Victoria Garner is a graduate of Brigham Young University, UT with an associate’s degree in interior design and a graduate of County College of Morris, NJ with an associate’s degree of fine arts in visual arts. She spent eighteen years working in the financial industry and several years as an interior designer. Vicki moved to Alabama from New Jersey in 2006 to be closer to family and to enjoy the warm southern weather. She recently moved to Leoma, Tennessee where her studio is located in her home out in the country.

     As an artist, Vicki got her start early in life. In school, her teachers often displayed her drawings and her work was praised by her classmates. She could always be found with a pencil and paper in hand, tucked into a corner of her room drawing whatever took her fancy at the moment. When she was eleven, her mother enrolled her in a summer art program at the local art museum. From there, she continued with her art education in the public school system and later in college.

     Vicki’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions and galleries in New Jersey, Alabama and Tennessee – and is represented in private collections throughout the country. Her paintings have been juried into many shows and exhibits and have won several awards.

Artist Statement

     Color excites my creative passions! The brilliant hues found in nature, especially yellow, inspire my landscape paintings. I try to incorporate yellow in nearly every landscape I do. Yellow’s vibrancy brings joy to my heart.

     An avid genealogist, the spiritual connection I have to my past inspires my still life compositions. Objects reminiscent of childhood summers helping my mother and grandmother gardening, cooking and sewing feature prominently in my work.

     I recently moved from Huntsville to live out in the country in Leoma, Tennessee. The rural countryside with quaint Amish farms has led my work in yet another new direction. In addition, I have been involved in some book illustration projects.

     As I begin each new piece, I reach within my soul for the passions evoked by my subject. The result is an emotional bond between artist and image that hopefully expresses itself to the viewer.

Lou Innamorato

     Louis displayed a talent and interest in art since early childhood. He received four years of commercial art instruction during high school, working mostly in pen and ink. Upon graduation, he got a “dream” job working in the advertising department of a women's wear manufacturer, on Fifth Ave. in Manhattan. He worked with beautiful women every day, wearing everything from coats and hats, to everything underneath, and preparing his drawings for ad mats that appeared in newspaper advertising. After about a year, he became bored and disenchanted with his art world and quit to join the US Navy. Of course, all of his friends thought that he was crazy. During his time in the Navy, he served aboard a tanker serving with the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic.

     Upon his discharge from the service, he opened his own automotive recycling business in upstate New York, quite a change from the art world. Through very long hours and very hard work, the business succeeded beyond his expectations, becoming one of the largest used auto parts suppliers in the Northeast. During this time his art took a back seat to the business of business. He sold that business in 1992 and retired at the ripe age of 56.

     Retirement brought a renewal of his interest in art but now as a painter with oils. According to Lou, he finally achieved his life long goal of becoming totally useless and carefree. After retirement, he and his wife went cruising, on their own boat, up and down the Hudson River, the coastal water in the northeastern states and the New York State barge canal system to Canada and the Great Lakes. During this time they also found time to do some foreign travel.Much of his art work reflects his early childhood in New York, his boating experiences and his foreign travel.

     Lou is a member of the Orange County New York Art Federation, the Tennessee Art League and the Maury County Arts Guild. He is mostly self taught working primarily in oils. He frames his own work and makes some of his own frames. He has also learned the art of restoring antique frames. He has had some success in selling his art work to private collectors in New York City, Orange County, NY, Tennessee and Montana.





     While still in grade  school, Eileen received her first blue ribbon awards for her paintings exhibited in the Lucas County fair in Toledo Ohio. Although she majored in business in High School, she took private lessons from a noted artist in the area, Sister Genevieve. After completing High School, Eileen attended the University of Toledo as a Business major and pursued her art studies at the Toledo Museum of Art.
 
     Eileen Moore is a native of Toledo Ohio. In the mid 60’s Eileen moved to Virginia and then onto Connecticut. Time for painting was limited, as  she was raising two young children.  She did find some time to enter local art shows in the Hartford area and came away with 1st and 2nd awards for mixed media entries.  In the early 70’s Eileen moved back to the Toledo area where she assisted her well renowned brother, Brian Lonsway, a glass blowing artist, at Fortune Glass Studio in Waterville Ohio. While in Ohio she met her artistic husband, Lee, and they moved to Tennessee in 1978.  After settling into Tennessee, Eileen joined the Maury County Arts Guild, then housed in a huge home in the historical district.  She is also a member of the Tennessee Art League in Nashville and exhibits in their monthly member shows.
 
     Mostly a self-taught artist, she has always been involved in the arts and has enjoyed taking classes from Toledo to Nashville.  In November 2009, Eileen took an 8 day painting workshop with renowned painter Charles Gruppe` in Sorrento Italy.   Presently you’ll find Eileen at her new studio in Lynnville, painting and pondering where she would love to go on a new adventure workshop.  For now the Tennessee landscape will do just fine.