ABOUT THE ARTISTS
"Jenn" Johnson is a lifelong Hatteras Island resident. She attended UNC-CH on a Morehead Scholarship, and graduated with a degree in Journalism before returning to Hatteras. She worked with a real estate company until January 2006. At the urging of friends and family, she turned her photography hobby into a career, exploring the beauty of nature around her through photos, and opening Blue Pelican Gallery (which also features her unique handmade one-of-a-kind jewelry) in Hatteras Village.
Stephanie Kiker , a Hatteras Island artist and graphic designer, has used the natural beauty and abundant wildlife on the islands as inspiration for her expressions since first moving to the area in l985. She graduated from the School of Design at North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design and has since pursued her career as a working artist, working in a number of mediums, including pen and ink, colored pencil and soft pastel. Stephanie's interpretations of her subject matter are original and her style is unmistakable. Her work moves from realism to the bold graphic shapes, patterns and colors of her well-known and unique aboriginal style. Stephanie offers her art as prints, pillows, cutting boards, ceramic tiles, and much more.
Antoinette Gaskins Mattingly is a fourth generation Hatteras Island artist. As the daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter of artists, she has enjoyed working in various mediums since childhood. They have all lead to the work she creates in clay today.
I am influenced and inspired by the color, texture and organic movement of nature. I’m fascinated by clay’s malleable characteristics, its possibilities in capturing texture and color. Clay has the ability to record movement and freeze a chosen moment in time.
My approach to photography is all about living in the moment. I find it extremely gratifying to capture and share that instant with others. Motivated by a creative longing, I purchased my first camera in 1996 at age 38. I have had no formal education as an artist or photographer. I feel that this lack of training has allowed me the freedom to follow my own creative path. I take great pride in the fact that my work comes from an intuitive sense of timing, composition, lighting and balance. I strive to tell simple stories through a complex arrangement of reoccurring patterns and shapes within the composition. My photography has allowed me to travel to many wonderful places, but I always come back to Cape Hatteras, NC. The ever-changing environment and extreme conditions of my barrier island home serve as a constant inspiration.
Scott Geib
John "Fuzz" McCormack lives on Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He received his B.A. in Art from Christopher Newport University in 2003. He has since been perfecting his pottery working out of his garage in Hatteras and delivering his creations with his trusty pick-up truck.

Specializing in handthrown pottery made for everyday use.
Food/Drink safe, Microwave safe, Dishwasher safe, Oven safe (preheat the oven while the pottery is in it), Lead free
Also making tea-pots, wall hangings, vases and other decorative wares.
Russell Blackwood - Experience the Outer Banks as you've never seen it before - through the photography of Buxton, NC local photographer Russell Blackwood. The 26 photographs contained in his beautiful soft cover coffee table book - Ocean Outerbanks - Life Beneath the Waves - were taken while freediving off the North Carolina coast.
Chris Bellamy is a native of Wrightsville Beach, NC, who has spent countless days on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, writing and playing songs. Chris loves music and fishing, and music about fishing. The “laid back” quality of his songs complements our Island lifestyle.

We carry all four of Chris’ current CDs, and will add the fifth to our collection as soon as it is finished. If you’d like to hear a certain CD or song, let us know and we’ll be happy to play it for you!
Jennie Elias - Glass Ornaments

Each glass piece has been hand blown using techniques developed thousands of years ago. A blowpipe is dipped into the pool of melted glass, rolled over bits of colored glass and shaped into the desired form with gentle blowing and reheating. The piece is then cooled slowly in an annealing oven. Each piece is unique with variations in patterning and surface quality unlike any other. Westport, MA
Nancy Rasch Salamon -  I love knowing that my work will be a part of your everyday life. All pieces are porcelain. The functional pots are dishwasher- oven- and microwave-safe (but, please, no rapid temperature changes.)

I sometimes think that I began my career in clay some 3300 years ago as a Hebrew slave making bricks in ancient Egypt. More recently, however, I graduated from Antioch College in Ohio, studied at the Nyckelvik School in Stockholm, Sweden and apprenticed in St. Lucia, West Indies.

I am a member of the Pennsylvania Designer Craftsmen and the Wallingford Potters Guild. For more than 20 years I have had a studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. CLAY BORN POTTERY is distributed throughout the United States.
Pamela Corwin - Paper Scissors Rock clocks and magnets are reproductions of original paintings by Northwest Artist Pamela Corwin and are created in her studio in Olympia, Washington. Pamela works in acrylics and watercolors, sometimes adding elements of collage to her work. She has been in business for 25 years and her work has been featured on several national television shows and in magazines such as House Beautiful, Seventeen and Pacific Northwest. Pamela is on the faculty of Arts Business Institute. She also teaches local classes on the business of crafts.

‘For as long as I can remember I have painted, sketched, and made things out of anything on hand. As a child, I drew on rocks, napkins, my jewelry boxes, and painted on the lamp and clock next to my bed (much to my mother's dismay, I am sure). Art has always been the way I lose myself, calm myself, it is meditative for me. It comes more from a drive than a desire. I don't know how not to do it. It's as much what keeps me alive as food and oxygen’
Elaine and Bill Snell produce their work from within Elliott Metal Works, a family owned and run metal working business started by Elaine’s grandfather and now run by Bill and Elaine. Their metal artwork began with a custom balcony rail requested by a friend on the Carolina coast. Bill enjoyed the process and began creating metal silhouettes and sculptures. The possibilities began to grow and Elaine was soon recruited to head the design and creation of new work.

Most of Elaine and Bill’s work to date has been done using mild steel and a plasma cutter. A piece begins with an idea and a sketch. As the idea is refined line drawings are done which ultimately become patterns for the final piece. The intricate detail that characterizes their work must be carefully planned to survive the intense heat generated by the cutting process.
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