fine Art League of Cary and the Triangle Artist Guild.She has exhibited her work in juried and non juried shows with commissioned works in NC, TN, MS, MD, FLA, and ISRAEL. She specializes in Landscapes, Portraits, Still Lifes and Classical Reproductions.

Artists that she has studied under and or done workshops with: Bonnie Auten, Rocky Alexander, Frank Covino, Toni Cappel, Barbara Gill, Albert Handell, Diane Johnson, Robert Liberace, Nicole White Kennedy, Ann Kullberg, Kritsty Kutch, Marvin Mattelson, Rick McClure, Susan Sarback, Timothy Tyler, Luana Luconi Winner, Dawn Whitelaw