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Visitors can experience Richard Clifton’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Afternoon Flight Acrylic 36x24

Eastern Towhee Acrylic 7x11

Kingfisher's Perch Acrylic 12x20

May 21, 2026 In

Jocelyn Beatty

Painter | West Middlesex, Pennsylvania

Jocelyn Beatty Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Vibrant hued birds, realistic country scenes and dramatic florals are captured in Jocelyn’s watercolor and acrylic paintings. She expresses her love of nature and luninous color, sharp details and strong compositions. Also, by using rich, saturated palette, she is able to create these originals.

In recent years, Jocelyn and Ken have traveled from Alaska to South America gathering reference material for her paintings. After seeing the animals in their natural habitat, Jocelyn is able to capture the essence of the species in rich color, creating accurate and uniique works of art.

Jocelyn’s distinguished pieces have been shown in juried shows, exhibitions and solo shows, winning her numerous awards. “Southeastern Wildlife Exposition”, Charleston, South Carolina, “Easton Waterfowl Festival”, Easton, Maryland and “Wild Wings Fall Festival”, Lake City, Minnesota are just some of the shows she has exhibited her work. Recently, Beatty is sharing her talent by licensing her images throug Wild Wings. Her work can be found on fabric, puzzles, printss and even Cabela’s gift cards.

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Visitors can experience Jocelyn Beatty’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Summer Ferns 20 x 30 Acrylic

Virginia Creeper 16 x 24 Acrylic

Geese 22 x 30 Watercolor

May 21, 2026 In

Sandy Alanko

Painter | Tilghman Island, Maryland

Sandy Alanko Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Sandy Alanko paints in a representational style, using watercolors, pastels or oils to express the beautiful colors, shapes and textures of the natural world. She loves sparkling water, the textured marshes and deep forests of this region as well as the wildlife that inhabit the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. She is an avid birder, kayaker, camper and has recently completed master naturalist training.

Sandy Alanko has a master’s degree in art, studied Renaissance art in Florence, Italy, and taught art in public and private schools for over thirty years. She is a member of St. Michaels Art League, the Working Artists Forum and the Academy Art Museum in Easton. Her artwork has won awards in local, regional and national shows. Sandy maintains her studio on Tilghman Island

Visitors can experience Sandy Alanko’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Red -tailed Hawk Hunting", watercolor, 18 x 22

Flying" Mallard Flying", dimensional watercolor, 16 x2o

"The Sentry", watercolor, 8 x 16

May 21, 2026 In

Lois Engberg

Painter | Salisbury, Maryland

Lois Engberg Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Lois is a Maryland artist and has devoted herself to oil painting since 1996. As a native of the Eastern Shore, much of her inspiration comes from beautiful Chesapeake Bay region. She enjoys the coastal landscape but is also known for her colorful floral paintings. She currently paints from her studio in Salisbury, Maryland and her work is in private collections throughout the country. She is a member of Oil Painters of America, American Women Artist and American Impressionist Society.

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Visitors can experience Lois Engberg’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Morning Salutations 30x40

When the Stars Come Out 12x12

A New Day 12x24

May 21, 2026 In

Timothy Donovan

Painter | Lovettsville, Virginia

Timothy Donovan Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Wildlife and the outdoors have always been Tim’s love, and bringing these scenes to life on canvas is his passion. Growing up in Maryland, Tim spent his summers on the shores of Solomon’s Island by the Chesapeake Bay. As a young boy, he experienced a wide diversity of wildlife from otters to ospreys that would both capture his spirit and direct his path.

Over the last several years, his attention has been focused on using his art to support organizations for the preservation of wildlife and their habitats. He has donated his time and art to support various conservation organizations including Ducks Unlimited, Vital Ground, Center for Birds of Prey, and The Timber Wolf Alliance just to name a few.

Tim combines Egg Tempera and Oils to create a signature style in his work. He has learned how to grind his own pigments and make his own mediums and oils for perfect textures and colors.

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Visitors can experience Timothy Donovan’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Autumn Stroll Egg Tempera 7x11

River Wanderers Egg Tempera13x24'

Spring Arrival Egg Tempera 12x27

May 21, 2026 In

Terry Miller

Painter | Takoma Park, Maryland

Terry Miller Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Maryland based artist, Terry Miller has been a professional artist for the last 35 years. His work documents his travels near and far, focusing on the natural world and its inhabitants as well as, more recently, the local landscape and the more domestic side of the animal kingdom. Working in shades of black, white and grey, his drawings reflect countless hours of study in the field and the experiences that he chooses to portray in his studio work. His work has garnered many awards and is represented in museum, corporate and private collections across the country. He’s been a Maryland resident for the last 24 years.

