Anne Tuttle
AnneTuttle won Third Place in the Charlotte County Visual Arts Center's October, 2020 Falling for Art Exhibit with her colored pencil painting, "Summer Reading."
Jim Beech
Jim Beech won a Merit Award in the Charlotte County Visual Arts Center's October, 2020 Falling for Art exhibit with his watercolor "Fence Line."
Barbara Albin
Barb Albin's acrylic abstract, "All My Friends" won Second Place in the Charlotte County Visual Arts Center's September, 2020 "Color" exhibit. The various colors in the painting represent Barb's many friends weaving in and out of her life.
Beverly Yankwitt
Bev Yankwitt won a Merit Award in the September, 2020 "Color" Exhibit at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda with her mixed media abstract, "Conspiracy Theory."
Nancy Giffin
Nancy Giffin's beautiful beaded sculpture of a lotus flower, "Beauty in the Swamp," won the Rubicond Honorable Mention Award in the Cape Coral Art Center's July/August, 2020 exhibit, "In Spite of the Swamp."
Bev Yankwitt
Bev Yankwitt's abstract painting "Lunar Light" was juried into the 49th annual Florida Watercolor Society's Member Show, held online starting iSeptember 2020. This painting was also juried into the Southern Watercolor Society's exhibit at the Gadsden Art Center in...
Jan Pronko
Jan Pronko's "Phineas Fish" clay wall sculpture won Third Place in the Visual Arts Center's June, 2020 exhibit, Water,Water, Everywhere.
Nancy Giffin
Nancy & Bill Giffin's woven pedestal covered basket, "A Day at the Beach," has been accepted into the National Basketry Organization's Online show "Members in Print 2, Patterns and Textures" on view Summer, 2020. The entries are also featured in a special summer...
Jan Pronko
Our 3D Artist of the Month for March is Clay Artist Jan Pronko. Jan has been involved with various arts and crafts since childhood and has managed fabric and craft stores. Her focus in recent years has been creating imaginative, whimsical fish, sea life, and shore...
Anne Tuttle
Our 2D Artist of the Month for March is Colored Pencil Artist Anne Tuttle. Anne has always loved to draw, and prefers to work in the dry mediums of colored pencil, graphite and charcoal, silverpoint, and pastel. Her portraits have won several awards, but her...
March Guest Artist Kathryn Erickson
Kathryn Erickson began creating pine needle baskets after retiring from her teaching career, and quickly became adept at this art form, winning an award in her first juried show. She strives to develop innovative designs, and blends aspects of different styles of...
Courtyard Sale/Harry Chapin Benefit
Save the Date for Our annual Courtyard Sale, March 12th & 13th, 10 am-4 pm Our annual end-of-season sale is the perfect time to take advantage of great values on all types of artwork. This is a great opportunity to stock up on gift items, or buy something special...
March Guest Artist Carolyn Walega
Carolyn Walega is a painter of leaves, trees, and organic forms, all of which are recurring subject matters in paintings like “Moonlit Banana Ballet," "Prism-Wheelata," “Palmwheelata," “Pinwheelata," “Pomegranate," and “Regina Palmata,” which accent nature, the...
March Guest Artist Sheryl Unwin
Sheryl Unwin is originally from Billerica, Massachusetts, and lived in Gosport, England between 1997-2005 with her husband before moving to sunny Florida in August 2005. She is mainly self-taught, but did attend the Art Institute of Boston between 1984-1986 with a...
March and April Guest Artist Brenda Berdnik
March and April 3D Guest Artist: Former Gallery Member and Multi-Media Artist Brenda Berdnik "I am very excited to be asked to be a visiting artist at Sea Grape Gallery. I have many fond memories of the gallery, other artists, and customers/friends. I am hoping to...
New Member Artists Susan James and Ken Wilkens
Susan James and Ken Wilkins are a husband and wife team who work together to create Photogravures, which are photographs etched into copper and printed with ink on an etching press. In addition, Susan creates etchings based on her own original, hand colored...
New Member Artist Donna Pape
The Gallery is pleased to introduce Donna Pape as our newest member. Donna is an oil painter who loves to create depictions of colorful tourist attractions with the objective of making people feel happy! See more of Donna's art here.
Jan Pronko
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2019 Fine Art Medium: Clay Jan Pronko has been interested in arts and crafts since childhood. She has a special love of sewing, has worked in several mediums, and had a career in retail management of fabric and craft stores. ...
Donna Pape
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2021Fine Art Medium: Oil PaintingDonna Pape first developed an interest in oil painting while in high school, and then went on to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has worked in the...
