Artists
Tamsen Fox
Tamsen Fox is an eclectic multimedia fine artist, born in Hawaii, Fox has enjoyed a life-long passion for artistic expression. While attending the University of Arizona she studied with the noted photographer Ansel Adams at the Spectrum Gallery in Tucson. She went on to receive her BFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland, [...]
Carol Rubin
Carol Rubin is new to Naples, but not new to the art world.
Her deep interest in photography and other art forms has been a life long venture. Carol’s love of nature is a theme that weaves itself around the images she captures and also the jewelry she makes.
In the last several years, Carol and her [...]
Peter Gottschalk
Peter started painting regularly in 1992 after returning from a fishing expedition in Alaska. He worked on a fishing boat with Hans Wienberg, a local photographer and lithographer in Pelican. He has studied at the Houston Art league and the Von Liebig Center in Naples FL, but is by and large a self taught artist. His [...]
Gerard Closset
Gerard Closset has been passionate about taking pictures of nature and wildlife for over 30 years. Having lived in different countries, he feels comfortable traveling around the world with the goal of capturing landscape, wildlife and underwater scenes.
Born in France, Gerard spent his childhood in France and several countries in South America. He started taking [...]
Dr. Brecka Bags
Dr. Amy Brecka has a rich creative heritage. Beginning with her fathers influence in stained glass, she developed a love for color and design. She also paints and sculpts, but it is her handbags where her artistic self-expression is most evident.
Dr. Amy Brecka hand chooses the leather combinations, cow hides, and vibrant interior fabrics from [...]
Joseph Swenarton
My paintings are a gift. I am blessed with a talent to create, a passion to use and refine that ability and a deeply spiritual empathy with the beauty of life. My art comes from a process that starts deep within me and ends up on canvas as pure emotion. Painting is what I [...]
Herve Souvay
Herve is a third generation furniture maker from Paris, France. He blends traditional and classical styles in his work and is based out of Naples FL.
Vincent Plzak
I grow up in a southwest suburb of Chicago, things where quite normal among the manicured lawns the two storied upper middle class houses the neighborhood park district and my large Sicilian based family. I really didn’t have any direct family artistic influences except my Grandmothers sister my Auntie, who is an accomplished artist, a oil [...]
Lennie Jones
Hi y’all, I’m Lennie Jones and I sure appreciate your being here. I am an artist… a primitive self-taught painter of the holistic Blues experience as I envision an’ have experienced it.. As a very young boy, my uneducated South Louisiana father instilled in me a deep love of Blues music, drawing pictures, and endless swampy wilderness. My mother as well was a talented yet erratic artistic influence. These positive connections luckily cradled me through a very troubled youth, and have remained yet the most powerful motivations in my adulthood.
After my father left, the bulk of my youthful years were heavily influenced by a wonderful vibrant one-eyed Southern African-American woman aptly named “Tex”. Tex lived with me and my little brother as a full time substitute for our mother, who was constantly away pursuing other ventures. Tex had a boisterous an’ soulful love of Blues, God, booze and fishin’, all of which were very important to me as well. As a traveling blues musician, I was gigging in New York City in March, 1968 when I met and heard the incredible Albert King. Albert’s unique combination of incomparable power, heartfelt pain, passionate subtlety and compelling musicianship moved my soul like no music ever had before. Or since… Opening for the original Canned Heat Blues Band, shakin’ hands with Muddy Waters, giggin’ for Zappa further solidified my love of playing, hearing and living the Blues.
Unfortunately for me, years of continued professional playing resulted mostly only in a habitual wrestling match with my alcohol demons, and repeated brushes with the law that so often result from that doomed battle dance. As often lamented by very wise men, “when you let theDevil ride, he wanna drive”. After turning eighteen in jail, this constant struggle culminated with my final arrest ollowing a late night gig in a rural Southern enclave in March, 1980. Police roughed me up, which I fully deserved. Thrown into a tiny dark jail, I was later chained to an unfortunate black man who had murdered his wife that fateful night with a knife. Early the following frigid morning, the two of us were paraded on bare feet through several blocks of a small town and presented to a hard time judge. This was my very own Crossroads, and I never drank alcohol again. Possibly the best night and finest morning of my entire life. Only a few years later, miraculously overlooking my “shady” past and welcoming my unique wilderness skills, I was hired by the Federal government as a Ranger in the remote Florida Everglades. There I wandered for over twenty years, working alone and chasing poachers, renegade ‘gators, smugglers and other wonderful characters in my very own American paradise. For many years now I have thrived in the mysterious and primitive Everglades, very happy, healthy, and blessed with a timeless source of spiritual inspiration to my art, heart and soul……An’ the music never left. Have Mercy.
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