Will Williams

Twilight, Locust Point

Oil

12 x 16

$1,350

Panel Discussion:
At 2:00pm on Sunday, April 17 at the opening reception, the artists will share with gallery patrons why they are attracted to paint these scenes. There are some interesting stories to be told.

Grit and Glory:
Grit and Glory is a exhibit of scenes we might walk past, not giving a second glance. Why do artists find those scenes so attractive to paint? Perhaps these are ‘real life’, the every-day scenes that over the years become comfortable, familiar and part of our memory. When artists paint the scene it triggers for the viewer all the good memories, ‘the good old days’ ...

This exhibit will include farm scenes, including some of the last of Maryland’s tobacco barns in south county, skipjacks and tugboats, workboats of the truest kind. Baltimore area train stations and their maze of rust-colored tracks and the old steel mills are perfect subject matter for the artist who loves to paint grit. These scenes all have one thing in common – the artists found a beauty in the scene; they were drawn to paint it.

Cynthia McBride