The hand that made me...

Artists Featured in our Gallery:
Jennifer Brockway - Stained Glass
Judy Campbell - Paintings & ceramics
Marie Cartor - Fine Jewelry
David Cvelbar - Wood crafted items
Anzietta DiPierro - The Adorned Lady
Brigitte Fiorille - Pottery
Cory Goodnight - Lamps
Dee Hannum - eeD Photography
Carlene Holtz - Owner, Fine Art
Nancy Howell - Shell Act
Howard Kasdan - Turned Wood
Margaret Khairallah - Fine Art
Robert Kolcum - Paintings
Cyndi Konopka - Recycling Chix
Xyl Lasersohn - Paintings
Pat Linn - Textiles
Lisa Malak - Sandee River Farms
Beth Nilges-Nehamkin - Paintings
Erica Milligan - Peruse The Moon
Alice Mullins - Two Ponys Inc.
Jane Reynolds - Off the Pod Soy Candles
Hazel Runion - Jewelry
Brittany Selfe - Fine Art & Beach Glass
Mary Ann Sedivy - Paintings
Felicia Timas - His daughter
​Barbara Yoxall - Paintings & jewelry
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"Autumn Glow" Acrylic on canvas. $950.00
Carlene Holtz (Miss Car) - Owner
​Carlene is a Chagrin Falls native, a mother, artist, business owner, and current President of the Geauga Arts Council. Her works typically evoke a sense of reverence for the natural world through painting, sculpture and mixed media. Having previously owned and operated a landscape and garden design company, she now combines both art forms in her work. Visionary and founder of MC Art Studio, Carlene has been bringing the arts to her community since 1999 when she opened A Garden's Way Gallery in Burton. She has exhibited work in juried shows throughout Ohio, including the Russell Art Show, Fairmount Fine Arts Center, the Burton Art Show, and the Chagrin Valley Art Show. It is her dream to cultivate a space that welcomes artists to create, collaborate and share their artwork with the public. 
Brittany Selfe - Fine Art
Brittany Selfe is an Ohio-based visual artist who paints with oils and watercolors. She illustrated the book series 'Inspired Birth- Affirmations for the Childbearing Year' in 2017. She travelled around South Africa, Chile, Peru and South Korea in her early twenties. From her hobby of combing the beach along Lake Erie, she creates her one-of-a-kind Beach Glass Suncatchers. In the last five years she has honed her technique by primarily producing large scale works depicting natural rock formations. Brittany endeavors to bring the art-making experience to her community through hosting workshops for painting and crafting.
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"Coastal Pools" Oil on canvas. $2400.00
Cyndi M. Konopka - Recycling Chix
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cyndi has been working as a professional Artist/Photographer in the Northeast Ohio area, for the past 38 years. Her art career has encompassed many mediums, including photography, video, graphic design, jewelry, sculpture, up cycling, recycling, sewing, ceramics, painted rain barrels and most recently, epoxy resin and hypertufa, and she also dabbles in theater on occasion. 
 Cyndi has taught at many locations around the North Coast, sharing her vision and talent with curious students of all ages. You can find her work in several local galleries as well as local art and craft shows around Northeast Ohio. We are happy to have her work adorning our patio at MC Art Studio!
She has worked with the Collinwood Rain barrel Project for several years and created many barrels for art shows and clients.  Her inspiration comes from nature, which surrounds her amazing piece property out in Chardon Township which she calls Cynlandia. Always busy and never bored, she has a boundless supply of energy, always creating something in her magically delicious workshop.
David Cvelbar - Rustic Forest, LLC.
Dave runs his handmade furniture business in northeast Ohio. Each item he creates is truly one of a kind with most of his work being custom orders. Dave specializes in hard wood products,the wood for each project is hand selected for its uniqueness and beauty; wood such as Walnut, Maple, Hickory, Cherry, Oak, Cedar along with reclaimed lumber and drift wood.  He custom mills and kiln dries the wood on site to provide the most unique pieces of lumber possible.
   Dave has contacts through out the United States to provide customers with non local woods like Redwood, Cedar Mesquite  and more, but he prefers to harvest storm damaged and standing dead trees thus preserving our wood lots. A selection of home decor and furniture items are on display at MC Studios, but more can be viewed on his website.

