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Maryland & Virginia - Capturing the Beauty of the Landscape

 

Potomac Gorge (DC) © Yolanda Frederiske

Washington Society of Landcape Painters

Click here to read about our work with the Washington Society of Landscape Painters.

Washington Society of Landscape Painters Slideshow
View a slide show of some of the artists' paintings!

The Landscapes

Maryland/DC Preserves
Nassawango Creek
Nanticoke River Watershed
Dorchester Pond
Potomac Gorge
Nanjemoy Creek
Chesapeake Bay (VA & MD)
Allegany Forests
Cranesville Swamp
Choptank Wetlands

Virginia Preserves
Virginia Coast Reserve
Warm Springs Mountain
Cumberland Marsh
Clinch River
Piney Grove
Blackwater River
Great Dismal Swamp (Note: today this is a national wildlife refuge)
North Landing River
Bottom Creek Gorge
Voorhees
Fortune’s Cove
New Point Comfort

Voorhees © Marietje Chamberlain

 

Specific works for the show have not yet been selected for the exhibit. Paintings for the exhibit will be selected by professional jury. Artists who agreed to participate and the landscape they chose to paint are listed below (you can find out more about each lanscape by clicking on the links in the right column):

Maryland/DC Preserves

Robert Barber Nassawango Creek (Lower Eastern Shore)
Ken Petrie Nassawango Creek (Lower Eastern Shore)
Lani Browning Nanticoke River Watershed (Eastern Shore)
Richard Whiteley Dorchester Pond (Eastern Maryland)
Bernie Dellario Dorchester Pond (Eastern Maryland)
Bill Schmidt Potomac Gorge (DC)
Andrei Kushnir Potomac Gorge (DC)
Yolanda Frederiske Potomac Gorge (DC)
Nancy Tankersley Nanjemoy Creek & Choptank Wetlands
Ross Merrill Chesapeake Bay (VA & MD)
Adrienne Burrows Allegany Forests (Western Maryland)
Mary Kokoski Allegany Forests (Western Maryland)
Glenn Perry Allegany Forests (Western Maryland)
Barbara Nuss Allegany Forests (Western Maryland)
Margret Huddy Cranesville Swamp (Western Maryland)
Jean Jaecks Choptank Wetlands (Eastern Shore)

Virginia Preserves

Bethanne Kinsella Cople Virginia Coast Reserve (Eastern Shore) & North Landing River (Virginia Beach)
Margaret Kranking Virginia Coast Reserve (Eastern Shore)
Sara Linda Poly Warm Springs Mountain (Allegheny Highlands)
Richard Whiteley Cumberland Marsh (Central Eastern VA)
Ed Cooper Clinch River (Southwestern VA), Bottom Creek Gorge (Montgomery County, VA) and Fortune’s Cove (Nelson County)
Marietje Chamberlain Voorhees (Northeast bank of Rappahannock River)
Tom Wright Voorhees (Northeast bank of Rappahannock River)

Artist N/A New Point Comfort (Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, at the southern tip of Mathews County), Piney Grove (Central Eastern VA), Blackwater River (Southeastern VA; harbors a 1,000 year old cypress forest) and Great Dismal Swamp (Note: today this is a national wildlife refuge)

 

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Marietje Chamberlain (Voorhees, Northeast bank of Rappahannock River); Photo © Yolanda Frederiske (Potomac Gorge, DC).