The second Friday of each month the gallery presents "Art After
Hours" and our Artist Reception. This is a special event from 5 - 9 PM with live music during the warm weather and light
hors d'oeuvres.
We offer a new and exciting art show each month, featuring the talents
of selected local artists in our Guest Gallery. The entire downtown area celebrates with carriage rides and other venues that stay open late as well. Come by our studio and enjoy and support your local community artists!
I currently live in Raleigh and work as a Wake County teacher with Autism students and I paint in my free time. However ten years ago, when living in Belmont, North Carolina, I had not been painting at all. Slowly I began to explore my creativity again or getting "back into my art". I began with small watercolor landscapes, which reminded me and hopefully others, of places that were good memories. Later I took a pastel class at Queens College in Charlotte and fell in love with the chalk medium, never looking back. Even though pastels are now my main focus, I still enjoy creating interesting effects using both mediums together.
I most enjoy doing landscape paintings and experimenting and creating beautiful skies that I enjoyed while growing up in the Western New York area. I hope you will come by the Sunflower Studio in January and view my winter scenes and other current work and hopefully they will transport you to a special place in your own heart.
- Linda Long
FEBRUARY GUEST GALLERY
Bekah Haslett is an accomplished artist working primarily with oil on canvas.
She began painting as a child, but has only recently picked up her brushes again
after working as a model in New York and studying at NYU.
Bekah has been a
stockbroker in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a TV reporter in Arkansas. As a
mother she started the Fort Smith Junior Cotillion in Arkansas. She and her
family returned to their North Carolina roots eleven years ago. She is a member
of the Wake Forest Area Artists.
GAIL O'NEIL loves to use different mediums in her work, but mainly works in acrylics and oils. She has participated in many shows around the southeast, and currently has a gallery in Clayton where more of her artwork can be seen by appointment.
Her main subject focus has been beautiful landscapes, flowers and a variety of fruits and vegetables that will brighten up any wall!
We look forward to her colorful show in the Sunflower in March!
APRIL GUEST GALLERY
You will love Lauren
Petrosky's handmade recycled glass mosaic art and other eclectic creations. She loves to incorporate found objects and even old ball jars into her special glass works.
She has a wide variety of beautifully designed glass artwork, most framed in old vintage shabby chic frames!
You'll love her creativity and fun designs to bring light into your home through the beauty of glass!
MAY GUEST GALLERY
LINDA BURRELL'S ANNUAL STUDENT ART SHOW
Come out and view the amazing work Linda's students have created this year. Some are even marked for sale, so we hope you'll come out and see this beautiful collection from the 2011-2012 students!
JUNE GUEST GALLERY
E.TRACY WILLIAMS, ARTIST
E. Tracy Williams
currently lives in Cary. She spends as much time as she can in her
studio delving into her creative process. Her work has been juried into
too many shows to list and recognized by numerous art organizations
and publications, as well. She is active in many organizations that
promote the arts.
Her favorite pastimes are studying and making art, worshiping in her
church and enjoying her relationships with people, especially her
family; her husband of fifty-two years, her children and grandchildren;
and her friends.
GAIL O'NEIL loves to use different mediums in her work, but mainly works in acrylics and oils. 
Come out and view the amazing work Linda's students have created this year. Some are even marked for sale, so we hope you'll come out and see this beautiful collection from the 2011-2012 students!
E. Tracy Williams
currently lives in Cary. She spends as much time as she can in her
studio delving into her creative process. Her work has been juried into
too many shows to list and recognized by numerous art organizations
and publications, as well. She is active in many organizations that
promote the arts.