Chestertown pastel artist, Mary Pritchard, is being featured in July. She will be in the gallery during First Friday hours.
July Featured Artist – Mary Pritchard
Our featured artist in July is Mary Pritchard who came to us through Paint Snow Hill over 10 years ago. Many will recall Mary’s beautiful pastels of landscapes and farm buildings. Her plein air paintings are truly small studies she then uses for larger studio paintings. In this show Free Boat is from a Snow Hill study done a few years ago. Other paintings in the show are the result of Mary’s journeys away from her home in Chestertown. They are inspired by fields and streams of the Eastern Shore, Maine’s rocks and waves, and barns and rivers of Nova Scotia. To learn more about her current work check MaryPritchardArt.
June Artist-in-Residence – C. Keith Whitelock
Book Signing with Vicky Mullaney with “The Lodge at Black Pearl Cookbook”
Opening Reception for C. Keith Whitelock
June Featured Artist – C. Keith Whitelock
When June arrives we all seem to turn our thoughts to the water that surrounds us so it seems the perfect time to feature the work of C. Keith Whitelock, a well-known marine artist. This Eastern Shore native captures working boats in the open bay, bay side marshes, and waterfront docks. The fine details in Whitelock’s realistic images are of a rapidly disappearing lifestyle of working boats, small villages and derelict structures. It is always exciting to see what part of the vanishing landscape he has found to paint. This year he has returned to oil and acrylic for a number of paintings. The opening reception is Friday, June 2 from 5 until 8. Whitelock will also be our Artist-in-Residence on Saturday, June 17.
14th Annual Paint Snow Hill
Opening Reception for Lynne Lockhart & Kirk McBride
April Featured Artists – Lynne Lockhart & Kirk McBride
April is one of our favorite months at Bishop’s Stock with spring colors, warmer days and best of all, new work by Lynne Lockhart and Kirk McBride. While we feature Lockhart’s and McBride’s work all year, this is when patrons get to see an extensive show of their latest paintings. The work in the show includes Lynne’s wonderful animals in their natural setting and Kirk’s city and small town architecture, landscapes, and working boats. As our patrons know Lockhart captures animal behaviors and attitudes wherever she catches her subjects. McBride is known for his expertise in using light and shadows to capture atmospheric influences on his subjects. Two of Lockhart’s paintings in the show have been submitted to the Society of Animal Artists for their annual show that tours the country. She is a Signature Member of this international organization. McBride is a Signature Member of the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters and also a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists. All paintings in the show may be viewed in albums at http://www.facebook/BishopsStock.