Beaufort, NC Artists

Carol Roop - Stained Glass Artist

Carol moved to Beaufort in 2005 and realized quickly that she was surrounded by many talented artists. Having the desire to be an artist earlier in life she considered many options.

After taking a stained glass class in 2007 though, she was hooked! Carol honed her talent through online classes and the tried and true method of trail and error.

Carol now has a complete glass studio located just a few steps from her home. Carol also teaches classes occasionally to friends and family and is currently displayed at the Mattie King Gallery in Beaufort.

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Rachel Croom

Born in Kinston, NC, Rachel lived in Greenville for 8 years before being transferred to Morehead City. Two years later, she moved to Beaufort, quit her job and went sailing. She sailed professionally for 12 years, picking up a Captain’s license along the way. Rachel moved back to Beaufort in 1996.

Rachel says, "I’ve always done something artistic, from watercolors to oils as a child, to pen and ink when I was sailing, and finally to jewelry."

Whenever possible, Rachel picks up ideas from architecture, nature, and different cultures. After visiting Bali and China, her designs became more influenced by the Orient. More ideas have evolved from trips to Guatemala, Honduras and Peru.

Jewelry Designs by Rachel Croom

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Sue Seamon

Sue Seamon attended Peace College and Florida State University, where she worked toward a BFA degree.

Prior to moving to Beaufort in 2010, Sue lived and worked in High Point, N.C. where she was an artist and copy writer for the furniture industry, manufacturer’s showroom designer and textile marketing director.

Diverse subjects and techniques set Sue's art apart from the expected, with foreign travels in Italy and France adding other inspirations. A special focus that emerged from her travels was a compelling collection of African American portraits exhibited in 2011 at the Red Piano Gallery in St. Helena Island, S.C. and in 2012 at the History Place in Morehead City, N.C. during Black History Month.

Sue's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and is included in many public and private collections. Her love of the sea is evident in current work at the Mattie King Gallery in Beaufort. Sue’s amusing grown-up picture book about dogs, Letters to Lucky, was published in 2008 and is being sold locally at specialty shops. (336) 869-7000 Email

Heather Sink

Heather Sink was born and lived in the northern part of England. Later she worked and traveled around Europe where she met her husband Jerry in Greece.

Heather has always had a passion for the arts and taught art in the public schools for fifteen years. Her time is now devoted to painting in her Beaufort home/studio.

Galleries: Mattie King Art Gallery, Blusail Gallery and River to the Sea Gallery

Heather's Website

Jimmy Craig Womble II

Born and raised in Rocky Mount, NC, Womble has been drawing most of his life. He began painting while a student at North Carolina State University where he switched from the engineering school to the school of design and graduated in 1995.

Womble was drawn to move to Morehead City in 2005; since then, he has not been at a loss for subject matter.

As noted in a 2008 issue of Our State Magazine, Womble stated, "The subjects I love are all around. The port offers up its industrial geometry...'Down East' lies the deep water canals, marshes, and the contrast between nature at is most serene and the rusting work boats of generations of fishermen...but my greatest inspiration has come from the various shipyards around the area...boats of all shapes, colors and sizes float in a sea of empty containers, rusted metal, chains, tarps, nets, welding tanks and sandblasters. Forgotten things all around slowly succumb to the power of nature." Womble prefers to get away from densely populated areas, often heading to places like Radio Island, Atlantic, Marshallberg or Harkers Island, "trying to get as much of this stuff as I can before it's gone."

Womble now has a studio in Beaufort. EMAIL Jimmy

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Anita Francis

Jacksonville Daily News Photo - John Althouse

A longtime painter and portrait artist, Francis began her new passionate adventure with book art. She is always on the search for old books and examines the textures of the pages and words for new ideas before cutting them.

"I find it an exciting challenge to explore a way to give a relinquished book a new life. The process of remodeling damaged and discarded books and their jackets into sculptural art pieces has developed over the past several years, stemming from my life-long practice of painting and of crafting objects of art by hand. Through the process of folding and the cutting away of parts of a book's pages, revealing its interior, the remaining fragments are still attached to the binding and brought through or around the piece allowing the book to be viewed inside-out."

Work at Handscapes Gallery

Work at Tidewater Gallery

Lisa Tuchek

Lisa Tuchek is a North Carolina native and a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with a BSN in nursing. After relocating from Nashville in 2007, Lisa has been a resident of Beaufort for almost 5 years.

Lisa studied with various Nashville, TN artists while living there for 12 years. She has developed a fun, colorful and unique style of painting that has become very popular in the area, showing her work frequently at various events and numerous venues in North Carolina. Most of Lisa’s works are acrylic and mixed media paintings inspired by sea and shore creatures. Through the process of creating commissioned pieces, Lisa's work and subject matter are continually evolving.

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Remembering Paul Hee

"Bon Homme Richard" 24x18 Oil on Canvas

Paul Hee 1927-2011

Paul Hee, who critics and historians hailed as one of America's finest maritime artists, died Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 in Newport, N.C., after a bout with cancer. He was 84.

A master of the luminescent style, Mr. Hee lived and painted in his Marsh Street studio in Beaufort, NC, where he retired after a life at sea. Mr. Hee served in the US Navy, and as a Miami-based cruise ship executive.

His life-long love of the sea led him to pick up a brush and study art with Leo Stitsky of Fort Lauderdale School of Art. His oil paintings often sold before the paint dried on the canvas.

