2025 Links Bridge Vineyards Wine and Art Series

This year, Links Bridge will host eleven exhibits by area artists, most lasting about one month. You’ll find a listing of artists, dates, and times below.

First up is a collection of photos of Links Bridge that are “digitally reconstituted” by the artist to produce alternate versions that will capture your imagination. The last exhibit brings you striking photos by an accomplished landscape photographer of natural landscapes in the eastern and western United States. Between these photographic bookends are nine other shows by individual artists and groups. Some emphasize plein air painting of Frederick County and mid-Atlantic scenes. Others feature studio paintings that range from very representational to very abstract. Overall, these exhibits provide a great picture of the abundant artistic talent in our area.

We hope you’ll come by for a look at some or all of the exhibits. We have scheduled weekend afternoon receptions for most of the artists, providing them an opportunity to talk informally about their work, and in some cases to demonstrate the techniques they use. We especially invite you to come by on those days to chat with the artists over a glass of wine!

Hidden Fruit of the Vine: Digital Artwork
by Allen Hirsh, February 1-28
(Reception for the artist: February 8, 2-4pm)

Using a unique transformation process of his own creation, Allen Hirsh has changed everyday conventional photos taken at Links Bridge Vineyards into impressionistic and abstract images. The process involves manipulating both the color and position of each pixel in the original still photo to obtain a new image that fascinates the eye.

One Glass Too Many
© Allen Hirsh

Elements of Grandeur–A Journey Through Nature, Light and Form: Photographs by Luna, March 1-30
(Reception for the artist: March 8, 1-3pm)

In this exhibit of Luna’s photographs, you will experience a world where nature, structure, and light collide in moments of boldness and serenity.

Heaven’s Gate © Luna

The Sound of Line: Paintings by Bryan Jernigan, April 5-27
(Reception for the artist: April 5, 1-3pm

This striking collection of abstract paintings is inspired by the symmetries, regular linear structures, and chaos of our nation’s capital, Washington DC.

Sound of Line 2 © Bryan Jernigan

Spring Flowers: Paintings by members of the Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association, May 3-18
(Reception for the artists: May 17, 1-3pm)

This exhibit, a potpourri of paintings by artists inspired by spring flowers, is as colorful as spring itself and just the thing for picture browsing in early May. The GFAA, founded in 1976, includes members throughout Montgomery County and beyond who work in a variety of media and styles and exhibit extensively on the county, state, regional and national levels.

Magnolia © Lacy Angie

Iron Works Festival Plein Air Artists
May 24-June 1

Visitors to Catoctin Furnace’s 8th Annual Maryland Iron Festival (May 17-18) can see iron pouring and blacksmithing demonstrations, tour historic structures in the Catoctin Furnace area, and enjoy live music, food trucks, a wine and beer bar, and other activities. The festival always attracts numerous plein air painters, and we’re pleased that this year their work will be on display afterward at the Links Bridge tasting room from May 24 through June 1.

Fraley’s Store © Daniel Peck

Life Expressions: The Tuesday Painters
June 7-29
(Reception for the artists: June 8, 1-4pm)

The Tuesday Painters originated over 30 years ago when Mary Pfister first offered her “Tuesdays With Mary” art instruction. Since then, artists from those classes, having reached a high level of excellence, have continued to come together on a regular weekly basis to learn from, motivate, and inspire each other.

Soaking Up the Sun © Emily Sloviko

Two Painters, Separate Paths: Paintings by Lissa Abrams and Tom Ritchie, July 4-27
(Reception for the artists, July 12, 1-3pm)

Lissa Abrams and Tom Ritchie, both members of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, have won numerous awards in regional plein air competitions. Visitors to this exhibit will enjoy comparing the painting styles of these two successful and increasingly well-known artists. (Both will be demonstrating the plein air approach to painting in the Links Bridge garden on July 12, 1-3pm.)

Blossoms © Lissa Abrams

Libation Conversation © Tom Ritchie

Being There–Catching the Light: Paintings by Ann Schaefer, August 2-31
(Reception for the artist, August 3, 1-3pm)

A dedicated and successful plein air painter, Schaefer works mainly in and around Washington DC, Frederick County, and the Eastern Shore. She has had many solo shows, and often wins awards in plein air events and group shows. Her work is always on view at Gallery 322 in Frederick and Gallery 209 in Artists and Makers Studios in Rockville.

From Frederick County to Distant Shores: Paintings by Members of Frederick Plein Air Artists
September 6-28
(Reception for the artists: September 7, 1-3 pm)

This exhibit features scenes from Frederick County and the Chesapeake Bay to the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice, the fishing villages of Croatia, and other locales as well, painted by twelve members of Frederick Plein Air Artists. FPAA was formed out of a shared desire to paint outdoors on a regular basis. They paint at inspirational locations each Wednesday, weather permitting, from spring through November.

Five Chicks With Brushes: Paintings by the Hands of the Artist Group, October 4-26
(Reception for the artists:

Hands of the Artist is a group of five friends who work together to inspire and encourage one another. A personal attraction to art since childhood unites them. Nevertheless, their differing styles illustrate how the same physical facts can take on very different shapes when filtered through different imaginations. Members of this group have shown their work solo and collectively at venues like Crestwood and Delaplaine, and here at Links Bridge Vineyards.

Natural World in Photography: East Meets West
Photos by Jim Mosher, November 1-30

In this exhibit, Mosher presents views of nature recorded during a long career traveling the western parts of the US, and more recently while sailing the Chesapeake Bay and south along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

2025 Links Bridge Vineyards Wine and Art Series