Top 50 Atlanta Artists and their Featured Art

Patty DelValle is an abstract expressive artist working out of her home studio in Woodstock, GA. She uses an intuitive creative process rooted in the spiritual connection of her faith. That connection brings a sense of joy and hope that translates into her work. Using a combination of mark making, realistic and abstracted shapes and serene color stories allows an authentic expression of herself, her faith, and her interpretation of life. Patty is passionate about cultivating imagination and stirring creativity in others. That passion led her to develop and direct a studio art program for several years. She also organized a county wide juried art exhibit focused on home school students, with the goal of encouraging their love for art, and promoting the development of their artistic skill and providing an audience for their efforts. Currently Patty is an active participant in multiple artistic groups and associations. She continues to facilitate the partnership of art with the her community as a board member of a local art alliance as well as showing her work in shows, juried competitions and local galleries in the metro Atlanta area.

I’ve had a working studio for almost thirty years, creating fine art, commercial pieces, and commissions for private and corporate clients across the country. ​ Painting landscapes and nature close to home is my passion! In the Gallery you can find a wide range of landscapes - paintings of Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, and Cherokee County landmarks like the Sixes Mill, Woodstock Depot, and the Shingle House at Franklin Creighton Gold Mine. Selected images are available as prints - on paper, canvas and even contemporary metal - in the Store. ​ My newest paintings are part of the "Georgia Natural Wonders" collection. This is an ambitious five year project that has me hiking, kayaking and painting across the state, from mountains to the coast. When the project is formally launched, it will include original art, NTFs, prints, a traveling show (and hardcover book!)

I have no formal art training. I'm self taught and my work usually reflects a mood or thoughts I'm mulling over. My background is in literature and education. For most of my adult life, I've thought of myself as an English teacher and writer. During the early days of the pandemic, with four young sons at home and a husband in graduate school, I found that painting with my boys' Crayola watercolor sets was incredibly soothing in a very stressful time. I have painted almost every day since then. When my father died late in 2020, I began adding drawings and snippets of poetry on top of my paintings to help me sort through my grief. Now I am weaving together my education background into my art and have been teaching workshops on painting, poetry, and creativity for children and adults. I'm so thankful for the outlet painting has provided for me, and I'm so touched when I learn that my work resonates with others.

I am 25 years old, born and raised in Atlanta. My art journey began at a very young age. Growing up my mother would show me everything she learned while she pursued her own art career. We moved to Savannah, Ga when I was around 10 years old. She attended SCAD during our stay. Occasionally, she’d bring me along with her to school & introduce me to different forms of art. The two things that stuck to me the most; film and fine art. Later on in life, my high school art teacher taught me how to practice skills and patience when working on any craft. She also showed the class different styles of fine art and the history behind it. She was one of the first to ever acknowledge that I had talent and pushed me to take it seriously. As I grew older, I became many things to different people. I was a Hairstylist, Makeup Artist, and even Skater. All forms of expressing myself. Once the pandemic began I was able to be who I wanted to be. Once I realized that art is what I was meant to do, ShesArtZee was born. A platform and space I created & use to share my work and growth!

Judy Birnbrey Robkin is a self-taught artist whose work has been shown in galleries around the country and whose pieces have been juried into shows such as the American Craft Council, Piedmont Craftsman, Carolina Designer and many more. She has worked with a variety of clay techniques throughout her career and is currently immersed in a project entitled "Ladies", a series of intricately handcrafted ceramic women. As a ceramics instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, she teaches hand building, Raku and other firing techniques. Judy enjoys sharing her love of art and creativity with others by teaching classes in clay, watercolors, calligraphy and more. Her belief is that if you break things down to their individual component parts, one can teach anyone to draw or paint or create in any other medium.

Dorri Buchholtz is a sculptor living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. She discovered her true passion for sculpting later in life under the instruction of internationally known sculptor, Martin Dawe. What started as a hobby evolved into a full time career, a “second act” with no agenda, no pressure, and a tremendous amount of artistic freedom to explore and experience. Her work explores the full spectrum of emotion. Using posture and gesture, she captures the rawness and beauty of our shared human experiences from joy to suffering. Dorri finds inspiration in the empowerment of women and the subject of much of her work is the female form. Dorri is represented by both physical and online galleries in Atlanta, North Carolina, New York and Florence, Italy. She exhibits at juried art shows and her work can be found in private collections both nationally and internationally.

Daniel Zimmerman is an oil painter living and working in Atlanta, GA. Upon graduating from The University of Mississippi, Daniel moved to Atlanta to explore a more creative cultural lifestyle. In 2021 he purchased a 5,000-square-foot warehouse and converted it into his painting studio, which he now refers to as Roosevelt Hall. His paintings evoke viewer-guided stories of elegance, passion, and desire by experimenting with various forms of portraiture. He explores the ever-evolving landscape of cultural power dynamics within his work. He commingles this overarching concept with themes of personal transformation, uninhibited aspiration, and the development of strength from within. Daniel explores these ideas using classical painting principles combined with an ambitious and energetic improvisation used to explore new ways of expression through oil paint.

As a child/teen I spent a lot of time perfecting realism in my drawing techniques. I became quite good at it. I did many pencil drawings of photographs (ruined abbeys and monasteries) but I was also getting into comics and comic art. Eventually my love of music and graphic illustration pushed me to more stylized drawing such as Roger Dean. Upon entering the Fine Art program at Pensacola State College, under the leadership of award-winning painter Carl Duke and artist and poet Allan Peterson, I pivoted away from drawing altogether and took up painting. At the age of 21 I visited The National Gallery in Washington, where I saw the exhibition "Kandinsky: Improvisations", as well as large paintings by Matisse, Motherwell, Gottlieb and others. That experience opened my eyes and mind to an appreciation for modern art. My main artistic influencers are Kline, Soulages and de Kooning, but I also love De Chirico, Magritte and Whistler. Really too many to name. Every year I continue my journey exploring and developing my own form of contemporary art.