PATRICIA RENO HUFF GALLERY & ART STUDIO

one year, as well as working with many other organizations and earning the Leadership Sandy Springs award. After retiring, she established her own gallery in 2015, where she began offering art classes. Moving to Freshfield Village in Kiawah Island in 2020, Patricia Reno Huff Gallery & Art Studio continued to be a learning center for those who aspired to become artists, giving them both a place to hone their abilities as well as an entry into the public arena. “It’s intimidating to expose yourself to the public eye,” Huff says. “The work my students create and then choose to display is a very personal thing for them. I love being part of that and seeing them learn and find their style as painters.”

As an art instructor, Huff has had to become adept at many different styles and techniques, as her students all have individual styles and very unique personalities. “I need to be adaptive to their needs so that I can give them the tools they need to develop—including the fundamental background in drawing and composition,” says Huff. “I love exploring different styles in my own work, as well.”

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photographer Ivo Kerssemakers took an unexpected path. He was born in the Netherlands and raised in Amsterdam, where he started his own software business. In 1997, he moved to the United States and continued to work as a software developer throughout the country before settling in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

In 2015, he began pursuing his passion for photography professionally. His signature work consists of long-exposure photography, with an emphasis on clean, surrealistic, minimalisttype imagery. The long-exposure technique means he uses neutral density filters up to 16 stops to achieve exposure times of more than four minutes in bright daylight. Kerssemakers pays careful attention to the way landscapes change in different lighting and weather conditions and will revisit locations to see how they change. He is currently focusing on the Charleston area, in particular Botany Bay, as well as working on an architectural series in London and Amsterdam.

Kerssemakers prioritizes using the highest-quality sustainable materials for printing and framing, and he specializes in large-scale works. Venues in South Carolina where his work can be seen include Lowcountry Artists Gallery in Charleston, MISC-Everything Murrells Inlet Gallery and The Gallery at Sweetgrass in Isle of Palm.

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