The Kent Gallery


Artwork & Artists The Kent Gallery is proud to represent the artists listed below. For a complete listing of our current inventory with picture dimensions and pricing, please click here (pdf),
HB Pancoast	Bio coming soon
George A. Newman	Bio coming soon
Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970)	In photographic circles around the world, A. Aubrey Bodine was regarded as one of the finest pictorialists of the twentieth century. His pictures were exhibited in hundreds of prestigious shows, in scores of museums, and he won awards against top competition. His photographs were seen in the Sunday Sun, numerous books and magazines, on calendars, as murals, and as framed prints decorating homes. Aubrey Bodine's photographic career began in 1923 when as an office boy with the Baltimore Sun he submitted photographs of the Thomas Viaduct at Relay to the editor of the Sunday paper, and they were published. From first to last Aubrey Bodine was a newspaperman covering all sorts of stories with his camera - news events, famous people, unusual places and curious activities. This gave him opportunities to travel throughout the region and learn about it in every tide, wind, weather and season. Out of this experience came remarkable documentary pictures of farming, oystering, hunting, soap boiling, blacksmithing, clock making, bricklaying and dozens of other occupations, and student nurses, Amish children, pilots of ships and planes, country folk and city folk, wood sheds and cathedrals, wagons and railroad engines, and, in short, almost everything of interest. Moreover, the documentary pictures are of the very finest quality, often artistic in design and lighting effects far beyond the usual standard of newspaper work. But Bodine's talent ran deeper than this, and so did his ambition. He submitted photographs to national and international salon competitions and consistently won top honors. Bodine believed that photography could be a creative discipline, and he studied the principles of art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The camera and the dark room equipment were tools to him like the painter's brush or the sculptor's chisel. Bodine was a romantic pictorialist and this shows in his choice of subjects - the old times and the old things, the beauties of nature, man as an individual, and similar ideas. The pictures are usually quiet in mood partly because of the subdued tones and partly because of a low tension design made of open curves and natural perspective. Not the least of Bodine's artistic ability was his craftsmanship. He was always experimenting with his tools, but seldom made a mistake. Some of his best pictures were literally composed in the viewfinder of the camera. In other cases he worked on the negative with dyes and intensifiers, pencil marking, and even scraping to produce the effect he had in mind. He added clouds photographically, and made other even more elaborate manipulations. Bodine's rationale for all these technical alterations of the natural scene was simply that, like the painter, he worked from the model and selected those features which suited his sense of mood, proportion and design. The picture was the thing, not the manner of arriving at it. He did not take a picture, he made a picture.
Linda Hall	Linda has participated in numerous juried art shows receiving many awards. She was recently awarded Signature Membership of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, PWS, as well as the Baltimore Watercolor Society, BWS. She has membership in the Kent Island Federation of Art, the Working Artists Forum of Easton, and the Chestertown Arts League. She is still freelancing in graphic design, pen and ink renderings and watercolor. Since her move to the beautiful Eastern Shore, with its wonderful light, she has more time and inspiration to focus on painting in watercolor and oils.
Robert Stack	Robert Stack’s interest in art began when he was a child growing up in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. There he was encouraged to develop his talents by area artists and in the art program at the local elementary school. Primarily a watercolorist, Robert captures realistic equestrian, architectural, and natural images from his surroundings. He used horses initially as models, going to local farms and horseshows to sketch them. Robert's paintings usually come into his mind as shape, color, compositions or emotion. The subject matter will vary. He lets it all fall together randomly and then directs it in to a finished whole. Robert has also done etched glass design, illustration and commissioned work. His work has been in many invitational, juried, and group shows and can be found in gallery, private, and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Barbara Tlush	Chadds Ford artist Barbara Tlush has won many awards in juried art shows throughout the Philadelphia region. She has studied and painted on Monhegan Island in Maine. Her art work is vibrant and concise and shows a true style with oils as well as watercolors. Her Snowman Collection received great accolades at the annual Chadds Ford art show.
Jim Dyekman	A world renowned artist, illustrator and graphic designer James Dyekman has garnered more than 250 awards for art, design, advertising and marketing. He is a leader and innovator in computer technology and its applications to art. James currently lives with his wife outside Chesapeake City. “One look at James Dyekman's art and you know that this is a man who has spent a lifetime with horses. Only a true horseman could capture the innate spirit of the horse with the mixture of grace, power, and personality that is apparent in every one of Dyekman's paintings. Whether the subject is a show horse, or a race horse,or one of his own beloved Arabians, Dyekman's rendering is sheer poetry of color, composition and mood.“ Barbara Messina Horse People Magazine
Sharon Furner	Sharon’s career in art began as a young mother when, on a whim, she signed up for folk art painting class. This one class was the catalyst which started her journey into the magical world of painting. Subsequent trips to study with renowned European folk artists strengthened her appreciation and love for art and its ability to immeasurably enrich one’s life. As her painting skills developed she published over 20 decorative art books, opened the Gingerbread Haus where she taught for fifteen years and published articles in art magazines. Sharon’s strong sense of color, whimsical imagination and commitment to personal growth evolved into a second career designing and painting murals, trompe l’oeil and art furniture for private and public patrons. S. Furner Fine Art offers paintings with ebullient color, energetic brushwork and touches of imaginative design. She offers a variety of themes including landscape, still life, portrait and abstract collage. Her mediums are oil, acrylic and gouache.
RJ Fowler	Bio coming soon
Marj Morani	Marj has been painting in the Caribbean for the past 15 years. Before that she was a gallery owner in Chestertown, Maryland and exhibited locally and in juried shows in the area. She has a degree in both studio art and art history with a specialization in the Italian Renaissance. She studied for three years with New York colorist artist Sam Finestein and has also studied with Lois Griffel of the Cape Cod School of Art. Worked mostly in Oil with a palette knife, her figurative and landscape painting vividly depict the color and flavor of the islands. She also works in pastel, watercolor and clay. Commissions include the design of a Christmas Card for the Grant A Wish Foundation and the Stations of the Cross for St. Andrews Church in Anguilla.
Robert Schuler	Bio coming soon
Patty Mowell	Bio coming soon
Steve Janney	Janney’s paintings are done in acrylic on canvas, with a unique style that produces extraordinary subtlety in colors and textures. His titles are often witty and always original. A cum laude graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University School of Visual and Performing Arts, Mr. Janney has participated in juried, invitational and solo exhibits throughout the Delaware Valley. He was poster artist for the 1987 Historic Yellow Springs Art Show. More than 270 of his paintings are found in private and corporate collections.
Geoff Stack	Bio coming soon
Anne Register	Bio coming soon
Dan Meyer	Bio coming soon
Wayne Hylwa	Bio coming soon
Barbara Snyder	”When looking at the landscape I watch for rhythms, repeated shapes and colors. I am also interested in light and color and how it creates contrasts. I paint to express the feeling of the landscape increasingly aware of the basic shapes of color, using less and less detail to capture the landscape and to express the feelings of strength, awe and mystery.”
For a complete listing of our current inventory with picture dimensions and pricing, please click here (pdf),

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