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The Art Cove is located in beautiful Carrollwood Village in the Tampa Bay area of the "Sunshine State" - Florida, U.S.A.


Purpose.
The purpose of The Art Cove is to exclusively represent Florida landscape artist Riley Geddings by providing an online gallery for his paintings and prints. In addition, the online galleries provide an outlet for his sales as well as a viewing area for his customers, collectors, and artist associates.

In addition, Riley has a passion to keep the "Original Florida Art" alive in tribute to some of the early 1950s Florida folk artists such as the now famous "Highwaymen" !


Activity.
Riley keeps quite busy with painting, marketing, packing and shipping his artwork to his many faithful customers and collectors. He is also very fortunate to have had a career in computer software programming and analysis, hence enables him to maintain his two websites, www.theartcove.com and www.theartcove.net.


Helpmate. ( Riley's "English Rose" )
It would be literally imposible for Riley to maintain his art ventures without the help of his faithful and wonderful English wife, Maggie, who supports and encourages him in all of his artistic endeavors. She serves as an art critic, document writer, shipping assistant and is the office manager. She excels in Word Perfect word processing and is a writer and poet in her own right ! She has written and published her own cook book too !

The Art Cove is divided into four physical areas:

1. Art studio.
    A place where Riley actually prepares his canvas and canvas boards for painting and paints scenes from scratch or will finish up an actual scene from the field based on shots taken from his trusty digital camera. He paints on canvas, canvas board, and masonite board in either oil or acrylic. Riley uses only top-quality professional-grade oil and acrylic paints.


2. Photography.
    This is where digital images of artwork are created and edited as well as where video movies are titled and edited for publishing.


3. Computer room.
    This area is used to create and develop all software to be used for online site webpages and associated marketing endeavors. This software along with images and videos are uploaded to the internet. We maintain a network of two computers online so that Riley can program and keep up with marketing sales and at the same time Maggie can create certificates of authentification, legal documents, and descriptions for all sales webpages. We also use the computers to print Fedex shipping labels and Art Cove box labels.


4. Shipping and Storage.
    This is where canvas, frames, art shipping boxes and shipping supplies are housed. Sold paintings and limited-edition prints are packed and shipped from here. All paintings are shipped via Fedex and are fully insured !

Riley considers himself very fortunate indeed to have the tools to proceed with his art endeavors and to have the help from his helpmate, Maggie who inspires him and reminds him that we live here in this wonderful State of Florida, where natural beauty abounds and provides endless scenery to paint !

This artist is also very fortunate to have a faithful following of customers and art collectors who support and encourage the "Original Florida Art" concept !

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