Our Stable Artists
Kas Rohm
A lifetime resident of Baltimore County, Kas Rohm has developed her own painting style by blending her love of color, composition, and technique, often incorporating the bucolic northern Baltimore County flora and fauna into her works.
Watercolor, her primary medium, is beautifully fluid and presents as both versatile and challenging. Kas enjoys the "marriage” of water and color to paper in this delightful medium which can often result in the simultaneous sense of momentum and stillness. She also infuses a whimsical sense of humor into some of her paintings.
Kas shares her enthusiasm for watercolor at monthly watercolor workshops at Manor Mill.
Pamela Wilde
Pamela Wilde is a native of Chicago, but has called Maryland “home” for nearly thirty years. Pamela received her formal training at the Chicago-based American Academy of Art, and graduated with a degree in Advertising Design and Illustration.
Pamela works exclusively in oils. Working from life, memory, imagination and reference. Pamela began painting at age 12 under the tutelage of her mother and has gone on to study with several renowned mentors.
Pamela is best known for her community portrait project, Portraits from Havre de Grace 2018-2019. Over the span of one year Pamela sat down with over one hundred members of the community for live alla-prima portrait sessions. A collection of 120 12x12 oil paintings was created and later exhibited at Artists Emporium in Havre de Grace 2019, World Trade Center Baltimore 2019 and Maryland Hall for the Arts Annapolis, virtual 2020.
Pamela is available for commissioned portraits.
www.pamelawilde.com
Richard Roth
Born in Elkhart, Indiana
EDUCATION:
BS- Ball State University
MFA- Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Sculpture Faculty- Catonsville Community College, Balto, MD
1970-1994: The Community College of Baltimore County
AWARDS:
Easton Academy
Loyola College
Virginia Beach Arts
Atlantic City Arts
MD and DEL Regionals
Chrysler Museum Regional
Joanne Bare
I enjoy painting plein air both locally and abroad. I try to capture the ever changing and sometimes-mysterious effects of light and atmosphere found in nature. Inspiration comes from early Italian Renaissance and Medieval paintings, Corot’s Italian landscape sketches along with other contemporary artists.
Mike Bare
“I draw inspiration from nature and the surrounding landscape. Whatinterests me as an artist is not only the formal qualities of solving the puzzle, but how creativity and the arts lead to the unknown and connect the dots in unexpected ways”.
Michael lives in Monkton with his wife Joanne. He is a MICA graduate and has been a lifelong artist/educator.
Judy Lalingo
Inspired by nature, Judy Lalingo spends much of her time outdoors sketching, painting, and photographing everything from horses and hounds to birds and wildlife. Her work ranges from tightly rendered miniatures in acrylic to looser oils of landscapes and animal studies. The artist values her experiences in the field and feels that it lends authenticity to her work.
Her formal studies began with the New School of Art in Toronto, a UNESCO project where working professional painters led courses in drawing, anatomy, colour, design and painting. Throughout the years, she has participated in several workshops with notable painters, including animal artists Robert Bateman, Matthew Hillier, Greg Beecham, Julie Chapman, and Jill Soukup.
Judy has embraced the miniature art world for the past three decades, exhibiting her award-winning paintings in many of the miniature art exhibitions throughout the US and beyond, including Russia and South Africa. Her oils are somewhat looser than the tiny paintings, giving her a welcome contrast to explore subjects in a format larger than 25 square inches.
The artist is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists (SAA) and the Miniature Artists of America (MAA). She also retains memberships in several art groups, including the Miniature Art Society of Florida (MASF), American Academy of Equine Art (AAEA), and Resident Member of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington D.C. (MPSGS).
Originally from Toronto, Canada, she was honoured as Ducks Unlimited Canada's Artist of the Year in 1997. Judy's work has appeared on the back cover of Reader's Digest, as well as in various galleries, collections, and museums. She lives and works in the beauty of northern Maryland’s horse country.
