FEATURED ARTISTS
These are the artists that make Notta Gallery what it is.
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MIXED-MEDIA PAINTER & GALLERY OWNER
Tony Agnello
After years away from his brushes, Tony Agnello rediscovered art during a paddle-boarding trip, returning to painting with fearless energy and emotional depth. His work begins with chaos, evolving into moments of striking human connection and presence.
Agnello is also the visionary behind Notta Gallery, redefining Lakeland’s creative landscape. In realizing his vision, we have created a lively new place for art, and for people.
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PAINTER & PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER
William Araujo
William Araujo is a Lakeland-based artist and teacher whose expressive use of color, emotional depth, and cultural influences have enabled him to create an inspiring portfolio of works. He brings warmth, vibrancy, and authenticity to every piece. Araujo is currently experimenting with value compositions, as seen (pictured to the left) in one of his latest paintings, A Guatemalan Beach Day (2025).
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Mixed-Media Artist & Mentor
Mary Correa
Mary Correa is an award winning mixed media artist and instructor. Her primary mediums are acrylic painting and collage, but she also loves to introduce pastels, watercolor and hand stitching into her work. Originally from the DC area, Mary moved to Florida over 20 years ago. Florida has provided inspiration through its florals and fauna, prevalent themes in many of Mary's paintings.
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Emerging Lakeland Artist
Quanel Davis
Quanel Davis - known professionally as Q Laron - is a Lakeland, Florida–based visual artist. His work blends formal training with a bold, contemporary voice. His central theme investigates landscape painting through abstraction, suggestive narrative, and design, often weaving in motifs like red-tinted skin, cloudlike hair, and natural elements that connect human presence with larger cultural and cosmic landscapes.
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qldavis92@gmail.com • @q2paint on Instagram
Sculptor of Emotion & Nature
Elizabeth Eckels
Elizabeth Myrick Eckels is a figurative sculptor based in Florida, whose work embodies powerful emotion, organic flow, and natural beauty. She creates in clay and wax with bronze casting, focusing on the twisting and turning of the human figure. Eckels is deeply inspired by nature, the feminine form, and stories of perseverance.
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Experimental Printer & Graphic Designer
Peggy Gallagher
Peggy Gallagher is a true firecracker and serial creator, whose boldness and generosity shine through in everything she makes. An award-winning mixed media artist, Peggy has been celebrated across Lakeland’s art shows for her expressive use of color, fearless experimentation, and playful spirit. Her process is one of joyful reinvention, turning the overlooked into the unforgettable. Every scrap becomes story, every object becomes possibility.
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peggy.gallaher@mail.com
@peggygallaher6 on Instagram
Oil Painter & Visual Arts Teacher
Chris Roll
Chris Roll is one of Lakeland’s most well-known artists and educators. With a career dedicated to both making and teaching art, Roll has refined his skills over many years—developing a style that blends expressive color and story-driven imagery. His work often balances nostalgia with immediacy - creating pieces that feel both personal and universal, and turning familiar imagery into textured reflections of culture, memory, and emotion.
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chrisroll.studioart@gmail.com
@chrisroll_art on Instagram
COLORED-PENCIL ARTIST & PHOTOGRAPHER
John Guiseppi
Central-Florida artist John Guiseppi is an award winning, self-taught colored pencil artist and photographer. John’s speciality is photographing scenes that are considered outside the norm, and familiar. That could be portraits, wildlife, nature, landscapes, urban scenes, or classic automotive, machinery or industrial subjects.
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Painter, Printmaker & Author
John Jacopelle
John Jacopelle is a distinguished and modernistic artist, who has defined his many works as an analytical analysis, where one would have to account for the process and inspiration. John is the author of numerous one of a kind artist art books; Poems, The Planet Earth, Phoebe and the Hairy House, Questions to the Tree House, Frog and the Princess, and The Will, just to name a few.
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Contemporary Artist & Founder of SPACE Art Collective
Sara Savannah Jones
Sara Savannah Jones is a Lakeland-based visual artist and the director of the SPACE Art Collective. Her work is painted primarily in acrylics, layering color rather than blending it to create hyper-realistic images that feel like collages, reminiscent of that roll of disposable camera photos you finally developed three years later.
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Observational Plein Air Painter
NATHAN LEEMIS
Nathan Leemis is a 5th generation artist, capturing the familiar beauty of Florida wildlife, environments, and residential landscapes. After having received his initial art instruction from his grandmother, Barbara Bassett - founder of Art Workshop in Winter Park - he then studied art and conservation biology at University of Central Florida. Now, Leemis' artwork is being exhibited throughout the state, while he continues to refine and explore his craft.
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Photographer & Mixed-Media Artist
Jeremy Rivera
Jeremy Rivera is a photographer and mixed-media artist whose immersive works combine color, dimension, and narrative in psychedelic ways. Known for his digital collage, photography, and 3D forms, Rivera pushes the boundaries of perception and storytelling.
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jeremyhxc@yahoo.com • @jeremyriveraart on Instagram
Mixed-Media Painter, Photographer & Creative Director
Sherry Ross
A painter and photographer, Sherry Ross returns to recurring themes in both bodies of work. Her art explores absurdity and the elevation of the mundane in the Dadaist tradition, blending modern ideas with anachronistic imagery to create fresh inferences and layered meanings. Her work is also deeply informed by her fascination with art history and traditional iconography.
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Creator of Found & Repurposed Objects
Kathy Stutzman
Form, Expressive Gesture, and Color
Alex Martinez
Alex Martinez is a local artist and recent graduate of Florida Southern College with a concentration in painting. After several years focusing on abstract expressionism, she has expanded her practice to include figurative subjects; applying the expressive color and painterly techniques from her earlier works into exploring the human form. Her current work examines gesture, composition, and the body's capacity to convey emotion via unconventional color palettes and recurring motifs.
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alexandram16271@gmail.com
STREET CULTURE GRAFFITI IN HARDWOOD
Craig Sacra
Florida artist Craig Sacra merges the energy of graffiti culture with the precision of fine woodworking, transforming traditional lettering into richly colored hardwood reliefs. Rooted in skate and street culture, his work balances bold expression with meticulous craftsmanship, blurring the line between urban art and fine craft through carefully constructed pieces that celebrate both material and permanence.
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craig@artbysacra.com • @thebabadook on Instagram