In the Main Gallery
– Diana Ripoll was born with a natural
fascination for brilliant color and abstract ideas. She has had the good
fortune of traveling the world and her mind has become a vast well of snapshots
and experiences that her subconscious draws upon to create her paintings. Diana
chooses the color that attracts her at the moment, and then continues to add
colors and watch how they flow, mix and move. The paintings begin to form
themselves, she then finds what is hidden, and begins to consciously bring it
out. Only when the work is completed does she find the true meaning of the
piece and what inspired it. With each completed piece, Diana looks forward to
revisiting the story it represents.
In the White
Gallery – Dharma LeFevre is a fine art figurative
artist that calls Fort Myers home.
Raised in Naples,
Florida she attended college in Oklahoma at Neo A&M Junior College for
Graphic Arts. There she found that she
disliked the graphic arts and decided to go on a different career path. Dharma took a 20 year creative hiatus and
instead focused on a family and job.
Five years ago she decided to create again and taught herself how to
paint in various mediums from acrylic to coffee and teas. Her artistic background is based in fantasy,
mythology and figurative. Her current
body of work has inspirations that pull from feminine Art Nouveau, urban lines
and techniques and vintage influences in saturated colorful pieces.
In
the Small Gallery – Alex Wilkinson is
a self-taught mixed media artist. She
has worked as a needle arts designer and instructor for 20 years using pieces
of fabric as her canvas. Today, Alex
employs traditional pen and ink, acrylic paint, colored pencils, oil pastels,
markers, paper and found objects to create her mixed media art work on canvas
or Bristol board. Her favorite subjects
are animals, feathered friends, Art Deco, and Celtic lore. Her often whimsical fold art designs include
small stitch-like black and white line patterns in the Zen Tangle inspired art
style. Zen Tangle (doodling) has been
around since ancient times. It was
visible on the walls of Egyptian Pyramids, in Celtic Manuscripts and in basic
borders and shapes worldwide. Come view
the Zen of Alex Wilkinson.