Bolling B. Willse Sr
Bolling Willse is a local Monkton philosopher/photographer who has been capturing light for most of his life. He built his own darkroom when he was in middle school and dreamed of someday having the skill and resources to process and print color photographs. Bo spent much of his work life as a systems consultant for personal computers beginning in 1984. He spent his time building local area networks and teaching software applications. He developed and delivered computer literacy and advanced training courses for some of Baltimore’s most well knows companies. In 1997 Bo developed a strategy for capturing digital still images (using PC technology) from video sources. Finally, he could capture and print color photographs, which did not require a darkroom or toxic chemicals. Two years later he had acquired his first digital camera. Since then, he has captured and saved approximately 500,000 digital images, using a wide array of equipment. Bo has learned and used dozens of image editing software tools. Presently he employs smartphone, mirrorless, and traditional “DSLR” cameras in his craft.
Bo has developed a philosophy of photography in the age of social media and smartphone ubiquity.
Minás Konsolas
Minás Konsolas was born in Greece and has lived in Baltimore since 1976, where he graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. He is the former owner of Minás Gallery, an outlet for poetry and art, both visual and verbal. The gallery, one of Baltimore’s alternative art spaces, was a gathering spot for artists, writers, and performers for twenty-two years. He subsequently sold his business and now works from his studio in Charles Village.
Konsolas has participated in three public mural projects in Baltimore City, in Greektown, at the Farmers’ Market, and at the Hanover Street Gallery. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Little Patuxent Review and Passager. His original artwork and reproductions are widely collected, locally, nationally, and abroad.
Konsolas is known for employing a variety of artistic styles and techniques, which allows his work to continually evolve. His constant focus is how light interacts with color and form.
Ryan Tkac
Ryan Tkac, 42, is a Monkton native growing up at St. James corner since 1981. He studied fine art under Victor Janishefski at Calvert Hall College High School from 1993 to 1997 and went on to graduate from Maryland Institute in 2001. Shortly after 9/11, fate took him to New York City where he taught elementary art in Yonkers. In 2003 he began graduate school at NYU with a focus in Art Therapy. Unfortunately, he was given improper medication which triggered his first manic episode. He dropped out of grad school and - for the next 10 years - would battle insanity and homelessness with periodic bouts of clarity yielding occasional creative triumphs including a solo show in 2014 at Millstone Cellars under the Mill’s previous owners. Since 2013 Tkac has been a certified spokesperson for the National Alliance for Mental Illness’ program “In Our Own Voice” and has spoken at such locations as Loyola College and the Baltimore Police Academy detailing his experience with Schizoaffective disorder and the steps he took to regain his life. Currently, he stays creative in his Monkton studio and has been in recovery for the past 5 years. Among his hobbies are: Scat, beatbox, rhyming and occasionally writing about himself in third person. He is now in the employ of Manor Mill as a hired portrait painter. Please direct inquires to Lynne Jones.
Kim Weiland
Each time that I write an introduction or Bio, I am forced to ask myself the same question; why do I paint? I don’t feel that an artist simply wakes one morning and decides to paint. Only a madman would choose painting as a career if he truly considered the reality of that decision. I do not really believe that it was a choice; at least it was not a conscious one. I picked up a brush before I was 16 and with my first painting, it became my reality. I love to paint. Every compromise begins there and I have painted all of my life.
Hopefully you will enjoy my paintings, unlike musicians, who play to rooms filled with patrons… artists work in rooms filled with paint, so the sound of two hands clapping is always appreciated.
