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. Follow her blog at www.krissysart.blogspot.com.
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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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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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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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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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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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