Individual Artists

Amanda Brodie Stenlund

Painter - Oil and Watercolor

A traditional oil painter who hones in on those little moments that make her stop and stare. She walks the streets and shores of South Carolina and Chicago, the latter of which is her home base.

Amy Marr

Painter - Oil and Pastel

Amy grew up on the Great South Bay of Long Island and is an artist living in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Amy takes inspiration from the natural beauty of the oceanfront, bays and marshes, and historic cities and towns.

Anna Minner

Painter & Photographer - Acrylics

Anna is a local artist and photographer who loves living near the ocean. She's living her dream by raising her family in Pawleys Island, doing what she loves, and living where she's inspired daily.

Anderson Riley

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Anderson grew up spending his summers in the creeks and ocean at Pawleys. He hopes you see something that sparks a memory of Pawleys and Georgetown County. 

Benjamin Strickland

Painter - Acrylic

Benjamin was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry. He lives in Georgetown, South Carolina, with his family and paints the landscape and surrounding Charleston areas that he fell in love with years ago.

Bob Slaughter

Photographer

Bob has worked on "old-school" photography (i.e., darkroom) for 60 years, but digital doesn't scare him. He is a new "Islander" working on finding scenes he can make appealing in Black & White.

Brenda Lawson

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Brenda Lawson has been a professional artist for over 30 years. She loves to paint animals catching their natural expressions as well as landscapes and flowers.

Brian Zell

Painter - Watercolor

Brian dabbled with watercolor in NYC in the late ’70s and took it up again more earnestly three years ago. He is experimenting with different subjects and techniques to improve and develop a style. He has won first and second place in local art shows as a non-professional.

Bryn Roff

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

A Pawleys Island local, Bryn is a young artist intrigued by eclectic photos of the natural elements, everything is a canvas in her eyes, murals, clothing, canvas, wood. 

Carrie Seabrook

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Carrie started her mosaic journey in 2014. Her mosaic's are made mostly from glass with some ceramic and other pieces. She creates custom pieces for interior design and art.

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. She is currently working mostly in acrylic.

Charlotte Delcamp

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Charlotte has recently started experimenting with pastels. There are many techniques in pastel painting and she has her own unique style. Her art can be found at Grayman Gallery.

Christy Janes

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Christy Janes works mainly with watercolors and enjoys experimenting with Yupo paper. You can find more of her work in Gray Man Gallery

Clay Johnson

Painter - Oil

Painting primarily in oil, Clay Johnson usually works on site, directly from nature.

Cynthia Silvers

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Cynthia Silvers believes painting provides a means to experience the world more deeply. She often incorporates sumi-ink drawings in her watercolor and mixed media art.

Dan Kraus

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Dan Kraus enjoys creating works of classical realism and taking opportunities to study with master sculptors and painters from around the US.

David Ruigrok

Ceramics  - Pottery

David has been a potter for about five years now, he started at a studio in Calabash, NC, took several semesters at CCU in ceramics, and started my 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 - Ink and Watercolor

Originally from Mumbai, India, Debanjana's artistic practices are a blend of her Indian and western aesthetic sensibilities. Self-taught, she enjoys working in acrylics. 

Deborah Smith

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Deb is a long time photographer and digital artist who has recently began to translate her vision to acrylic painting. Her favorite subjects are landscapes, waterscapes and wildlife.

Denise Horton

Painter - Oil

Mother, Grammie, retired teacher who also studied dance. Resident of Pawleys Island who has studied under Jef Sturm and Coastal Carolina. Exploring, learning, and continuing to grow as an artist. She also received a local award-winning piece from SeaCoast Gallery’s fall art show.

Denise Robinson

Painter - Oil, Acrylics, Graphite and colored pencils

Denise is a native of Texas who has lived across the US in California, New York and, currently, Pawleys Island, SC. Denise creates her art from still life, photographs, and other media in her home studio.

Diana Kayla Hochberg

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Diana is an artist with a camera using a blend of technical skills with an artistic eye. Every photo she takes has a story behind the lens. Her favorites are Landscapes, The Golden Hours, Black & White, and Abandon Buildings.

Donna Littleton

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Donna is an award-winning artist who has participated in numerous exhibits and juried shows. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she recently moved to SC where she and her husband, Bob, have retired.  Her long-time love of the Low Country is reflected in her paintings, as well as scenes from her travels and still life. She paints in both watercolor and acrylic, striving to paint expressively and with emotion.

Dorothy Ellis

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Late bloomer with basic art classes and a lot more exploration on her own. Loves painting and enjoys sharing her skills and seeing the skills of others. Currently exploring abstracts.

Ed Rana

Photographer

Ed is a nature photographer, specializing in land and seascapes. Ed has been recognized for his art in national and international exhibits and has taught both technical and artistic photography classes. 

Ellen Williams

Painter - Oil and Pastels

Her painting style is best described as “realism with a touch of abstraction”.  She is an owner/artist at the Island Art Gallery. She loves creating oil and pastel paintings.

Elizabeth Fisher

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Lizzie is a rising senior at Wofford College and a studio art major. She has lived in Debordieu in the summers since she was 8. Her work is constantly inspired by the views and wildlife of the Lowcountry.

Emory McClary

Painter - Oils and Acrylic

Emory grew up in Pawleys Island, SC, and has been motivated by the island landscapes and outdoor activities. She enjoys fishing, hunting, camping, and other activities, which inspires my paintings.

Eric Heiden

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Eric is a photographer that uses a camera to capture moments in time that are usually passed by. His subjects are primarily ocean/water scenes."

Gail Joley

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

With art as a lifelong interest she specializes in house portraits, pet portraits, florals and landscapes. She served as president of the GT county watercolor society.

