Barbara Zuehlke

An award-winning artist, Barbara grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She has been a resident of Talbot County since 1982. After graduating from Miami University in Oxford Ohio with a BFA in graphics and painting, she did commercial studio design work for The J.L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, Michigan. She also did display design work for John Wanamaker’s downtown Philadelphia store. After moving to the Eastern Shore, she became active in the art community as a member and officer of Working Artists Forum where she is a past president. She is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. Barbara is a partner of The Artists Gallery in Chestertown, Maryland and teaches intermediate watercolor at Dorchester Center for the Arts.

Maureen Wheatley

Maureen Wheatley has been an artist all her life, and a printmaker and painter for over 40 years. On Kent Island where she lives with her husband, she considers herself a “Nature” artist, she often records nature and wildlife in her own surrounding habitat. As a teacher of many mediums, Maureen works primarily in pastels, acrylics, gouache`, watercolors, mixed media, and

Georgette Toews

Georgette Toews relocated to the Eastern Shore after a 30 year career in the United States Air Force. Upon retiring she began exploring various artistic endeavors such as watercolor painting, pastel, and fiber art. Her hand knit scarves and shawls have been on display at Gallery 211 in Gallup, New Mexico, at Kent Island Federation of Arts (KIFA), art festivals and galleries. She has entered numerous art exhibitions in Annapolis and the Eastern Shore and won first place, second place and won numerous Honorable Mentions in Professional Art Shows including First Place in the most recent Members’ Show at RiverArts of Chestertown (2023). She was selected for the 2013 and 2016 Arts in Easton Banner Program, and was juried in to the Working Artists Forum in Easton, MD in 2012, and juried into the Working Artists Forum “Local Color” show as part of Plein Air Easton in 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023.

Nancy Thomas

Hometown: Ridgely, MD

Judith Stevens Weaver

Nature- water, trees, and animals, sometimes juxtaposed with manmade structures; are reoccurring subjects of my work. Watercolors bring a special glow to a painting. The fluidity of the paints and the development of shapes and colors are always intriguing to me. I have particularly enjoyed experimenting with painting on different surfaces. I vary paper textures, and also paint on canvas and boards specifically prepared to be used for watercolor. I find that each surface enhances slightly different characteristics of the pigments and thus brings out subtle variations in the nature and expression of the subject.

Stacey Sass

Stacey Sass retired from a 32 year long career teaching in both high school and community college art programs. She is now focused on the wonderful challenge of creating watercolors “from life”. Whether painting while boating, camping or in front of a seafood still life, it is the aqueous nature of the water media that fits her aesthetic preference for loose, expressive imagery. Many of her paintings are created while sitting in her anchored boat.

Kathie Rogers

EDUCATION

Anne Reder

When Anne retired from a nursing career fourteen years ago, she re-invented herself as an artist. After juggling watercolor classes with carer and family for years, she was finally able to expand her creative pursuits to include drawing and oil painting classes. It was total immersion in her avocation…pure joy.

Chris Rapa

Chris Rapa is an American artist, living in Catonsville, Maryland. Her work ranges from representational still life and landscape paintings, to murals and innovative wall finishes. Chris exhibits in national juried shows, and competes in plein-air events across the country. Chris has found plein-air painting to be particularly rewarding, bringing a bounty of amazing friends from around the world into her life, and helping her grow as a painter. This July, Chris was honored to receive 1st place in the 2023 Plein Air Easton Quick Draw, non- competition artists division.

José Ramirez

Jose Ramirez is a watercolor and oil painting artist, originally from Guatemala, and currently living in Dorchester County MD.

Kate Quinn

Kathleen (Kate) is an award winning pastel artist and is a founding member of the Plein Air Painters of the Chesapeake Bay. She is also a member of The Working Artist Forum (WAF), The Maryland Pastel Society, The International Association of Pastel Societies, the Chestertown River Arts Center and the St. Michaels Art League. Her work has been exhibited in Maryland as well as other states.

