2025 Judges

The Fairhope festival is a juried event. Each year three judges are selected to evaluate the almost 200 participants in the show on a predefined set of criteria. They select winners by scoring each individual artist and the artists with the highest overall scores get the largest awards.

Lorrie Lane is an oil painter living in Tuscaloosa, AL. She is the owner of Lorrie Lane Studio, a fine art studio and gallery located in downtown Tuscaloosa. Lane has been painting and exhibiting for over 30 years. Her work has been featured in numerous group and solo shows in the Southeast. She has been represented by galleries in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, New York, and Oregon. Her art agent is Victor Fine Art (www.victorfineart.com) and has reproductions through John-Richard.

As part of her art career, Lane has taught art classes with the Birmingham Museum of Art Studio School, the Alabama Prison Art and Education Project, and The University of Alabama OLLI program. She was a resident studio artist at the Kentuck Art Center in Northport, AL from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2018.

Lane’s most recent solo exhibits include a show at the Columbus, MS Arts Council Gallery in 2023 and a dual exhibit with sculptor Steve Davis in 2023 at Lowe Mill Arts in Huntsville, AL. She has a show with Steve Davis at Lowe Mill scheduled for April 2025.

Lorrie Lane was born in upstate New York in 1961. After graduating from Smith College in 1983, she and husband, Alan, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their daughter, Liz Lane, carries on the painting profession. Their sons Charles and Sean are also involved in creative endeavors.

Website: https://www.lorrielaneart.com/

Dylan Nadsady is a multidisciplinary artist from Fallbrook, CA, but raised and molded by the Florida panhandle.

He finds the greatest joys through the existential fundamentals and beautiful absurdities that shape our lives. To embrace both, his works are attempts in blending each into an emotional common ground.

With a deep love of nature, painting is his tool to better understand this wonderful beauty of our strange and astounding physical, and emotional home.

Website: https://www.dylannadsadyart.com/

Paulette Dove is a native Biloxian and has been painting and exhibiting on the Gulf Coast for many years. She is a member of the Ocean Springs Art Association, President of the South Mississippi Art League, and Board Member of Mississippi Art Colony. Her work has been displayed throughout the South.

Paulette received her B.F.A. and her M.Ed. from Mississippi University for Women and William Carey College. She has taught many years in Mississippi and West Virginia. Paulette has served as an art educator for the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Walter Andersen Museum, and the Hancock Arts Center along with teaching various workshops.

Paulette prefers to work in oil, mixed media, and pottery. She currently works from her " Side Door" Studio, located in Biloxi, Mississippi.