Kentlands Mansion Gallery Hosts Multimedia Exhibit

The City of Gaithersburg presents the multimedia works of Joan Eames, Stephen Hanks, Nancy Heindl, and Sheryl Massaro, on exhibit at Kentlands Mansion from October 7 to December 4. .Viewing is by appointment.  Please call 301-258-6425 to schedule a visit. 

According to Joan Eames, “Painting lets me tell a story on a single page, the canvas.”  Eames is a landscape artist and her original oils include not only landscapes from Vermont, Maine, Maryland, Hilton Head Island, Florida, and Europe but also scenes that incorporate local figures of today and yesterday.  A native of Massachusetts, she often finds herself influenced by her memories of New England settings. Her passion for painting has been more of an avocation than a career and Joan has worked as a journalist in Boston and Washington, earning numerous awards.  Her art has been displayed throughout Montgomery County and she has won numerous awards for her paintings of scenic sites along the Eastern seaboard and garden spots in Italy and France.

Stephen T. Hanks has been a practicing professional artist for over 35 years, with his pieces exhibited in art museums in both Denver and San Francisco.  Much of his work is largely abstract, but is designed to draw the viewer, who looks closer, into the picture by revealing realistic imagery. Trees and landscapes, faces and people, Christian symbols, parts of the human anatomy, and other fantasy components grow out of his designs.  His pictures in this exhibition all explore his concept of "Creative Reaction"; that part of the art-making process when the artist reacts to the artwork as it's being created... like someone laying in a field watching the clouds overhead and seeing imagery in their billowy shapes. 

Nancy Heindl has been painting local landscapes outdoors in plein air for over 40 years. Having long worked in oils, she has taken up soft pastels, and most recently is very excited about also working in oil pastels. Her typical subjects are landscape and gardens in Potomac, Bethesda, Rockville, Washington DC, along the C&O Canal, and seascapes of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Heindl’s paintings have won many first place, popular choice, and best-in-show awards, and the Grumbacher Award for best use of the oils medium. She exhibits in local shows and galleries, and gives an annual show of recent works each December at her home studio in Potomac, MD. This December will be her 36th annual show.

Sheryl Massaro has developed a technique that uses sponges as well as brushes in her painting, focusing on creating a variety of textures and light-infused depth of color. Most of her paintings are of nature or are abstract in oil or oil pastel on canvas.  With lots of texture and light-infused color, her art makes the viewer feel good and “quickened.”   She has exhibited at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD; the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Galleries in Bethesda, MD; and previously at Kentlands Mansion. She also studies pottery and is a poet, with an MFA in Creative Writing from The American University. Massaro relives her joys of many her trips by creating art work from her wonderful memories. (all information from a City Press Release)