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Nicole Brown is gifted with the ability to transform complex ideas into outstanding imagery that resonates with people – converting them from curious prospects to long-lasting customers. Nicole has worked with more than 700 clients on projects such as book and web design, brand identity, social media management and video marketing.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Nicole has a BA with a concentration in graphic design from Notre Dame of Maryland University. She began drawing in her mother’s school books at a very young age. Her mother encouraged her gift by allowing Nicole to draw on a designated wall in the home. She also purchased crayons and water color paints for her to explore. “My mom’s encouragement made me free to be an artist.”
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Artist: Nicole Brown
In her spare time, she enjoys movies, surfing the web and volunteering as a tutor to female abuse victims and adults with disabilities. “I am passionate about helping others. People respond to me because I see them as people, not as labels society may have given them.“
Nicole has designed numerous books such as the Roman Missal, The Simple Wisdom of Pope Francis and the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults. Her design for the latter resulted in book sales totaling more than 500,000 copies. Several of the books featuring her artistic cover designs have achieved notoriety on the Catholic Publishing Best Sellers’ List. |
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Nathaniel Gibbs was born in 1948. He attended elementary, junior and high school in Baltimore. His interest in art started developing, when he was in fourth grade. He graduated from Frederick Douglas high school in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1967 Mr. Gibbs joined the U.S. army, his active services in Vietnam, Germany and United States.He has a honorable discharge from U.S. Army in 1997. After attending three years in U.S. Army; he attended Maryland Institute of Arts in 1972. After four years he received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts.In 1981 he earned Master degree in Fine Arts from American University in Washington,D.C. Mr. Gibbs professional art career began in Baltimore city as a commercial artist and instructing workshops at School #33 Art
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Artist: Nathaniel Giibbs
Center. He paints indoor and outdoor views for private homes, schools and churches located in West Baltimore. Gibbs work demonstrates his distinguished quality in Diego de Silva Velazquez, Leon Bonnat and John Singer Sargent. His painting subjects have very vast rang, include original images, landscapes and city scenes. His commissioned portraits of the former Mayor Clarence " Du Burns, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X and Abel Wolman have been added to the art collections of John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore City Hall and Banneker Douglas Permanent Collection.
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Artist: Mary Lear
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I have loved to draw and paint starting as a child. My first memories of drawing of course were with crayons. I lay in my bed, sick, home from kindergarten, carefully trying to stay within the lines and very proudly thought I was doing a good job. I painted a woods' path and trees in third grade and would also crayon made-up "monsters" and give them exotic names. In fourth grade, my teacher spotting some talent, put me in charge of painting history's early explorers on a mural, by myself. I continued throughout my childhood painting and drawing.
My art matured especially with a high school teacher in my senior year at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland in 1974. She taught us students the color wheel, color compliments, and composition in a way that was very thorough and new to me. She also taught us art history, mostly focusing on the pre-impressionists, impressionists and modern art. It absolutely opened me up to the art world!!! I worked hard enough to get a partial art scholarship to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where I attended and received more training for the year I was there. |
Off and on I painted and drew on my own and under other teachers. At age 30, I was fortunate to start taking classes with a professional watercolorist, Martha Seigel, at her home in Garrett Park, MD. She continues to be my favorite art teacher as I felt I really blossomed doing watercolors like no other time. I have gone to her classes in her old Victorian house with a garden off and on for the last 30 years. Currently I attend her twice-a-week classes. This is the first professional art show I have been in.
Mary Lear
Silver Spring, MD
Mary Lear
Silver Spring, MD
Artist: Bruce H. Ramsay
Bruce H. Ramsay began painting after suffering a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in 2004. Bruce uses acrylic on canvas, paper, or wood, and his paintings feature natural and architectural wonders of the world. Bruce has been able to focus on his painting following his retirement from the Federal Government after his brain injury. His current interest is painting canvases and postcards of birds with a focus on those species which are considered endangered or threatened due to climate change and other environmental factors.
Monarchs~ acrylic on canvas~ $50.00
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Puffin Rock is 16 x 20 wrapped canvas no frame - $75.00
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Ivory Bill~ acrylic on canvas~ $125.00
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Tommy received his art education at the Maryland Institute College of Art where he earned a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art. His love for and pursuance of art started before he attended the institute. Drawing and painting most of his life, Roberts gives credit for his love of art blossoming to the surface at the age of nine. At this age he was also diagnosed with muscular dystrophy which has confined him to a wheel chair. Although his physical condition kept him from running and playing football & baseball with the neighborhood kids, his artistic appetite increased thereby creating a different kind of outlet for enjoying his childhood and young adult life through continuous
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Artist: Tommy Roberts
exploration of expression of his new found God-given ability to create.
Tommy's work showcases his solid drawing and painting ability and his uncanny ability of capturing his subject's emotion and character. Tommy's enthusiasm for life and art is the reason so many art enthusiasts have been admiring his positive spirit and his works for years. My goal is to convey my impressions of things I have experience through life. My interpretations of landscapes, portraits, and figures are inspired by the many people, and artists that I have met or read about. Learning from everyone helps me to become the best man and artist I can be. Creating art is a spiritual high that fills my soul with joy. |
