The Sanctuary Artists
Kristen Feighery

Kristen is a former professional actress who gave up the stage for family and a paintbrush! All her work is on wood or recycled cabinet doors. She is inspired by folk art of the Appalachians (where she is from) and religious and iconic medieval works.

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Dione Goyette

Dione began painting professionaly in 2001 after creating a line of work entitled, ‘My Foolish Art’. She studied with Ernesto de la Pena Fulch at The Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende in 2005 where she learned to paint subconsciously instead of self-consciously. She now resides in Davidson, NC and is the owner of ‘Art In Hand’, a fully functional deck of cards which incorporates the work of 54 Charlotte artists and assists them in finding a wider audience for their work.

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Bonnie Boardman

Jewelry designer, Bonnie Boardman’s main focus is metal with her signature hammered finish. Using gold and silver, she creates modern, simple, wearable jewelry.

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Taisia Mills

The love I had for my own art teacher as a child inspired me to want to teach art as well. Being an artist too is an added bonus. I teach art at Community School of Davidson and at the Community Arts Project and I LOVE it!! The children are the inspiration for my own art!

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Janine Yordy

Janine Yordy is a self-taught artist and children’s poet. She is fulfilling her dream of creating pictures and words that bring smiles to the world.

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Angela Van Every

Angela splits her time between Mooresville, North Carolina and Santa Fe, NM. She loves color and light and incorporates large amounts of it into her paintings. She, admittedly, tends to push the limits while interpreting nature on canvas with acrylics and oils.

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Lori Burton/Camden Creations

Lori Burton began Camden Creations in 2008 after the arrival of her youngest child. All of the adorable baby gifts she received served as inspiration. After giving samples out to friends and gifts to moms for about a year, her own line of baby accessories and children’s clothing developed.

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Chris Johnson

Chris creates indoor / outdoor decorative art with a stylized, elegant perspective of nature. All work is designed with 3D engineering software and cut with laser and water jet machines. Chris works with stainless steel, copper, stained glass, and acrylic.

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Cindy Dabestani

Admittedly an emotional person, Cindy symbolically pours her observations, memories and feelings onto her canvas via layers of paint, building shimmering textures by applying color after color with a palette knife. The brilliant colors in the finished paintings bear witness to her outlook on life–and art.

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Angie Moses

The oil paintings of Angie Moses celebrate the greatness of small things. Her contemplative realism offers a moment of rest in a hurried world. After studying art at the College of William and Mary, Angie, wife of pastor Mike Moses, has spent 20 plus years doing commissioned paintings, murals, and portraits.

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Bead-A-Ling

Bead-A-Ling uses creativity to convert beautiful beads from classic to casual for every budget and occasion. The breathtaking necklaces,

Rosa Murillo

Rosa is an architect and artist. Her work is original and include a variety of mediums from paintings to jewelry. All her unique pieces are designed and handmade with care.

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Gabby Girl Custom Jewelry

Gabby Girl is named after the soon to be adopted daughter of Doug and Jenn Poppin of Charlotte, NC. Proceeds from Gabby Girl help bring Gabby and other children home to their forever families.

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Heather Moody

Heather sees our beautiful world and it’s endless variety of natural and manmade environments as a great source of inspiration for her recent work in the jewelry arts. Whether it be inspired by an underwater world or a starry seascape each jewelry creation is a narrative in textures and sweet whimsy.

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Jayne Braxton

Jayne’s versatility is her greatest strength. There isn’t a medium she hasn’t mastered and it is evident in her beautiful work. Whether it is mixed media, acrylic, oil and more.

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Deborah Carter

Deborah is a mixed media artist living in the Lake Norman area with her husband and two children. Her artwork incorporates photo transparency transfers with a fusion of collage and paint mediums. This combination creates a painterly art image that is detailed and complex in layers.

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Adrian Chu Redmond

Adrian Chu Redmond, born in New York City, currently resides in Charlotte, NC with her husband and three children. Adrian has had her oil paintings represented at several area galleries. For Redmond, the challenge of painting contributes to her inspiration.
“I have no expectations about my artwork, so I can never disappoint myself. For me, it is all about the journey”.

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Gerry McElroy

Gerry McElroy is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and a former fashion designer in NYC. She now lives in Davidson, NC with her husband and three sons and continues to pursue her passion for drawing the female figure.

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Jane Vanselous

The combinations of color and textures of yarns have always been inspiring to Jane, creating seemingly endless possibilities. It is from this fascination with fibers that she learned to hand felt wool. From Me To Ewe focuses on hand-felted wool designs, with a few unique selections of knit and crochet pieces.

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Luke Krenzin
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Janine Medlin

Initially inspired to paint by her desire to tell the story of her family, Janine began painting simple scenes, then expanded her scope. Her primary focus is landscape, and she also enjoys painting the beauty and complexity of single elements of nature, such as a simple bird’s nest.

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Anne Harkness

Mrs. Harkness chooses subject matter that may consist of dreamy fantasies, vibrant portraitures, crisp close ups in nature, charming songs and sayings, or refreshing land or cityscapes. Her mediums range from acrylics, colored pencils and watercolors with oil pastels. Anne has done works ranging from 1”square to 9’x30’. Each creation is composed and arranged with the eye of a graphic designer infusing each piece with a graceful order and balance. Take a moment to glimpse the world through her eyes.

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Mary Crow

Mary enjoys painting the beauty that exists in God’s creation, and interpreting it through portraits and landscapes, oils and pastels. She Attended art school at Columbus College of Art and Design, and received a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from West Virginia University and has also studied portraiture under nationally known portrait artists. She also maintains a clay studio! Mary’s love of art is evident in her own art classes where she shares her enthusiasm through her teaching.

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