Guest Art Instructors
Debbie Pompano
Residing in Hanover, Va, Debbie loves to paint wildlife, landscapes of rural scenes, or doing nature studies of flowers, gardens, animals and birds, and children. She especially enjoys doing paintings that illuminate poetry, weaving images together that express the meaning of the words. Besides painting, she also enjoys gardening, reading, sewing, playing the piano, singing in the choir, and spending time with her family and friends.
Debbie enjoys painting in watercolor and gouache, as well as drawing with graphite pencils and in pen and ink. She has illustrated and written children’s books, taught art workshops in watercolor and woodburning and exhibited in hundreds of art shows in the last 40 years.
Debbie is the author of an internationally distributed book on woodburning for Fox Chapel Publishing. Woodburning Project and Pattern Treasury was published in October, 2011 and is available for sale at Amazon.com. For more information on Debbie, please visit her website at www.harvestmoonstudio.net
Original Woodburning by Debbie Pompano
Dama Schneider
Dama Schneider has been an artist her entire life and has resided in Charlottesville, VA since 2005. From 2010-2019, she taught Fine Art at Sutherland Middle School in Albemarle County. She currently works as an Instructional Coach. Dama is a gifted painter who loves portraiture, architecture, realistic landscape painting and working with color. Her artwork has been displayed in several galleries in the Charlottesville area. Dama will be leading workshops in portraiture and painting for both teens and adults.
”There is a depth to the natural world that we rarely see…”
Flame Bilyue
Fantasy Landscapes and Hidden Images
Flame’s watercolor and acrylic wall art abound with tree spirits, dryads, goddess figures and spirit animals – subtle figures, faces and creatures woven into a tapestry of woods and moonlit lakes.
Mountainside Arts is proud to welcome Flame to the studio to lead several sculpted paper and painting workshops.
For more information on Flame, please visit her website here
Kayti Burke
Kayti Burke is an awesome human being. She works at Charlottesville High School as an Instructional Assistant in the LEAP program for students with moderate to severe disabilities. She is an excellent baker and loves everything crafty. She is also a master Cricut designer and can make anything on her Cricut including t-shirts, door signs, flat wood carvings, intricate cards and even the studio aprons! Mountainside Arts is proud to offer several workshops for teens and adults led by Kayti to learn how to use a Cricut machine to make just about anything!
Custom Mountainside Arts aprons made by Kayti!
Eileen Butler - The Art Lady
“Everyone is an artist. Every culture makes art. Call yourself an artist and go make art. Make your mark.” - Eileen
About Eileen: “Retired from forty years of teaching art, I find the time to alter, replace, reconstruct and remove ceilings, windows and walls to control the space and light making it balanced and harmonic in my own homes in NY and VA. I alter the color and texture of the spaces I live and work in. I move earth and rocks, plants and trees to enjoy visual serenity of my surroundings. I seek comfort of soul and body in these ways.
My two and three dimensional art expresses the joy of color and material, fluidity, permanence and solidity. I am leaving my mark on fabrics, canvas, floors, walls, the earth and the minds of the people who experience my little world.”
Mountainside Arts is pleased to welcome Eileen to the studio to lead workshops on Mosaics for teens and adults.
For more information and to view her work, please visit:
