Individual Artists
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Alicia Burgess
Painter - Oil
Alicia is a Freelance Artist specializing in fine art and digital illustration and concept art. She has a Masters in Fine Arts and teaches oil painting and various subject matters and techniques in oil painting.
Amy Marr
Painter - Oil and Pastel
A lover of the seashore, Amy takes inspiration from the natural beauty of the oceanfront, bays and marshes and historic cities and towns.
Carol Russell
Painter - Acrylic and Watercolor
Carol's art career began when she retired as an educator. She loves to explore new ideas and techniques and takes great pleasure making art from the heart. Her art currently is mostly abstract/impressionistic.
Clay Johnson
Painter - Oil
Clay enjoys paiting unadorned nature in addition to human modified spaces. Direct observation always plays a critical part of his process.
Cynthia Silvers
Mixed Art
Cindy Silvers is part owner at Island Art Gallery in Pawleys Island. She believes painting is a way to experience and explore life more deeply. Her mixed media paintings can be seen at the gallery where she also teaches mixed media classes.
Daniel Strickland
Painter - Acrylic
Benjamin was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry. He lives in Georgetown with his family and paints the landscape and surrounding Charleston areas that he fell in love with years ago.
David Ruigrok
Ceramics - Pottery
David has been a potter for over six years. He started at a studio in Calabash, NC, took several semesters at CCU in ceramics, and started his own studio about two years ago. David enjoys wheel throwing the most and using clay of various colors to create one-of-a-kind pieces.
Deb Bhattacharjee
Painter - Plein air, Acrylic, Oil and Gouache
Debanjana Bhattacharjee is an en plein air painter who captures those fleeting beautiful moments outdoors. Her paintings are her instant reaction to the scene and are painted in the way she feels depicts the scene best. She can be seen painting the sunrise in Myrtle Beach daily during the summer.
Deborah Smith
Painter - Acrylics
Deb is a longtime photographer and digital artist who in recent years spends most of her time painting acrylic landscapes, wildlife, and abstract impressionist vignettes & figures.
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CEW Collaborative
Watercolor and Plein Air
Has a mission to transform arts education in the low country, to cultivate thriving artists and build a stronger, sustainable and culturally equitable art community by investing in the artistic and creative needs of students, teacher, and parent.
Denise Robinson
Painter - Acrylics, Oils
Denise Robinson is a painter who works in oils and acrylics. She has lived in Texas, California, New York and now she enjoys the vistas of South Carolina. Her inspirations are in birds, animals, and the lush landscape of Pawleys Island.
Diana Kayla Hochberg
Photographer
Diana is a skilled photographer specializing in Nature, Landscapes, Black & White, and The Golden Hours. Her portfolio showcases stunning works of art that evoke emotion and tell a story. She is a valuable asset to any project, be it in business or academia.
Ed Rana
Photographer
Ed is a local seascape and low country artist offering original art on canvas as well as photography paper.
Elizabeth Blood
Glass - Lampwork
Elizabeth has a profound love for the natural beauty of Mother Earth and all the creatures that share her oceans, marshes woodlands, and wetlands. She have been interpreting this fascination of nature into glass art, art glass beads, and jewelry. Her glass art is inspired by the lush beauty of southern gardens and coastal wetlands, the magnificence of the piney woods and the enchantment of the animals that occupy these areas. It includes fish, ocean life, seasonal landscapes, lush vineyards, floral gardens, floral cactus, earth minerals, water and wetlands, and wetland wanderers.
Ellen Williams
Painter - Oil and Pastels
Ellen began coming to Pawleys in 2005 and moved here permanently in 2016. Her painting style is best described as “realism with a touch of abstraction”. She is one of the artists and owners at the Island Art Gallery in Pawleys. She loves creating oil and pastel paintings.
Gail Huffman-Joley
Painter - Watercolor
Gail Joley uses transparent watercolors to express the beauty of nature and our natural surroundings here in coastal South Carolina. House portraits are another specialty. Gail is a well-experienced watercolorist, has been painting over 25 years, and has won numerous awards for her artwork.
Ginger Hawkins
Painter - Oil
Ginger’s artwork reflects her love for nature and the beauty of South Carolina. She has been painting with oils for the last 8 years and spends her time between Aiken and North Litchfield.
