Cheryl Rosa   Cheryl Rosa has been creating hand painted murals for almost 20 years. Cheryl, who majored in fine art, combines great colors and interesting composition to make unique and appealing designs. Cheryl offers realistic still-life, animals like cats and giraffes, scenic landscapes, and decorative art as well as fun, clever, whimsical looks.

Cindy Lindenman    Cindy Lindeman and Cheryl Rosa partnered up with CLC Designs.          DENISE FREEMAN    Encouraged at an early age by her mother, watercolorist Josephine Deavenport, Denise Freeman has been a professional artist for over twenty years.  She received her B.F.A. degree from San Diego State university in 1986 where she studied painting, drawing, and printmaking.     Denise supported herself through college by developing a small company devoted to making hand-printed silkscreen art cards that received broad distribution.     Denise's work ranges from small botanical drawings to full-sized scenic wall murals.  She loves to use bright colors and nature as her source of inspiration.  She has had her children's illustration published by Illumination Arts in Seattle, Washington.     Currently, Denise's choice of media is gouache on watercolor paper.  She often uses airbrush for backgrounds and softer touches to her artwork.  She is as proficient in acrylic, oil, and watercolor as she is in gouache and airbrush.     Denise enjoys hiking the local woods to gather ideas and to become inspired by her surroundings.  She often sits and watches her subjects so she can incorporate their personalities into her work.  Her subjects include birds, cats, butterflies, flowers, and exotic floral and fauna.  In addition to painting, she loves gardening, writing songs and playing the guitar.       Denise and her husband live in New Hampshire with their two children.  The household also includes three adoring cats - Marble, Sophie, and Jasper - "who absolutely love everything I paint."  We do as well, which is one reason why Porterfield's has gained representation of this wonderful artist.                                 DAVE PAULLEY   Award-winning artist Dave Paulley has created an enviable reputation for his extremely detailed and accurate paintings of cowboy and western subject, air and sea travel in Hawaii and Polynesia, and the glory and reality of flight.   Born and raised in Osage, Wyoming, a small community in the foothills of the Black Hills, Dave served in the United States Navy with Air Transport Squadron Five (VR-5) during the Korean War.  He began painting professionally in 1968.   Over the years, Dave has created a large portfolio of aviation and western oil paintings as well as images combining both subjects, and compelling landscapes and seascapes.  In the 1980's the artist created thirty-six major paintings of Wyoming historical events that form a special collection at the Wyoming State Historical Society in Cheyenne, Wyoming.     Dave has won numerous awards for his work, including top honors at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the largest air show in the world.  His paintings have been exhibited at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, and are collected here and abroad.  JAN FORD   Born to the serene and simple life of a small Ohio farm, surrounded by beautiful flowers and bountiful gardens, Jan Ford recounts her youth through lyrical recreations of those familiar subjects.      Jan's array of artwork includes lush flower gardens, floral still-life images filled with lace and the occasional antique, and vegetables from the local farmer's market.  Each piece invokes different musical moods and the floral forms themselves conduct their own song.      Jan Ford studied art at Ohio State University and The Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, as well as with private instructors.  Since the onset of her career over 30 years ago.   AWARDS:      Columbus Festival of the Arts, Columbus, Ohio      Virginia Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, Annandale, VA      Winter Park Festival, Winter Park, Florida      Sanibel, Captiva Arts Fair, Sanibel, Florida      Las Olas Art Festival, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida      "Under the Oaks", Vero Beach, Florida      Boston Mills Art Show, Peninsula, Ohio      Art Fair on the Square (invitational), Madison, Wisconsin      Potomac Valley Watercolorists Exhibition, George Mason        University, Arlington, Virginia      Stone Harbor Art Show, Stone Harbor, New Jersey      Purchase Award - Occasion of the Arts, Williamsburg, Virginia      Purchase Award - Springfest, Charlotte, North Carolina      Best in Show, Fredericksburg, Woodbridge & Manassas,        Virginia      Nominee for Governor Award for the Arts in Virginia ART AFFILIATED MEMBERSHIPS:      Potomac Valley Watercolorists      Virginia Watercolor Society      Southern Watercolor Society      National