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| September, 2010 | Waterfowl Festival Artist Gallery |
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Welcome to the Waterfowl Festival's Artist Gallery. This e-newsletter features a few of the many talented artists, sculptors, and photographers who will be exhibiting at this year's 40th Waterfowl Festival on November 12, 13 and 14. Hailing from the north, south, east and west, the Waterfowl artists are a varied group with interesting biographies. We hope you enjoy meeting some of them and learning about their individual talents.
In this edition, we introduce Adele Earnshaw (artist), Karryl (sculptor), and Skip Willits (photographer).
For more information on this year's event, to buy tickets, or to become a donor, visit us at our website.
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 | Adele Earnshaw |
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 "Painting is a journey - and you can never really know what your final destination will be." 25-year Waterfowl Festival exhibitor Adele Earnshaw (right) worked in watercolors for many years and has now switched to oils, with the focus on mood, color and light. Her goal to have the respect of her peers and to paint credible work that will remain after she is gone seems to be well underway. She lives in northern Arizona but feels when she arrives in Easton that she's come home. The beauty of the area, especially Blackwater Refuge, and the Eastern Shore landscape, has had a huge impact on the direction of her work as an artist. Another reason she loves the Festival is because of the people..."not just those who visit the show year after year, but many of the volunteers and staff who have become my friends." During last year's Festival, she and other Festival artists rented a house on the water in Cambridge, but didn't anticipate the hurricane that hit the area. As the water rose, they prepared for the emergency with storm provisions - a bottle of wine and a box of steamed crabs! "We were rather disappointed when the water level started to drop!" she laughs. At left, "Journey Into Light"
More of Adele's work can be found on her website, www.adeleearnshaw.com. During the Festival, she will be exhibiting in the Tidewater Gallery - Gold Room.
Below, "Contemplate" (left) and "Cold Embrace" (right) |
| Karryl |
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 Most of the artists who exhibit at the Waterfowl Festival cite the people as their favorite part of the show - those who run the show and those who enjoy the artwork - and Karryl (at left with Big Slurp) is no exception. After praising the Festival's volunteers who help to set up every year, Karryl tells the story of a little boy, accompanied by his grandmother, who was allowed to choose something just for himself to begin his fine art collection. "I was thrilled," Karryl relates, "when he came to my booth and chose one of my pieces to begin that collection."
This is Karryl's 10th year at the Waterfowl Festival exhibiting in one of the Sculpture Galleries located at Christ Church. More of her work can be found on her website, www.karryl.com. She makes her home in Pennsylvania, and calls Easton her "destination of the year!"
"I think what helps people connect with my work at the Festival is a sense of whimsy," she explains. "I sculpt the original piece in a loose style capturing as much of the inner characteristics of the animals as I can." Karryl's pieces, like The Sage (right) and Nosing Around (below), capture a moment in time in order to bring others to a closer awareness and appreciation of the natural world.
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| Skip Willits |
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 Skip Willits (right) states that he is the senior citizen of the Photography Exhibit, having first displayed his work there in 1989 and is still going strong. "I guess this means that either I have no place to go, or that I have done something right somewhere along the line," he laughs. He gives credit to several Festival photographers who came before him and blazed the trail: Smith, Hollritt, Davidson, Orehovec, Mills, Hagan, Richards, Dowell, and Darcy. "When I view the work of my fellow photographers, I am in awe, " he says, "and humbled at the thought of being included." He claims that "photography has come a long way from your father's Brownie," and that digital technology has moved the art from slides, f-stops and shutter speeds into pixels and the photoshop world. "My point of view," he explains, "is that a photograph without digital manipulation is still a photograph. Manipulate the image digitally, in any way, and we enter another art form altogether. " He still believes that it takes a photographer's eye to capture the image in the first place, and for him that's the fun of photography.
Echoing the sentiments of many other exhibitors, he enjoys traveling to Maryland and the Waterfowl Festival to renew friendships with artists and customers. Living in South Carolina, the trip also affords him the opportunity to visit children and grandchildren in Maryland. See Skip's work this year at the Photography Exhibit located at the Historical Society.
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