DAN WILSON

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Forever interested in meta-narratives, Dan is attracted to the nexus of religion, psychology, art, and philosophy. This is key to understanding who he is as an artist.

Early in life, Dan demonstrated skill as an elementary student, creating the wall art for his teacher’s classroom at Fernbank Elementary in Decatur, painting the seasonal murals for the school lobby, at the request of the principal, and being the designated set designer for school plays. In college, Dan changed his major from art to religion when one of his professors insisted a little too strongly that his focus should be solely on commercial art.

After graduate school at Emory University, Dan was ordained in the United Methodist Church, a forty year career that sometimes allowed for further artistic expression but which also created long dry spells due to time constraints. Prior to moving full time to Saint Simons Island, Dan spent seven years in a weekly figure studies group at The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, North Carolina where he also exhibited and sold work.

Dan has taken art classes at LaGrange College, Drew University, Georgia Southern, and The Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. He is a member of Glynn Visual Arts and, most recently, has studied with Marden Headley and Michael Jinkins. 

Pam Brannen is a PhD economist retired from an investment management career. She and her husband moved from Atlanta to St. Simons in 1999. She has long been an art collector but has only recently, through her involvement with Glynn Visual Arts, become an active participant in the arts. Her work is primarily small paper pieces of mixed media and abstract collage using watercolor or acrylics.  

Pam has exhibited in the Portman Gallery at Glynn Visual Arts, in the St. Simon’s Island Welcome Center, and in an upscale retail venue in Chicago. 

For many years, Suzanne's creative outlet had been food.  She was manager of the Continuing Education Center at Appalachian State University, worked at several restaurants in North Carolina and Atlanta, owned restaurants in North Carolina and Brunswick and had a catering business on Saint Simons for 20 years.  

Fifteen years ago, a friend of hers had suggested they take a drawing class at Glynn Visual Arts on Saint Simons Island in Georgia. Suzanne tried colored pencil, watercolor, and settled on acrylics as her medium of choice. Suzanne's catering business was her main creative outlet, but she managed to fit in painting whenever she could. Trying new techniques, adding the unexpected, and just having fun, following an idea to see where it takes her, helps make each painting an adventure.  

Suzanne has won a number of blue and red ribbons at the Jekyll Art Festival on Jekyll Island in Georgia.

Suzanne had a solo show at Hotel Simone on Saint Simons Island in Georgia from June through September of 2024.