about us - jon winslow  and connie carrigan

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 Jon Winslow and Connie Carrigan are local Pensacola artists having spent many years honing their craft as successful individual artists - Jon, an award winning, professionally trained portrait and figure artist, and Connie, a highly respected water colorist.  Both have hit their groove when they found Florida sand and snow white beaches in their scandals.  They have "taken a walk on the wild side", finding their groove in painting "funky" tropical scenes that includes Caribbean flavored beaches decorated with "get-away" shanties, beach cottages and quaint villages, wildly colorful palm trees, beautiful sunsets, tropical/exotic wildlife, and much, much more.  They mainly use acrylics painting with bold color, and creatively fun design much to the delight of their valued customers -  a large and rapidly expanding group of individual art collectors, commercial decorators, business establishments, art galleries, etc.  Their versatility to paint in many styles ranging from primitive, impressionist, to tightly rendered realism are gifts that most artists envy, but many will never achieve.

Jon and Connie have individually sold hundreds of tropically flavored scenes to art collectors all over the United States and are currently being represented by a selected few agents that are internationally exposing their art to new clients.  Jon's robustly colorful and funky tropical art displayed at the juried May 2004 -2010 Arts Quest  Fine Arts Festivals in Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin was an absolute hit among new customers and newly interested art galleries.   Jon participated in the prestigious Dec 2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy.   He was selectively noted in the Art Fairs International Magazine by a New York Art Critic for his "Funky Floridian Landscapes" during the Biennale.  More recently, his painting is on the cover of the "Beaches of 30A" for the 2006 yearly publication.

Jon has now (2010) also been painting boldly, dynamic, and colorful  Abstracts generally in a large format.  See his work on this site under his Abstracts menu option.

Jon has now joined forces in "visual crime" with his equally talented partner, Connie, to collaborate fine art pieces for various commercial enterprises including the Rumrunner Restaurant in Sandestin Resort and other interested collectors.  They currently offer a combination of originals and/or limited edition "Original" Giclee reproductions, and have built a collection of collaborated works under the name of JoCo.

You may see images of their collection of work at www.jocoart.com.  They also have a collection of art at The Artful Giraffe in Sarasota, Fl, Judy Schillingburg's Special Touch Art Gallery in Harbor Walk Destin, Fl, the Sea Garden in Orange Beach, Alabama and other commercial extablishments.

updated 04/10/2011