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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Margaret Boynton

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This week’s featured artist:  Margaret Boynton, Gallery Director: This is a special post, as Margaret has a message for everyone: ME:  Growing up with both a father and an aunt that are working, professional artists – Lee Boynton and Margaret McWethy – meant that art has always been very naturally a central part of my life. It hasn’t always been a straight or easy…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet John Jensen

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This week’s featured artist:  John Jensen, Board of Directors; member since 1985: ME: I was talking to a friend on the phone the other day. I hadn’t spoken to him in over 40 years. He wanted to know what I had become. I just said I was “some kind of artist.” It’s hard to be more specific than that because I’ve worked…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Ric Conn

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This week’s featured artist:  Ric Conn, member since 2000: ME:  My artistic career began at age 5 with my first freehand drawings. When I placed first an apple then my hand in the sunlight on the table intending to draw them and discovered light and shadow—my passion for figurative art began. My awards include the “Face of Queen Anne’s County” medal, First,…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Carolyn Councell

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This week’s featured artist:  Carolyn Councell, member since 1980’s: ME:   I have lived in Maryland my whole life, and have been interested & involved in art for most of it.  I reside with my husband in Pasadena on the banks of the Magothy River where I find much inspiration for my paintings in the ever-changing water scenes and activities.  I am a…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Roopa Dudley

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This week’s featured artist:  Roopa Dudley, member since 2013: ME:   I am a painter – an Epicurean Artist living in Severn, MD, and the author of ‘A Strategic Painter: Mastermind Your Craft’.  I am Myers-Briggs INTJ and Enneagram #5 Iconoclast. Previously, I was an Urdu Language Translator for NSA and won several awards during the dozen years I worked there. The common thread…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Sharon Navage

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This week’s featured artist:  Sharon Navage, member since 2013: ME:  I live in Odessa, Texas. I have always been an artist. I am driven to work on my art. I have been very fortunate to have traveled extensively and whether the piece is based on one of these trips or my own back yard; there is inspiration everywhere.  I drew, sewed, painted t-shirts…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Wil Scott

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This week’s featured artist:  Wil Scott, Board of Directors member since 2010: ME:  I don’t remember being greatly interested in photography at an early age, and yet I still have two Brownie cameras my parents gave me as a child.  As an art history grad student, I fooled around taking scenic landscapes, but I wasn’t thinking I was creating “art.”  The turning point was…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Alex Tolstoy

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This week’s featured artist:  Alex Tolstoy, member since 2012:   ME:  Born in NYC but growing up in DC (near the zoo; says a lot) I had a brief four years in Hawaii – a good experience – and I now live in Virginia. For over 40 years I was a research scientist (mathematician, actually) working primarily in Underwater Acoustics and signal processing. It kept…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Carole Falk

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This week’s featured artist:  Carol Falk, member since 1975: ME:  My studio is in my house overlooking Clements Creek.  The view framed by my studio window, of a hill of trees, sculpture and the water beyond, provides continual inspiration. Changing with the time of day as well as seasonally, it suggests infinite shapes for my palette. My formal art education included high…

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Me & My Art Monday: Meet Jayne Shatz

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This week’s featured artist:  Jayne Shatz ME:  I am an artist, educator, and ceramic historian. I have a PhD in Ceramic History, an MA in Pottery and Sculpture and a BA in Art History. During a ceramic career spanning 40 years, I have taught in colleges, founded two potters’ cooperatives, founded The Albany Ceramic Institute and taught ceramics and sculpture…

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