August 2010

Kat Ebert, 53, lives and works out of her home studio in Maitland. She was born in upstate New York and spent summers in Pine Beach, N.J. She says seasonal changes there influenced her desire to create images of natural scenery. “I have always been intrigued with nature’s high drama like the burst of colorful leaves in the fall and especially the many shapes and colors of flowers and leaves. I try to capture these dramatic elements in my paintings,” she says.

July 2010

Born in Jacksonville, Judy Batterson moved with her family to Orlando at the age of 7. Her parents did two things to establish her love of Florida art: They bought her art supplies, and they took family trips to every part of the state. She attended Mary Washington College in Virginia where she experienced seasons for the first time and where she studied with master artists from the Northeast.

June 2010

Having grown up in a very modest and practical household climate, Jan Frazee was not encouraged to study painting and drawing. “However, middle and high school art projects, tendencies for creating and arranging physical environments and situations beyond my control led me to pursue a design curriculum in college,” says the 57-year-old Winter Park artist.

May 2010

Lilia Lima, 49, was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, where she spent most of her life. Her son, Bruno, 26, still lives in Brazil. She moved to Manhattan in 2002 where she married Paul, whom she refers to as her “greatest ally.”  After living in Hoboken, N.J., and Annapolis, Md., they moved to Winter Park in 2007.

April 2010

Larry Moore, 52, has been painting en plein air – painting outdoors – for the last 25 years, and he considers it the most challenging and rewarding form of art he has experienced. His goal in painting, whether in studio or outdoors, is to achieve enough honesty in the work that the painting becomes a window to a new place for the viewer, a place of rest.

March 2010

Henry Peter, 60, lives and maintains a studio in Titusville. He was born and grew up in Burglengenfeld, Germany, a medieval town in a picturesque landscape of rolling hills, meadows and forests. He says he spent most of his first 10 years running with a gang of lederhosen-wearing, snotty-nosed urchins, stealing potatoes, chasing cows and getting into trouble.

February 2010

Hal McIntosh was born in 1927 in Highland Park, Mich. Today he shares his time between Winter Park and North Truro, Mass. Sixty years of experience as a working artist – along with his love for the natural world – find expression in his masterful works. A peaceful quality is evident in all of his paintings. Line, color and form combine with natural abstract patterns of ponds, fish, flowers, sea and sky to draw you into his personal realm.

January 2010

Marcia Lain Herring, 57, is recognized for her bold, brilliant compositions. Brimming with vigor and exuberance, her colorful, viewer-friendly canvases have stirred interest in collectors worldwide. In December 1999 the Winter Park artist began selling on Sotheby’s online auctions, which have since ended.

December 2009

Art collector Michael Mennello added a rotunda at his home for 2 bronze horse sculptures by Deborah Butterfield and a 15-foot mobile by John Wolfe.

November 2009

Elisabeth C. Ferber, 51, was born in Bellville, Ill., but has spent most of her adult life in Central Florida. Born of artistic parents and having spent much of her childhood in Europe, she was exposed to a classical art background that influenced her current style. She enjoyed drawing as a young child and learned to paint when her two children, Michael and Robert, were older and more independent.