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 to August 31st.
The show’s artwork will include oil paintings by Gerald Hennesy, Shawn Hennesy, Stuart Allison Hindle, Jeff Kibler, and Regina Miele, 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. He passed away in March 2022, and was one of our most beloved artists and an inspiration to all who knew him. A master of composition and plein air landscape, it was important to Gerry that subject he chose for the 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 State Department, the Maryland State Mansion, the DAR 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.
Stuart Allison Hindle has been painting since she was sixteen and has spent her career perfecting her craft, developing a signature touch in each of her magnificent pieces. After a successful career in graphic design for companies all over the US, including Boston and New York, she moved to Prague, CZ and began painting with oils on canvas again. Using photos taken from the countryside, Hindle uses an impressionistic style exaggerating color, manipulating light, and applying texture to create a unique mood that brings landscapes to life. Hindle travels around the world collecting images of landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes, for new inspiration for her incredible paintings.
Jeff Kibler is an award-winning designer that has been in the graphic arts field for 47 years. He graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1975. Working at ad agencies and design studios in the New York Metropolitan before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1994 as a Senior Art Director with The Magazine Group. Working on a wide variety of magazines, book design and corporate collateral material. Retired since February 2020, 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 oceanscapes.
Regina Miele, a classically trained painter with a highly disciplined ethic for realizing representational scenes, explores the fundamental tenets of order and place. Her subject matter is quite diverse but this body of work focuses on the power and splendor of the ocean along with the surrounding natural landscapes of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Regina attended the Catholic University of America and, in her junior year, studied abroad at the Scuolo Lorenzo di Medici in Florence, Italy. The experience of intensive studio concentration in painting, drawing, sculpture, and theory, in the birthplace of the Renaissance solidified a commitment and passion for a career as an artist. Her work is on display in both national and international venues and has been featured in multiple art publications.