"His deft brush work, use of color, shape and light, conveyed the ever changing drama and mood of the sea," said Raymond Voelpel of Tidewater Gallery in Swansboro. "Paul Hee established himself as one of America's finest maritime artists." MORE...

Three Centuries of Seafaring

The Maritime Art of PAUL HEE

Beaufort - NCMM, Scuttlebutt and Rocking Chair Book Store; Swansboro - Tidewater Gallery

Donna Robertson

MARSH IN MORNING FOG

Donna began her art career in Kansas City in 1979. She moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1989 and currently lives in Beaufort, North Carolina.

Until 2002, Donna worked almost exclusively in watercolor and collage. A non-credit course in the French impressionists led to an interest in oils, which is her current focus.

"There is a special quality to the light of coastal North Carolina. I happen to live at a site where the creek meets the Intracoastal Waterway and there is no end to the possibilities for painting that light. The water, the marshes and the light hold endless fascination for me, here and on the Outer Banks. I most enjoy painting them 'en pleine air.'"

Donna's WEBSITE Donna's BLOG

Work at Handscapes - Beaufort

Work at Tidewater Gallery - Swansboro

Jack Saylor - Oil Painter

"By the Sea"

North Carolina native Jack Saylor comes from a family with deep North Carolina Moravian roots. As a young boy, Jack's artistic inclinations were obvious by the sheer amount of time he spent making drawings of the world around him. From very early on one of his favorite subjects was the coast, which was a family vacation destination almost every summer. Throughout his young life, he never abandoned his desire to be an artist.

After graduating in 1983 from Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College) with a degree in Painting and Design, Jack immediately set about pursuing a career as an artist. More...

Jack's Weblog

Dee Knott - Watercolorists

"Adventuress"

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Sculptor - Craig Gurganus

Craig was born in southern California, where he first spotted the outline of a fish in a surf board. In the 1980s, he began using recycled surf boards to create whimsical fish for the local businesses. Today, in his Pine Street studio - a former circa 1920 house and store - Craig uses foam surfboards to mold marvelous one-of-a-kind creatures.

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Fish Bouffant Website

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Sculptors, Painters and Potters - Willie Baucom and Keith Lambert

Stoneware Clay Figure
by Willie Baucom

White Stone and Marble Sculpture
by Keith Lambert

"Pottery is available through events we attend around the state and directly from our studio. The actual pieces change regularly, so contact us if you are interested in any particular type of item. Pottery makes a great gift which can be enjoyed for generations!"

Willie Baucom and Keith Lambert, married in 1990, both have a strong passion for sculpture, pottery, and painting. They have Master of Fine Arts Degrees from UNC Greensboro and have worked as visiting artists and teachers in the US and Europe.

Willie and Keith's Website ShipyardEarthworks.com

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Painter-Jenifer Crowell

Jenifer Crowell's art reflects her love of nature and people. Working with acrylics and watercolors, she creates colorful abstracts.

As part of Adopt an Artist Program, Jen's work can be seen in various restaurants and venues in Morehead City and Beaufort. Her paintings are exhibited at the Artestry Hideaway, on the Beaufort waterfront boardwalk. Jen's whimsical greeting cards are available at Tierra Fina and Rocking Chair Bookstore on Front Street, Beaufort. Tierra Fina also offers Jen's whimsical "Beaufort Map," matted or framed; the map is also offered as place mats and clocks.

Jen has worked as a professional actress and silent clown - “SkyBlue.” She has also been a local tour-guide pirate - “Jump'in Jen.” Jen is an avid tennis player, poet and author of short stories. Beaufort-by-the-Sea—Journey Back in Time includes one of Jenifer’s illustrations.

ARTIST'S WEBSITE

Jenifer Crowell - 910-470-3020 EMAIL

Oil Painter-Pene diMaio

diMaio’s oil paintings are brilliant with the layering of bold colors and wild textures that come together to create unique and eye catching pieces. A simple scene to the ordinary eye becomes a unique composition for Pene, triggering memories and impressions that channel into her art.

The artist participates in shows throughout the eastern

United States.

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Mary Cotter Hurst

"Journey Back in Time" - Etching for Beaufort-By-The-Sea

Mary Cotter Hurst is both an artist and the innkeeper of the Old Seaport Inn on Turner Street. Her printmaking studio, an old carriage house complete with an antique press dating back to the 1800’s, is 'tucked away' behind the Inn. Mary is an award-winning artist from Massachusetts who specializes in etchings, woodcuts, and oils. She exhibits her works in the Cotter Hurst Gallery at the Old Seaport Inn.

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Maritime Painter-Al Goellner

Winner 2010 BSC Mural Contest

After a noted career in advertising and graphic design, Al Goellner and his wife retired to Beaufort where he enjoys painting his unique maritime scenes.

Al was the 2000 Seafood Festival Artist and has been the featured artist at the Mattie King Davis Art Gallery.

Al Goellner's Sycamore Studio is open by appointment.

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Fine Art Photographer - Scott Taylor

Cape Lookout Bight

Scott Taylor graduated from the University of Chapel Hill in 1978 followed by three years with a Chapel Hill newspaper. He then worked at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort and completed his career there as assistant director of communications in 2000.

Scott Taylor’s 214 Pollock Street studio is located in a circa 1945 storefront building with a squared-off façade. Several years ago Taylor gutted the deteriorated front-gabled store and restored it into his wonderful gallery and studio-shooting space. His images of coastal North Carolina can be seen in many local, state, regional and national magazines and galleries.