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Sea Grape Artists Gallery Member since 2013 Fine Art Medium: Oil and Mixed Media Bev Yankwitt moved to Charlotte County in 1985, and spent many years working in the medical field at two local hospitals. Upon leaving the medical industry, Bev obtained a...
Barbara Albin
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2001Fine Art Medium: Watercolor and Acrylic Barbara Albin has loved art since the tender age of four. By age seventeen, she had sold her first two watercolors to Northern Illinois University where she was a freshman and won a...
Jim Beech
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2007 Fine Art Medium: Watercolor and Acrylic I studied at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and Sheridan College, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. My background is primarily advertising...
Bonnie Benande
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2004 Fine Art Medium: Wheel Thrown Pottery Expressions In Clay Originally from Minnesota, Bonnie began studying the art of wheel thrown pottery in 1978 while living in North Carolina. After moving to New Jersey, she continued...
Thelma Daida
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2006 Fine Art Medium: Water Media I was born and raised in Hawaii and I was a registered nurse specializing in Operating Room nursing for most of my adult life. Twenty-six of those years were spent in the Panama Canal...
Renee Farr
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2019Fine Art Medium: Fused Glass My obsession with glass began in the early 90’s when we settled in Southwest Florida. At the time I was designing jewelry and wanted to add glass components to my artwork so I took a few classes at...
Nancy & Bill Giffin
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2015 Fine Art Medium: Nantucket and Shaker Style Basketry Creating Authentic Works Inspired by American History! Originally from Massachusetts, Nancy and Bill Giffin moved to Florida in 1992, bringing with them knowledge of the...
Vicki Glynn
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2014 Previous Membership: 1992-2005 Fine Art Medium: Watercolor "For most of my life, art has been my passion and my profession. Nature has been my inspiration. I believe that both are extremely important for my spirit and the...
Sam Harris
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2015 Fine Art Medium: Handcrafted Knives Art on the Cutting Edge Sam Harris, a retired commercial arline pilot, designs and creates various types of knives, including hunting knives, folding knives, kitchen knives, and carving...
James & Wilkens
Susan James & Ken Wilkens Sea Grape Gallery Artist Members since 2021Fine Art Medium: Intaglio Printmaking and Photogravure Punta Gorda based artists Susan James and Ken Wilkens specialize in the art and science of Photogravure. Susan has been a printmaker since...
Marlene Jones
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2017 Fine Art Medium: Horsehair and Raku Pottery "Working with clay is one of the most rewarding experiences," says Marlene Jones. "Essentially, I take what is considered mud and form it into something useful as well as...
Sue Krasny
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2005Fine Art Medium: Oil, Acrylic, and Mixed Media Artist Statement Susan's paintings are meant to communicate a unique sense of place through the bold use of color and light Her travels, both in the United States and abroad,...
Nancy VanTassell
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2019Fine Art Medium: Silver Jewelry My journey to the world of jewelry design evolved accidentally. I spent many years in the paper art world, creating altered books and rubber stamping. One day in 2003, after stamping a polymer...
Cheryl McClure
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2008 Fine Art Medium: Photography Cheryl was born and raised in Chicago, and moved to Colorado in 1979 with her family. Cheryl's husband Larry always said that he would like to retire where palm trees could grow, so in 1993 they...
Bob & Elissa Rioux
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2015 Fine Art Medium: Handcrafted Stained Glass Kaleidoscopes Bob and Elissa Rioux have been working with glass since 1976. Using their skill and creativity, they design and create glass kaleidoscopes that are beautiful works of...
Joanne Stramara
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2014Fine Art Medium: Water Media Joanne's love for art was always a part of her life while growing up in Pennsylvania. Family and business didn't give her much time to pursue her interest in it, but now in retirement years she...
Anne Tuttle
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2005Fine Art Medium: Colored Pencil, Graphite, and Silverpoint Anne's primary interest is drawing, and in the early 90's, she became part of a small group of artists who were exploring the emerging medium of colored pencil. She...
Beverly Yankwitt
Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2013Fine Art Medium: Oil and Mixed Media Bev Yankwitt moved to Charlotte County in 1985, and spent many years working in the medical field at two local hospitals. Upon leaving the medical industry, Bev obtained a license as a...
Third Thursday Wine Walk
Wine tasting in our courtyard, hosted by Gilded Grape Winery, is very popular on Third Thursday. This event, featuring art, music, shopping, and food, is sponsored by the Downtown Merchants Association, and takes place on the third...
Our Artists
Barbara Albin Watercolor and Acrylic Read MoreJim Beech Watercolor and Acrylic Read MoreBonnie Benande Wheel Thrown Pottery Read MoreThelma Daida Water Media Read MoreJim Ellsworth Wood Turning Read More Nancy & Bill Giffin Nantucket & Shaker...