Gallery
of Featured Artists
Classically trained at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, Lee Alban uses traditional techniques to achieve contemporary results. His paintings are noted for their depth and color. Comfortable in every genre, he produces landscapes as well as still lifes and figure paintings.
Lee's still life paintings often reflect a sense of humor, using tin toys or crumpled soda cans in unique ways, but he is also capable of more traditional compositions featuring classic elements.
A favorite genre among collectors has been his many renderings of children at play, including paintings for the headquarters building of the Mead Johnson Corporation in Chicago. More formal portraits have been commissioned by various institutions such as the Gilman School in Baltimore
Lee's landscapes are a reflection of his travels to European cities and to regions in the U.S., consisting of rural scenes as well as cityscapes. He has particularly enjoyed painting the Old World charms of Prague and Florence and the farms of rural Maryland.
His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries across the U.S. and has garnered the attention of collectors from as far away as Italy and Venezuela. His paintintgs have won awards in every genre and are frequently featured in books, as well as national and international publications.
Bruno Baran is a semi-retired art teacher, who continues to paint and practice his craft. He graduated from MICA in 1976, and taught in Baltimore County for 34 years. Bruno first taught at Perry Hall Elementary in the late 70's and early 80's before becoming Art Chair at Lansdowne High School. Stayed at Lansdowne until the 96 school year moving to Chesapeake High School. Retired in July of 2008, and now teach part time at John Carroll School in Harford County, a most wonderful school with very committed students. He continues to paint, and draw everyday exploring a variety of subject matter from the barns of Baltimore and Harford County, to store fronts of Fells Point. His interest has always been the play of light and color and the interactions of shadows with these and the ever changing color combinations nature provides He loves to paint outside as well as work on compositions in the studio.
A Baltimore native, Mary Bickford received her BFA from MICA in 1972. After a long hiatus, she resumed painting on a regular basis in 1999 and has attended workshops at The Hiton Head Art Leaague, Scottsdale Artists School and MICA.This past year Mary was juried into a national show in Hilton Head and Plein Air Easton along with 50 other national artists.
Award-winning painter Claudia L. Brookes paints in two mediums, watercolor and oil. She holds signature membership in the Baltimore Watercolor Society, and teaches watercolor classes from her home in Monkton, Maryland, emphasizing the wet-on-wet techniques for which she is best known. She is also one of just twenty-two members of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA) to achieve artist-member status, awarded for participation in the Paint Annapolis Plein Air Competition for three out of four consecutive years.
Since 2007, when she entered her first plein air competition, she has been selected to participate in 11 plein air competitions, including the prestigious Plein Air Easton Competition in 2008 and 2009, the Wayne, PA Plein Air Competition in 2009, the Paint Annapolis competitions in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and the Havre de Grace Plein Air Competition in 2009 and in 2007, where she received the Second Place Award for her painting, “Lock House Light.” She received an Award of Merit for her painting, “The Perfect Light,” at Paint Annapolis 2008, which also received a First Place Award at the Maryland Federation of Art’s “Historic Annapolis” exhibition in 2008. Other awards include an Honorable Mention for her painting, “Mrs. Trimble’s Garden” the Maryland Federation of Art’s 8th American Landscape Exhibition, a national exhibit, and Third Runner Up Award for her painting, “Foot of Corbett Village Road,” at the Gunpowder Falls Plein Air Competition in 2008.
Born in China, Maggie Cao showed an early aptitude for drawing. Her parents sent her to many art lessons. Classmates asked for her drawings in elementary school.
Thought she would become a reporter, Maggie majored in journalism in college, but took art courses as electives. She came to the U.S. in 1998 and received a Master's degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina in 2000.
Maggie worked in D.C. and then Baltimore. In Baltimore, she renewed her interest in art by taking two oil painting courses at Johns Hopkins University where she worked. Hopkins painting teacher Barbara Gruber encouraged her to study art further.
Maggie eventually quit her job, and started doing art full-time since 2006. She's taken many courses with Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) continuing studies, and spent one year learning traditional oil painting methods, sculpture, watercolor and anatomy at the Schuler School of Fine Arts.
