Art Scans and Giclée Editions has the priviledge of creating giclée reproductions for many well known, talented artists. The works of many of these artists are for sale on this web site. Many of their backgrounds and accomplishments are provided below.

Mary Kay Bristol

Mary Kay (Jake) Bristol is a Savannah artist whose broad range of subjects are taken from travels and places where she has lived. A love of water and nature plus summers at a family cottage off the Upper Peninsula of Michigan developed a sense of exploration and an understanding of the colors the natural palette offers. Art training began at Drake University and after a period of teaching she returned to art, painting with acrylics, where initial works found awards. She continued art studies at Ringling School of Art & Design, studied under an excellent Atlanta College of Art teacher, and also independently in various workshops with nationally known artists. These studies resulted in using different styles and mediums, including acrylics, porcelain painting, sumi-e oriental brush painting, tromp l'oeil, colored pencil, pastels and oil. Her art shows a love of nature, realism and detail, now primarily painted with luscious, creamy oils that offer a bridge to creating beauty on canvas.

Melba Cooper

Melba has been a creator of images since her earliest years. Melba recently retired from teaching visual art in the Beaufort High School. She works as a South Carolina Teaching Artist and Artist in Residence. She is best known for her linoleum block prints and Gullah style paintings of life in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

Rich Coyne

Rich Coyne is a New York born artist who studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculptor. He is recognized for his mural paintings and is a member of the Salmagundi Club. Now living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, he is concentrating on painting lowcountry landscapes utilizing highly developed techniques of light and texture to capture the scenes.

Joyce Dixon

Joyce Dixon Finkenstadt, a Hilton Had resident, has an academic and professional background in the arts and interiro design graduating from the Univeristy of Massachusetts with a degree in textile design and fashion illustration. She also attended Parsons School of Design and New York School of Interior Design. A lifetime artist, Joyce Dixon Finkenstadt had trained in workshops in Maine, New Jersey, and Hilton Head, South Carolina for oil, watercolor, and pastel media. She has recently won the "People's Choice Award" at St. Luke's Episcopal Church Art Show.

Peggy Duncan

Peggy Nelson Duncan has been a professional artist for over 20 years. She was formally trained in commercial art and fashion design. Her true love is painting the landscapes, wild lush gardens, and secret places that she finds in her travels. She is a signature member in the Southeastern Pastel Society and her work has been shown in over 40 juried exhibitions nationally. She lived in Bluffton,SC for over 28 years and has recently moved to the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina where she now makes her home and has a gallery.

Elena George

Artist Elena George hails from Louisiana but has spent most of her life in Savannah. After studying in Paris, France and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Elena created one-of-a-kind sculptures depicting historic and literary characters of Savannah that were showcased in the 1996 Olympic venue. She designed the first porcelain doll of Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts that sold throughout the United States and Europe. Later she began creating dramatic dreamscape paintings which inspired a partnership with Shannon Vineyards to produce all wine label artwork design. Elena continues to paint and currently lives in Savannah with her husband and cat.

Georgia Historical Society

The Georgia Historical Society is an educational and research institution founded in 1839 to tell the story of Georgia and its role in American history. It is headquartered in Savannah with offices in Atlanta. It publishes the Georgia Historical Quarterly, maintains a library and archives that houses the oldest collection of Georgia history materials in the nation, manages the Historical Marker Program for the State of Georgia, and educates thousands of school children about Georgia history through the annual Georgia History Festival. Many historical documents are available as fine reproductions.

Anita Gersch

Anita grew up loving horses and has spent her entire life devoted to them. Twentyone years ago Anita was severely injured and left unable to ride horses. Since then, Anita has devoted her time to creating equine art. Anita is focused on oil pastel painting of horses and is recognized for her real life paintings. Most recently Anita won the 2009 cover art competition for the "Horses In Art" magazine.

Chip Goldsmith

Chip Goldsmith is a native Savannahian, born and raised on The Isle of Hope, one of many pristine island communities which punctuate the inland waterway of the Low Country. He is a Neurotologist, or ear surgeon, who practices at the Georgia Ear Institute in Savannah, Georgia. Chip is a self taught watercolorist whose impressionistic style reflects a variety of motifs inspired by his childhood experiences in this magical and unique culture we know as the Lowcountry. Chip currently resides at The Isle of Hope with his wife, three sons, three cats, and three dogs…on the river.

Kelly Logan Graham

Kelly Logan Graham lives in Bluffton, SC near the May River. Born in southern New Mexico, and raised in Blowing Rock, NC. Graham graduated from North Carolina State University School of Design in Raleigh in 1981. He often paints in his home studio and from his boat specializing in plein-air landscapes and inland waterway scenes. His studio still life paintings often feature themes of sea life, crabs oysters and shrimp. His work appears in private and corporate collections throughout the eastern U.S.

Annabel Hammet

Annabel is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She specializes in portraits painted in oil on canvas. Some of Annabel's most breathtaking works of art are of nudes. Annabel rarely sells original works in galleries but is available for commissioned portraits.

Barry Honowitz

Barry Honowitz, renowned for his sports lithographs and paintings, also paints images ranging from waterfowl to landscapes. In addition to teaching watercolor classes, he runs a watercolor and design firm and produces limited editions for golf and tennis tournaments.

