November and December 2011

Take Two

John Davis

Watercolor, Acrylic & Egg Tempera

Bill Pappas

Fine Art Photography

John Davis is an artist from Greater Cleveland working in watercolor, egg tempera and acrylic.  He is noted for his landscapes, seascapes and portraits. Before moving back to Cleveland in 2000, he operated Davis Pottery and Gallery in Chautauqua New York for 30 years.       
His works are in corporate and private collections.  Davis has exhibited in local and national art shows, recently winning awards from Gates Mills and Fairmount Art Shows and Euclid Art Association at Lakeland Community College.

DavisGallery.com

Bill Pappas is an award winning Cleveland photographer whose work consists of scenic vignettes from a wide variety of locations, as well as studies of people from a visually enhanced perspective. Soon after graduation from John Carroll University where he studied Chemistry, Bill pursued what has become a lifelong career in photography.

His work has been exhibited in the May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, The New May Show at Lakeland Community College, The New York Art Director’s One Show, the Graphis Press publication “Photographis” in Zurich, Switzerland,  The Cleveland Society of Communicating Arts, The Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, The Willoughby Hills Gallery,  Gates Mills juried shows,  The Fairmount Center for the Arts juried shows,  The Euclid Art Association, The Red Dot Project, Zygote Press, Waterloo 7 Gallery in Cleveland, and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. Bill's work is part of the permanent fine arts collection at The Cleveland Clinic.