In 2007, Maggie was awarded the first prize in portraiture and the third prize in landscape in the Artist's Magazine student competition. She was also selected to be in the "Rising Stars: 10 artists to watch" show in the McBride Gallery, Annapolis, in June 2009. She lives with her husband in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Currently residing in Maryland, Hiu Lai Chong finds her painting inspiration at local marinas and shorelines along the beautiful Chesapeake Bay. She loves painting from life and enjoys using vivid colors and expressive brush strokes to capture the light and space around her. She received her AAS degree from Navarro College and BFA degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painter Association, and a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists.
Ann Crostic received a BFA in drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977. The past several years have allowed her the opportunity to reconnect with art. As a returning artist she attended classes through MICA’s Continuing Studies and Towson University, studying the figure, portrait and landscape. Her interest in Plein Air began in 2008 after enrolling in a MICA class with artist Lee Boynton.
As a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Ann participates in group “paint outs” in the Baltimore region. This has introduced her to many unique Baltimore neighborhoods. You might see her painting downtown in “Fells”, Hampden or Patterson Park. Some of Ann’s favorite painting destinations, however, are those less traveled such as rural areas in Baltimore and Harford counties.
Born in Paris, France, to an artistic family, Daisy de Puthod knew since childhood, she would be a painter. Starting with fashion illustration, Daisy moved on to architectural renderings in pen and ink, illustration for publishing in watercolor and commissioned portraits of children or animals in pastel. For the last 10 years her focus has been on plein-air landscape painting using oil, the best medium to capture the light in various settings like the Hudson Valley, Arizona, California, Cape Cod, Maryland and Italy.
A Signature member of the American Impressionist Society and the New York Plein Air Painters, Daisy de Puthod was juried in several nationally recognized Plein-Air festivals in San Luis Obispo, CA and in Annapolis and Easton, Maryland. Two of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, in St. Michaels, MD.
The paintings of Daisy de Puthod were exhibited in numerous museums, art centers and galleries, winning awards and getting recognition in art publications. When doing oil figures, her work has a more contemporary, bold and colorful style, “leaning a bit towards Fauvism” as described in a recent New York Times review of her solo figure show at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY. Whether painting her landscapes or her studio figures and portraits, Daisy prefers to paint from life, catching on the canvas the essence of the subject matter.
Peter Emerson resides in central Pennsylvania although he prefers coastal areas such as Mystic, Connecticut where he has family roots and the opportunity to paint maritime subjects. Painting ‘en plein air’ is a passion of his, along with portraiture.
Peter decided to make fine art his vocation while in high school with the encouragement of his family and several artists who had seen his work. Since then, he has apprenticed under Cedric Egeli of Edgewater, Maryland and David Lussier of Woodstock, Connecticut. He has studied under other professional artists as well.
His first professional show was the 2009 Paint Annapolis competition in which he won an Honorable Mention award. While in high school, he won numerous Scholastic Art awards, including five Gold Keys and one American Vision Award nomination.
The artist, Janice N. Frederick, works in various media to create her paintings that include figurative, landscape, and still-life subjects, as well as abstract form. Her love of portrait painting, especially from life, is her primary focus.
The process of recording the environment around her from life, in “plein air”, or arranging a still-life in her studio helps to sharpen her skills. Her abstracts or imaginary creations from memory come from her studies of the “real”.
From her studio, Faces ‘n Places Art Studio, in Havre de Grace, Maryland, she can view the Chesapeake Bay. She is represented by Arts by the Bay Gallery in Havre de Grace. Ms. Frederick has paintings and commissioned portraits in private collections in the USA and Europe.
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Born in 1966 in Chicago, oil painter Tracey Frugoli has always known she would be an artist. Growing up in a creative household, she watched her father sketch and followed his lead. Later, she enjoyed unusually intensive art training in her suburban high school. She went on to earn a BFA from ISU, and a MA in Art Therapy from SIUE. She has been painting since 1998.
