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Hometown: Woodbine, MD

As an artist, my passion lies with interpreting subject matter with a combination of artistry and accuracy. My intention is to capture the light and atmosphere of the moment and to have the viewer take notice of the ordinary. Strong light and luminous color are important in my compositions. These traits, along with the welcoming nature of the subject matter, are frequently commented on by people appreciative of my work. In addition to commissioned pieces, I paint what is familiar to me – my gardens, wildlife and domestic animals, places I frequent, people I know, and the vanishing rural landscape where I live.

Hometown: Easton, MD

Stewart White – AWS, NWS, ASMA (and so many other initials but really, who keeps track)

Stewart White is an artist from Easton, Maryland. He works as freelance illustrator specializing in architectural illustration. The flexible nature of watercolor painting can impart both precision and illusion, for that reason it is extremely useful in conveying as yet unrealized concepts with great efficiency. Besides illustration, Stewart is always out and about painting “en plein air” or in studio.

Stewart studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and after serving 3 years in the US Army he received a BFA from UC Berkeley with a minor in Art History. As a carpenter of many years his interests found a perfect balance between Art and Architecture in a career in architectural illustration. His skill in both oil, egg tempera and watercolors have garnered many awards. He is a Grand Prize winner of several of the country’s most prestigious plein air competitions, which in a field dominated by oil painters is a significant accomplishment.

Stewart is a past President of the Mid-Atlantic Plein-Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). He exhibits his paintings in juried and gallery exhibitions throughout the US. Stewart is a member of the American Impressionists Society (AIS), a signature member of the National Watercolor Society (NWS), a signature member of the American Watercolor Society (AWS) as well as the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) and past President (2012) of The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI). He has spent many years as a mural painter with commissions that include: the Smithsonian Institute, The US Naval Academy, The Texas Rangers Baseball Club and prestigious homes too many to list.

Stewart White is represented by Folly Cove Gallery in Rockport MA. And By McBride Gallery in Annapolis, MD.

Hometown: Cockeysville, MD

The appreciation Ned Ewell has for his home state of Maryland is quite evident in many of his watercolor paintings. Even as a child Ned had a tremendous interest in wildlife that grew more intense as he matured.

Ned’s love for wildlife is reflected in his watercolors of the Eastern Shore marsh scenes, a cold hunting scene, the beach setting of Ocean City, the tranquility of a boat on the Chesapeake Bay or upland game birds. Ned manages to capture the mood of every scene.

He has twice been selected to be the cover artist for the Rappahannock River Waterfowl show. At the Easton Waterfowl Festival his painting of Wood Ducks in flight was given first prize and was used the following year as the booklet cover. He has paintings have appeared on the cover of various publications.

Ned resides in Cockeysville Maryland and is a member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Hometown: Lewes, DE

I’ve always been fascinated by maritime culture and my work reflects my admiration and respect for those that make their living on the water. I love the structure inherent in the design of a ship, or the docks and warehouses of a working waterfront. So much of our marine heritage is slowly fading away under the irresistible and relentless pressure of development and, through my work, I hope to preserve memories of what it used to be like to work and live on the water.

I work primarily in acrylics and paint traditional working craft – hard-bitten and over-worked oystermen, crabbers, and menhaden steamers. I seek to capture the toughness and durability of everyday working boats and the sheer beauty and stark terror of the environment they work in. My art is informed by my work as a nationally-recognized ship model builder. Although the two may seem unrelated, each supports and enhances the other. Understanding construction methods, thinking in three dimensions, and working from blueprints and photographs allows me to visualize the boats and ships that become the subjects of my paintings. I have published five books on model ship building and taught for many years at the Wooden Boat school in Brooklin, Maine.

I joined the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) in 2014 and was awarded Signature Artist status, at the suggestion of my friends and mentors, Joan and Tad Woodhull of the Art of the Sea Gallery. I have been gratified to have my work selected for several of the ASMA National shows since then, including a November 2018 show at the Principal Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. I have greatly enjoyed collaborating with and learning from several of the ASMA Fellows through classes and other opportunities and would be honored to serve as a Fellow. I understand the trust that ASMA puts in its Fellows, as well as the responsibilities and obligations. It would be a true privilege to be selected.

I was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa in 1945 and attended Owen J. Roberts H.S., graduating in 1963. I graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1967 with a degree in Anthropology and Geology. In my spare time, I created cartoons for the college newspaper and paintings for date money. After graduation – and military service in the U. S. Air Force from 1967 to 1971 – I did store design and advertising production work while I continued to paint.

Hometown: Chestertown, MD

Mary Pritchard received her B.A in studio art from Mount Holyoke College and has Master’s degrees in both art and journalism. She was in-house corporate art curator for Ashland Oil, Inc., and has been a consultant to companies such as Nationwide Insurance Company and the New York Power Authority, advising on the acquisition, installation and conservation of art. She coordinated special events and traveling exhibitions for a variety of artists including internationally known landscape painter Wolf Kahn.

Following a career in education administration at the University of Delaware, she returned to painting fulltime. An award-winning pastel artist, she is known for her landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, as well as coastal Maine and rural Nova Scotia. A popular workshop instructor, she maintains a studio in historic Chestertown, MD. Galleries representing her work include Bishop’s Stock, Snow Hill, MD; Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD; and the Station Gallery, Greenville, DE.

Artist Statement:

As a landscape painter my challenge is to retain a “sense of place” while creating a new reality that exists on the two-dimensional surface. I have found pastel to be the ideal medium to meet this challenge. It offers directness, spontaneity and flexibility as well as a wonderful physicality—the feeling of applying beautiful pigments to paper and seeing layers of color emerge under my hand. Recently, I have discovered gouache as an excellent plein air medium and have been returning to oils to transform some of my favorite images into large scale paintings.

For several years I have concentrated on depicting the farms and rivers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. To me a working farmyard is an endless source of inspiration. One of my favorite themes is the “looking through” series in which an open barn door frames a view of a distant field—creating a landscape within a landscape. Reflections and grasses on the rivers and creeks near Chestertown inspire paintings that deal with the complexity of nature—tangled grasses and the interplay of light and water. Painting trips to Maine’s Schoodic Peninsula have provided a new challenge—portraying the dynamic interaction of the waves and rocks on Acadia National Park’s rugged coastline.

Hometown: Takoma Park , MD

Terry has been a professional artist for 25 years and has been participating in the Festival almost as long. Working solely in graphite, he enjoys portraying the world around him in shades of grey, recounting and depicting personal experiences “in the field.”  Having traveled to Africa many times, as well as crisscrossing the U.S. for over forty years, he now takes pleasure in spotlighting the mundane and the overlooked aspects of everyday life in rural and suburban Maryland with a focus on animals, nature and, most recently, the human interaction with both.