Ginny Van Gurp
Painter - Acrylic, pastel, pencil, charcoal.
Ginny has always been interested in drawing and painting. She was a member of the board of an art club in VA where she enjoyed the experience of learning from a variety of artists. The scenery in Pawleys Island is an inspiration her.
Janelle Feeney
Painter - Oil, Pastel, Gouache and Watercolor
Eclectic styles and color reflect Janelle’s artwork. She enjoys painting the local scenery (drawn especially to sunsets and clouds) and the occasional still life. Her work can be seen at the Island Art Gallery in Pawleys Island where she is a co-owner.
Janet Keeter
Watercolor and photography.
Janet has lived in Pawleys Island for 9 years and has fallen in love with it. After raising her family in Richmond she has since retired and has been revisiting her love for art in paintings and photography.
Joanne Willoughby
Painter - Oils, Pastels, Watercolor and Acrylics
Living in Parker’s island and inspired by the beauty of the low country. Joanne paints in pastel oil and watercolor.
Joe Tempel
Photographer
Joe spent most of his adult life in Colorado, photographing the West. Now residing in North Litchfield, he and his wife enjoy visiting Brookgreen Gardens and Huntington. He focuses his work on black and white photography to capture the sense of place.
Jodi Hudson
Watercolor and Acrylic
Jodi is enjoying the time to paint since retiring in 2021. She started painting in watercolor soon after moving to Pawleys Island and finds it challenging and fulfilling.
Karen Joyce
Watercolor, oil and acrylic
Karen began pursuing her love of art after retiring and moving to South Carolina in 2010. She loves to express her love of the low country through herPainting. She also loves painting animals portraits.
Katherine Wynn Patrick
Painter - Watercolor
Katherine’s art is a reflection of her deep connection to nature expressed through vibrant landscapes that evoke emotions and memories. Exhibited in galleries nationwide, her work mesmerizes with its vivid hues and masterful composition. Beyond her canvases, Katherine nurtures budding artists, infusing them with her passion and guiding their exploration, fostering their curiosity and creativity. Katherine’s belief in the continuous evolution of art is evident in her own practice and her commitment to guiding others on their artistic journeys.
Kathleen Kazior
Painter - Acrylic, Pastel and Oil
Kathleen wants her paintings to express her experience of her subjects, not particularly a realistic depiction. She loves color and movement, and her work runs the gamut from realistic to abstract.
Kathryn Robinson
Painter - Oil
Kathy is a local artist who spends her time between Columbia and Litchfield. She is blessed to live in the low country surrounded surrounded by God’s beautiful creation. After being busy raising her two girls, art has been an outlet for her to do something she loves. She hopes you enjoy her work as much as she loves painting it for you.
Katie Wickliffe
Acrylics, Watercolor, Photography
Katie is a self-taught artist originally from Greenville, South Carolina. She enjoys sharing the beauty of the coast, especially Pawleys Island, through her artwork. When she is not painting or taking photos, Katie is teaching literacy skills to elementary students or spending time with her son, William.
Kay Rugh
Watercolor/Acrylic/Plein Air
Retired ER/Trauma RN turned quirky whimsical artist. Loving the outdoor life and the beauty of the lowcountry. Intertwining watercolor, ink & line to develop whimsical paintings that will make you smile, giggle and maybe laugh out loud. Bringing the beauty of the SC lowcountry alive in a unique intriguing way…falling in love with all there is everyday.
Keith Suttle
Painter - Watercolor
Growing up on the coast of SE North Carolina, seascapes, marshes and waterfowl are my passions in painting. Have been painting on and off, mostly off, for 40 years and looking forward to capturing the many venues here in the Low Country.
Kelly Atkinson
Painter - Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
Kelly draws inspiration from the beaches, marshes and rivers of the SC lowcountry. She is part owner of Island Art Gallery where she also teaches Open Studio classes. You can see more of her work on her website at www.kellyatkinsonart.com.
Lamar Noriega
Painter - Watercolor
Lamar has been coming to Pawleys Island her entire life. She considers Pawleys Island her 2nd home. She has worked with watercolors off and on for years. Because of her love of Pawleys she prefers to paint coastal low country scenes.
