Meet Our Artists!

“Big Red Bus” 2022

I was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised between Connecticut and Cape Cod, where I developed a love for small coastal communities and all things water.

I attended the University of Tampa, where I learned art appreciation from one of the most influential people in my life, my college advisor, who was also the head of the art department and a former Broadway scenic artist. While I was earning a BFA, I competed in soccer, lacrosse, and tennis.

Shortly after school, I obtained a 100 Ton Master Sail Auxiliary license to start a parasailing business on Cape Cod. Eventually, I moved on to larger motor yachts for a few years. Several wonderful experiences followed: working as a scenic artist in a dinner theater in Clearwater Florida, teaching tennis, making cast marble products in Belarus, getting hooked on hang gliding while living and working in San Diego and spending two years in the Bahamas and one in Alaska, I eventually landed a captain job aboard an older motor yacht that spent winters in Palm Beach and summers in Maine. While offshore between said destinations, engine troubles landed us in the beautiful little town of Beaufort, where I met my wife. We were both volunteering at the local high school. I started a painting company and added construction and renovation services.

Recently, I built a 30-foot boat in the Watercraft Center and got the privilege of painting the Big Red Bus on the double-decker bus garage doors.

“Beaufort” 2023

All my life I have loved making things and making them beautiful.  As a child I mastered many traditional crafts but painting became my favorite.

I studied Art at UNH, graduating in 1994, and have focused on painting and decorating  whatever I could get my hands on ever since.

For twenty years I’ve been using my talents in homes, businesses, on theatrical stages, and on film sets.  I can change the color of a room or create a view in a room where there isn’t one.   Would you like birds flying on your ceiling or an owl in a night sky?  I can do that.  I make floors look like marquetry  and walls look like brick.  I’ve painted many wooden surfaces to look like stone and once even painted a stone counter to look like wood.  I also do custom stencils, gilding, venetian plaster, custom mosaics and wallcovering installation.  As often as I can, I work on my own imaginings in my studio.

I was born and raised in NH, but now happily reside in NC.  I have a wonderful husband, 3 cats, 19 gray hairs, lots of books, and a magic closet.  I dream of an island where it never snows.

“Vintage Postcards of Beaufort” 2024

Her story is painted on the walls.

Bobbie is a self-taught artist, based in New Bern. She embraced her new life as a full-time artist and muralist after moving to the coastal Carolinas.

She engages in various forms of media, yet painting possesses a uniquely significant energy in her journey. “I wish for my art to evoke a memory or convey a timeless sense of place to the viewer.“

“Bloom Where You Are” 2025

Seraphim Smith is a Renaissance man. Having hailed from Nashville, Tennessee, Smith has a keen interest in the arts, hospitality and all things Southern – especially food!  Smith is a film producer for PBS North Carolina and creates branding, marketing and promotion for business and non-profits. His art studio is located at Art105 on 105 Blount St. in Kinston, NC. When Smith isn't working, he enjoys playing with his dog, fixing up his old house, baking bread, and performing with the St. Mary's Episcopal Choir in Kinston, North Carolina.