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Lillie P. Adkins – is a Duplin County resident and lives in Wallace. She is a retired school teacher. She works in mixed media, acrylic, paper, wood, charcoal, fibers, pencil, and watercolor. Adkins learned how to macramé from the Home Extension Agency and taught the fiber craft at Sampson Community College in Clinton, N.C. She is a self-taught portrait artist. Adkins’ macramé owls and hangings are part of the guild’s fiber offerings. William M. Boney – Boney lives in Pender County. Boney is a heritage craftsman who works with wood. He makes wooden walking canes. His canes are steam bent, crooked, and sometimes with twisted shafts. Boney’s wood laminate construction uses different types of wood that are scored together to fade from one type of wood to another. He learned his craft from family members, books, and formal instruction. He considers his craft to be God given. Maggie Casteen – lives in Rose Hill in Duplin County. She is a painter, specializing in oil and watercolor. Casteen is self taught with some formal instruction. Casteen’s artwork is greatly influenced by the work of Georgia O’Keefe. Jason Cole – Blacksmith from Wilmington in New Hanover County. Cole works in hand forged iron, sometimes mixed with copper and wood. He uses a forge and anvil. Cole attended several craft colleges, studying small metals and progressing to iron. Richard Coley – Intracoastal Iron. Coley lives in New Hanover County in Wilmington. Coley hand forges iron into organic genre. He works with a gas forge, anvil, and sometimes a torch. Coley worked as an apprentice with William Walters at the Penland School of Crafts. Architectural iron is his main focus now. Margaret Blanchard Cooper – lives in Rose Hill in Duplin County. Mrs. Cooper is in her 90s and has been painting her whole life. She received a degree in art from Meredith College in 1937. She studied at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 1938 and many years later studied with Claude Howell at UNCW. Cooper taught private art lessons to children and adults. She worked mainly in oils, some acrylics. She donated the Guild’s first Permanent Collection piece entitled “The Wallace Thursday Flea Market-Stockyard. Cooper also donated an oil portrait of Rufus Rouse to the Wallace Depot Museum. Julie D'Ambrosia – Julie’s Jewels. D’Ambrosia is a jewelry artist from Burgaw in Pender County. She also partners with Holland in Crazy Chicks birdhouses. D’Ambrosia works in silver, crystals, semi-precious stones and other found objects. She is self taught with some formal instruction. Lynn Dukes – is a Sampson County resident from Salemburg. She is an elementary art teacher for the Sampson County School System and has a BFA in Art Education from East Carolina University. Ceramics and clay is her concentration, and she has been working with clay for 20 years. Dukes does not consider herself to be a traditional North Carolina potter but an artist whose medium of choice is clay; however, along with her nontraditional pottery, Dukes constructs “chicken whimsies.” These clay fowl are traditional NC pottery items. Theresa Brooks Elias – Looking South East Studio. Elias is a native of Wallace in Duplin County. She uses many mediums: oil and acrylic paints, ceramics, fibers, mixed media, and paper. Elias is an art educator in Sampson County. She took painting lessons from Margaret Blanchard Cooper and learned how to sew from her mother and maternal grandmother. Elias has a BA in Art, a MAEd in Art Education, and is a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent to Young Adult Art. Elias made the longleaf pine cone tree skirt under the copper tree in the guild shop. She also loves to paint coastal scenes, including the Topsail beach Triptych print and the disappearing maritime forests. Elias also constructs and paints craft items like the Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas decorations featured in the guild shop. Julie Green – The Scarlet Thread. Greene is a Duplin County fiber artist from the Chinquapin area. Greene stretches her silk fabric on a frame and paints the silk with dyes. She often applies rock salt to the wet dyes to create a “tye dyed” look. Greene also uses the “bloching method” in her dying techniques. Greene has been sewing for 30 years and makes clothing and other fabric items in addition to her beautiful scarves. Each hand dyed item is unique. She attended workshops to learn her craft and is self taught through experimenting. Greene is a chemistry teacher for the Duplin County School System and teaches “praise dancing.” Greene’s beautiful silk scares are for sale in the guild shop. Pamela Greenough – Port City Pottery. Greenough works primarily with clay, mixed media, and metal. She considers her clay pieces to be sculptural and functional. Greenough earned BAs in Art History and Studio Art from UNCW. Her studio and home are located in Wilmington, New Hanover County. Robert Hall – lives in Delway in Sampson County. He is primarily a self-taught artist. He attended James Sprunt Community College for design and commercial classes. In 1989 Hall was commissioned to design a piece for the United Negro Fund. Much of his work pictures Blacks and their everyday lives. Hall prefers oils, but he also works in pen and ink, clay, and wood. His work is sold nationally. Some of his available prints include country scenes like a watermelon patch, a pig yard, Noah’s ark (after the flood), and children in a school room. Linda Anne Hartman – lives in Wilmington, New Hanover County. Hartman works in several mediums: clay, jewelry, manmade materials, metals, mixed media, acrylic natural materials, and wood. Hartman combines and incorporates many materials to create her ceramic sculptural art. She attended VCU, worked at Fat Cat Pottery in Wilmington and the Pencoe Center at the Cameron Museum of Art. Liz Holland – Crazy Chicks. Holland is a Pender County resident from Burgaw. She works in partnership with Julie D’Ambrosia. They make bird houses from recycled materials and found objects. 