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The Art of the East Coast Landscape Painter
These paintings are representative of the landscapes of coastal areas, most painted en plein air on the eastern shore of Maryland. The art explores each artist's particular style and approach to landscape painting evoking emotions of natural elements experienced in marshes and rivers as well as coastal farmland and forest.
SCOTT CAMERON paints the simple elegance of serene coastal marsh scenes, timeless landscape vistas an historic steamboats in a style reminiscent of the era in which they reigned. An admirer of Andrew Wyeth and the Brandywine School of painters, Cameron has combined the detail and quiet stillness of that school in his landscapes with the Luminist School’s sense of light glowing from within. A soft gentle atmosphere seems to fall over each scene adding to the peacefulness of the setting.
DAVID DIAZ is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MA-PAPA) with a focus on regional and international subjects. He actively participates in juried plein air painting events throughout the Mid-Atlantic area and Ireland and served as President of MAPAPA for two years. He is also active with the Maryland Federation of Art, serving as President & Co-Chair of the Exhibition Committee for the 50th Anniversary celebrations. David is the 2014 winner of the Visual Arts Award, the top award presented to artists in Anne Arundel County. “Even as a young student I was fascinated with trying to show depth and form with just a pencil. As color was added it became even more of a challenge. Academic study in college shifted my interest somewhat away from the old masters to the Impressionists and their color choices. I think a more realistic approach for a practicing, evolving, painter is to let the work speak for itself on whatever level, or to whatever emotion the viewer is attracted…”
VLAD DUCHEV was born in 1965 in the small town of Pokrov (former Ordzhonikidze) in Ukraine. Growing up he was impressed by the art of Russian-Ukrainian impressionists. “I love painting different kinds of subjects, but the landscape is my first and greatest love. My painting process is very simple - I will only start painting if I can see a complete painting in my mind with all the steps from start to finish. Paint it in your mind first - then transfer it to the canvas.”
STEPHEN HAYNES is a self-taught painter currently living in the greater Pittsburgh area. A lifelong artist, Stephen spent his formative school years among the beaches of southern California, and summers in the mountains of West Virginia. This divided time gave him a diverse outlook and an immense love of the outdoors. Showing his work publicly for over 20 years, Haynes has tried his hand at most art forms at one time or another. In his current work, the artist uses vibrant oil colors, mixed on the canvas, to convey light, shadow and form through thick impasto brushwork, evoking movement and abstract qualities.
Flags Flying by Mary Pritchard.
ELISE PHILLIPS was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania into a family with an extensive background in the fine arts. Her great, great grandfather founded Newman Galleries in Philadelphia in 1865, and today she is the fifth generation of the family involved in the arts. A graduate of The Hussian School of Art in 1983, she was an accomplished illustrator and graphic designer with many successful commissions in the business community. With an inherent passion for painting, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, emerging well schooled in the tradition of the Academy. " Where most people see the ordinary, I envision a painting."
MARY PRITCHARD received her B.A in studio art from Mount Holyoke College and has Master’s degrees in both art and journalism. 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. She maintains a studio in historic Chestertown, Maryland. "My challenge as a landscape painter is to retain a “sense of place” while creating a new reality that exists on the two-dimensional surface. My favorite subject matter is within a few miles of my home in Chestertown, in the small towns, family farms, tidewater rivers and marshes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore."
CYNTHIA ROSEN A contemporary American post impressionist, Cynthia offers fine art paintings, both landscape and figurative. Renown for her palette knife paintings and in particular her colorful landscapes. Rosen has achieved note for her modern take and interpretation of sights seen resulting in her creative and original art. An accomplished plein air painter, a fine arts educator, a contemporary post impressionist, Rosen is versed in a variety of medium. As a plein air landscape painter Cynthia gains inspiration from seeking out diverse landscapes, allowing for the variety of sites to provide both personal challenge and a richness of subject to offer to her collectors.