Ted (Roy E.) Jordan

Ted Jordan's extensive background in painting and art history as well as commercial art allows him to combine his vast knowledge and experience to the betterment of each class he teaches. Having earned a B.F.A. from Miami University of Ohio and an M.A. and an M.F.A. from The University of Iowa, he also worked as a painter and performance artist in New York City where he had a loft in the SoHo District. He went on to teach at a women's college only to land a position at American Greetings Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1979 he moved to Kansas City where he worked for Hallmark Cards as a Master Stylist, Art Director and a Studio Manager. His most significant contribution to Hallmark was the creation and launching of Mahogany, a very successful card line for the African-American consumer. In 2002 Ted retired from Hallmark and moved permanently to Hilton Head Island to pursue his love of painting, teaching, and playing his grand piano.

Gregory Kampwirth

Gregory Kampwirth began painting as a teenager frequently receiving praise from his teachers which fueled his desire to become a professional artist. Following that dream he first earned a Associates Degree in Fine Art from College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, and subsequently earned his Bachelors in Fine Art from Columbia College in Chicago, IL. Since that time he has continued to follow his painting and drawing .

J. Saylor McElynn

Judy Saylor McElynn landed in Hilton Head after careers in Apparel and Interior Design in NYC, Washington DC and Philadelphia. Her arrival in the Lowcountry allowed a dramatic shift into full time artistic pursuits. In direct contrast to her earlier experience, she finds the liberating aspect of the fine art process is the absence of function. One has the freedom of endless possibilities, where there is no correct answer, only comparative choices each with their own merit. “I am thoroughly enjoying ‘making art’, and it gives me even greater pleasure when others enjoy my work as well!” Leaving watercolor behind she continued her training and began working primarily in pastel and most recently in oil. She hopes to continue to grow and challenge her tendency toward pure realism. Judy is a member of the Apple Pie Painters, Society of Bluffton Artists, and the Art League of Hilton Head.

Lynda K. Potter

Lynda K. Potter is a popular watercolorist who has lived in Bluffton, SC for the last 15 years with strong ties to the galleries in Savannah, GA. Lynda was born and educated in New York State. Painting has been a life long passion for her. She has done over 20 solo shows and has art in many countries around the world. Lynda excels at painting the historic homes and cottages in Savannah and Bluffton.

Linda Sheppard

Linda Sheppard is an experienced professional artist who exhibits in some of the most prestigious venues, including the Pastel Society of America, the American Artists Professional League, the National Academy of Design, and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe national juried shows. She is interested in capturing the spirit of her subjects through the effects created by light, color and shape. Her subjects include seascapes, landscapes, still life, portrait and figurative paintings. She received the Gold Medal of Honor from the American Artists Professional League and was recently selected a "Fellow" in the AAPL.

Olga Stamatiou

Olga Stamatiou was born in New York City in 1946. She began painting in 1967, at the age of twenty-one. This relatively late start to her artistic career followed the discovery of painting as a vehicle for cathartic personal expression. At the age of eighteen, she went to live with relatives in Athens, Greece and it was there in the heady, intellectually charged, artistically-vibrant atmosphere of mid-1960’s that she was stirred to begin her formal artistic education, studying with the painter Ilias Dekoulakos. She remained in Greece until 1976, when she returned to the United States and embarked on further studies at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, where she received her BFA and MFA degree in painting. She also completed a graduate program in Art Therapy at the Metropolitan College of Boston University. She lived in America for the next 20 years, exhibiting and working in the United States. In 1997, she returned once again to Greece with her husband where they lived for five years. During that time, she had exhibitions in Athens, Greece and Nice, France. They are currently residing in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Kathy Tortorella

Kathy Tortorella is a Hilton Head Island, SC artist who never tires of capturing the Lowcountry in pastels or oils. “Each medium has its advantages. With pastel, I can layer color over color to achieve a luminous effect. Oils are more immediate; the color mixing happens on the palette.” She has studied with Alan Flattman, Christina DeBarry, Margaret Dyer, Susan Sarback, Ted Jordan, Sally Strand and Armand Cabrera . Her work has received awards in local and international shows. She is a Member of Excellence in the Southeastern Pastel Society.

Jere Warren

Jere spent his professional life as an illustrator for the prestigious newspapers, The Miami Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2000, Jere shared a Pulitzer Prize at the Miami Herald for his work on the Elian Gonzalez story. While creating illustrations for the newspapers, Jere was painting outstanding oil and watercolor paintings of Lowcountry scenes. Some of those pictures are featured here.

Rusty and Robin White

Rusty and Robin White both have deeply rooted Southern heritages. Rusty was born and raised in Mississippi and Robin in the mountains of north Georgia. Both are professionally trained artists. Rusty was founder and publisher of the noted RobbReport. Their lives have been committed to buying and selling antiques. They have painstakingly restored the Rose Hill Mansion which is listed on the National Historic Registry.

Rebecca Kahrs Willis

Teaching is an integral part of Rebecca Kahrs Willis' life as an artist. She teaches workshops throughout the US and Europe, and calls Savannah, Georgia home. Rebecca and her husband own The Dolphin and the Mermaid gallery located on the banks of the Wilmington River in the river boat town of Thunderbolt, Ga. Rebecca is a member of the Southern Watercolor Society and the Georgia Watercolor Society, and has received several awards from the Georgia Watercolor Society and others. Rebecca was featured in Watercolor Magic's annual "Ones to Watch" edition.