Every day is a new palette.

Outside in our environment, the colors change every single day.

The water is a different color every single day.

The colors are just spectacular a sunrises and our sunsets are amazing colors underneath the waters of our fish, our birds, our skies.

And it shows in all of our artists work.

And that's where they get their inspiration from.

Janice Nagle, and I am an artist and the owner of Shady Palm Art Gallery and live in a local color art gallery.

They're both located in this same building.

So Shady Palm has been around for quite a while, and I had my artwork here at Shady Palm Art Gallery, and when the owner decided to retire, she came to me and said, Janice, do you want to buy Shady Palm Art Gallery?

So here I am and it is a dream come true.

Um, it's just exciting to be able to help other artists the way that they helped me in the beginning.

And that's really what I'm looking forward to, is expanding, helping local artists.

This was actually the first piece that I've ever painted.

It was out of boredom after Hurricane Irma.

This was a photograph that I took of my husband's charter boat.

Um, and I found a tin with my grandmother's paints and the photo on the floor of my garage.

After cleaning up a little bit and my grandma spoke to me and said, paint.

So I did.

So that was originally the first painting that I started and ultimately finished after a while.

Um, and this is where all of this began.

All the local artists just said, don't stop painting, keep going, and I did.

I tried different mediums.

I started with acrylic.

Then I went to watercolors and and batik, and I just kept going.

So and it's really been a lot of fun for me.

Um, and it's fun watching myself grow.

And that's what I want to instill on other artists here, is watching them grow and giving them the opportunity to to just become wonderful artists.

And that's that's why I'm here.

We have 57 local Florida Keys artists.

Everybody is here in the keys, so everything has originated here.

We have a wide variety of artists.

We have metal artists, we have multimedia recycling artists, we have acrylics, we have wood artists.

Some of our artists work with oils and acrylics.

And it's just a large, um, display of art that we have here.

And everyone is just a little bit different.

Our visitors spend a lot of time here.

We have our classroom.

We repainted the outside.

We've added about 1000ft to the art section of the gallery.

We've moved our custom frame shop and we added my art gallery, living a local color here as well.

So we're really two beautiful galleries for our visitors and locals to explore.

We're trying to bring more attention to marathon for the art community.

We want to expand on those art classes, and we're inviting, you know, artists from the keys, not just our art gallery, to come and do classes for us as well.

We want to do some events and also let everybody know that our artists are here and to support the local art, because it's really important.

They're one of the smallest businesses and they do so much from their heart that they deserve that attention.