Gary Pendleton, Artist, Illustrator
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | North Beach, MD |
| Introduction | Since 1999 I have been a columnist for Bay Weekly. In 2000 I was selected by the Calvert County to produce 15 scratchboard illustrations for the widely distributed brochure Travel through the Centuries: The Historic Treasures of Calvert County. In 2004 I contributed over 40 illustrations to, St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community, which received a prestigious award from the Maryland Historical Trust. In 2003 I illustrated A Lifelong Affair a memoir by Bethine Church, widow of Senator Frank Church, published by the Francis Press. In 2005 I was selected to be one of 25 painters to participate in Paint Annapolis a major Plein-air painting event and received an Award for a painting titled, Water, Color, Sky. In 2007 I was selected to participate in the Wayne Plein Air festival in Wayne Pennsylvania. In 2008 an oil painting titled Kilmarnock Marsh was selected for inclusion in the Adkins Arboretum annual Art Competition. I have been selected to participate in Paint Annapolis 2008. In June 2009, 11 of my oil paintings were featured in a group exhibit "Rising Stars" at the McBride Gallery in Annaplois in June 2009. |
| Interests | Art, music, books, gardening, birds and nature, camping, canoeing, movies, history, politics. |
| Favorite Movies | Rushmore, The Bell of Amherst, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Pianist |
| Favorite Music | Chris Smither, Van Morrison, Diana Jones, Mark O'Connor, RockFish |
| Favorite Books | April 1865, Parrot Without A Name, The Snow Leopard, Rising Tide, Guns, Germs and Steel, Rachel Carson: A Voice for Nature, The Known World, The Curious Incident fo the Dog in the Night Time |