Inspired by light and beauty, Frugoli most identifies with the American Impressionists. Unapologetically eschewing novelty and shock in favor of authenticity, she views the painting process as a humbling endeavor that seeks to reflect and, thereby, enhance the most noble of our ideals.
Frugoli has won many awards including the coveted Best of Show at Junction City Fine Art Fair 2008, Peoria, IL; First Place “Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition” 2006, Havre de Grace, MD; First Place “Plein Air Easton Quick Draw” 2005; Best Architectural Painting “Plein Air Easton” 2005; and Museum Purchase Award and Honorable Mention “Plein Air Easton” 2007, Easton, MD. In the 2009 MAPAPA “Dueling Brushes” she won 2nd Place and People’s Choice in Annapolis, MD. She has exhibited throughout the country, and has been accepted into Greenhouse Gallery’s “Salon International” in 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010 in San Antonio, TX.
In 2007 two of her paintings were selected for the permanent collection at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. Her work hangs in numerous private collections and appeared in the February 2004 American Artist and May 2005 Plein Air Magazine. She has freelanced for the American Artist special quarterly periodical Workshop and is the current Illinois/Midwest Regional Editor for Fine Art Connoisseur.
Tara Funk Grim
I am an explorer, inventor, and discoverer. I love the journey and not knowing where it will lead. I am so excited to be alive at this time in history where anything is possible. I love painting en plein air where I try to capture the immediacy, majesty, and awe of nature. I love working in the studio where greater color, texture, and surface exploration is possible.
I grew up with the New Jersey boardwalks of Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Wildwood in my backyard and began my art career winning poster contests and painting seasonal themes on boardwalk store windows. I received a B.A. from Chestnut Hill College and teacher certification from Kutztown University. I am a signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and continue to participate in many solo and group exhibitions.
I love teaching and consider myself both an artist and teacher. I blend my love of travel and teaching by conducting workshops to France, Italy, Ireland, England, and Switzerland and also teach in my studio in Bethany.
Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing where she studied painting and ceramics at the prestigious Central Institute of Fine Art and Design. She accepted a teaching post at the Hubei Fine Art Institute where she taught painting and design.
After immigrating to the United States, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Towson University.
Hai-Ou's work has been widely published and exhibited both nationally and internationally and hangs in museum, corporate, and private collections. She is the recipient of numberous fine arts honors and awards.
“Primarily a plein air painter, I’m part of an ever growing band of representational painters across the country.
Landscapes are my main focus. But any subject is fair game. Not all my paintings done on ‘the spot’ are keepers. When I
paint outside, I try to capture the mood of the place and the lighting, which can be fleeting. Usually, I have a two to
three hour window to paint before the setting has completely changed, or I can’t remember how it looked when I started
to paint it. I don’t go for a high degree of ‘finish.’ I like to leave the viewer to finish interpreting the painting.......it’s
more interesting than if the painting is completely spelled out.”
Peter Hunt's paintings reflect his varied interests - landscapes, seascapes, industrial culture, street scenes and buildings of Bucks County......coping with very cold weather by painting from his car. He hails from Scotland and is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, in his home town. He now lives in New Hope. "This Bucks County area reminds me so much of Perthshire, in Scotland. The hills, the gentle slopes and the agricultural heritage are very similar. Hence my fondness for painting it."
He has received a Desi award for illustration and won the "Traditional Landscape Award" at the Phillips Mill 2004 and 2005 annual exhibits. He was awarded “Honorable Mention” at the Lambertville Historical Society/Coryell Gallery Show in March 2006 and the Grace Croteau Award in 2009. He is active in the local art community, having served on the Board of Artsbridge and the Shad Festival Scholarship Committee. His 2009 Shad poster won 1st. Place. He was a participating artist in the 2008 Telluride Plein Air Festival and the 2009 Wayne Plein Air Festival. He teaches Plein Air Workshops in Bucks County, Pa., and his Field Guide to to Plein Air painting may be downloaded from his web site.
