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September 9, 2024 In

Elizabeth Rhoades

Hometown: Belle Haven, VA

Elizabeth Rhoades (b. 1955) is an American Impressionist landscape painter. Her work is characterized by vibrant color and sensitivity to the natural forms and light in the landscape. Her keen observation and thorough knowledge of the landscape is evident in her award-winning paintings. There is an emotional quality to her work that brings peace and tranquility to the viewer, while at the same time having a distinct vitality through her use of color.  Her preference is in painting nature, undisturbed by human intervention.

Elizabeth began her painting career in 1973 as a watercolorist. At age 17 she took classes at Paier College of Art, and studied under the famed Leo Stoutsenburger. She spent many years painting the Connecticut landscape en plein air with watercolors. In 2001 she switched to pastels, and her work garnered much recognition in national pastel societies across the country.  At the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020 she took up oils. A lifetime of plein air painting has provided her with a foundation to accurately depict the elements of the landscape. Elizabeth is a Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, Connecticut Pastel Society, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Pastel Society of New Mexico, Degas Pastel Society, and an Elected Artist in the Rockport Art Association, Lyme Art Association, North Shore Arts Association, Academic Artists, American Artists Professional League, and Audubon Artists. She is a juried Artist Member in the Salmagundi Club in New York, the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society, Oil Painters of America, and the American Impressionist Society.

She was a Featured Artist in the Oct/Nov 2016 edition of PleinAir Magazine, and her work has been published in numerous group articles in Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir Magazine. Elizabeth’s work has been juried into well over a hundred highly competitive National Exhibitions and Plein Air Competitions. Of the over fifty awards she has won, Elizabeth’s recent awards include the Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Best Landscape in the American Artist’s Professional League Grand National Exhibition in 2023, the Award of Excellence in NOAPS Best of America Small Painting Exhibit, the Walker Memorial Award for Oil Landscape as well as Best Pastel in Academic Artists, Best in Show at North Shore Art Association, multiple awards from Salmagundi Club, Second Place, Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival, and the Gold Medal of Honor Plus for a Pastel in the American Artists Professional League. Her work is included in corporate and private collections from coast to coast.

Elizabeth was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. She taught public school elementary art for 35 years in various Connecticut towns until her retirement in 2014. In 2018 she moved permanently to Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where her love of the water and rural landscape provides her unlimited inspiration.

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August 14, 2024 In

Steve Burelison

Hometown: Bradford, OH

I sculpt in an interpretive style, giving the viewer the opportunity to step into and and complete the sculpture in their own mind, relating to factors in their own lives.

I work primarily with found wood that I pick from the woods and river on my property in southwest Ohio, but I am always looking for interesting pieces wherever I’m at. With each piece I try to create motion and emotion. I feel strongly that one can see and feel humanity even in an inanimate object such as a jug or a pot. I get a feeling of satisfaction, worth almost, from taking an object that was once living and growing but has died or been killed and is simply lying on the forest floor, turning to dust. Picking the piece up and giving it a new forever life for people to enjoy both physically and mentally, in whatever shape or form it tells me it wants to be, is so rewarding.

One of my hopes and goals is to move people with my sculptures, so how a piece touches you can be both physical and emotional. There is no better feeling for me than to have someone see my pieces for the first time and put their hand over their mouth in awe. Not because of the beauty of my work, but because it moves them in some way. To me this shows me they are seeing into the piece and not just looking at it. Sometimes they ask, “Can we touch it?” Of course my reply is always “By all means, please do.” Some may purchase the piece to take home and enjoy every day, some simply enjoy the moment. Both choices carry the same significance to me. I feel I have moved someone, maybe made a difference or lifted them up in some way. That’s what it’s all about for me.

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August 14, 2024 In

Ted Morlock

Hometown: Parsonsburg, MD

Ted Morlock started carving while still serving as the Chief Ranger for Assateague National Seashore. His work is interpretive sculpture with emphasis on the natural beauty of the woods he uses. His focus is on birds but he enjoys delving into other animals and subjects. He has competed and received several awards for his work in the Ward World Carving Championship since 2011 in the interpretive division. His work iS currently featured at the Ward Museum gift shop in Salisbury, MD; the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona; and the Horizon Fine Art Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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August 14, 2024 In

Jeffrey Willey

Hometown: East New Market, MD

Local artist Jeff Willey is from East New Market Maryland. He makes stainless steel art . He just started his art career a year ago in August. He has made about 50 sculptures and has sold them all. He has 30 years of fabrication and welding experience.

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August 14, 2024 In

Dave Dunn

Hometown: Silver Spring, MD

Dave Dunn’s art is defined by a unique ability to invest his metal constructions with both whimsy and primordial dark mystery. His works draw on imagery and meaning
from a metallurgical era lost to the modern age. His often frequent use of medieval imagery in his welded and forged work evokes in the viewer an historical allegory,
while imbuing his creatures of nature with abstract nuance and fantasy.

Combining rough steel imagery with historical symbols of contest and predators, his creatures take on mysterious and fantastical life forms. Drawing on a lifelong
environmental consciousness, he assembles repurposed objects, found metal pieces or modern steel implements with deft creativity, offering the viewer a more modern and
empathetic connection to the natural world through movement and personality.

From his earliest years growing up on Harris creek flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, he combined driftwood and other found objects deposited by high tides and repurposed
them into art objects while daydreaming about what lurked beneath the waves. He also spent formative years living in Paris, France, the son of an American diplomat,
surrounded by the medieval and renaissance imagery of the old world. Today he works out of his DunnInMetal Studios in Silver Spring, Maryland and his small workspace
where he began his career in Bozman. Maryland.

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August 13, 2024 In

Christine Young

Hometown: Fairborn, OH

Christine Clayton began drawing and painting waterfowl and other wildlife at the age of 5, and entered her first conservation stamp contest at age 8. In 2012, she accomplished her dream of winning the national Junior Duck Stamp Contest along with state and national awards in Wildlife Forever’s State-Fish Art contest. In 2015, Christine became the youngest artist to win the Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp Competition, and in 2017, she placed 3rd in the nation’s most prestigious conservation revenue stamp program, the Federal Duck Stamp Contest. She continues to enter conservation stamp contests, create new wildlife pieces, and enjoys a new-found skill for pet portraits.  Christine is looking forward to a promising future in the realm of wildlife art.

A self-taught artist, Christine enjoys a variety of outdoor activities. She is also an avid reader, pianist, photographer, and enjoys gardening and spending time with family and friends. She has been blessed to share her artistic endeavors with her father, Matt, and sister, Sarah, who are also artists, along with her mother, Darlene, who is her biggest supporter. Now married, she loves hiking, fishing and exploring the outdoors with her husband, Ben. She is thankful for her God-given talent and for the heartfelt advice and support she has received from her family, friends and fellow artists over the years, and hopes to share and instill the values she has learned in this journey with others.

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August 13, 2024 In

Clayton Pennell

Hometown: Boone, NC

Clayton Pennell is a naturalist, conservationist, and contemporary wildlife artist. His high-impact art portrays animals in a new light, focusing on form, design, and motion in what many in the art world consider a form of abstract realism and natural pop art that has deep ties to classic sporting art. He developed this distinctive style during his time as a hunting and fly-fishing guide, where he was able to hone into the detailed design and tones of wildlife. His work inspires the imagination, as his vibrant art invites the viewer to use their memories from the field to construct an interpretation of the animal that is as unique as the painting itself. Clayton’s work has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for conservation and his work has sold to art collectors across the globe. As a true believer in conservation, he has dedicated a portion of all profits of his art sales to go towards conservation efforts. Clayton’s studio resides in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina.

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