23645 W US Hwy 27, High Springs Florida Tel: 352-474-1049
Email: lanzagallery@yahoo.com
A Florida Art Gallery and Art Supplies Store.
We sell Fine Art Paintings, Jewelry & Pottery from local artisans
along with quality art and craft supplies in beautiful downtown High Springs.
Anda’s work can be seen in galleries and art exhibitions in the Central and North Florida area. She has received recognition for her work in watercolors and colored pencil.
Anda has received commissions for public projects, publications and from art patrons. In addition to showing her own work, Anda curates and judges for local and regional art shows. She installed art shows and exhibitions for galleries, art groups, public exhibitions and individual artists. Currently she works and teaches in her studio in McAlpin and stays busy with gallery work, classes and promoting the arts.
At Arkansas Technical University Anda majored in Art and Art Education and earned a degree in Education at Florida Southern College. She is a Florida Certified Art Teacher and taught art for 16 years in the Florida public school system.
Linn Check-Mathis - Jeweler
Linn has been working in stained glass for over 35 years and owned a glass shop for over 30. Now she is “playing” with dichroic fused jewelr and loving every minute of it.
She has always loved the color aspect of stained glass and dichroic takes that to a new level… sometimes in unexpected ways. “One time I put a piece that I thought was black and silver in the kiln, only to have it emerge bright turquoise and black. It’s amazing what 1400 degrees of heat can do!” Linn explained.
One of the most amazing examples of Linn’s stained glass works is the breathtaking, stained glass crucifix that adorns the main sanctuary at The Family Church in Gainesville FL.
Linn and her husband now resides in Alachua, FL. She also sells her glass jewelry at local craft festivals.
Karen LeMonnier - Painter
Karen's style and enthusiasm comes from the Impressionist Artists. To her, impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting her senses. Her goal is to approach each painting with a fresh, open awareness to the scene which allows her to learn from each painting.
Her art can be see throughout Alachua County for she is a member of The Artisans Guild Gallery in Gainesville, and the The Melrose Bay Art Gallery, Melrose, FL.. Her work is shown at The Gallery at Rum138, in Fort White, FL and here in the Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies.
Karen strives to support and strengthen the local and regional art community and activily serves on the board of The Gainesville Fine Arts Association.
"Hopefully my work will evoke memories of places you've seen along the way in your life."
Debra Mazzei-Ridgdill
Debra Mazzei-Ridgdill
Tina Corbett - Painter
Presently living in High Springs, Florida, Tina Corbett has devoted her life to her love of art since she was a teenager in South Florida. She studied Commercial Art at Miami Lakes Tech and served as the Postal Art Illustrator for the South Florida District Post Office for 17 years until her move to northern Florida. There she has decided to pursue her first love, fine art oil painting.
These past years she has actively pursued Plein Air painting all over the state. This particular area of Florida has inspired her creativity with its “artsy” spirit and its wonderful array of springs, beautiful ranches, farms and historic “Old Florida”. She also paints wildlife and animal paintings with pet portraits and commissions are always welcomed.
She is an active member of the Gainesville Fine Arts Association and Plein Air Florida. She has work hanging in The Rum 138 Art Gallery in Fort White, FL. and now in her own gallery The Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies in High Springs, FL. There is also a commissioned work at the University of Florida's Physics Building. Tina regularly participates in various Art Festivals and Plein Air Events around the state of Florida.
My work in ceramics spans two periods, 1970-1985, and 2015- present. I had the good fortune to study under master potter and arts educator Walter Hyleck in the Ceramic Apprenticeship Program he founded at Berea College in 1970. After graduating from Berea in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in art, and as a member of the first class of Ceramic Apprenticeship Program graduates, I set up my first studio in rural Rockcastle County a few miles outside Berea. In 1974 I returned to Berea as the apprentice program’s first graduate apprentice.
Up through 1985, I focused mostly on functional, production pottery at studios in Kentucky and North Carolina, selling my work through craft organizations and regional galleries in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
In 2012, I began a three-year process of building my fourth custom, gas-fired kiln and setting up another studio, in which I finally began working in 2015.
I sell my work locally to individuals in the Gainesville-Newberry, Florida area, at the Harn Museum Store, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, and I show at local art festivals such as the Santa Fe Spring Arts Festival, the Gainesville Downtown Festival, and the Art Festival at Thornebrook.
Mike Segal - Painter
"I am the luckiest guy in the world." Mike said, "Well at least one of them, for sure. I married my girlfriend, Marvi, who was my gal in the 5th grade at North Beach Elementary School on Miami Beach, Florida. I paint every day and love to paint. You will figure that out when you look at the thousands of paintings I have produced over the past 50 years as an artist."
Mike's art career started off in 1964 when he made his first painting and then in 1968 as a professional photographer living in Coconut Grove, Florida on Loquat Street.
After graduating from North Carolina State University, School of Design with a degreein Landscape Architecture, he worked for the Florida Department of Natural Resources where he designed 60 state and local parks.
