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Christine Broussard
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Who am I ?

I am a decorative artist.  I create faux finishes with Venetian plaster and Trompe l’oeil details on supports such as floor coverings, columns, doors and furniture in the Washington DC area. Later on I dived into the sacred world of iconography discovering the joy in using the millenary medium of egg tempera, casein and gold leaf.

To draw the extraordinary life of saints and prophets it is a must to know more about the reasons of their peregrination!  The result is a profound enrichment on design, styles, customs and history. As a passionate traveler, keeping travel diaries, sketchbooks or Carnet de Voyage to record sceneries and stories using watercolor. This is my way to travel back into time when turning the pages of these colorful journals.

Acrylic is my other medium of choice. I used acrylic to enliven a 5ft. loggerhead turtle with the Greek theme: “The Winged Victory of Samothrace.”  Follow PalmCoastTurtleTrail.com to discover the public places where the turtles are located and enjoy seeing mine in Bunnell at the Justice Department.

While painting I am dancing with the stars. Brush strokes and colors fly on my canvas! The uniqueness of my work comes from the glowing colors that define its subject with a touch of surprise.

Art is Life, Life is Art!
May this colorful expression of my art enliven the viewers heart, spirit and brighten their day.

Debbie Nye
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I inherited my talent from my grandmother. I remember when I was about 7 years old she gave me a hunk of clay and taught me how to make an impression of a human face. She was an amazing artist! Growing up it seemed that any art pieces I did in elementary school, the art teacher kept them to sell at the school carnivals. I didn’t start painting seriously until I hit later years after raising my family and after early retirement. Have not stopped since.

I am an optimist. I believe. I love God’s earth. Love nature. I Look at God’s art and earth as a giant canvas, always inspiring me to create. Acrylics is my chosen medium, but always exploring new techniques.

I am humbled through the years that people love my works, that they want me to create or memorialize a photo/memory to acrylics.

My motto is…..”Let the paint flow”

Deborah Boyd
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"I discovered I was an artist late in life. My mother was very talented, but never found the time to pick up a brush. I remember telling her that if I had her talent, I would never stop painting. Like most mothers, she always told me I had talent, I just needed to try. After her death - as if to defy her - I took an oil painting class. I came home and showed my husband the finished painting and said, "I think I can paint". I never looked back. At age 58, I discovered the artist in me. I have no formal training which has afforded me the freedom to experiment with a variety of techniques. I currently live in Daytona Beach Shores with my husband, author Marshall Boyd."

Deborah's award-winning art is brought to life through a kaleidoscope of color, inspired by the world around her. Recent work is characterized by vibrant colors and with a touch of Florida in every painting

Desiray Blackburn
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I am a disabled Veteran who has had migraine headaches since 1980, but still trying to be of service to those around me. I loved the military, and I appreciate all that other Veterans have given. My son, Jason, was killed in a tragic accident in September 2018. I started acrylic abstract painting to calm my mind. Stirring paint allows me to be mindful.

Donna Lovelace-Flora

"I always feel my best when I’m out in nature, whether working in the garden, exploring parks, walking on a tree lined path in the woods, or walking along the ocean surf on the beach. My high school choir trip to Galveston, TX, got me hooked on the ocean, but it was not until my husband and I moved to Ormond by the Sea in 2014, that my interest in photography really began. All of a sudden, I was surrounded by the amazing bio diversity of this area, whether volunteering or enjoying some R&R. When I dropped my little pocket camera in the sand lens-down while capturing snaps of hatching baby loggerhead turtles from our adopted nest, I realized it was time to get a better camera, and that photography would be my artform of expression, instead of a means to an end. I’m intuitively drawn to a scene that makes me smile, so I’m grateful that I can share that same sense of joy, beauty and wonder of our delicate world with others."