SKYLER D’Vincent
Skyler is a fine artist and author based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He studied for a BFA at York College, focusing on drawing and design. After leaving the college, he studied under William Thompson III to learn metal-smithing and small-sculpture techniques. Informal education came from a school-endorsed tour of Western Europe, where Skyler was exposed to the classical western art styles and techniques. This guided him to his primary medium of Oil paint with indirect methods, mostly the Flemish painting technique. Multiple glazes of color are layered over the underpainting to reflect deeper colors when exposed to sunlight. Skyler focuses on portraiture, and most enjoys creating custom pieces for clients. He’s made specific pieces for famous clients including Aaron “Tech N9ne” Yates, and Paul Duffy. Outside of the fine art, Skyler continuously works on his book series projects. In 2019, Skyler republished his debut novel Eyes of a Runner, modernizing the original draft from 2012, and then began a series of Sumi-e inspired illustrations to view with the book. This led to the expansion of the novel into a sequel book titled Blood of Gods, in which Skyler continued to develop both the characters and the artwork. He is still writing and illustrating for the series, which as a whole, is titled “The Urban Defense Chronicles”. This series of speculative fiction books, short stories, artworks, and even jewelry are branded as part of a constantly evolving universe dedicated to the characters of the original story.
Carol leE Thompson
Carol Lee Thompson is trained in the methods of the Old Masters. Carol paints a wide range of subject matter including equine, landscape, animals, portraits and western themes.
Carol is featured in galleries throughout the country. Her work is part of many corporate and private collections, including the Butler Institution and the Academy Art Museum. Her art hangs in Baltimore’s City Hall, the Fort McHenry National Shrine, the U.S. State Department, the Star Pass Resort in Arizona and Camden Yards Stadium in Baltimore.
Carol is a Signature Member of the OPA, AAEA, NOAPS and American Women Artists (AWA)! She is a member of the Society of Animal Artists as well as the Miniatures Painters Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington DC. Carol is published in several books and featured in many magazine articles.
Shirley A Jenkins
Shirley Apple Jenkins moved into the Baltimore area from the Alabama Gulf Coast where she is a well-known award-winning artist and teacher, who has had a life-long love of art. Shirley is also an accomplished portrait artist. Her paintings of jazz musicians reflect these qualities. One of these paintings was purchased by Host Marriott and giclees were made. They now grace each one of the 1300 rooms in the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, Canal Street. “These paintings have more color and energy than any work that I have done before and I am excited by the technique and style of painting. Besides, people have always been my favorite subjects. Sometimes still-life paintings can be boring, but people – never”. Shirley describes her work as “constantly evolving to explore new depths of emotion and color, while keeping the clean, fresh essence of the watercolor.”
Shirley is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society where she serves on the Board as Exhibit Chair. Paints regularly with Complementary Colors Group. She is past president of the Pleasure Island Art Association, Gulf Shores/ Orange Beach, AL. She teaches watercolor classes to beginners and advanced students.
Ms. Jenkins has been juried into the BWS Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibit in 2014, 2013 and 2004. She will be one of the featured artist in the Cheap Joe's 2015 Materials Catalog.
Lisa Mitchell
Lisa Mitchell paints with oils and also pastels. She creates representational paintings of primarily Maryland landscapes but also travels to other scenic locations to explore different painting subjects. Her purpose in painting the landscape is to pay homage to the beautiful effect of light on the everyday world we lie in. She hopes those that view her work will slow down a bit and spend time imagining themselves in such a place or perhaps become reacquainted with a familiar setting.
Lisa Mitchell received her formal art education at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, concentrating her studies in Illustration and Graphic Design. She was employed as an Illustrator at the Comp Factory in Baltimore, creating storyboards and comp illustrations for several leading advertising agencies in the Mid-Atlantic area. When her first child was born she made a career change and began a 20-year business as a children’s portrait artist. Later on, Lisa joined several local art groups and began painting outdoors. This interaction with like-minded artists and on the spot painting initiated a new focus, her love of painting landscapes. Lisa has studied with many wonderful nationally known oil and pastel instructors over the years. The information they shared with her about painting and how to think like an artist has been an invaluable tool. Lisa has participated in many plein air events such as, Plein Air Easton, Paint Annapolis, Wayne Plein Air, Plein Air Richmond, East Beach Plein Air Escape, The Olmsted Plein Air, Queen City Plein Air and The Lighthouse Plein air, to name a few.
Kimmel KOZAK
A native of Baltimore, I am an artist and art educator living in Northern Baltimore County, Maryland.
