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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.

Hometown: Schenectady, NY

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 birder for over 30 years, 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 juried into a number of national and international exhibits including Birds in Art (Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum) and Art and the Animal (Society of Animal Artists). Her work has also been selected for publication in five of the “Strokes of Genius” best of drawing books published by North Light Books. Sue is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists and the Colored Pencil Society of America. Her work can be seen at galleries in Jackson, WY, Tulsa, OK and Nags Head, NC.

Hometown: Sykesville, MD

Bruce Woodward, a native of central Maryland, grew up amidst peaceful, rural surroundings that have provided the influence for much of his watercolor and acrylic landscape paintings. Favored pastimes of fly-fishing, hiking, and camping have afforded him first-hand opportunities to experience the Mid-Atlantic geographical diversity from mountains to shore and to closely observe wildlife within these bounds. Many paintings are conceived of personal observations of the rural landscapes and wildlife of the Appalachian Mountains, Chesapeake Bay region, and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Much of Mr. Woodward’s work pays homage to the legacies of disappearing landscapes and ways of life. Capturing the landscapes of our agrarian roots has been a centerpiece of his work as he preserves these images of a passing way of American life. Similarly, much of his work also records a fleeting way of life from the Chesapeake Bay region, that of the watermen, their workboats, and the marshes and waterways they call home.

Increasingly, Bruce’s most recent works reflect his longtime interest in the spirit of fly-fishing and its intimacy with the natural world. His direct experiences on regional streams and rivers during fly-fishing trips lend authenticity and atmosphere to finished works, which celebrate the sport in its truest form.

Bruce holds degrees in art from Towson State University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is represented by the The William Ris Gallery, Jamestown, New York and the LuEv Gallery, Easton, Maryland. He also brings his unique perspective and style to commissioned pieces of work, collaboratively designing images of meaning to individuals within a particular setting.

Mr. Woodward is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society and counts among his other achievements: First Place, Maryland Ducks Unlimited Sponsor Print Competition; Maryland Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year; First Place, Grand National Waterfowl Hunt and Artists’ Invitational; First Place, Maryland Trout Stamp Competition. He has participated in numerous group and one-person shows, including one-man shows of his work at the National Institutes of Health and the National Wildlife Federation Headquarters Gallery in Vienna, Virginia. Group shows in which he has participated include the Easton Waterfowl Festival, Ward Foundation Show, Life of Maryland Wildlife Show, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Teachers of Art Exhibition.

Other honors have included being commissioned to design the kestrel logo used by the National Audubon Society, Maryland Chapter, and invitations to many prestigious regional art shows. Bruce has donated his artwork to various local and national conservation organizations and has twice been awarded the Ducks Unlimited Conservation Award.

Maintaining his Cedar Run Studio in a rural setting of Southern Carroll County on the edge of Piney Run Lake offers him opportunities to see and interpret natural settings on a daily basis. Short trips by car or on foot place him in close touch with many of the other settings shaping his work.

Hometown: Orange, CA

Carol began drawing as a child, and her formal art training started in college. She earned her bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cal State Long Beach, and her love of nature drew her to the world of wildlife art. Her style is a delicate blend of color and detail, with an emphasis on the emotion and character of her subjects.

For her subject matter, Carol focuses mostly on the animals of North America. “This is my home and my experience. We have beautiful wild places here in our country that we need to respect and preserve.”

Recent Exhibitions: 

• San Bernardino Wildlife Art Festival, 1997 – 2012 * featured artist 2003
• Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, Charleston, SC 2002 – 2113
• Waterfowl Festival, Easton, MD 2004-2013
• Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington DC, 2010
• Miniature Art Society of Florida, 2006 – 2012 * first place, birds and animals 2012
• Reflections of Nature, Fallbrook, CA 1997 – 1999, 2005 – 2012
• San Dimas Wildlife Art Festival, 2003 – 2012
• San Dimas Festival of Western Arts, 2005 – 2011
• California Open, San Diego, CA, 1999 – 2001 * featured artist 2001
• La Quinta Arts Festival, 2000 – 2008, 2011
• Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA 2004 – 2011
• Art-a-Fair Festival, 1996 – 2011
• Moonridge Animal Park solo exhibition, Big Bear Lake, 1997 – 2003
• Pacific Rim Art Expo, Seattle, WA, 1999 – 2000

Published: 

• Best Of Wildlife Art 2, Northlight Books
• Art Of The American West, Rockport Publishers

Hometown: Salisbury, MD

C. Keith Whitelock is a native of Somerset County Maryland, and the waterfront scenes there inspired a lifelong interest in painting watercolors and oils that document the workboats, watermen, and landscapes of the Chesapeake region. With a degree in Art Education from the University of Maryland, Keith has been a public school Art teacher, a professional graphic-artist, and draftsman. For the past 40 years he has pursued a full time career as a studio painter of his cherished Eastern Shore scenes.

His works have been featured in many area and regional shows winning a number of awards. He has been artist of the year for many local chapters of Ducks Unlimited and a State Sponsor Artist. He has been featured in Pace Magazine (Piedmont Airlines), Delmarva Heartland, and many other area publications including the book ìA Gallery of Marine Artî (Rockport Publishers, 1998). The prestigious Waterfowl Festival in Easton, MD has included Keith as a painting exhibitor for 37 consecutive years. He has also participated in numerous American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) national and regional exhibits. The St. Michaels Maritime Museum hosts a watercolor depicting a working skipjack is part of their permanent collection.

In 1986 Keith was honored to be selected as a member of a Rotary Int. sponsored Group Study Exchange team that represented MD and DE for a six week tour of Southern England.  His paintings are found in Baltimore, Annapolis, and many Eastern Shore galleries. He is an active crew member on the retired skipjack Ida May of Chance, MD. gathering firsthand experience with his subject matter.

He has taught workshops for Art Leagues, Elder Hostel and other groups. He also hosts and produces a YouTube channel series “Watercolor Workshop” where one can see real-time demonstrations from pencil sketch, to a finished watercolor painting.