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Visitors can experience Terry Miller’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Morning Mist, drawing size 7”x7”

Down East , drawing size 17”x23

Port Call, drawing size 10”x18”

May 21, 2026 In

Keith Whitelock

Painter | Salisbury, Maryland

Keith Whitelock Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

C. Keith Whitelock grew up in Mt. Vernon MD. and has always been inspired by local landscapes of marshes, creeks, and the special working boats of the Chesapeake Bay waterman. The former public school Art teacher has been documenting the changing waterfronts of Eastern Shore communities since 1980.

His oils and watercolors are realistic and detailed yet are filled with obvious brushwork that he feels essential to keep alive the magic of painting. The subjects of most works are the rustic working boats; both power and sail, and weathered shanties and docks. They are rendered with a palette of ocher, browns and blue hues that naturally define the often placid scenes.

These paintings have won many awards over the years and appeared in both periodicals and books. He continues his teaching in the local TV series “Watercolor Workshop” that has acquired a sizeable audience on the internet. He loves sailing and crews aboard a Skipjack during the racing season.

He currently lives in Salisbury, MD and is always searching for new subjects before they are threatened by modernization.

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Visitors can experience Keith Whitelock’s’ work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Skipjack Inspectors (Oil) 18x2

Heading South (Watercolor) 15x22

Minding The Marker (oil) 5x7

May 21, 2026 In

Julia Purinton

Painter | Warren, Vermont

Julia Purinton Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Julia Purinton graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Fine Arts,

pursued a course of study at the School of Fine Arts in New York City, and now

divides her time between Baltimore, MD and Vermont’s Mad River Valley.

Purinton has maintained a focus on the natural world even as her style of

expression has changed and expanded..Her traditional work can be seen at

Egdewater Gallery in Middelbury, Vermont, Art 3 Gallery in Manchester, New

Hampshire and in diverse venues showing artwork in support of environmental

causes in both New England (Crane Estate Art Show) and the Mid-Atlantic

(Waterfowl Festival.) Her abstract paintings have been exhibited in numerous

public spaces, including the Burlington Airport and the University of Vermont

Medical Center.

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Visitors can experience Julia Purinton’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

Featured Works

Smooth Landing, oil on canvas, 24x30

Now or Never, oil on canvas, 20x30

Consensus, oil on canvas,18x24

May 21, 2026 In

Sue Adair

Painter | Schenectady, New York

Sue Adair Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Sue’s artwork is inspired by her love of the natural world: close to her home in Upstate New York and from far afield. A life-long birder, Sue is an avid naturalist who draws her inspiration and reference material directly from observations made in nature. She features detailed subjects with simple, sometimes even stylized, backgrounds. Sue draws in various combinations of graphite, colored pencil and watercolor.

Sue’s work has been included in many prestigious national and international exhibits including Birds in Art (Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum), Art and the Animal (the Society of Animal Artists annual exhibition) and many international miniature exhibitions. Her work has received numerous awards including the Society of Animal Artists highest honor, the Award of Excellence, and two miniature Best in Show awards. Sue is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists, the Miniature Artists of America and the Colored Pencil Society of America. Her work can be seen at galleries in Tulsa, OK and Nags Head, NC

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Visitors can experience Sue Adair’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.

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Featured Works

Cuteness Personified

Foe of Fish and Frogs

Repeating Reflections

March 19, 2026 In

Jill Basham

Painter | Trappe, Maryland

Jill Basham Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival

Contemporary landscape artist Jill Basham was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Columbia, Maryland. Basham comes from a family with a multi-generational history of artists. She grew up with an interest in art, yet it was not until later in adulthood that she began oil painting. Once she began, she has never looked back.

Basham is known for her plein air and studio landscape paintings, celebrated for their rich atmosphere and expressive sense of place. While she often paints outdoors on location, she also develops her work in the studio. Deeply inspired by the natural beauty of the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding areas, she remains equally drawn to any scene that evokes an emotional response, whether close to home or discovered in her travels.

Jill has been honored to participate in and earn numerous awards in national plein air events and art exhibitions. Presently, her work is in corporate and private collections as well as in the permanent collections of museums. She is on the Board of Directors for Oil Painters of America. In addition, she is a signature member of Oil Painters of America, The American Impressionist Society, The American Society of Marine Artists, as well as an artist member of the historic Salmagundi Club, NYC.

Jill now resides near the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where the local landscape continues to inspire her work. She is drawn to any scene that sparks an emotional response, allowing her to translate the beauty and atmosphere of a place onto canvas.

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Visitors can experience Jill Basham’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.