Coming from a long line of artists, I was always encouraged by my family to pursue art.
Seeking to simplify the subjects in my work to the least amount of marks needed to convey meaning feels essential to me. My work expresses my passion for capturing the movement of light both indoors and out, the connection we share with our pets, and in fleeting moments of life. Life is short and beautiful. It goes too fast, and painting, for me, is a way to hold on to a beautiful moment that has passed. My work reminds me of the peace that comes from awareness of being fully in the present. In a way, it is bittersweet.
Mary MB Swann
For all my adult life, I have lived in and painted landscapes outdoors in rural places in northern Maryland and in southern Pennsylavania. Weather, big skies, and the quality of the air have always excited me, but I have also loved the stories that come with living in the country. Over the years, in various media, deer, horses, raccoons, foxes, snakes, geese and flower gardens have kept appearing in my work. In the 1990’s I made dozens of appliqué quilts depicting true dramas that had taken place in the natural world. I would hand-write the story on white material and sew it on the back. A decade later, I took up printmaking at MICA and many of these same animals showed up in my etchings and collagraphs.
I am originally from New York and Long Island. I spent my early years near big bodies of saltwater and would miss them terribly if it weren’t for the wide open spaces of our pastoral landscapes here in Maryland. I studied Romance Languages at Radcliffe and have traveled quite a bit since then to visit family members in faroff places. In 1965, I was a student at the heady New York Studio School and later on, when my children were growing up, I was lucky to become an undergraduate at MICA. Amazing opportunites have come my way as a result of this connection.
CLAUDIA BROOKES
I have been a professional artist for the past 25 years. I taught private watercolor classes during much of that period, although oil is now my primary medium. Art is my second career, after many years spent as a medical publisher in Baltimore. For all my adult life I have lived in Maryland, where I married, raised a family, and worked. I grew up near Boston and was privileged to have ready access to art materials and museums as well as plenty of encouragement in my artistic pursuits from my family.
I call myself an American Impressionist. My interest in plein air (outdoors, on location) painting has greatly influenced my work. I prefer a wet-on-wet, alla prima style of laying on paint whether I am outdoors or in the studio, and treasure the beauty of visible brushstrokes. I love the immediacy and freshness of paintings created on location as well as the challenge of capturing the particular lighting effect of an exact time and place.
My chief influences are the plein air painters of Cape Ann, MA, Cos Cob, CT, and New Hope, PA, as well as the early 20th Century California outdoor painters. I am a veteran of more than 50 juried plein air competitions held across the country and wherever I travel, I paint. And always, the perfect light is waiting.
I am represented by the following galleries: Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME; Landmark Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME, and Pink Papaya, Cruz Bay, St. John, USVI.
Bim Jones
I think this is the hardest part...telling why I do this. After hours and hours, spent writing it down, I read it and re-read it and it always falls short: too far to the left or right ... too self-conscious, over-thought, over-explained, under-explained ... and, in the end, it always just boils down to the simple fact that I do it because I can't help it. It keeps me happy, relatively sane and out of the funny farm ... or jail.
But ... I can tell you my favorite parts of doing it ... I love lines and colors. I love the human form. I love what light does and the challenge and reward of recreating the illusion. I love the magic of inspiration using me as conduit...the miracle of a thought or feeling or vision becoming suddenly or painstakingly tangible. I love getting dirty hands and paint on my face. I love it when someone finds something of themselves or for themselves, in an image that I realized. I love the solitude of the process. I love blank sheets of 300 lb. watercolor paper. I love sharp pencils and new pointy brushes, and old scruffy brushes. I love the smell of turpentine, but not all the time. I love it when a painting paints itself. I love my sketchbooks, ink spilled on the floor, new kneaded erasers, 5 minute figure studies, getting lost in working, painting all day outside, making a mess in the studio and cleaning up the studio so I can start a new mess.
I love my family for letting me have space for this in my life. I love the other artists in my life who shore me up and support me and excite me and inspire me. I love this cursed blessing and this blessed curse.