Linda Ketron
Book Publicator
CLASS LLC is a small publishing house dedicated to the publication of local authors/artists. In the past decade, more than 60 books (art and photography coffee table books, local history, memoirs, fiction, and children's books) have been published for individuals and organizations (e.g., Brookgreen Gardens, Hampton Plantation, Pawleys Island Civic Association).
Lisa Blayton
Mixed media, watercolor, oils
Lisa works in watercolor, oils and acrylics but her first love is porcelain. Using techniques from the 1800’s, she kilns fire porcelain forms, clay and overglaze oils to create traditional paintings as well as contemporary sculptural pieces.
Lora E. Jones
Painter - Watercolor
Mixed Media
Lora grew up in Burlington, NC, attended Elon College and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in art education. For many years she taught, and upon retiring, started painting again. Her paintings range from realistic to abstract and from non-objective and include a wide range of media.
Lorraine Dauphin
Painter - Oils
Lorraine loves capturing the light of the low country and ocean, and is particularly fascinated with light coming through leaves and trees.
Lynn Wheeler
Photography
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Lynn has always been interested in photography and in recent years I has focused primarily on bird and wildlife photography.
Marsha Orr
Painter - Watercolor and Oil
Marsha is a retired guidance counselor from Ohio and has had a place at the beach for twenty years. She love painting local places, seabirds and sea shells.
Mary Spechko
Painter - Watercolor
Retired nurse with a love of Watercolor, but only as an observer until she retired 14 years ago. Since then Pawleys Island’s beauty has inspired her to reach my goal of becoming a Watercolor artist
Megan DuMont
Painter - Watercolor and Cyanotype
Megan is a Pawleys native inspired by the unique beauty of the low country for her artwork.
Michael Rogan
Painter - Plein air and Oil
Michael paints plein air and uses brush and palette knife to achieve different textural surfaces. Painting outdoors can be difficult but he achieves it by utilizing silhouetted shapes, value, and color, which should be exaggerated.
Mikki Huss
Oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, gouache, plein air
Mikki has been drawing & painting since childhood in Bradford, Pa. Married to Joe Huss. She was a part-time resident of the area for many years before moving permanently from Ohio. Her website is mikkismoments.com
Nancy Bourne
Watercolor
Nancy started panting in watercolor in 1974, is a founding member of the Georgetown Watercolor Society, and a member with excellence and former president of the South Carolina Watermedia society.
Nicole Hendricks
Painter - Watercolor
Living on the Waccamaw Neck offers so many opportunities for artists to reverence the beauty of nature through their work. Using various mediums, Nicole also wants her art to represent current events, such as in the painting entitled, COVID Relief.
Paula Robertson
Painter - Watercolor, Acrylics and Mixed Media
Paula is a retired teacher from Maine and enjoys experimenting with varied techniques and artistic expressions. Her final creations emphasize strong, vibrant colors. The challenges of moving from one medium to another and interpreting an image in various styles keeps Paula motivated. Above all, she loves working with watercolor on Yupo which allows the paints to do their magic dance with vibrancy.
Philip Duwel
Photographer
Although his works encompass sports, travel, and city works, Phil's forte is Lowcountry scapes, wildlife, and iconic venues. He takes, processes, and prints his art. Additionally, he does print work for other artists as well as "the man on the street".
Sara Credito
Acrylic
Sara's style combines impressionism with whimsical elements, always accompanied by her vivid descriptions. Greatly inspired from the beautiful local scenery, and her personal interactions, she transfers these elements creatively onto her canvas.
Shari Chamberlin
Painter - Monoprint/Mixed medium
Shari Grew up in Up state N.Y. and received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University in Textile Design and Sculpture. She went west to L.A. and learned a spontaneous technique "Monoprint" which serves her colorful Abstracts. She has successfully sold her work all over the States and World for 35 years.
Sharon Bogan
Painter - Watercolor
Sharon was born and raised in Ohio and spent her career in social services. She has always been creative but has no formal art training. Watercolor painting is her passion and she has been painting for 10 years.