Erica Milligan - Peruse The Moon
Erica is a native of Cleveland, is a lover of coffee, creative photography, art and the music that takes you there. As a wife & Mom; her why and passion is her family. Creating "Peruse the Moon" has been a lifelong dream. 

The Inspiration behind Peruse the Moon: 
Peruse the Moon was named to represent its multi-faceted creations; brought together in the name of one quest; to illuminate the dark. Heart and soul goes into creating each original piece to bring the presence of light to wherever they find their new home. The collection includes eclectic custom artwork and designs with dynamic words and colors, often made by special request, original paintings, photographs & digital prints with overlay text. It is Erica's mission to create art that moves the soul and pursue the passion of presenting a light in the darkness. 
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"Breathe" Acrylic on canvas. $175.00
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"Laughing Sunflower" Oil on canvas. $325.00
Lisa Alfidi Lockemer - Oil Painter
"I have always loved how the shapes and colors of Mother Nature's personality are so deliciously teased together to provide me the most magical palette of inspiration! I have been blessed with eyes to see the glorious designs and vivacious colors in the world and just want to paint, paint, paint! 
Living in the South and along the Seashore allows a sparkling palette of opportunity to paint landscapes where I transfer my love of nature, coastal life and flowers into art using the impasto style of painting. I prefer the fluidity of oil paint as my medium and find it exotic enough to let me musically express my emotions in a medlet of visual and physical interpretation. Laying down paint with palette knives in some areas and brushes in others, allows me to blend and apply many colors in layers. Finally, working with a palette knife, I stoke and draw the heavy paint into a visual flow of movement. This particular style provides the texture which prompts the paint and colors to prance right off the canvas! Life is good, let us embrace and share it!"
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"Orange Sunset Horse" Acrylic on canvas. $350.00
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Tie Dye tunics and kimonos.
Alice Mullins - Two Ponys Inc.
Alice is a local artist who resides in the Chagrin Falls Area. She earned her BFA at University of Cincinnati, and has her masters in Art Education from Cincinnati as well as a masters in Psych Art Therapy from Ursuline College.  Her artwork is inspired by a deep love and respect for animals, nature, and Native American teachings, storytelling and wisdom. Her beautiful tie-dyes are inspired by the peace, happiness, fun, and smiles from the 60’s! She feels privileged to create many custom animal paintings that are in homes all over the U.S.! Her work has been displayed in galleries in Wellington Florida and locally in Ohio.
Alice loves teaching, painting, and inspiring artists of all ages. She ran the paint workshops and tie-dye sessions for multiple years at “Dazzle” in Chagrin Falls called, “When I Paint My Masterpiece”. She has been a vendor for over 20 years at art shows, festivals, and arts and crafts shows in south Florida and also locally! We welcome her into our space!
Xyl Lasersohn - Painter
“I create paintings that draw attention to separation and the resulting iterations and copies created from the act of separating. This effect is achieved through shifts in style, structure, and texture.  Through these separations I hope to create uncanny, humorous, and contradictory relationships between the objects and the landscapes they reside within. This is done in order to create problems within the painting. The problem implies that there are criteria for success and failure, with the painting posing problems to the viewer through the contradictions presented.  The landscape and objects are purposefully equivocal in the sense that there are multiple interpretations which are all equally valid, thus depriving the viewer of any concrete conclusion. Within the paintings there are attempts to recreate something and a resulting failure to do so. Objects are constantly repeating within the landscapes, deprived of their intended function. The landscapes themselves are fragmented, shifting between flatness and receding areas of space. The buildup of paint occurring only through the sheer number of layers applied, implying something has been covered up."
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"White Flag on a Pale Sausage" Oil on canvas. $1200.00
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"Wedge" Oil on canvas. $1200.00