John Bildahl is well known for his yachting photography which can be seen on hundreds of magazine covers and articles, locally and nationally.

He also enjoys studio photography and the opportunity to express his “off-beat,” creative side in art shows.

“Picture-taking is first of all the focusing of a temperament, only secondarily of a machine” (Susan Sontag).

“By using the machinery unmechanically you give yourself the opportunity to express yourself and supply images with a wider and more delicate gamut than the hand can draw” (Paul Rosenfeld).

John’s work can be seen at bildahlphotography.com.

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Matt Dixon was born here in Annapolis, in 1989. He attended Annapolis High School and graduated in 2007. He was taught photography by his father and has a passion for visual arts as well as music. He is currently enrolled in the architecture program at AACC, and plans to earn his masters in architecture later from Temple University in Philadelphia. 

“I believe that our environment today doesn’t promote free thinking, everything is mundane and repetitive. People need to see that beauty and art are everywhere, open their eyes and look around.”

 

 

 

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Born and bred Annapolitan, Jason Duden is a self-taught artist and local house painter. Jason's artful expressions and technique are raw and frank examinations and explorations of life's textured experiences. He illustrates his visionary views with oil and mixed media dimensional vignettes.

Jason has shown with the Art Between the Creeks Group since the spring of 2005. Recently, he displayed his works at the Washington, DC, Artomatic 2007 Show in Crystal City Virgina. He has shown his works in Georgetown's Caddy's Ally, also in Washington DC, and his work has been on display at other Local Galleries in Annapolis.

 

 

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lorraine ellerson ~ born in Canada, lives in Annapolis

work ~ artist, interior designer

art ground paint study ~ 1996 - 2004 corcoran college art + design

aesthetic ~ subtle color relationships in oil. large.

statement ~ exploration of our bay's horizon through the duality of random and controlled brush and knife work in both flat and textural fields.

group exhibits ~ ABTC 2004 - present

private collections

public collection ~ The Hilton Hotel/BWI, Baltimore, Maryland

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Cindy Fletcher Holden was born in Annapolis. She received her bachelor's degree in painting in 1983 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and graduated second in her class (She would have been first had she hired a couple of guys named "Vinnie."). In 1988, after sailing her ancient wooden boat down and up the coast, she opened the Fletcher Art Studio and specializes in custom boat lettering, murals, theatrical set painting and commissioned paintings. Her murals grace the likes of Rams Head Live concert hall, Six Flags Theme Park's wave pool wall, Clark's Landing yacht dealerships, Mears Marina, several schools and many homes. She is currently painting a 120-fooot mural on Chinquapin Round Road and Margaret Avenue.

She also continues to paint in her Fourth Street studio "for art's sake" and her paintings have been exhibited from New York to Michigan, and are in public and private collections throughout the United States as well as in Europe, and North and West Africa.

She is working on adding Conakry, Guinea, in West Africa, to her portfolio of cities where she has painted many boats.

She and her husband, Robert, live on their 47' custom ketch "Tenacity," and are ice dancers. You can see more of Cindy's work at fletcherart.net.

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Keith Fletcher was born in Pittsburgh, but is now living in Annapolis. He is a self taught artist who also has an extensive engineering background. His work is highly technical in nature, bolstered by experience in the aerospace field and professional efforts, including a patent, with the "Star Wars" program (also known as SDI) and related work.

He now works at and is part owner of Maritime Plastics in Eastport, Annapolis. His gifted sister, Cindy Fletcher Holden, is one the founders of ABTC!

 

 

 

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Phil Gurlik is originally from Wisconsin where he attended Milwaukee College and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he earned a BA in Music/Painting. In 1982, Phil moved to Houston, Texas, where he had a studio until moving to Annapolis in 1998. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis.

Phil is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. He is represented in a number of public and corporate collections, as well as many private collections. A book of Phil’s work titled Selected Work was published in 1996 by Tafford Publishing. He has also been included in the Rockport/North Light book Best of Painting-Composition and the Houston Museum and Arts Magazine.

Phil will be part of an Artists in Residence show at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in January. Read more about Phil's work at gurlik.com.

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Merrilyne Hendrickson - Born in Cambridge, New York., Merrilyne Hendrickson graduated from the Syracuse School of Art with a BFA in 1971, and earned a Masters of Art from the University of Maryland. In 1979, Merrilyne established Accent Graphics and began a career painting boat names and graphics. In addition to running her business, she has exhibited handmade paper sculptures locally and internationally. Merrilyne’s watercolors are primarily Plein Aire landscapes and natural environments.

 

 

 

 

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Channing Houston - Mr. Houston is a native of Annapolis. Although he has lived in some other places, including Chicago, the Washington, D.C. area, Tucson, Arizona and Mountain View, California, he is currently back in Annapolis.

He started painting as a high school student in the 1970s. An intense focus on bicycle racing during the 1980s limited his production in that decade but in 1990 he began to redirect that intensity back into painting. His friendship with Monroe Hall, who helped instigate the early “Warehouse” shows, led to Mr. Houston showing work in the December 1994 and May 1995 Eastport “Warehouse” events.