Squeaky Swenson
Painter - Watercolor
When Squeaky isn't publishing the Coastal Observer, she is painting. She enjoys landscapes and primarily scenes with marsh grass or ocean views.
Tanya Ackerman
Photojournalism, Landscape & Pictorial
Award-winning photojournalist Tanya Ackerman captures images that portray the beauty of South Carolina’s Lowcountry and the passions of the people who live there. She's also an adventurer and nature enthusiast.
Terry Strawser
Painter - Watercolor, Pastel, Oil, Acrylic and Etchings
Terry began his artistry as a self-taught watercolor artist and later the art of printmaking. He has since added soft pastels, alcohol inks, oils and acrylics to his list of mediums. Terry lives in Myrtle Beach.
Tom Rugh
Painter - Acrylic
Loves to experiment and try different genres. Art and painting is a chance to see life through different eyes.
Tony Hendricks
Painter - Watercolor
Coming late to the practice of painting, Tony found his niche in the exacting and precise nature of Pointillism, which often requires him to use a magnifier to paint the thousands of tiny dots that form the images,
Tootsie Watkins
Painter - Watercolor
​I am a Pawleys Island native, born and raised here. Retired owner of Watkin's Party Shop and Tootsie Hot Dogs. Catered for over 25 years and still make my " mini country ham biscuits" on order. Shells are my passion. I create what I like and hope my little ornaments will make someone happy. They are available at Gray Man Gallery
Vida Miller
Painter - Watercolor, Acrylic and Pastel
Vida is the founder of the WNAA. She is the former owner of Grayman Gallery in Pawleys Island and she enjoys painting a variety of abstracts and Lowcountry art.
William Miller
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Plein Air, Digital, and Sculpture
William H. Miller - www.williamhmiller.com - an artist located in Myrtle Beach, SC - a fan of all art - a catalyst for the creatives in all of us. Especially likes creating contemporary large abstracts, painting plein air and playing with the digital media.
Business Sponsors
Coastal Observer
Local Newspaper
The Coastal Observer is Pawleys Island's local newspaper, covering the area since 1982. They cover newsworthy events in Georgetown county, focusing primarily on Pawleys Island.
Gray Man Gallery
Art Gallery and Custom Framing Shop
Gray Man Gallery is located next to Bistro 217. Established in 1980, it is the oldest art gallery in Pawleys Island. Many SC artists have their works on display here, and they also provide custom framing services.
Island Art Gallery
Art Gallery
Island Art Gallery provide service to both the private and corporate collector presenting contemporary as well as traditional art that is accessible and affordable to the novice collectors as well as established art connoisseurs.
Mindy McVay Interiors
Interior Design
Mindy McVay, ASID creates spaces for clients to illustrate tales of past travel, current interests, and to design a stylish backdrop for a new chapter in the family’s and home’s history.
The Original Hammock Shop
Hammocks & Furniture
Cool and comfortable, the remarkable rope hammock originally designed by Captain John Ward still soothes and delights all who discover its relaxing comfort. We continue our long standing tradition of only selling rope hammocks hand woven in the Carolinas. To see our hammocks handwoven daily, be sure to visit our Weaver’s Shed located next to our Retail Shop in Pawleys Island, SC.
William H. Miller Studios & Fine Art
Art Gallery
Positive Attitudes Change Everything (PACE).
Non-Profits
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CEW Collaborative
Watercolor and Plein Air
Has a mission to transform arts education in the low country, to cultivate thriving artists and build a stronger, sustainable and culturally equitable art community by investing in the artistic and creative needs of students, teacher, and parent.
Gullah Geechee Chamber
We support all creative individuals.
Our mission it to create global awareness of, profitability and sustainability of African American businesses and entities that support African Americans in the Gullah Geechee community.
Gullah Preservation Society
Preservation of Gullah History
The mission of the GPS is to preserve and promote the rich Gullah history, culture, language and people of Georgetown South Carolina. Zenobia Harper is the founder and director.
P.I. Festival Of Music and Art
Pawleys Island Culture
The Pawleys Island Festival of Music & Art is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create and enhance cultural awareness and enrich the quality of life for residents and visitors.
Sponsors
George Raftelis
Thank you George for your generous donation