Gary Johnston

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Gary is a signature member of the Ohio Watercolor Society. His watercolors include landscapes, beachscapes, golf courses, animals & portraits. He is a part-time resident of Pawleys Island.

Ginger Hawkins

Painter - Oil

Ginger is an oil painter exploring the light, emotion, and atmosphere of nature. One of her favorite places is the South Carolina low country, and she strives to reflect the mood of the landscape in her paintings.

Gloria Timmons

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Gloria Hardy Timmons has dabbled in acrylics, watercolors and oils off and on for years until retirement from a counseling practice offered her the opportunity to paint full time. 

Harriet Ethridge

Painter - Oils, Plein Air and landscapes

Harriet loves painting scenes and animals from which she draws from real-life experiences, growing up in a small town in SC. She concentrates on the contrast of light and dark in the subject matter.

Jane Woodward

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Jane Woodward moved to the coast of SC in 1999 and began to dedicate her time to her love of painting. Her work has been featured in many galleries all over SC. 

Janelle Feeney

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Her painting style is eclectic with each new painting, it's style evolves on its own. She is drawn to colorful paintings and tries to incorporate that in her works. 

Janice Coward

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Janice has been painting in watercolor for most of her adult life and paints a variety of subjects. Recently she has been painting on large canvases and loves the change of scale. 

Jeanne O'Neal

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Jeanne loves to explore Coastal subjects and is inspired by the ever-changing marsh, beaches and animals of the Lowcountry. Jeanne's new obsession is creating in oils.

Jef Sturm

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Jef teaches painting for Coastal Carolina University OLLI Program & life drawing and painting for The Seacoast Artists Guild as well as privately. 

Joanne Willoughby

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Joanne has been painting in pastels for over 15 years and oils even longer. She loves to capture the beauty around her en Plein air and in the studio.

Joe Tempel

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Joe spent  most of his adult life in Colorado photographing the West. Now residing in North Litchfield, him and his wife enjoy visiting Brookgreen Gardens and Huntington. 

John Corn

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

John has a passion for woodcrafting. He enjoys turning a piece of raw wood into a useful art object, such as the Pawleys shell end table with the turtle shelf. 

John Farris

Writer - Author

John P. Faris, Jr. is a native of South Carolina. His passion since childhood has been hunting and fishing. He enjoys farming, boat building, woodworking, photography, and writing.

John Henry Whitmire

Jewelry

John Henry started out creating exotic pieces of jewelry from organic images from the beach. He has never lost his passion for the craft. To this day, every piece of jewelry designed by John Henry Whitmire is created with an expression of love and artistic imagery.

Johnnie Cowan

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Johnnie paints Low Country landscapes and seascapes in a realistic and impressionistic style. She has over forty years of experience with painting and teaching. 

Joyce Bassett

Photographer

Joyce is a freelance nature photographer and sports columnist. She's also a retired newsprint journalist from Clifton Park, NY, and Pawleys Island.

Karen Joyce

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Karen strives to have her paintings reflect her love of the Low Country as well as her love of animals. Her work can currently be seen at Gray Man Gallery in Pawleys Island.

Katharine Flanders

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Katharine began painting as a young child up until age 18, then took a 45-year break. She came from a family of female artists. Her current chosen medium is abstract pours, as well as landscapes.

Kathleen Kazior

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

I would like my paintings to express my experience of the people and places that are my subjects, not particularly a realistic depiction. I love color and movement and my work runs the gamut from realistic to abstract.

Kathy A. Robinson

Painter - Oil

I am a local artist who spends my time between Columbia and my home in Litchfield, on the marsh with nothing between my dock and Pawleys Island. After being busy raising my two girls it has been an outlet for me to do something I love and meet a new set of friends along with my old ones. Hope you enjoy my work as much as I love painting it for you!

Kay Rugh

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Kay is a retired Trauma/ER RN and has lived in South Carolina for 32 years. Since retiring to the Lowcountry, she started painting first in acrylic and transitioned into watercolors. She loves intertwining color and line to create a whimsical glimpse into the beauty of the Lowcountry.

Katherine Wynn Patrick

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Painting has been in part a journaling experience for her, with most of her work landscape or nature based. Katherine works in oil, using bold color and fluid brush strokes.

Keith Suttle

Painter -  Watercolor

Growing up on the coast of SE North Carolina, seascapes, marshes, and waterfowl are my passions. I have been painting on and off, mostly off, for 40 years and I am looking forward to capturing the many venues here in the Lowcountry.

Kelly Atkinson 

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Kelly Atkinson is part-owner of Island Art Gallery in Pawleys, she shows her work there as well as enjoys teaching open studio classes. She loves to paint the Carolina coast.

Kenneth Mitchum

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Kenneth is a self-taught blacksmith and Georgetown native. He was a chosen exhibitor at the city gallery in Charleston and has exhibited at the Rice Museum. 

Lamar Noriega

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Lamar has been visiting his grandparents every summer since he was a toddler, he feels like Pawleys Island is his home. His art is primarily of coastal images. He has been discovered at Pawleys. He has a deep love for the South Carolina coast.

Lee Brockington

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Lee serves as the Coordinator of Public Engagement for The Belle W. Baruch Foundation at Hobcaw Barony, her storytelling is also phenomenal. 

Libby Insley

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Libby has a fine arts degree and primarily works with shells creating one of a kind pieces. She loves to do commissioned pieces and large projects. 

Linda Reed

Painter - Ink and Watercolor

Linda is an Artist/illustrator and self-proclaimed naturalist.

Lora E. Jones

Painter - Ink and Watercolor