The artists of the month at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery are Dee Roberts and Michael Higbe.
Roberts is a very versatile artist who works in many mediums. She attended the Philadelphia College of Art with a major in Illustration. Her work has been displayed in all the major museums and galleries in the Jacksonville area.
She has won coveted awards for best painting, best pastel, best figure and best watercolor painting. In 2010 she was named Watercolor Artist of the Year. She attained signature status in the Florida Watercolor Society and was juried into the National Watercolor Society’s 2014 International Watercolor Show.
Roberts has had several important solo shows and currently shows at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery in St. Augustine.
Michael Higbe was born and raised in the North Florida area where he studied ceramics at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He has a love for functional pottery that brings beauty to the everyday.
He does both slab work and throws on the wheel, and he has produced 40 ornamental clay boxes that were used as awards for a national contest for Winter Guard International held in Ohio.
Higbe has won awards in Northeast Florida and has shown his work at CoRK, Great Hang Ups gallery in Fleming Island and is currently showing at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery.
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery is located at 137 King St., St. Augustine.
