The Byrne Gallery in Middleburg, Virginia is pleased to announce our show for the months of July and August, “Ocean Dreams.” Sweeping water vistas and peaceful shores will be on display starting July 3rd and continuing through August 31st.

The show’s artwork will include oil paintings by Gerald Hennesy, Shawn Hennesy, Jeff Kibler, and Anne Stine, all local artists from the Washington, D.C. and Virginia areas. Their paintings transport the viewer to serene ocean views from up and down the East Coast, including the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. We invite you to come to the gallery and enjoy a scenic walk alongside our Ocean Dreams.

Gerald Hennesy painted in an impressionistic style, working both in plein air and in his studio. One of our most beloved artists, he passed away in March 2022 and left a legacy as an inspiration to all who knew him. As a master of composition and plein air landscape painting, it was important to Gerry that the subject he chose for painting was exciting to him, so it was then also exciting and interesting to the viewers of his completed work. Once a scene was selected and the composition sketched in, Gerald painted rather rapidly, while attempting to achieve a freshness of color and expressiveness in his brushwork. He was particularly concerned with depicting the effect of light on his landscapes.

His work has been exhibited widely in commercial and museum galleries including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum. His paintings are in numerous private, corporate and public collections, including the U. S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Department of State, the Maryland State Mansion, the D.A.R. Headquarters, and the American Legion Headquarters. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art.

Shawn Hennesy, a native Virginian, travels up and down the East Coast in search of his subject matter. He renders his paintings in a realistic style, but with a romantic mood, and the detail in his work reflects a knowledge of both art and nature.

Shawn learned to paint under the guidance of his father, Gerald Hennesy, and brother, Paul Hennesy. He comes from a family of artists that goes back generations. Working in the traditional medium of oil on canvas, Shawn has spent decades perfecting his talents. His award-winning paintings can be found in many private, corporate, and public collections. He has been featured in numerous group and one-person shows, has been a participant in the Art in Embassies program, and was twice a Top 100 Finalist in the international Arts for the Parks competition.  He is a past president of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters.

Jeff Kibler is an award-winning designer who has been in the graphic arts field for 47 years. He graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1975. He worked at ad agencies and design studios in the New York metropolitan area before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1994 as a Senior Art Director with The Magazine Group, where he worked on a wide variety of magazines, book designs and corporate collateral materials. He retired since February 2020 and is now focusing on fine art — primarily in oils — in a contemporary, realistic style.  Kibler possesses a deep familiarity with the subtle textures and shifts of the ocean due to his lifelong love of the water and part-time residence at the beach.  He conveys that knowledge of the sea and its changes in each of his ocean-scapes.

Anne Stine is known for her mixed-media, nature-themed paintings. Her chosen medium is encaustic, a technique as dynamic as the rivers themselves. By layering pigmented wax and mixed media, then fusing it all with the intense heat of a blowtorch onto wooden panels, she creates surfaces rich in complexity, color, and texture.  She feels encaustic, made from a mixture of beeswax, natural resin, and pigment, most accurately captures the dynamic ebb and flow of water due to its unique molten qualities.

Anne Stine lives in Purcellville, Virginia, where she creates and teaches encaustic art. Her work resides in public and private collections around the world, including the permanent collection of the Encaustic Museum of Art in New Mexico. 

If you can’t make it to the beach this summer, come see “Ocean Dreams” at The Byrne Gallery! The Byrne Gallery is located at 7 West Washington Street, Middleburg, V.A. Contact us at (540) 687 6986 or byrnegallery@aol.com. Find us online at thebyrnegallery.com and @byrnegallery on Facebook and Instagram. Gallery hours: Wed.–Sat. 11:00–5:00, Sunday 12:00–5:00, and by appointment only Mon.–Tues.

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