JEANNE MOORE O'NEAL FINE ART

AS someone who has always been creative and passionate about art, Jeanne O’Neal’s career naturally followed a path that would allow her to explore creativity. During her time as a teacher, she taught art and early childhood education while taking oil classes and workshops herself. Now she has completely owned the role of professional artist, creating what she pictures in her mind.

The former Navy brat lives in Georgetown, South Carolina, with her husband and two teenage daughters. She loves painting the different landscapes of the Lowcountry, from the Southern oaks and Spanish moss to the stunning sunsets over the marshes and the incredible clouds. “It’s in my soul,” says O’Neal, who has recently begun painting en plein air with a group of professional artists. “It is so much fun. The wind, sun and sand make it more challenging, and your paintings reflect your heightened senses while being outdoors.”

Her smaller works can be purchased at various boutiques in Greenville and Pawleys Island, South Carolina. She has also moved into painting in a much larger format—48 by 60 inches. These larger works are represented at the following South Carolina galleries: Perspective Gallery in Mount Pleasant, Art Harbor and Georgetown Art Gallery in Georgetown and Gray Man Gallery in Pawleys Island.

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WHILE Richard “Marlowe” Schneider may not be an artist in the sense that he paints or draws, the work that he does is very much art—albeit of the kind that takes the idea of subtlety and throws it out the window with no small measure of glee.

A self-proclaimed “assembler,” Marlowe uses ephemera images from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s as the main focus for his pieces. From there, he builds backgrounds using handmade paper. He is, in the strictest sense of the phrase, a pulp artist.

A former creative director in the advertising industry, Marlowe has clearly been in touch with his creative side for a long time, though he was somewhat stifled by the restrictions of working with clients. Doing art for himself freed Marlowe to try combinations of different styles, and he ultimately landed on mixed media. A great lover of texture, dimension, shadow and saturated color, he creates his pieces to be the sort that “grabs you by the lapels.” Arguably, those are the very qualities that make his work so popular, giving his quirky art an appeal that is almost hard to pin down.

Marlowe’s work is represented at Artistic Transfer in Dallas and New Elements Gallery in Wilmington, North Carolina.