About the Cover Artist: Erick Sahler

“Most of my illustrations are composites of multiple subjects ~ a sky, a building, a car ~ photographed at different times and places,” said Erick Sahler, this month’s cover artist. “But this image ~ the dreadlocked Kevin Waddy working atop a Chesapeake Bay deadrise in front of the oldest building in Oxford ~ is exactly as it appeared at the Crockett Bros. Boatyard in October 2019. It was a visual gift from the gods that I am grateful to have witnessed, captured and shared.”

The piece, called “Crockett Bros.,” is one of more than 120 Delmarvathemed illustrations the artist has created since launching Erick Sahler Serigraphs Co. in 2011.

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. He was recently featured in a Chesapeake Bay magazine cover story and this year was commissioned to create an illustration celebrating the 50th anniversary of Gateway National Recreation Area.

You can find his work in shops in Cambridge, Easton, Oxford and St. Michaels, or at ericksahler.com.