An abstract artist, Alfred McAdams works from real-life scenes to capture the essence of nature and experiences.

Andrei Kushnir’s work is unique in that he is a true plein-air painter; he carries no camera or drawing equipment. His gift is to absorb, and express, what is happening in the moment at the place he is painting.

Anne Gibson Snyder is the owner of Catepetl Art Studio. She divides her time between a Frederick County, Maryland studio and a Corolla, North Carolina cottage. She paints from life, often outdoors, necessitating inventive arrangements of bungee cords, old wooden ironing boards and other measures to accommodate wind and weather.

Antonia Walker has become known for her paintings of the Virginia countryside as well as images of Italy and France.

Cindy Richmond is a pastel and oil painter. She is also a published novelist and food writer. Though she no longer writes for a living, she is still captivated by food and finds herself irresistibly drawn to painting bulbous shapes.

Dana Thompson is a painter in oils as well as an illustrator in pen & ink architectural renderings, prismacolor and graphite pencil drawings.

Always interested in the shape of a painting, Don projects the mood and light of a subject in a loose style that takes advantage of the inherent qualities of watercolor and acrylic paints.

Elaine Elinsky is a contemporary, impressionistic oil painter who focuses on color, shapes and strong brushwork to capture the beauty she sees in everyday objects and local landscapes.

Born and raised in West Virginia, Eric Carter’s travels across the United States has fueled inspiration for much of his work.

Eugene’s refined approach to watercolors includes wet-on-wet and dry-brush techniques. His subjects range from the nearby mountains and historic villages to the dunes and seascapes of coastal Carolina and Florida.

Jennifer Bright-Blazek is one of a very small and specialized group of artists with a talent for faux finishing and decorative painting.

Jo Fleming focuses on the environment, and her paintings are at once landscape and abstract.

Specializing in realistic watercolor painting, Judy Wengrovitz enjoys working in many styles and media. She teaches art classes, has been a guest lecturer, and conducts workshops throughout the United States.

Before becoming a painter, Kathy Beynette wrote fiction and poetry, to which she credits her narrative approach to painting. Her work is often regarded as whimsical and fun.

Born in Washington DC, Kurt Schwarz became an oil painter, especially of floral still lifes. He has frequently exhibited with the National Horticultural Society.

While her preferred style is semi-realistic oil painting, Leslie Mathis works in a variety of styles and media. She enjoys using light and color to convey mood and emotion in her work. Her work has been showcased at the “Art at the Mill” show in Millwood, VA, The Shenandoah Arts Council and Salute Wine Market in Winchester, VA, and First Night Winchester.

Lynn enjoys exploring the expressive qualities of pencil, acrylic and oil in a variety of subject matters. In 2001, she left a successful career in computer science and Web design to pursue her lifelong interest in drawing and painting.

Maggie Siner finds beauty in unexpected corners of the everyday world. Her play of light, color and brushwork expose the momentary nature of perception and the trill of recognition and visual discovery.

Margaret Alleva is a true painterly abstractionist who does colorful and dramatic oils on canvas. She specializes in oil painting and has exhibited regularly throughout the Washington area.

Marvin Ford’s collection can be described as a body of work that reintroduces the viewer to overlooked beauties, controversial issues, hidden humor and realistic situations that we know exist but would like to dismiss.

Working in oil and acrylic, Orly creates vibrant, energetic paintings where dreams and current surroundings subconscious interpretations of healing energies. Her paintings have often been regarded as electric landscapes of nature and imagination.

Painting out of her studio in Leesburg, VA, Penny spends her time alternating between portrait and mural commissions and teaching her many talented students.

Self-taught in the fine arts, Radford Wine became a full-time artist in 1991.He was formally trained in graphic design at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va. and worked for many years as a freelance graphic designer.

Ren Crawford maintains a studio at her Shenandoah Valley home in Strasburg, Virginia. Her painting style is most often categorized as abstract expressionism, and she has exhibited and sold her abstract paintings into private and corporate collections across the globe.

Rick Steinberger paints on very large canvases, creating larger than life works of art. While most painters primarily use a brush, Rick chooses to spend most of his time with a palette knife, yielding thick, broad strokes and allowing him to create visually interesting compositions.

Rulei Bu is an accomplished oil painter with a broad repertoire. He studied art at Shanghai University, China and taught drawing and painting there before coming to America.

Sheep Jones grew up in Maine. She studied art at the University of Maine at Portland/Gorham. Sheep works in oil and encaustic, and she has exhibited her paintings in several solo and group shows and galleries along the East Coast and in Eastern Europe.

For most of Sherry Sanabria’s career, the focus of luminous paintings has been those spaces and locales where people have experienced profound moments in their lives, places that seem to hold the spirits of those who inhabited them.

Susan La Mont has exhibited paintings in regional and national juried shows in thirteen states and the District of Columbia.

Susan Makara has been an artist her entire life. She has held a variety of jobs in artistic fields, and her work can be seen in private, public and corporate collections across the world.

Working out of his home studio based just outside of Marshall, VA, Tom Neel left his automotive and fine art publisher career to pursue his dream as a full-time painter. He has been featured in numerous magazines and papers, and his art can be seen in many corporate and private collections.

Tricia Ratliff feels that enjoying fabulous color is akin to living passionately. From a dark, warm coffee tone to a lively green or electric red, she has focused her work on drawing out of passion in deeply pigmented realist oil paintings.

Trisha Adams lives in Leesburg, Virginia where she maintains a studio. Her study of painting focuses on the many aspects of color. Her style is loose and she enjoys the expressiveness of evident brushstrokes.

William Cochran’s painted illusions are usually disguised as part of the streetscape and reveal multiple layers of meaning. While viewers often find themselves touching the work to determine if it is real, it is the poetic levels of meaning operating within the work that most often touch the viewers.