We
lived and worked in South Florida at our company “Glenn’s Greenery”,
which was started by Glenn in 1976.
Nadine was the wholesale nursery
manager and grower of the 16 acre facility.
The company grew quality
indoor plants that were then leased to major corporations in the
South Florida area. We designed and maintained the plants on a
yearly contract to hotels, restaurants, office buildings, and other
indoor facilities.
We
were married in 1999 the year we sold our company after 23 successful
years. After selling “Glenn’s
Greenery”, we retired
and moved to Lower Matecumbe Key, just South of Islamorada in the
fabulous Florida Keys. We avidly pursued our love of fishing and
everything “Keysey”.
In
early 2002 we decided to take an art course at our local community
college as a hobby. Since we had never painted before it was quite
challenging. After a semester of art lessons, we both stuck to
painting and seemed to have a “knack” for
it. We have since developed our own distinct style.
Glenn
during this time made some frames from old lobster traps and we
gave them as gifts to our family and friends. With the encouragement
of mainly our family, who told us “you could sell those”,
we decided to do our first art show in January of 2003.
Armed
with a half a dozen paintings, about 40 lobster trap frames,
(most of which were empty), and some photos we took, we did “Art
Under the Oaks” in
Tavernier which was very successful. The rest they say
is “history”.
Since then we have done over 60 art shows and show our work
in 5 galleries from Key West to Key Largo. We have shipped our
work all over the United States and the world; including Australia,
Italy, France, Scotland, England and Hawaii.
We have painted hundreds
of original works and constructed over 10,000 hand built lobster
trap frames all since 2003. Our newest addition is our website, www.lobstertrapart.com,
which features our newest original works, popular prints of our
original paintings, empty lobster trap frames, and our newest
fine art section. Also included on our site is our upcoming shows.
Come by and see us at one of our events. Give us a call if you
need a custom lobster trap frame, or would like us to paint something
special just for you!
We love what we do and feel lucky to live in
such a beautiful part of the world which is both inspiring and
gives us such wonderful scenes and subjects to paint. We hope you
enjoy our work as much as we enjoy creating it.
Nadine
and Glenn