Peter's work has been selected for the following juried shows:
• The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia
• The Plastics Club, Philadelphia
• Prallsville Mill Show, Stockton, NJ
• Canal Framers, Washington Crossing, Pa
• The Coryell Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
• Phillips Mill, New Hope
• Salmagundi, NYC
* Sabine Rose Gallery, Doyelstown
His paintings may be seen at:
• The Gallery Room at Carousel Flowers,
224 West State St. Doylestown, Pa.
• Canal Frame-Craft Gallery,
Washington Crossing, Pa.
Greg Johannessen
I was born and raised in Virginia and have been creating art all of my life. I was first recognized for my talent while in first grade, receiving an art award for a Thanksgiving scene. I have not stopped drawing or painting since.
I followed my passion for art and received a degree from Tidewater Community College for Advertising Design with a minor in Drawing before attending Virginia Commonwealth University where I earned a BFA degree in Illustration. I have been working as an illustrator and graphic designer for 18 years. It was not until I married and moved to Southern Maryland that I opened my home studio where I currently work full-time as a fine artist, and illustrator. I have also begun to paint, en plain air, the diverse and serene areas that we call home.
I am a member of the Illustrators Club of Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia, the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, the Society of Children's Book Illustrators, and the Maryland Pastel Society.
Lisa Kyle paints in the tradition
of the Impressionists, attempting to capture the effects of light in the
landscape. She has studied painting at Southern Methodist University, the
Savannah College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, as
well as with noted artists including Daniel Greene and Albert Handell. She
concentrates primarily on landscapes, exploring familiar vistas of the Mid-Atlantic
area, as well as landscapes discovered while traveling. Her work also includes
compositions of the French and Italian countryside, as well as the coast
of Maine.
When she is away from her easel, Lisa works as a licensed architect with her own practice, specializing in residential architecture. Her study of architecture has married well with her love of art, providing her with a strong foundation in design and composition. Lisa is a member of the Plein-Aire Painters Society of the Mid-Atlantic. She has participated in the renowned Rittenhouse Square Arts Festival in Philadelphia, and participated in an artist exchange program to France in April of 2005. Recently she has participated in several plain-air paintings events, and won third place at the River Bend Plein-Air Painting Competition in 2009. Further examples of her work may be found at the Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville, Delaware and Stony Run Home, Baltimore.
Pennsylvania artist, Alice Laputka, earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the Philadelphia College of Art and has studied painting with Miles Batt, Glenn Bradshaw, William Arthur Herring, and Katherine Chang Liu.
Laputka’s numerous achievements have helped to establish her reputation as an accomplished artist. She is a signature member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Knickerbocker Artists, the Pastel Society of America (PSA), the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and the Philadelphia Water Color Society and recently qualified for “Masters’ Circle” status with the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). Laputka has had several solo shows in Pennsylvania and New York. Since 1994, she has been accepted into over one hundred national and international juried shows. She has received over forty-five awards for her paintings, including a recent Purchase Award in the 2009 Pastel Society of America show, and her work has been included in several books and magazines. Laputka has edited and written articles for the Pastelagram, an in-house publication of PSA. She is also a member of Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity.
Laputka has participated in plein air competitions in Maryland, Colorado and Wyoming and has painted on location throughout the United States and in Europe. She works primarily in pastels and oils.
This fall Laputka has a solo show in Scranton and a group show in Philadelphia and has been accepted into one regional show (Binghamton), two national shows in NYC, and an international web show. She is also in a five-person show, Conversations at the Broome Street Gallery in NYC (September 22 to October 11).
Currently painting primarily in oils, Lynn Mehta is a visual artist who finds her inspiration from the landscape. Born in La Jolla, California and having lived on the West Coast for much of her life, Lynn now resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lynn obtained her B.A. in Art from San Diego State University. She has explored a variety of media, applied her knowledge in art framing and as an architectural assistant.
After taking care of her two children and teaching arts and crafts to young students, Lynn learned many lessons from seeing the child artist emerge and bloom. In response, Lynn chose to pursue what had always been a desire, to paint outdoors or "en plein air" and she was instantly captivated. Since that time, Lynn has participated in multiple plein air painting events, displayed her beautiful oil landscapes in numerous juried shows and won awards and honors.
