A long time ago I was contacted by Mary Ann Wald of DreamPainters, and let’s face it, despite my best intentions of updating this site very regularly I haven’t done so in practice for a variety of reasons. Well, I said getting featured on ArtHouseMouse is easy, but I didn’t offer a time frame for it.

I’m sorry for the delay in posting, but as promised and without further adieu, here is the feature for DreamPainters, Mary Ann and Sami!

DreamPainters, All About Art is a small, but well known studio in Ocean Springs Mississippi. You can find it on Government St. by traveling south off of exit 50, until things get pretty, then turning left.

Mary Ann describes the history of her husband and herself and their art career.

My husband Sami and I have both been painting since we were children. Me in the Northeast part of Ms. as a child and later as a model and working artist in Malibu California. My husband came to the US at the invitation of President Reagan to work with the CIA and other anti Terrorist Organizations with in the FBI and the counter terrioism program. We met and found a love of  painting and a way of life that relieved much of the stress of his job and our travels.We are in our late sixtys now and still enjoy it just as we did in the beginning.
Elaine Stevens began introducing  me to work within different chaity auctions at the I.P. and that really set us in a new standard of recognition. Todd Trenchard of M&M Bank also invited us and did articles for his group with Bacot McCarty. Over the last few years we have sold many items to private home owners that we looking for that one original  perfect peice that they could help design and resturants who needed   items that would become their internationally recognized logo.

We have been blessed.
My website is small and very  nondescript but if you would go to the archive of Artbeat by Elaine Stevens and scroll down to Dreampainters you can see  who we are and how proud we are to be a part of the art groups in Mississippi.

You can also check out their work on Facebook.

The Gallery is an elegant and welcoming art gallery featuring one-of-a-kind paintings, ceramics, jewelry, glass and functional works of art from our local artists and artisans.  We are home to many well-known artists from the Gulf Coast, as well as some up-and-coming talents from our area.  We are building a reputation for excellence and innovation, and we’re just getting started.

We are currently the only art gallery in Mississippi to have a private viewing room offering an intimate setting in which you and your guests can enjoy the art you are contemplating for purchase.  Tea or wine service is available to complete the experience.

We host After Dark  , an evening of art, food, drink, music, and fun, once a month on Saturday evenings starting at 8 o’clock.  Each month we feature a different artist, but there is always delicious local fare, endless glasses of wine, and bottomless bottles of beer.

The Gallery offers a full service corporate leasing program in which they will give one on one service to help you get beautiful art for your business based off of their professional recommendations. They even do the work for you delivering, displaying and maintaining each piece leaving you to sit back and enjoy the art.

The gallery houses a classroom. Environment can do so much for inspiration and creativity and this clean environment full of beauty is the perfect place to create and learn.

The Art Walk 2010 is coming up on September 4th. The Gallery would like to invite everyone out to meet their featured artist of the month JoAnn Wheeler as she answers questions and talks while painting live! Ann Werther will be there with a large selection of artisan jewelry. Author and photographer, Dr. Phil Levin will be signing books and displaying his photography as well.

The Gallery is located at 700 Washington Ave. in beautiful downtown Ocean Springs,Ms. You can contact them by phone about their leasing program or classroom or any other questions at (228) 875-8407. You can find out more by visiting their website at http://www.thegalleryoceansprings.com