Robert Schuh - After seeing the world Robert Schuh, a successful entrepreneur, returned to Florida for its magic. Since the 1930’s, he fished in these rivers, camped in the woods, flew over our towns and sailed the ocean. Bob pursued painting to capture and preserve these special times and places. Fortunately Florida Highwaymen mentor, A.E. "Beanie" Backus, encouraged Bob to share his vision.

Schuh’s style combines masterful imagery with childhood mirth. You become the boy who loves to fish and the flyer who sees clouds from all perspectives.

Carlton Wilder - As an apprentice under the GI Bill, he learned commercial art at the largest studio in Chicago. He freelanced and won prizes in copywriting, design, layout, and illustration---in Chicago, Rockford, Tampa, and Jacksonville.

Then, with five children grown, he and Marjorie decided he should spend full time at the easel. They left a big and comfortable home in the Jacksonville, FL suburbs for life on Comesin, their 32-foot Friendship Sloop. Living at anchor and single-handedly building house/studio/gallery have taken away some fullness
of time, but his remarkable oils and acrylics are numbered in the 160’s, and now
pastels and charcoals are in the 60’s.

Largely landscapes and marines, his work has been seen and has won prizes in such shows as Avondale Artists, Greater Jacksonville Fair, Haydon Burns Library, The Prudential, the first Riverside-Avondale Sidewalk Show, Jacksonville Arts Festival, Riverside Theatre at Vero Beach, Center for the Arts at Vero Beach, Rollins College Distingished Alumni Show, and often at Mandarin Arts Festival, and St. Augustine Art Association. His many prizes include Best of Show, and Most Popular. His paintings and prints grace collections across the country.

Dean Quigley - Dean Quigley is an artist who paints what he knows and loves best; Florida's remarkable history. Having grown up on Florida’s West Coast, his knowledge of the state’s Pre- Columbian history is based on over ten years experience and study in the fields of archaeology and ethnology.

Dean’s art and expertise has been utilized by many county agencies, the cities of Pensacola, St. Augustine and St. Petersburg, several museums, and private enterprise. Now permanently residing in St. Augustine, the nations oldest continuosly. occupied city, Dean has found the best of all genres to continue to paint his passion. He has participated in several major archaeological excavations including St. Catherine’s Island, Ga., Big Mound Key, Pine Island, and many others through out Florida. Dean is also a frequent lecturer at many schools and institutions as well.

Linda Holmes - Linda is an award winning artist whose work reflects her love of French and American Impressionist styles and of plein air and studio painting. Her preferred medium is oil but she also enjoys pastel & watercolor.

Her participation in shows and exhibits led to other opportunities which include teaching oil painting, offering workshops & occasionally judging shows.. She is a member of several art organizations including Oil Painters Of America,International Plein Air Painters,Landscape Artisists International,local plein air groups & paintouts, former member of the Board of Directors of the St. Augustine Art Association & National League of American Pen Women, St. Augustine branch.

Linda Brandt - Linda Marie Brandt presents a wide and variegated portfolio of both spiritual and secular paintings. Drawing since the age of four, Linda landed her first professional job illustrating political cartoons at the age of nineteen. With a background in both formal and personal training, Linda continues to illustrate a totally unique style of color and design. She is affiliated with The Florida Watercolor Society, The Cincinnati Art Club (which has the distinction of being the second oldest Art Club in the United States), the Cedar Key Art Association, the St. Augustine Art Association and with the National Museum of Women in Art. Internationally, Linda is affiliated with the Order of St. Mary the Virgin, headquartered in Paris, France and its fine arts ministry of the Marial Museum of Sacred Art.

In addition to her famous portraits, Linda is also well known for her life-like murals of Tuscan Vineyards and Floral Gardens.

Having recently undergone brain surgery for a very rare and serious tumor, Linda experienced a near-death period after contracting spinal meningitis and was in hospital critical care for nearly two months. Needless to say, her work was not done and Linda was returned to the present. Linda began painting once more after months of rehabilitation, learning to walk, drive again, and by the prayers and love of her family and friends. Most of all, Linda believes in the Grace of God. Collectors of Linda M. Brandt’s work beieve it is even more inspirational and dramatic than before as she shares her “triumph over tragedy” through the gift of art.

Gayle Prevatt - Florida artist Gayle Prevatt finds inspiration from the vivid life around her. Layers of textured color and patterns of light and shadow infuse her paintings, pottery and jewelry as she celebrates nature in her artwork.

Raised in the once tiny hamlet of Orange Park, Gayle began painting studies at age eleven with respected teacher Lenore Byrd and continued at Flagler College where she received a BA in art. Career highlights throughout the years include a grant award from St. Johns county and Museum Curator for the state of Florida.

Debi James - Although her roots are in Maryland, Debi James has lived on the high dunes of Crescent Beach for a couple of decades. In addition, aside from living by the sea, she was also "at sea" for over fifteen years as a merchant seaman. The lure of travel, adventure, good pay, and the water beckoned her away from clay and graphic studies in Daytona.

Her first few years took her to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean; she explored many ports and lots of art. Turkish mosaics especially fascinated her and she began to study tile making. She also fell in love with a shipmate named Gary Moore, an engineer who helps her fabricate the surfaces that allow her talent to flow.

Retiring to the glorious sunrises over the Atlantic, she got a kiln and got to work, making tile. Their beach house is a mecca for her art and art from all around the world. Her wild and wonderful mosaics adorn gardens, patios, and homes of people all up and down the beach and beyond. A member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA), she hones her skills with workshops and conferences. One of her works toured the country in a National Show, "Pieces of Life." Her most recent award, the Frankie Walker Award for the Best Expression of Joy, at the Art Association 2007 Honors Show is a great honor to her as an artist. Debi loves doing commissions indoors and out, and creating fine art wall pieces and sculpture.

Helen Moody - Inspired by the surroundings of her childhood and home state, Moody’s images have focused on her love of what she calls “forgotten Florida”… old architecture, unique gardens and remote beaches. The techniques she utilizes have been shaped by studies which have taken her domestically across the United States and internationally to France and Italy. Instructors and mentors have included such notables as Morgan Samuel Price, Alice Williams, Jean Chambers, Connie Winters and most recently Leonard Wren.

Her artistic journey has enabled her to evolve her style into a unique presentation which is best described as… relaxed post impressionistic. She chooses to focus on landscapes and still life utilizing rich color and instilling a delicate infusion of light. Helen notes, “My fascination with color and light has a distinct impact on my work. My goal is to create visually inspiring subjects using light and its varied patterns.”

Hugh Holborn - A Jacksonville, Florida native and avid fisherman, Hugh enjoys making prints of the fish he and his son, Alexander, routinely catch in the coastal waters surrounding St. Augustine, Florida.

Hugh’s fish prints are made on fabric, utilizing an ancient Japanese art form called Gyotaku, whereby fish are inked or painted, then an impression of them is made on paper or cloth by delicately pressing the media onto the body of the fish. These same processes are used in Hugh's figure work. See bio below.

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