Presently, Lynn is discovering the local landscape of the East Coast and also travels to paint when she has the opportunity.
Debra Moffitt is a native of the Baltimore area, growing up near the scenic creeks of eastern Baltimore County. She enjoys capturing the variety of landscapes across her home state, from the Bay marshes and marinas to the woodlands and historic mill towns near her current residence. With family ties in the western part of Maryland, she also enjoys painting the rugged landscapes of the Allegheny Mountains.
Debra has been painting for over 30 years in media such as watercolors and acrylic, with a focus on oil painting in the past several years. Her interest at this time is in plein air painting, a French expression which means "in the open air", and is used to describe the act of painting outdoors in the changing light.
She is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), the Laurel Art Guild (LAG), and the Allegany Arts Council (AAC) headquartered in Cumberland, Maryland.
Juried Show participation:
- Mountain Maryland Plein Air Competition, May 26 - 30, 2009, Cumberland, MD
- The Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival, May 14 – 17, 2008, Wayne PA
- Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition, Oct 4, 2009, Award and August 1 - 4, 2007, Honorable Mention Award
- Rehoboth Beach Paint Out 2007, June 22 – 24, 2007, Rehoboth Beach DE
- The Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival, April 25 – 28, 2007, Wayne PA
- Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition, August 16 – 20, 2006
Open Show participation, Juried Awards:
- Gunpowder Falls Plein Air Competition, June 5 – 8, 2008, Monkton MD
- Gunpowder Falls Plein Air Competition, June 15-17, 2007, Monkton MD
Recent Exhibits:
- Laurel Art Guild Members’ Exhibition – Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, Oct 1 – Nov 10, 2008, Honorable Mention Award
- Artists’ Gallery of Columbia (MD) – “Local Color” – Juried Exhibition of local artists, July 28 – Aug. 29, 2008
- Grace Fellowship Church – solo exhibit , “Four Rivers, Four Seasons” – April 12 – May 27, 2008
- MAPAPA “Paint South Jersey” group exhibit, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, May 19 – June 12, 2007, Millville NJ
With a degree in Design & Communication, Carole Böggemann Peirson started off as a graphic artist. Art had at first been primarily the nuts and bolts of a fast-paced job at an advertising agency in her native Holland. Then, in the summer of 2000, she moved to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The culture-shock of moving from a crowded Dutch city to rural America changed not only her life, but her view of life itself. When she saw the beauty of nature around her, she knew she could never go back.
Initially, she was trained as a studio painter working in the classic glazing technique under her late teacher Joe Adams (Adamo). After a while, she realized you have to see the landscape with your own eyes to be able to capture its true colors and therefore she began painting “plein-air” as well. Carole has since taken workshops with Roger Dale Brown, Bethanne Kinsella Cople, Gavin Brooks, Tracey Frugoli, Maggie Siner and Scott Tallman Powers.
Carole’s sells her work out of her studio, through galleries and at art shows as well as on the internet at: www.artworkbycarole.com. Carole has been passing on her passion for oil painting through classes, workshops and private lessons since 2004.
Gary Pendleton
Since 1999 I have been a columnist for Bay Weekly. In 2000 I was selected by the Calvert County to produce 15 scratchboard illustrations for the widely distributed brochure Travel through the Centuries: The Historic Treasures of Calvert County. In 2004 I contributed over 40 illustrations to, St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community, which received a prestigious award from the Maryland Historical Trust. In 2003 I illustrated A Lifelong Affair a memoir by Bethine Church, widow of Senator Frank Church, published by the Francis Press. In 2005 I was selected to be one of 25 painters to participate in Paint Annapolis a major Plein-air painting event and received an Award for a painting titled, Water, Color, Sky. In 2007 I was selected to participate in the Wayne Plein Air festival in Wayne Pennsylvania. In 2008 an oil painting titled Kilmarnock Marsh was selected for inclusion in the Adkins Arboretum annual Art Competition. I have been selected to participate in Paint Annapolis 2008. In June 2009, 11 of my oil paintings were featured in a group exhibit "Rising Stars" at the McBride Gallery in Annaplois in June 2009.