Dušana Souchek
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Born in northeastern Czech Republic, Dušana emigrated to the USA in 1968, settling in Bucks County, Pa. During this time, she participated in many local and regional art shows and working on her craft in her spare time. Upon relocating to St. Petersburg, FL, in 1989, Dusana was contracted by Madeira Beach Art Gallery as the Artist in Residence. It was in this role she developed her passion for watercolors and natural Florida flora and fauna, and her work was enthusiastically acquired by many visitors from around the globe. In the early 2000s residing in Jupiter, FL, Dusana put together her first studio, allowing her to expand her artistic ventures to include teaching children and adults. Offerings included classes on watercolors and acrylics, as well as pottery and clay, and glass work. She continued to exhibit at local art festivals and fine art shows, often garnering awards and recognition for her work. Today, Dusana is based in Flagler Beach and uses her creative energy and talent to assemble and create truly unique pieces of fused glass. Taking many of the lessons learned regarding texture and form, depth and light, her glass is truly something to behold. She enjoys the challenges and rewards of being an artist, learning new mediums, creating unique pieces, and sharing the tools and technique required. Above all she is a person dedicated to the arts and the art world.

Jel Martinez

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Jel Martinez’s paintings are inspired by the methodology of vandalism removal. Martinez observes how metropolitan clean-up crews destroy one art form while creating another. The artist constructs his paintings by combining earlier influences with a figurative style of painting referred to as “buffs”. “Buffs” create contemporary patterns that result in a post-modern aesthetic. Through his experience and study of modern day contemporary culture, he applies a new meaning of expressionism to his work. Martinez’s paintings are a recreation of multilayered walls that are seen in urban landscape. His painterly gestures incorporate concrete elements, acrylic, enamel, oil, compound and ink, creating overlapping styles of free-floating patches of color, otherwise known as buffs. He actualizes four stylistic forms of buffs in his paintings: symmetrical – which are recognizable geometric squares and rectangles, ghosting – in which the remover traces the lettering but the general form and shape is emphasized, radical – the remover uses neither geometric nor guide lines to remove the writing often referred to as an outside the lines removal, and blur – when the remover uses paint stripper and a cloth to wipe the writing but leaves a cloudy appearance on the wall. Through his elaborate process of building up and tearing down art, Martinez’s paintings boldly invite the viewer to experience the daily conversations the urban environment carries on with its inhabitants.

Jill Bright
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Jill Bright lives on a farm near her native town of Hahira, Georgia. Her interest in art began with photography, which she still enjoys. Her first entry in Valdosta's Spring into Art" exhibition earned an award of Merit for her photograph of Nutt, her Brittany Spaniel. Jill is a nature and animal lover and many of her works features pets, livestock and wildlife. All of her works feature brilliant colors. "Like most artist, I paint my surroundings. I do it in color." On the difference between painting wildlife and people, Jill says, "I found that I like painting expressions, whether an animal or a person; it begins with the eyes." Her other interests include cooking, skeet shooting, and social and duplicate bridge.

Juliet Bullen-Dunbar
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Juliet Bullen-Dunbar was born and raised in Ohio, but now resides in Palm Coast, Florida. The proud Navy veteran is a mother of four and grandmother to six. She's an international award-winning artist who enjoys writing fiction and family satire. She graduated from Daytona State College with a degree in psychology, and earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature and creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University.

Leah Wiedemer
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While visiting in Eastern Pennsylvania, I was captivated by the gardens. I spent several days in my new friend Pat’s garden painting studies. Once I returned home to my studio I gathered together my photos and painted studies to use as references and created this painting. I added some soft fairy dots because it seemed like just the sort of magical spot that would attract fairies. My hope when you view this work is that you will feel transported to a wondrous , tranquil landscape where flowers sway in the breeze and anything is possible.

NC Hagood
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"I love being an artist. My pieces are abstract and take you and many journeys of your own. My inspiration comes from people, things, places I love. Certain things stay in my mind and so I use them as my muse. They tell stories of things that happened, people and places my stories or emotions I share these with the viewer. We are all alike and suffer, enjoy, are happy, sad we all have stories. I hope the viewer will see a story of their own in my pieces."