Watercolor Society (Associate)      American Watercolor COLLECTIONS (partial list):      First Citizen Bank Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina      Eastman Pharmaceuticals, Malvern, Pennsylvania      Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. President, Milwaukee,        Wisconsin      Care Net Health Systems, Columbus, Ohio      Manassas City Hall, Manassas, Virginia      Kings Mill & Malcom Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia      Masonic Home for the Aged, Richmond, Virginia      IBM Corporation, Bethesda, MD and Manassas, VA      Calvert Builders, Roanoke Rapids, NC & Woodbridge, VA      Barcroft Institute, Falls Church, Virginia Society (Associates)  LYN GIANNI   Award-winning artist Lyn Gianni was born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii.  Before turning to painting as a full-time profession, she taught acrylic painting in the Hawaii Public Education system.     Although she maintains her island roots through gallery representation in Hawaii and by traveling there often, she now makes her home in Santa Barbara, California where she is well-known for her charming and whimsical artistic creations.       Much of Lyn's work often reflects her island heritage.   Her  full-color paintings offer the viewer rainbow hues and whimsical design elements and themes.  Drawing on experiences exploring the wonderful underwater life of the tropics,  she has created in her paintings of salt water fish vivid celebrations of the myriad colors of species indigenous only to tropical reefs, displaying them as one might arrange beautiful flowers on a white background so that each colorful creature stands out strongly as a design element rather than being merely part of a typical underwater setting.     The artist also focuses on themes depicting the personalities and foibles of the many dogs and cats - strays, rescues and purebreds alike - that have played a large part in her life over the years.  A strong whimsical touch as well as the desire to create inspirational works that will touch the spirit, infuse the artist's work.         No matter what the subject matter, it becomes a little brighter and more meaningful when viewed through the filter of Lyn Gianni's paint palette.     The artist has won numerous awards and has been commissioned by the City of Santa Barbara to create works for its permanent collections.  Her paintings are collected internationally.  JOY WALDMAN    Joy Waldman is an award-winning watercolor artist who lives and teaches in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Her expressive floral watercolors, sunny gardens, seascapes, and whimsical children's art express a spontaneity and joie de vivre for which her work is known.       Joy's vibrant use of color and freedom of stroke lend a quality to her work that is at once expressive and decorative.  Her bold, yet sensitive, watercolors celebrate beauty in nature - the spontaneous joy fresh flowers evoke, the universal appeal of spring in bloom or summer unfolding.     Joy Waldman is a member of several prestigious art associations, including the well-known Copley Society of Boston.  She has exhibited in numerous galleries, designer show houses and art festivals.     The artist's watercolors and commissioned works are represented nationally in private and corporate collections. Over the years, many of Joy's paintings have been published as limited editions, posters, greeting cards, gift bags, placemats, and even a line of apparel.    ROSILAND SOLOMON     Award-winning artist and illustrator Rosiland Solomon has spent most of her adult life as a commercial painter, creating drawings and paintings for areas as diverse as games, puzzles, advertising, greeting cards, magazines, children's nature books, textbooks, and even an astrology calendar and tarot deck.     Her many publishers and licensees include Walt Disney Productions, Carnation, Travelsmith, C&H Sugar, Houghton Mifflin, Clorox, Random House, Scholastic, Golden Books, Harcourt Brace and numerous others.      Rosiland was born in Los Angeles but moved to Ohio at the age of two.  She spent her childhood on the east side of Cleveland, still a sleepy Midwestern area covered with forest and fields of wildflowers and berries during spring and summer, an area full of little foxes, possums, snakes, raccoons or skunks hiding in wonderful patches of wildness.     Growing up with a love for all things alive, whether they were green and growing, or crawling, flying or walking, Rosiland moved back to her native California and now lives in San Francisco by the Pacific Ocean and Golden Gate Park.  Although she has lived in the past with dogs, cats, rats, snakes, fish, turtles and salamanders, Rosiland now prefers visiting her non-human animals outside, particularly when she is traipsing through park, ocean sands, or arboretum, collecting photos of plants or animals to use as references for her paintings.  