Featured Artists
JANUARY 2025
Donna Cole
Artist's Statement
My name is Donna Lee Cole. I am originally from upstate NY and have lived in Cape Coral for 40 years. I retired from the Lee County School district in 2019. I was a special education teacher for 36 years.
The arts/crafts I enjoy are scrapbooking, card making, mixed media, counted cross stitch, photography, Zentangle® and quilting.
I took my first Zentangle® class in 2013 and fell in love with it and have been doing it ever since. I became a Certified Zentangle® Teacher (CZT) in 2021. Many have never heard of Zentangle®. It is an easy relaxing drawing concept that anyone can enjoy one stroke at a time. It is a wonderful meditative art form suitable for both beginners and experienced artists. Zentangle will help increase focus and relax the mind. This art form can easily be incorporated in card making, journals, scrapbooking, mixed media, or most other art projects.
I hope you enjoy my eclectic display here and will sometime give Zentangle® a try.
Jack Collins
Artist's Statement
Jack Collins Graduated from Miami U, In Oxford Ohio in 1965 with a BFA. He taught in Newark, NJ Public Schools from 1965 to 1967 as an art teacher. After the riots he moved into the art department of Prudential and then moved back to Ohio to be with family, where he spent most of the rest of his working life in Sales and Marketing for a number of companies, Xerox and Norton to name a few. Jack was successful there and helped buy a medical manufacturing plant, he retired from there in 2005.
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After coming to Ft. Myers to live, he resumed his artistic life and has been teaching drawing at two venues in Ft. Myers and Cape Coral since 2009.
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Jack creates in Acrylic, pastel, charcoal and ink. Jack starts with pencil and teaches that as a basic medium to all students.
My Home address is :1769 Augusta Dr., Ft. Myers, Fl 33907
Phone # :330-618-3570 Email: mtvcollins1943@gmail.com
The Interview
by Dee J. Stevenson
COLIN PECK​
Colin has been a CCAL member since 2016. He has been a teacher, an exhibitor, and a member in good standing.
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His interest in painting began when he was a student in England – mainly “transportation scenes”; returned to painting only 12 years ago, after 30 years in the public relations industry in England for 30 years. His interest & work has blossomed from watercolor to paint pouring into his current interest & research into digital art formats. Colin states that his most successful venue has been showing & selling his art in a local home furnishing store.
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Colin is invested in inspiring & trying to challenge others to improve the quality of their work. He enjoys the “easygoing atmosphere, the friendliness of members and their willingness to help others explore & meet new artistic challenges”. He hopes to be a prat of efforts to interest other community members to learn “about CCAL as the #1 place in Cape Coral to enjoy & produce art.”