NC Hagood is an abstract artist, who works in acrylics and mixed media. Her pieces are powerful and have ethereal quality to them. Hagood was born in Ecuador, South America. She arrived in New York City at the early age of five. Here she was influenced by her brother, an artist and the city itself. As she was growing up, she would watch her brother in the studio, he was her first mentor. Hagood fell in love with art and her brother, and the city provided a muse and much to ponder. Her work in the legal field exposed her to very high and low emotions, this evolved in her desire to capture such in her art. Hagood studied with various mentors and developed into a contemporary artist. It is apparent she favors abstract figures with glimpses of the characteristics and aspects of life and all its emotions. Hagood has received numerous awards and is affiliated with many organizations and galleries throughout the State of Fl. Her studio is located in New Smyrna Beach where she resides

Svetlana Shorey
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"My first attempts at painting happened while I was in high school. At that time, I lived with my parents in the former Soviet Union, where I received my education and cultural influence. The most common painting mediums I could find then in local stores were gouache, tempera, and watercolors, which were used then broadly in traditional Russian decorative paintings and iconography. Over the years, I have found this to be quite an influence in my artistic career. After relocation to the US, I practiced decorative and mural painting in private residences, children’s facilities, and other offices. I also taught art privately and at the independent day school, Ezra Academy, Woodbridge, CT. At present, thanks to the opportunities of internet study, I focus on perfecting my fine art skills and developing more sophisticated styles by attending art seminars and art critiques. Recently I moved from Connecticut to Winter Park, Florida and am practicing live figure sketching and painting En Plein Air with my friends/artists. I LOVE it! I believe that we can grow as artists only through consistent communication and sharing our talents."

Vanessa Sterbenz
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In her creative process, Vanessa usually begins without a sketch. The work is created organically and emerges as she continues. Her pieces can be thought of as streams of consciousness. It’s as if she extracts the beauty that was within the fibers of her canvas. She has various forms expressions in her work. The shapes and colors burst through at will, as she works in many different medias from pen and ink, watercolor, collage, acrylic, digital media and 3D art. Her works are what she calls “abstract imagination."

Vanessa is a graduate of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City, where she was inspired by the museums, culture and people around her. Vanessa’s work has been exhibited at the New York Historical Society and she was part of an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Her artistic ability also reached into the realm fashion. She designed for Tommy Hilfiger and Mary McFadden to name a few. While in New York, she was a personal fashion stylist for the high end luxury retailer, Bergdorf Goodman and was recognized often in the New York Times for her elaborate millinery and fashion designs.

Vanessa was a speaker at the Fashion Institute of Technology, LIM and Stephens College. At Stephens, she was also part of a juried panel. In the art community she met internationally acclaimed Swedish artist Alexander Klingspor and became subject of one of his paintings. She also formed a strong bond with renowned New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham and was featured in his column many times for her artistic flair. She is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art , Museum of Moving Image , MOAS and the Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens.

J. Walker Fischer

J. Walker Fischer is the son of the late Cdr. Edwin Fischer and Sara Fischer, longtime Ormond Beach residents and OMAM activists. He is a 7th generation Floridian, graduate of Seabreeze High School, Furman University and the University of Florida and is an Army officer Vietnam veteran. Retired from careers in public relations and broadcasting, he currently divides his time between residences in Ormond Beach and Laurel Park North Carolina. A victim of "viewfinderitis", Walker's addiction to amateur photography began with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera in the 1950s. Since then he has dabbled with myriad 35mm still and 8mm motion picture cameras, darkroom magic, finally graduating to digital photography. Although he has worked professionally with photography, he prefers to shoot with unsophisticated quick-on-the-draw point and shoot cameras, not smartphones or SLRs. Lately you will find Walker, a former longboard surfer, up to his neck in the ocean shooting "inner waves", the hollow waves along Ormond Beach shore and sandbar breaks with occasional surfers and paddle boarders in the background. The pinnacle of his wave photography: shooting from the water the world-famous Waimea Bay shore break on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

Walter Osteen

Wally is a mostly self-taught oil painter. His work is inspired by 35 years of living on and observing the timeless old Florida beauty of the Tomoka River and 55 years of surfing along the beaches and inlets of Florida’s east coast. Wally’s process for studio painting is time consuming. It consists of applying multiple layers of thick and thin oil paint to the canvas over a period of several months. This slower pace allows the painting to develop and evolve beyond his initial concept into something that is hopefully deeper and more meaningful; thus, becoming a sort of collaboration between the painting and the painter. The final goal is the creation of an image which the viewer will find both interesting and compelling. Wally’s paintings and prints are highly prized by surfers and non-surfers alike and may be found in many private and public collections, including his painting on permanent display at Daytona Beach International Airport.