Marvi and Mike moved to North Carolina in 1983 where he was painting full time. They moved back to their native state of Florida in 1989 and both now participate in sidewalk art shows throughout the Southeast. Mike has his own home gallery in Cedar Key Florida called Down The Rabbit Hole with The Lanza Gallery being the only other gallery to carry is work.
Sandy Mikel - Jeweler
Sandy Mikel thinks of herself as an accidental jewelry artist and reluctant metalsmith. She always enjoyed fiber crafts and loved working with wood, but never even thought about making jewelry and didn't see how anyone would want to work with metal. Her epiphany came in 2007 when she saw a book on metal clay. Intrigued by the idea of being able to actually shape metal with her hands, she took a class and was hooked.
About that time she came across The Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry, France Borel and John Bigelow Taylor's book documenting the Colette and Jean-Pierre Ghysels collection, and it was a revelation about what jewelry is and can be. You can't look at a photograph of ear ornaments made from beetle wing cases, seeds, and toucan feathers, and not realize there may be possibilities that you haven't considered. As she began to incorporate more materials in her work she finally had to acknowledge that it was time to broaden her range of skills and began taking jewelry construction classes. Feeling comfortable mixing materials and techniques in whatever way seems best gives her a lot more freedom in design. Her necklace, “Moonstruck”, designed with silver, moonstones, and water buffalo horn, was awarded second place in the 2015 Saul Bell Design Award alternative materials category.
http://www.saulbellaward.com/Winners/Year/2015
Nika Zakharov - Jeweler
Kathleen Sirois - Jewelry
As a child Kathleen’s creativity was strongly encouraged. She was fortunate to have had art lessons and exposure to numerous techniques and mediums. Fascinated by the process inherent in the creation of art, when she works on a piece it takes on a life of its own, and almost naturally takes the lead to what happens next.
Kathleen’s jewelry chapter started with a sheet of copper in her basement. She began with cutting circles, hammering, doming and adding pearls. Then came embossing and etching of copper and brass.
Recently relocating to Florida from New Hampshire and during the staging of her home she discovered ceramic artisans and their creations. This allowed her to set up her studio again, on a smaller and more organized scale, suitable for house showings. Kathleen loves the hunt for special components and the embellishing to frame or complement them and turn them into wearable art.
Stacey Breheny - Painter
I am a painter living in High Springs, Florida. My primary subject is landscape. I enjoy observation and realism, creating paintings of times and places that are both beautiful and evocative. I’m interested in many kinds of places from rural roads and humble dwellings to wild and hidden corners of natural Florida.
My work can be found in public buildings and private collections regionally and nationally, including large scale habitat murals at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (Gainesville) where I was a staff artist and graphic designer for 20 years.
I currently teach Drawing, Painting and Design at Santa Fe College in Gainesville. I enjoy participating in local plein air events several times a year in addition to working in my studio on personal works of art and commissions.
Patrice Boyes - Painter
"I am an artist based in the Gainesville, Florida area who encourages everyone to "see" natural and emotional landscapes a little differently. I hope to provide you with the best possible experience through artistic expression", expresses Patrice.
Since 2015, Patrice has been showing artistic work in both individual and collective shows around Gainesville, Florida. Pieces by Patrice can be found across several galleries on a rotating basis throughout the year. Explore the patriceboyes.com site in order to view all current collections and exhibits.
Green Lizard Pottery by Diane Hornby Horn
Diane Hornby is a fun local potter out of Newberry Florida. She creates one of kind functional pottery in her backyard pottery studio. From her fun beasties, creative animals (some are whistles) to her bowls, cups and kitchen ware, there is no limits to her creativity.
Diane also offers pottery classes contact Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies for information, 352-474-1049.
Jay Winter Collins - Folk Art
Artist Undefined, Other? Described sometimes as Urban Folk Art, Illustrative Art, Naive Art, Decorative Art, Narrative Art, Subliminal Art, Imaginative Art, or Subconscious Art.
Works of art by Jay Winter Collins. Whimsical, colorful paintings of a happy world of intelligent design.
Chris Tatum has worked with wood all his life. A migrant of Miami Florida, he moved to Gainesville in 1978. He is a craftsmen of fine furniture and cabinetry for over thirty six years and has since reinvented his artform to focus on woodturning, the art of shaping forms on a lathe to create functional and sculptural objects.
Utilizing discarded material, Chris meticulously crafts beautiful works of art from his imagination. His work not only serves a functional purpose, but is aesthetically engaging and thought provoking.
Nancy Betty - Painting
Born in Asheville, N.C., Nancy and her family lived on the west coast of Florida since l986. She studied at Ringling College of Art and Design and participated in artist’s residencies’ s including Vermont Studio Center and has studied with many noted artists. She and her husband moved to Gainesville Florida in 2014 to be near their daughter Christine Denny and her family.
Christine and John Denny are owners of First Magnitude Brewery.
She paints full time in her barn/studio on a little farm off Millhopper Road but can often be found painting in the forest and springs of central Florida, in the low county in South Carolina or up in the mountains of her native North Carolina. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the US.
nkbstudio@msn.com
http://www.nancykbetty.com