His work has been shown to the public primarly in Washington, D.C. spaces, for instance, the MOCADC gallery, PASS Gallery, DCAC, District West Fine Arts and most of the Art-O-Matics. He is currently represented in Annapolis by the Wynn Bone Gallery. Some of his paintings are scattered around the United States in various private collections and a few are in Europe.

Mr. Houston has a B.A. from the University of Chicago. Photographs of his paintings can be seen on his website: channinghouston.com.

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Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, Leonard received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Masters degree from the University of California, Davis. Leonard has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States and Europe. He is represented by the OK Harris Gallery in New York, the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville.

His artwork is to be found in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute, and has also appeared in the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Art News, and Art Forum. He has received numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Art’s Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. He lives and works in Annapolis. | Website

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Barbara Lacy has always been driven by a desire to express herself creatively and this has illuminated and energized all aspects of her life.

A mixed media artist, Barbara chooses to work in mosaic tile, mirror, glass, metal, fabric, and paint, producing works of sculpture, in bas relief and full round, as well as artful furniture pieces.

Barbara's style is inventive and insightful with a sense of wit and whimsy. Her strategic use of color creates and enhances the visual sense of depth of her work.

Barbara's career as a professional makeup artist in television and film has influenced the strong sense of the theatrical that characterizes her work.

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Over the past 15 years, the experiences of Michael Land working on and around the Chesapeake Bay have instilled in him a love and respect for its natural wonders, heritage, lore and most of all, its rich traditions.

“From the deck of a research vessel, I've studied and experienced the Bay since graduating from college in 1992. During that time, my respect and love for the Chesapeake Bay and all that it embodies has grown with each passing day. Since moving to Annapolis in 1999, I've continued work on the Chesapeake Bay, albeit in a slightly different capacity - that of a web designer. However, it's a little hard to continue the connection with the Bay behind a computer - thus the pursuit of Bay photography.”

“My intent is to evoke an emotion, create a connection, and garner an appreciation
of the Chesapeake - with hopes that it will lead to the individual choices we all must make to help restore and protect this resource.”

Learn more about Michael's work on his website: mikelandphotography.com.

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Lisa Masson - Photographer Lisa Masson has been shooting architectural, advertising and studio work for the past 23 years. After earning a BFA in Photography Lisa traveled with her camera and enjoyed a few years of photographing at resorts from the mountains to the sea. In 1986 she started her successful commercial photography business. After ten years in her 3000-sq.ft. studio in Arlington, Lisa decided a move to Annapolis would bring her closer to her love of the water and sailing.

Lisa has been a part of the Art Between the Creeks shows off and on for the past seven years and enjoys creating new Fine Art works. Some of Lisa’s Fine Art work can be seen in all the guest rooms as well as four of the meeting rooms at the BWI Hilton in Lithicum. She also has work on display in the lobbies of the Sheraton and Double Tree Hotels in Annapolis. Lisa will be the featured artist for the month of December at Honeysuckle Home in Arnold.

To see more of Lisa’s work please visit her web site at www.lisamassonphotography.com.

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Michael Matthews is a lifelong Annapolitan, Eastporter and artist who started exhibiting her work in 2002 at the first Art Between the Creeks Show.

She is veteran of numerous group and individual shows including the "Image and Imagination" show at the Elizabeth Meyers Mitchell Gallery at St. Johns College. One of her works was selected for the Annapolis Arts Alliance, Art Works 2004 Bus Stops.

Michael attended the University of Maryland College Park and studied Advertising and Applied Design and is a graduate of Bowie State College with a BS in Advertising and Public Relations.

 

 

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Sandy Travis-Bildahlenjoys creative expression on many levels.

An artist who’s most often inspired by the colors, light and subjects of the West Indies as well as New England, she’s drawn to life by the sea. She is also interested in the physics of thought and how that subject translates to art.

Her work has also been shown at The Mitchell Gallery in Annapolis and at the Devonish Gallery in Anguilla, West Indies. Owner of the business, The Word Catcher, recording personal histories, she also is a long-time writer for television, advertising and public relations. She is also a poet, as well as the author of several children’s books.

 

 

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Starting with a small easel at her artist-grandmother’s side, Molly Winans has been painting on and off since childhood. After a decade of painting in oils (and getting bored with it), she took two abstract acrylic courses in the winter of 2009.

“I’d been itching for something more wild-minded and intuitive and found it in abstract painting and collage,” says Molly. “This has been a breakthrough year for me. Every painting I’ve completed has been surprising and different.”

Although better known in Eastport as a writer and the editor of SpinSheet Magazine, Molly has studied drawing and painting at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Anne Arundel Community College, St. John’s College, and the Art League School. She exhibited her work at the Art Between the Creeks spring “Incident” and summer Annapolis City Hall Shows.

 

 

 

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