Featured Artists

McMurray Frames and Gifts is the home to many local and regional artists. With such talent around the region the McMurray’s found their shop filling with unique artwork. Here are a few of our featured artists.

Carol Abbott
		Carol Abbott does wonderful custom portraits of your home in colored pencil or acrylic paints. Various sizes are available. Call for an appointment to get details for your custom home portrait.
Gary Akers
		Gary Akers is one of America's foremost contemporary realist, painting in watercolor, dry brush and egg tempera. Akers is considered to be a master of light and shadow in his exciting compositions. His works are praised both for their beauty and for their richness of detail, and that level of detail is all the more remarkable considering the medium he works in. Gary specializes in paintings using egg tempera, an egg-based paint that must be painstakingly applied, with each work built up of hundreds of layers. No other medium can match the beautiful luminosity of this traditional Renaissance technique.
Karen Ashcraft
		Karen Ashcraft creates vivid color photographs that are taken from all around the world. Our current selection is from Venice, Italy.
Jody Ball
		Jody Ball works with acrylics and pastels to create sketches and paintings using a primitive stylized perspective of local street scenes. She also paints florals in pastels and sketches landscapes.
Amy Brewer
		Amy Brewer uses water color & painted tiles in her art work. Amy, Lebanon's town mayor and local art teacher paints large, whimsical, colorful watercolors. She also does beatiful floral scenes painted on tiles.
Chris Brian
		Chris Brian works with oils. His oil paintings are beautifully done in the style of old masters. We have a selection of his still life paintings and landscapes.
Dina Cain
		Dina Cain does beautiful paintings on old slate roofing shingles. Many can be customized or something special can be commissioned just for you.
Michael Davis
		Michael Davis is a photographer who does stunning landscape photographs in both color and black & white. He also has a series of images from Amish country.
Vince Festa
		Vince Festa, a Cincinati painter, works using acrylics. Vince has a unique perspective on city street scenes. Bold and modern, his canvases have the artist wrap edges so they are stunning even without a frame.
Jeff Gandert
		Jeff Gandert is an award winning wildlife artist. We carry prints of his larger images and have a selection of miniature originals of birds. His attention to detail gives his images an almost photo-realistic quality.
Carol Gilbert
		Carol Gilbert’s specialty is her whimsical bird portraits. We carry a wide selection of her prints taken from the original water colors. Carol also does landscapes in water color - watch here for the announcement of her newest arrivals.
Sharon Holland
		Sharon Holland is a local artist who works with paints. Sharon’s lovely originals focus on the farmland around Warren County.
Susan Jones Hunt
		Susan Jones Hunt crafts beautiful enamel jewelry including enamel pins, pendants, and earrings. We have a selection of animals including whimsical cats and birds plus florals and landscapes.
Dodie Loewe
		One of Dodie Loewe's specialties is pastel portraits. Dodie uses pastels for portrait commissions and, as shown here, can work from photographs. Please call for more information.
Eileen McConkey
		Eileen McConkey paints farm animals with a loving hand. Most of her paintings are small, 8 x 10 or 9 x 12, so they are perfect for a grouping.
Neil Moore
		Neil Moore is a freelance photographer specializing in scenic landscapes in black & white and color. He concentrates on creating images that have unique lighting characteristics preferring early morning and late afternoon to create his images.
Carolyn Mueller
		Carolyn Mueller is painter who does framed impressionistic landscapes and still life images in acrylic on canvas. Her paintings are both beautiful and soothing.
Bruce Neville
		Bruce A. Neville is a Cincinnati, Ohio artist that specializes in watercolors. As well as being an artist he has taught several classes to budding artists.
Kathy Noster
		Kathy Noster is known for her jewelry and sculpture. Kathy creates one-of-a-kind free-standing Santa Clause sculptures each with custom made clothing and accessories from antique fabrics. She also makes Santa face stockings and miniature Santa faces on silver spoons that can be hung on the tree. Kathy also makes jewelry and sculptures from a polymer clay and antique buttons. Everything of hers is one-of-a-kind.
Melanie Onnen
		Melanie Onnen creates her artwork using water color & ink. She creates delightfully whimsical and colorful paintings of chickens, frogs and fish.
Dick Overman
		Dick Overman crafts fine pottery including whimsical mugs and casseroles of animals. His pieces are all food and oven safe.
Debbie Schmidt
		Debbie Schmidt creates fine jewelry. Gem stones and silver are used to construct stunning necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Each piece of her exceptional jewelry is unique.
Sara Stegemoller
		Sara Stegemoller is a local photographer. She is a truly gifted landscape photographer that captures striking photographs.
MaryJean Weber
		Mary Jean Weber is known for her wonderful landscapes and modern designs in oil and acrylics.
Jennifer Wilhelm
		Jennifer Wilhelm is a pen & ink artist. She creates brightly colored stylized florals in a variety of sizes. She has a really stunning and unique style to her work.