As far as she is concerned, her research outdoors (or in libraries, bookstores or malls) is one of her favorite parts of the creative process.     Rosiland has painted literally everything from soup to nuts, from school buses and forklifts to maps and museum diagrams to Egyptian hieroglyphs and tractor tires.  Now she is turning her attention to creating lovely images specifically for license onto a broad range of consumer home products, stationery and related paper products of all kinds, giftware, home decor and home fabrics.  THOMAS WOOD    Thomas Wood is an extremely versatile artist whose enormous productivity has included the creation of over 3,000 individual postage stamp designs for more than a dozen countries, as well as numerous prints, commissioned works and sets of images on a wide variety of themes.     The artist, an American painter who lives in semi-rural New Jersey, has had a broad and diverse background in the arts.  He has created over 100 published works of art for international distribution and mass-market sales through higher-end retail chains in the United States and has worked as a printer and painter of limited-edition prints.     Mr. Wood has also taught Marketing Art and Design at Middlesex County College in New Jersey, and is well-known for his broad versatility and abilities with all media, including airbrush, oils, watercolors, colored pencil, acrylics, silk-screening, pen and ink, and digital design.     The artist has also won numerous awards, and has placed second in the prestigious United States Federal Duck Stamp competition.   JANET STEVER   Janet Stever is a life-long artist and illustrator with a long list of commissions and credits, honors and awards.     The artist received her B.F.A. in Illustration from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, where she earned the Senior Illustration Award and graduated as valedictorian of her class.  She has many years of experience freelancing and has had several staff illustration positions.       Clients over the years for whom she has created artwork or to whom she has licensed her art have included The Bradford Exchange, BonArtique, Crystal Art, Dimensions, Design Design, Evergreen Enterprises, Hallmark, JCA, Bits & Pieces, Leanin' Tree, Marian Heath, PaperKraft, Byers' Choice, Cherrydale Farms, Rodale, Reader's Digest, Converting, Ceaco, Conimar, Design Design, Franco, Giftco, Independent Can, Hoffmaster, Roman and many others.     The rare but interesting staff positions were an exciting challenge for Janet.  Though there may have only been one illustrator on staff it was often necessary to make it appear as if the studio used many different illustrators.  This broadened her imagination and versatility and brought her to a level of expertise in a wide variety of media, techniques, and style.     The artist works almost entirely with non-electronic media.  She loves the feel of pulling paint across paper and believes the freshness of hand-created art cannot be matched.       Janet attributes her talent to the Lord and knows it is purely and simply a gift.  When she's not drawing Janet enjoys Bible study, singing in her church choir and ringing in the hand bell choir.  She enjoys a good book and a walk in the woods.  The artist and her husband have two sons whom she considers to be the most wonderful and creative things she's ever done.  Janice Qiu     Janice Qiu is the CEO, founder and art director of En Vogue. Janice started her art career early in life while growing up in and further developed and matured her skills after emigrating to California where she now resides. Inspired by natural beauty of Southern California and fascinated by the art of dynamic glazing, Janice transformed ancient Chinese tile art into a new media of art expression and decoration.  She has been able to capture not only the emotions and feeling of our day to day lives and special occasions she has also been able to transpose the natural beauty of her surroundings into her creations.  This has been accomplished  by her seemingly effortless piping and glazing, which has been furthered enhanced by her precise and slow firing technique which is done over 24 hours period at the range of 500-1000o C.. The vivid color produced by her own technique is the foundation for her free expression and interpretation of all aspects of life interpreted in her own way on one of the most difficult media: tiles. As a result, her tile art has been collected worldwide, and often commissioned to produce customized pieces that may last for generations.  Since 2006, Janice has collaborated with multiple talented and award-wining artists and brought their art onto the tile form. All of Janice’s tile is individually hand-crafted, glazed, and fired. Each tile is a one of the kind piece that can be enjoyed indoors or out, as a stand alone focal point or incorporated into others.