Art Xpress

When the late Dorothy Thomas was given the choice of a vacation in Hawaii or opening a craft shop, she followed her heart. She didn't like to fly! So in 1969 she started an arts and crafts business known as The Dutch Door. Two of her daughters, Wendyth Thomas Wells and Heather Thomas Noe and business partner Randy Hanna own and operate the business... es now known as Art Xpress and City Art which grew out of the arts and crafts store Dorothy started. In 1989, Art Xpress was founded by Wendyth, Randy and Heather as an effort to reach out beyond South Carolina to serve artists across the country. We mailed printed catalogs for over a decade began an internet business in 1998 offering a great selection of high quality art supplies to artists around the world. Through this new website we seek to provide the best in quality and service. We are offering a vast product line and a terrific web store that we hope you will use again and again. We are again proud to offer Holbein fine artist materials as our featured line. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates and special offers. Locally, the retail sector of our business is called City Art, an upscale art gallery and art supply store nestled in the historic warehouse and gallery district of Columbia, South Carolina. Visit our gallery website at www.cityartonline.com to learn more about us and the artists we represent. Wendyth and Heather are two of four daughters originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Randy is a native of South Carolina. The three have been working together since 1983. All three are artists themselves. Wendyth is an active painter being a member of excellence in the South Carolina Watercolor Society and a recipient of that organization's Special Recognition Award for her outstanding contributions to the arts in South Carolina. She has exhibited regionally and nationally, won numerous awards and is collected both publicly and privately. She is a past member of the Board of the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties in South Carolina ...Read More