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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Illustrator, Comic Book Artist & DJ
Aaron Conley
Aaron Conley is a renowned comic book artist, whose graphic illustrations are widely recognizable. Conley's comic art is fiercely energetic, with rich storytelling built into every panel. As a Lakeland native, Aaron’s artwork often reflects local culture, lived experience, and the creative energy of community. He may already seem familiar to you, as Conley has been a comic artist for Marvel, DC, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Boom!, and Dark Horse.
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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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Artist, Teacher & Mentor
Chanique Davis
Chanique Davis — known as TAKAChanique ("The Artist Known As Chanique") — is an inspirational, independent artist based in Auburndale, Florida, whose vibrant and thought-provoking work is deeply rooted in both purpose and faith. Working primarily with acrylics and mixed media, Chanique is passionate about conceptual art — pieces that don't just decorate a space but declare a message.
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takachanique@gmail.com • @takachanique on Instagram
CERAMICIST & PAINTER
Barbara Dibble
As a ceramic artist, Barbara Dibble continually explores the interplay between form, line quality, and color harmony. Her approach combines underglaze techniques, as well as matte and gloss glaze application, allowing for the manipulation of surface design depth and texture.
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bjf5767@gmail.com • @b.dibble1 on Instagram
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
Illustrator, Muralist & Designer
"Bump" Galletta
Josh "Bump" Galletta was born in Georgia, but he has called Lakeland his home for almost 17 years. If you don't know Bump... Well, do you know Lakeland? His work is widely recognizable here - his murals can be found throughout our city, and his books can be found on all of our shelves. Whether you're from Lakeland or not, we know that you'll find something familiar in Bump's artwork.
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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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PASTEL, OIL & ACRYLIC PAINTER
Deborah LaFogg-Docherty
Deborah LaFogg-Docherty is a prolific wildlife painter, creating intricate representations of animals and their natural habitats. Her work is spectacularly detailed, and demonstrates her admiration for "all things wild." She has contributed immensely to various conservation efforts, raising awareness for the preservation of endangered populations.
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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 & Acrylic Paint Carver
Amanda McCallister
Amanda McCallister is known best for her dual artist brands—Amanda McCallister Photography and Alice Absolutely’s Florida Field Guide Carvings. Notta Gallery has the privilege of displaying works from both of these entities, all of which feature the native flora and fauna of Florida. McCallister's work is informed by the conservation of this wildlife and their environments.
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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
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
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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Sculptor of Balance & Modern Form
Agueda Saez Perez Zabisky
Agueda Saez Perez Zabisky is a sculptor based in St. Petersburg, Florida, whose work bridges the line between geometric clarity and organic expression. Agueda describes her work as a reflection of environmental balance—the fragile harmony between built spaces and natural landscapes. Through clay, stone, and mixed media, she brings forth forms that are minimalist yet soulful, modern yet organic.