Amanda Milliner

Amanda is a fine artist that works in a variety of media from oil paints to paper collage. She paints in a representational style and from life; both ‘en plein air’ as well as in her home studio located in central Maryland. A lifelong artist, Amanda grew up around the Chesapeake Bay, outside of Annapolis.

Carol McClees

The sources of my artistic inspiration can come from a maritime landscape, a beloved animal, or an architectural delight, whether painting en plein air or in my studio. Striving to achieve a painterly realism one brush stroke at a time, using abundant color, and supporting textural tools is my artistic goal. I love to find and capture the unique moment in time when the subject matter comes to life; that fleeting moment when the magical effects of the sun cause dramatic play between lights and darks. When accomplished, I believe that artistic tension is at its best, revealing a painting Alive with Color, which evokes thoughtful emotion and allows the viewer to complete the story.

Maryellyn Lynott

Maryellyn Lynott creates paintings that evoke the ruggedness, elegance and idyllic simplicity of life around the water on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Maryellyn has studied painting since the age of 8, beginning with her tutelage under Dan Mistrik — centering on the Old Masters approach to light and blocking — and continuing later as an apprentice to the eclectic Giancarlo Impiglia in New York City. She earned her BFA in Painting and Illustration from Carnegie Mellon.

Linda Luke

Linda is an internationally recognized fine arts professional. She was raised in Delaware County, Pennsylvania but has lived in many states. The first solo exhibit of her paintings opened on her 21st birthday at the Widener Museum of Art in Chester, Pennsylvania. Her realistic watercolors and oils reflect the Brandywine tradition that surrounded Linda in her youth. Landscapes are her first love and primary subject matter, however, people, animals, flowers, and still lifes are painting subjects as well.

Patti Lucas Hopkins

Patti Lucas Hopkins is a Maryland Eastern Shore native and has spent over twenty-five years painting rural landscapes, bay views, figures in the landscape and still life. Patti paints with oil and works to capture scenes in her natural surroundings. Patti lives on her farm on the Little Choptank River with her husband, dogs, chickens and surrounded by wild geese, deer, fox and wild turkeys. She takes inspiration from the expansive landscape, the changing season, the cycle of the crops, migrations and human activities such as working the water, sailing and gardening.

Pat Lang

Pat Lang, a native Marylander, living in Easton, is primarily a self-taught artist. She began oil painting in her late teens, learning through trial and error; visiting galleries to study famous works; and reading art instruction publications. As she experimented on techniques new to her, she used these experiences to master her own personal realistic style. Pat has exhibited in numerous art shows throughout Maryland.

Kathy Kopec

Jane Knighton

Hometown: Glenwood, MD

Laura Leigh Kapolchok

I was born in Washington, D.C. and have lived in the Mid-Atlantic all my life. I relocated to Easton, Maryland twelve years ago to live in a vibrant art community. My favorite medium is oil painting. I particularly enjoy painting landscapes and flowers, and still life. I also enjoy pastel painting and collage.

Barbara Harr Watson

Hometown: East New Market, MD

Shirley Hales

Shirley began her professional art career in 2001 in the Washington, DC area.

Doris Glovier

Doris Glovier’s paintings are largely inspired by the beauty and majesty of the Atlantic Ocean, the Chesapeake Bay and coastal habitat. Other favorite subjects include portraiture and figural paintings of the people who live and vacation on the coast. Prior to embarking on a fine art career path, she was an author of three books and designer in the Arts & Craft industry. Her designs and related articles have been published in nationally distributed magazines and industry publications. She currently works in watercolor & oils. Doris is a full-time, self-representing artist who paints daily in her studio and in plein air. She also teaches painting and hosts an Open Studio.

Jill Glassman

Jill lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she is an active member of numerous art and plein air organizations. She has competed as a juried artist in a number of plein air events including Plein Air Easton, Paint Annapolis, and the North Carolina Plein Air Festival in New Bern.