CHESTERTOWN — The Artists’ Gallery will feature the newest work of one of its partners, Barbara Zuehlke, for the month of July.
The show is titled “The Shore and More,” and will open on First Friday, July 3 with a reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The public is invited for light refreshments and to meet Zuehlke.
The Artists’ Gallery is located at 239 High St. in downtown Chestertown.
Living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for 44 years has greatly inspired Zuehlke’s painting. Everywhere there is beauty — water with its colors and reflections, marshes, winter skies, water birds and turtles, sunflowers, daffodils and tulips.
“Watercolor is a medium that brings the softness, the mood and the colors of the area to the viewer like no other. Painting water scenes with the pigments flowing and moving through the water on wet paper is a truly fun way to paint. Hopefully looking at ‘The Shore and More’ will inspire one to observe more as they drive and boat on the Shore,” a news release states.
Zuehlke has worked in all two-dimensional mediums, but works primarily in watercolor now. She is a triad painter, meaning each painting is created with three pigments: one red, one blue and one yellow.
Zuehlke’s favorite triads are the primary triad [Winsor Red, Winsor Blue Red Shade and Winsor Yellow], the delicate triad [Permanent Rose, Indathrene Blue and Winsor Lemon] and the autumn triad [Brown Madder, Indigo and Quinacridone Gold]. All of the colors in the painting are mixed from the three pigments.
Historic oil painters painted in this manner.
Very few artists paint that way today.
An award-winning artist, Zuehlke grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
She has been a resident of Talbot County since 1982.
After graduating from Miami University of Ohio with a BFA in graphics and painting, Zuehlke did commercial studio design work for The J.L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, Michigan.
She also did display design work for John Wanamaker’s downtown Philadelphia store.
After moving to the Eastern Shore, Zuehlke became active in the art community as a member and officer of Working Artists Forum where she is a past president and treasurer.
She is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society.
She teaches intermediate watercolor at Dorchester Center for the Arts.
For more information about Zuehlke’s work, see www.barbarazuehlke.com.
The Artists’ Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, visit www.theartistsgalleryctown.com or call the gallery at 410-778-2425.
