About the Cover Artist: Nancy Hammond

Nancy Hammond is a painter who loves water life. Boatyards, black Labs, crab feasts, tropical ports and iridescent fi sh are all scenes from her life of living near the water. She grew up in Schenectady and Skaneateles, near the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. For many years, she cruised the Chesapeake on the sloop Northern Spy.

She majored in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and her work has since been chosen to be exhibited in many galleries, including the Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute of Art.

Hammond began her Chesapeake work with series of silkscreen prints. Since then, she has produced custom-designed scarves, jewelry, shirts, hats, glassware and a series of etched crystal.

Archival giclée prints are colormatched to her original works. Notecards and Christmas cards are favorites of her patrons.

A phenomenon was created when Nancy Hammond began off ering an annual lithograph poster, signed and numbered in Annapolis. The release of this poster caused long lines every year that stretched for blocks through the night. The tradition of the annual Chesapeake poster continues today.

Her prints and original paintings can be seen at her galleries, located at 192 West Street in Annapolis and 214 S. Talbot St. in St. Michaels.

The staff off ers framing advice and consultations with a full range of framing samples.

Open daily, the galleries also off er appointments to help select the perfect piece for your home

For more info and directions to the galleries, visit nancyhammondeditions.com.

Red Spinnaker is the title of this month’s cover.