Douglas Sefton

"Nature provides all the inspiration that's needed. The art, as far as I'm concerned, is in translating that inspiration into a two-dimensional object that has a presence of it's own."

Landscapes are what occupies Sefton most. After a long career as a television journalist covering human and natural disasters in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, Sefton retired to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's there, with it's vast, long horizons of marsh and sky, of swelling farm fields and lonesome barns, that peace can be found.

Sefton works mostly in watercolor but is experimenting with oils. What he knows about painting he gained from Joe Mayer in Easton, Lee Boynton in Annapolis, and Jean Ranney Smith in Trappe.

He has exhibited, among other places, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton and Gallery 1683 in Annapolis and has won a number of awards.