This First Friday, May 6th, the Artists Gallery will feature the works of one of their partners, Barbara Zuehlke, with a reception to meet the artist from 5-8 pm.
Barbara will be displaying watercolor and oil paintings in her show, “Peering Thru”, inspired by an exhibition of Andrew Wyeth’s work at the National Gallery last year, entitled, “Looking Out, Looking In” That started her on a search for sites around Talbot County, where she lives, that had great old barns with windows or spaces one could look through. That soon progressed to places and landscapes, both local and in her travels, that took your eye through trees, down roads or streets, looking through from one view to another.
Barbara is an award winning Eastern shore artist, and works in a variety of medium from serigraph to oil, focusing primarily on watercolor. She enjoys working wet on wet (wet pigment on wet paper), and creating a softness and flow, while combining the sharp edges of working on dry paper. She believes that good drawing is the basis for good painting and that the observer needs to feel the flow of watercolor or the rich gooeyness of oil.
Barbara is a native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with a BFA in painting and graphics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has worked commercially designing large scale animated and still display promotions for J.L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, Michigan and display coordination management for John Wannamakers in Philadelphia. Barbara has won numerous awards for her paintings up and down the Eastern Shore, including the Sam Hemming Award for watercolor at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, a Judge’s Award of Excellence in The Local Color Show- Plein Air Easton, and most recently, another Judge’s Award of Excellence from the Working Artists Forum’s Memorial Show at Chesapeake College.
In addition to being a partner with The Artists Gallery, Barbara is an active member of the Working Artists Forum in Easton. She keeps busy on the side, teaching watercolor classes at Dorchester Art Center and operating an art studio and quality frame shop out of Eastern Shore home.
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