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With more than 400 artist members, the Naples Art Association boasts a wide array of talented, professional artists and art instructors. Those members came together for the First Annual Non-Juried All Artist Members Show of Shows Exhibition, on view Oct. 25 through Nov. 9 at The von Liebig Art Center, 585 Park St. in Naples.

The exhibition features works by 92 member artists and includes paintings, drawings, photography, printmaking, mixed media and pastels as well as additive and subtractive sculpture.

All of the works are available for purchase.

The galleries are open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Suggested donation is $5 for adults and $2 for children 10 years and under.

The public may call 262- 6517 or visit naplesart.org for more information.

The NAA will host a Preview Reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The catered reception is free for members and $10 for non-members.

SOME EXAMPLES OF THE ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

NAA volunteers Liz and Dick Eflin, who are both artists, each submitted a painting for the exhibition. Dick Eflin’s work is a delicately rendered landscape in watercolor, and Liz Eflin’s is an exuberant mixed media collage.

Jim Chamberlain, a photographer instructor at the art center, travels the world and specializes in European landscapes. Printing with acrylic pigment inks and non-traditional materials such as canvas, watercolor paper and sheet metal, he adds unique characteristics, key to making his landscapes come alive with a sense of color and design. Chamberlain has given programs in Korea, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Canada and all across the United States to speak about digital imaging, Photoshop and Giclée printing. His third hardbound book, Lifescapes, was just published. It is a collection of European landscape Photographs. Chamberlain has won numerous Kodak Gallery and Fuji Masterpiece awards.

H. Ted Lay had a career as a graphic artist in the advertising and consultant design fields prior to his ongoing adventures as a painter. Observing the everyday activities of people at the beach or on the street is an endless resource of subject matter for his figure and portrait work. Initially attracted to the traditional style of figure and portrait painting in oil, Lay’s work has evolved to include tongue-in-cheek comment on today’s lifestyle, politics and celebrities. As a lifelong observer of pop-art, contemporary impressionists and abstract painters of the ‘60s, he is currently experimenting with non-traditional figure painting techniques and materials.

A landscape architect, Steven Todd Beyer is a senior associate at WilsonMiller. Drawing since childhood, he has recently begun to paint with oil en plein air. He is inspired by the natural world, as seen when scuba diving along the Greek Islands, hiking through the Swiss Alps, honeymooning in Paris, designing resorts throughout the Caribbean, skydiving over the Florida Keys, touring Tuscany, and other travels.