Post 552: Amongst the Bluebells Part 1

Amongst the Bluebells Part 1

The Prince William Art Society (PWAS) had a table again this year at the Bluebell Festival at Merrimac Farm in Nokesville on a glorious Sunday in March. We had a lot of Bluebell artwork, art prints and we had about 8 plein air artists out amongst the bluebells - painting away.

15014 Deepwood Ln, Nokesville, VA 20181

Bluebell Festival Sun Mar 30, 2025

The weather man and iPhone weather didn't really live up to how Sunday, March 30, 2025 turned out. Thankfully. From "It's going to be cloudy all day" and "chance of rain" the big blue sky was doing it's best to impress all morning and didn't give way to those clouds until the afternoon. 

Last year's Bluebell Festival was on April 7 so this year's festival was a full week earlier. We heard that the Bluebells were not quite at full bloom as yet, the organizers of the event said to be sure and come back to see them - the full carpet of 'blue' that we had seen last year.

 

Photo from Katie Dugan of Kelly Haneklau, Staci Blanchard (aka The Goddess of Glitter) and Donna Liguria

Photo from Donna Merchant: L to R - Staci Blanchard, Kat Gates, Robert Dew, David Dillon, Ana Quispe, Cheryl Handley, Donna Liguria, Kelly Haneklau, Nicole Goble, Mark Clifton

PWAS Plein Air Posse

Let's see the day in pictures - I'm hoping that the artists will send me pictures of what they were working on too. So hopefully post 2 on the Bluebells.

The PWAS Plein Air Posse, PWAS Show Staff and artists represented for the Bluebell Festival consisted of:

• Robert Dew
• David Dillon
• Kathleen (Kat) Gates
• Ana Quispe 
• Mark Clifton
• Nicole Goble
• Kelly Haneklau 
• Donna Merchant
• Cheryl Handley
  
• Katie Keller Dugan 
• Staci Blanchard
• Donna Liguria 
• Jen Batty
• Mihee Rink
• Carol Noboa
• Scott Elliot
• Eric Ndofor
• Doreen Dauer
• Patty Gutledge 
• Maggie Milligan

The Bluebell visitors enjoyed looking at the all of the artwork. We talked to a lot of people and answered questions about the Prince William Art Society and told them about our PWAS members out in the field plein air painting. 

Photos by Joy Yates:

 

Robert Dew

 

Kat Gates

 

David Dillon

 

Ana Quispe

 

Donna Merchant

 Photos from Katie Dugan:

Bluebell Crew: Kelly Haneklau, Staci Blanchard and Donna Liguria

 

Kat Gates 

Photos from Donna Liguria:

 

Kelly Haneklau painting the building - not the part in front of the building!

 

Nicole Goble in the corner

 

Under the Stone House - where they throw the people that step on Bluebells

(kidding!)

Look for Amongst the Bluebells Part 2 - more great pictures coming!

 

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Author: Donna Liguria
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: Joy Yates (guest of Mark Clifton), Katie Dugan, Donna Liguria, Kelly Haneklau, Kat Gates, Donna Merchant

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

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