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.; Grafton Galleries, Easton, Md.; Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, Md.; and the Station Gallery, Greenville, De.
Recent awards and events
Pastel Painters of Maine 9th International Exhibition (2008)—
Best in Show
Paint Annapolis 2008—Merit Award
Plein Air Easton 2009--Juried participant
Paint Annapolis 2009—Merit Award
Havre de Grace Plein Air 2009—Best Architectural
John Bandon Sills works is a manner that derives its technical inspiration from the Old Masters and its stylistic appearance from Barbizon and Impressionist painting. A classically trained artist John uses a mastery of drawing to infuse his work with a sense of spontaneity and life.
Though he is accomplished in all types of painting, John has chosen landscape as his primary means of expression. John paints nature in all its forms, emphasizing those aspects that create an awareness of mans relationship to the environment. Toward this end, his landscapes exhibit the sensitivity that urges the viewer to appreciate the spiritual aspects of the land, and actively participate in its protection. John shares his knowledge by teaching classes and conducting plein air workshops.
In still life and figure painting, the capturing of light and atmosphere is his main concern. John strives to do this by employing the careful observation and attention to technique that he learned during his training.
John received his BA in Fine Art from Towson State University in 1984. In 1982 he spent a semester studying Renaissance Art in Florence Italy. After his graduation John choose to continue his studies by enrolling in the prestigious Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore Maryland, a four year program of rigorous academic training in classical realism. In 1995 John returned to the Schuler School as the oil painting instructor, a position he kept until 2005. Today John teaches workshops while focusing the majority of his energy on his own work.
The paintings of John Brandon Sills are represented in numerous collections in the United States as well as collections in Canada, England, France, Jamaica, Grand Cayman B.W.I and Australia. John has won numerous awards including People’s Choice award in the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association’s Paint Annapolis exhibition, Best In Show and First Place awards in The Charcoal Club of Baltimore Invitational Show and finalist in American Artist Magazine Realism Today competition.
Stewart White, designer, illustrator and artist has been a resident of Baltimore for more than10 years and has illustrated and designed architecture for many firms in the Mid-Atlantic region (and occasionally in Dubai). His illustrations have been published in China, Europe and in the US. He is currently a Senior Associate with the AIA award-winning firm Design Collective, Inc. in Baltimore where his conceptual drawings and watercolors are used to help visualize in the early stages of projects. And on occasion, he executes illustrations for publication.
As a member of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI), Stewart has won awards of distinction. As a commercial artist, he has been awarded many prestigious commissions including 70 murals for The Texas Rangers Ball Club, a 100’ mural for The US Naval Academy, an exhibit for the Orkin Insect Zoo at The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, The Delaware Museum of History, and 6 large murals for “America On The Move” in the Transportation wing of The Museum of American History in D.C. He has designed and illustrated multiple Movie Palaces for Muvico Theaters and Landmark Theaters. Functioning as an “imagineer”, Stewart has conceptually developed Shopping Centers, Malls, Restaurants, Bars and millions of square feet of retail spaces and urban mixed-use projects.
As a practicing artist, Stewart’s work has been widely collected. His paintings and drawings that show the urban and rural landscape reflect his interest in light and form. He haswon many awards in plein air events and competitions. He has taught color and perspective at The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and frequently gives workshops and Demonstrations. He is currently a member of the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painting Association (MAPAPA)
Jennifer VonStein brings a personal vision and passion into all of her art. Through color and form, she celebrates life in all its facets, creating representational and abstract paintings and mixed media pieces. Her art serves to capture emotion and tell a story; whether the story makes one think, smile, or both, is left open for the viewer's interpretation. A graduate of Loyola College with a B.A. in Fine Arts, Jennifer shows regionally and her work is in private homes and collections. A Resident Artist for Chroma USA, she leads workshops and conducts demonstrations nationally.