About the Cover Artist: Erick Sahler

Our May cover features “The Inn,” a hand-pulled silkscreen print edition by Erick Sahler celebrating The Inn at Perry Cabin, the historic St. Michaels resort made famous in the film “The Wedding Crashers.”

Erick Sahler’s “Eastern Shore art for the rest of us” salutes the common but often overlooked events and institutions ~ like scrapple, log canoe races and screwpile lighthouses ~ that make life in Chesapeake Country so special.

“The Eastern Shore is chockfull of so many great traditions that make it such a wonderful place to live and make art,” Sahler said. “I want to celebrate them all.”

Sahler is a Salisbury, Md., native. He learned his craft as a teenager, apprenticing for a Salisbury screen printer and studying with Chesapeake Bay maritime painter C. Keith Whitelock. Sahler graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts. He has created artwork for clients across the Eastern Shore since 1983. In 2015, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators in New York.

This July, works spanning his career will be featured in the monthlong exhibit “RETROspective: Erick Sahler” at the Dorchester Center for the Arts in Cambridge.

You can find Erick Sahler’s work in shops across Delmarva. For a list of sellers or to order online, go to www.ericksahler.com.