Artist Merrilyne Hendrickson

Is a local artist who lives and paints in her home on Spa Creek.

Merrilyne is now retired from her business Accent Graphics and doing boat graphics.

she spends her time painting, teaching and travelling.

Merrilyne primarily works in watercolor and is inspired by light and color as well as scenes in her home town of Annapolis.

She was born and raised in a small upstate New York town of Cambridge.

She attended and received a BFA from Syracuse University, and an MA in Art Education from the University of Maryland

I paint with primarily watercolors, which started on vacation travels replacing my camera. I found these quick sketchy works took me back instantly to the way it felt and looked. My work is almost abstract or at least very impressionistic. They are paintings of the essence of what was there not a picture. Even my pet portraits are like that. The softness of their fur, the life in their eyes....... The beauty of nature surrounds me and inspires me. The changing colors in the sky and reflections in the water are especially magical at sunrise and sundown. I try to cap-ture the luminosity in my watercolor paintings. The SLICES are slivers or a narrow sam-pling of the whole range or subject. In these, an actual object is unimportant to the feeling of a moment in time and light. I live and paint in Annapolis so architectural landmarks are often subjects. I enjoy the discipline of rendering but hope to impart something more than a picture.

Merrilyne Hendrickson Fine Art artist@merrilyne.com or arteffects5@gmail.com https://www.merrilyne.com