95% of their crafts are made from re-claimed ( recycled ) materials. Their bird houses are both functional and decorative. Holland is self taught. Tammy Howard – Tammy’s Panes. Howard lives in Wallace. She is a glass artist. Her work includes glass panels, lamps, and suncatchers. Howard hand cuts and solders her glass creations. Howard took lessons in a stained glass class. Her dragonfly-spoon pieces are some the popular items this craftsperson creates. Burt Millette – Hampstead in Pender County. Millette works in wood, creating kaleidoscopes, pepper mills, bowls, platters. He turns all his pieces on a lathe. His bowls are turned from native woods. Millette is self taught and studied at the Campbell Folk School. He has been working at his craft for 20 years. Joan Millette – Millette Art. Millette lives in Hampstead in Pender County. She is a multimedium artist. She fires her clay at raku level. She has taken many workshops and courses. Millette has worked in clay for 35 years and her glass art for several years. She is a member of the Wilmington Art Association and the Onslow County Art League. Sharon Moore – a Wallace and Duplin County native, Moore is an English teacher at Wallace-Rose Hill High School. Moore is also a painter. She works in oil and acrylic paints. She paints landscapes, dogs, cats, flowers, and buildings. She also uses coffee filters and Mod Podge in some of her paintings for texture. Moore took painting lessons from Margaret Cooper and had two years of college classes at UNC. She has been painting since she was 8. Her Dairi-O print has been a best seller at the guild shop. Linda Nichols – Lin’s Original Oil Paintings. Nichols is a Duplin County resident and lives in Rose Hill. She works in oil, digital photography, and mixed media. She is a self-taught artist and has been painting since her teenage years. Her oil painting of a large mountain lion demonstrates her excellent use of light. Michael Deane Pistner – – Hyperlink. Pistner is a Duplin resident who lives and works in Wallace. Pistner is the guild’s webmaster. Pistner is a digital photographer who likes to take animal and landscape photos. He has been taking pictures since the early 1980s. He is self taught. David Sanderson – lives in Burgaw in Pender County. Sanderson is an art educator in Duplin County at Wallace-Rose Hill High School. He has a master’s degree in art education from UNC. Sanderson is a photographer and likes to photograph local places from this area to the coast. Some of his photographs include Boney’s Mill Pond, old farms in this area, surfers at dawn, scenes from the Thursday Flea Market in Wallace, and places in historical Wilmington. Mary S. Saulnier – Saulnier is a Duplin County resident from the Wallace area. Saulnier works with acrylic, paper, wood, and mixed media. She primarily paints on wood surfaces and creates lazy susans, boxes, and other wooden pieces. Saulnier also has a children’s line of canvases, botanical creations, and painted floorcloths. She uses tissue paper and faux finishes, as well. Saulnier completed the Decorative Arts Program at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been an artist her whole life. Alice Scott – Scott is a Pink Hill resident in Duplin County. She is a painter who does landscapes, seascapes, and still-life. Scott uses oils in the “wet on wet” technique. Scott studied painting at James Sprunt Community College under Norma Moore. Candace C. Shannon – Harmony Glassware. Shannon lives in Kenansville in Duplin County. She works with glass, acrylic and mixed media. Shannon uses glass paint and tissue to decorate the glass. She also uses same technique on canvas. Shannon majored in graphic design but considers herself to be a self-taught painter. Claudia Compton Smith – Glassy Chic. Smith lives in Wallace in Duplin County. Smith has been a nurse practitioner for 30 years. She is a self-taught fused glass artist. Smith has been working in this medium for 12 years, starting with pieces of jewelry. She makes beautiful functional art and decorative pieces of all sizes. Smith enjoys layering glass and colors. She likes to see how the glass pulls in the light. Smith offers glass pieces from earrings, sun catchers, to bowls and other large items. Hope Smith – Art of Hope. Smith lives in Wallace in Duplin County. She works in paint, pen and ink, and pencil. Smith paints inspirational designs and street scenes from the places around her. She has a bright, colorful, and loose style. Smith majored in art at UNCG. She has been painting for 16 years. Smith paints a lot of local scenes and buildings such as the Dairi-O, Wallace Drug, Farrior’s. the Wallace, Depot, the town clock, and Frist Baptist Church. Mayra Tadeo – lives in Wallace in Duplin County. She is a painter and also works in pen and ink and pencil. Tadeo has a loose style of painting; she paints on found objects and recycled materials. She likes to paint on texture. She considers herself to be self- taught. She attended Mount Olive College for graphic design and fine art. Tadeo has a wonderful painting on rusted steel of her grandfather and a grouping of pieces depicting ceramic ware and rolls. Kathleen H. Walker – lives in Rocky Point in Pender County. She has been painting in oils for 25 years. Walker is self-taught and took classes in college. She has a folk art style similar to Grandma Moses. Milton Wood – Phoenix Enterprises. Wood lived in Chinquapin in Duplin County. His medium was pen & ink and colored pencils. Wood liked to draw scenes from North Carolina’s farming past. His art features Boney’s Mill Pond, tobacco barns, barns, and country scenes. Wood was a self-taught artist and drew all his life. Lee Woodard – is a Duplin County resident of Wallace. He is a self taught artist that works with a variety of materials. He likes to paint, use graphite and charcoal, and recycled materials. Woodard features the female form in a lot of his pieces. Vicki Worrell – Sarah’s Baskets. Vicki weaves baskets that she designs in various shapes, sizes, and colors of reeds. Some of her creations include wood parts and unique weaving materials. Worrell initially took classes through the Pender County Extension Office through Cape Fear Community College in the early 1980s. For 20 years, Worrell has been teaching basketweaving. She attends conventions and seminars in several states and has published over 150 basket patterns that are sold nationwide. Worrell has been featured in two national basketweaving magazines. Basket weaving is a heritage craft. All Local Artists! – If you are a local artist and would like to have your art or craftwork in the Longleaf arts & crafts Guild and on our website, please download an application and send it to us with some samples of your work. If accepted, you can be here with our other fine artists. Artists work will be up soon for you to see and purchase. Thank you for visiting our site.
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