September 25, 2024 / News
A Real Fall Highlight: Brookfield Farms Pumpkin Patch!
Hey all,
One of the great things that happens in our neighborhood at this time of year: Sam and Mary Jane Roop open the Brookfield Farms Pumpkin Patch to the public for a fall celebration.
Brookfield offers hayrides to their 15 acre Pumpkin Patch (where you can pick your own pumpkin), a corn maze (whose proceeds are donated to charities), a farm animal petting zoo, and other activities to entertain your children. It’s a great experience and an opportunity to purchase the perfect pumpkin for Halloween!
So on your way to Links Bridge Vineyards, stop at Brookfield and enjoy a special family adventure that has become a tradition in our area.
You’ll find Brookfield Farms at 8302 Ramsburg Rd, Thurmont, MD 21788, just up the road from Links Bridge. The Pumpkin Patch is open September 28 through Oct 31. Mon-Thurs 3pm-6pm. Fri-Sun 10am-6pm. Visit www.BrookfieldPumpkins.com for more information.
Best wishes for a great October!
Bob & Joan
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September 24, 2024 / News
Hands of the Artist: Paintings by Five Frederick Artists
September 28 through October 13
© Pam Herrick
Hi all,
As a part of our 2024 “Wine and Art series”, Links Bridge Vineyards is pleased to host an exhibit of oil and acrylic paintings by five local Frederick County artists: Sandra Cook, Pam Herrick, Ann Lundahl, Robin Seidel, and Stephanie Torres. These painters have diverse styles and subjects but are united in their preference for realism. They often work together to share inspiration and the pleasure that creating art provides.
Small Table © Sandra Cook
Those familiar with their work from last year will see that this year they have experimented with different media, techniques, and styles. Come on by to see an intriguing mix of landscapes, still life, and portraits animal and human!
The exhibit is open to the public Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm from September 28 through October 13, and by appointment on weekdays (301-466-2413). Additionally, the five artists will be at Links Bridge on Sunday September 29, 1-4 pm, to meet with customers and talk informally about their work. (No speeches!)
Cheers!
Joan & Bob
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September 5, 2024 / News
Goat Yoga at the Riffle–Last of the Year!
Goat Yoga at Links Bridge Vineyards is coming your way for the third time this summer! Enjoy a yoga experience on a grassy lawn overlooking the Monocacy River, at a peaceful but pleasantly babbling stretch we call “The Riffle.”
The third of this year’s goat yoga classes is Sunday September 15, 10 am-Noon.
The ticket price includes a mimosa before the class begins (come a little early!) and a complimentary tasting of 7 wines up at the tasting room when the class is over. We invite you to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the terrace or down by the river.
To sign up, go to the Goat for the Soul website.
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September 5, 2024 / News
Paintings by Paula Rubin-Wexler
Hi all,
From September 2nd through 22nd, Links Bridge Vineyards is pleased to host an exhibit of paintings by Paula Rubin-Wexler entitled “The Voice of Vistas: A Plein Air Artist Speaks.”
Rubin-Wexler is known for her big skies, abstracted landscapes, and her deep understanding of the moods, colors and atmosphere of the vistas she loves to paint. Her award-winning work has been described as having a compelling simplicity and a Zen-like quality. She has a signature style that stands out and is easily recognized as uniquely hers.
Late Summer at the Farm
© Paula Rubin-Wexler
This collection of paintings focuses primarily on Frederick County, and nothing gives Rubin-Wexler more joy than to capture the essence and beauty of Frederick. She loves being a creator of her own world and feeling a visceral perception beyond her five senses. Her greatest hope is to leave the viewer with the same sense of tranquility that she feels while painting.
A reception for the artist will be held in the Links Bridge Tasting Room on Sunday, September 8 from 2–4pm. We hope you’ll come by and chat with her! (And enjoy a glass of wine.)
For more information, take a look at Rubin-Wexler’s website.
Cheers!
Joan & Bob
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August 21, 2024 / News
Hello All,
We thought you might like to hear about the latest exhibit at the Links Bridge Vineyards Tasting Room:
Intuition: New Paintings by Pauline Rakis
August 17-September 1
Intuition, an exhibit at the Links Bridge Vineyards tasting room, is the first public showing of a new series of paintings by Pauline Rakis. The paintings are deeply emotional, expressive, and non-representational.
I Hear the Music
© Pauline Rakis
Pauline is a full-time artist and an Associate Artist at the Riverworks Art Center in Beallsville, Maryland. She has participated in many juried exhibitions across Maryland, DC and Virginia where she has received a number of awards for her paintings. She is very active as an artist and in addition contributes much time to community efforts as a volunteer, organizer of art outreach to children, judge in juried exhibitions, and workshop leader.
This is not Pauline’s first exhibit at Links Bridge Vineyards. Last year she helped us celebrate spring with a collection called “Nature’s Grace,” composed of representational paintings in joyful spring colors. We are glad to have her back! She will be here in the tasting room on Saturday August 24 from 2-4pm if you’d like to chat with her.
Come on by, enjoy the paintings, and share a glass of wine with someone special!
Cheers,
Joan & Bob
Links Bridge Tasting Room, August 17-September 1
Weekends, 11am-6pm
Other days by appointment.
For appointments, call 301-466-2413
or 301-602-5733
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July 19, 2024 / News
Farms and Fields, An Artists View
Paintings by Deborah Lovelace Richardson
July 27 – Aug 11 at Links Bridge Vineyards
Frederick County, with its farmland and rolling hills, offers up many beautiful vistas that are always an artistic inspiration. Farms and Fields, a collection of (mostly) Frederick County landscapes painted on location by Deborah Lovelace Richardson, will be on display in the Links Bridge tasting room from July 27-August 11. The artist will hold a reception at the tasting on July 28, 1-3pm, for those who would like to meet her.
Middletown Barns © Deborah Lovelace Richardson
Richardson received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has always preferred to paint outdoors in a small format that can be completed in one or two three-hour sessions. She places down oil paint, analyzing one color as it relates to the one next to it. Each stroke of paint is put down as accurately as possible the first time, so little correction has to be made. This technique creates a rich surface with the emphasis on the stroke of the brush and the application of the paint to the surface, giving her work a very painterly quality.
Richardson paints weekly with Frederick’s enthusiastic plein air community and participates in several local plein air events each year. She has received numerous awards over the years and was honored to have her work featured in the Maryland Public Television special, “Historic Barns of Maryland.”
She is a member of the Frederick Plein Air Artists, and a life member of the Delaplaine Visual Arts
Center, Frederick County Art Association, and the Frederick County Landmarks Foundation.
Deborah’s work can be viewed at Gallery 322 in downtown Frederick, MD and at the studio/gallery she shares with her husband artist Harry Richardson near New Market, MD.
Goat Yoga (Again) at the Riffle
Goat Yoga at Links Bridge Vineyards is coming your way for the second time this summer! Enjoy a yoga experience on a grassy lawn overlooking the Monocacy River, at a peaceful but pleasantly babbling stretch we call “The Riffle.”
The second of this year’s goat yoga classes is Sunday July 28, 10 am-Noon.
The ticket price includes a mimosa before the class begins (come a little early!) and a complimentary tasting of 7 wines up at the tasting room when the class is over. We invite you to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the terrace or down by the river.
To sign up, go to the Goat for the Soul website.
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