Although known to many as a landscape painter, Kass Morin Freeman’s abiding interest in metal sculpture often leads her to explore like shapes in the space of two dimensional media.

Freeman is an elected member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society of America. Other signature memberships include the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and the Northeast Watercolor Society and the Northeast Watercolor Society, as well as the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and the Philadelphia Watercolor Society where she served on the Board. A winner of more than a hundred awards in national, international and regional exhibitions.

Freeman earned the Sylvan Grouse Guild Award Medal from the Pennsylvania Water Color Society in 1996 and the Crest Medal from the Philadelphia Water Color Society in 1997 for continued excellence in watercolor. She received the High Winds Medal from the American Watercolor Society in the year 2000 and their Hardie Gramatky Award in 2001.

Educated at the Moore College of Art and Design and Tyler School of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA. Freeman has been involved for more than thirty years as teacher, juror and workshop instructor with various groups and art institutions.

Born in Philadelphia, she is a lifetime resident of the Delaware Valley area.

Artist Bradley Hendershot is primarily a painter of coastal Maine and rural Pennsylvania--regions that he knows well, regions that have special meaning to him. Many of Brad's subjects can be found close to his home and studio in Upper Hanover Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. "My Pennsylvania paintings depict the rural community and a way of life that is quickly fading into the past. Many of the timber and stone barns and mills, the houses and outbuildings, which are part of the Pennsylvania heritage, are rapidly disappearing. I'd like to feel, in a way, that I have preserved them in my paintings."

"In Maine, I paint the rugged shoreline of the mid-coast region and Monhegan Island where I enjoy the smell of salt air and the feeling of sea spray. I've always loved the sea, probably a combination of things--the boats, the energy of the surf, the rocks, the storms, and the romance of it all. I hope this comes across in my paintings of the weathered clapboard lobster shanties and the granite towers of the lighthouses."

Brad has been drawing and painting most of his life. "My early inspiration and guidance came from my father, artist Ray Hendershot.". Using a representational approach in his painting, most of Brad's work has been in the water-media. "I find watercolor to be very challenging and rewarding, and I like the spontaneity and freshness of the medium." If Brad gets particularly involved with the form and texture of a subject, he takes watercolor one step further, employing a drybrush technique. Using drybrush, textures and details are built up by applying small strokes of the brush and very little water with the pigment. The drybrush work is built upon an initial watercolor wash that is usually quite fluid. The color, in spots, may be very dense and opaque, emphasizing the transparency of  other areas. Most often, a combination of both wetbrush and drybrush techniques can be found in a single work. "I don't stick to the traditional watercolor rules in my painting. I use a variety of techniques, doing what I feel is necessary to obtain the result I want in the finished work." Brad begins each new concept by doing preliminary sketches of the subject. These studies may be done in pencil, pen and ink, or watercolor. Brad paints with an intense devotion to realistic detail while at the same time artistic license is employed for the sake of composition and to evoke a certain feeling or mood in the viewer. Using his creativity in the overall planning of a work, Brad emphasizes the features and details that best capture and produce the desired effect or emotion. Brad feels that each new work presents an opportunity to develop and refine his techniques. Thus,Brad will continue to grow for as long as he continues to paint.

Bradley is currently represented in Pennsylvania by Travis Gallery near New Hope, by Chadds Ford Gallery in Chadds Ford, by Dutchland Galleries in Intercourse, and by Umbehauer's Main Street Gallery in Pennsburg. He is represented in Maine by Bayview Galleries in Camden and Brunswick, and by Lupine Gallery on Monhegan Island. He is represented in Delaware by Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville. Bradley is a signature artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA), a signature professional artist of the International Society of Marine Painters (ISMP), and a signature member of the Philadelphia Water Color Society (PWCS). His works appear in public and private collections nationwide, including the collections of MBNA, Bank of Delaware, Delaware Trust, and the University of Delaware. Bradley's paintings have been issued as open-edition reproductions by Bruce McGaw Graphics, Inc., of New York, and as self-published limited- and open-edition reproductions.

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Please fill out and send, along with your check for the appropriate amount, to Elizabeth Gates, 329 Sandy Knoll Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901. If you have any questions regarding the banquet, please call Doris Oniskey at 215-355-2145