View the Paint the Shore People’s Choice Award winning painting “Stream of Serenity” by Suri Doughty from Broadwater Academy and the eleven other finalists from Arcadia Middle School, Broadwater Academy, and Nandua Middle School in our virtual gallery. Paint the Shore is an event highlighting the beauty and natural environment of Virginia’s Eastern Shore through plein air painting. This year, Paint the Shore focused solely on celebrating the artwork of local middle school students.
Two families realized their vision to protect the Eastern Shore’s natural and cultural heritage forever with conservation easements on Peter’s Point and Lewis Farm.
Whether passing from generation to generation or transferring through a sale, land changes hands. Each steward leaves their mark—restoring an historic home, planting a garden, adding a garage, or even placing a conservation easement on the property. Conservation easements preserve farms, forests, and wetlands forever and also pass with the land from owner to owner.
The VES Land Trust Board of Directors with Jane Newcombe and Bill and Colette Nelson hosted the annual Oyster Roast Dinner at The Folly April 12, 2025.
View the Paint the Shore People’s Choice Award winning painting “Stream of Serenity” by Suri Doughty from Broadwater Academy and the eleven other finalists from Arcadia Middle School, Broadwater Academy, and Nandua Middle School in our virtual gallery. Paint the Shore is an event highlighting the beauty and natural environment of Virginia’s Eastern Shore through plein air painting. This year, Paint the Shore focused solely on celebrating the artwork of local middle school students.
The Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust (VESLT) held its biennial Paint the Shore event this fall. A group of 17 artists painted en plein air on conservation lands under easement with VESLT, culminating in a November reception and art exhibit. This fall Nandua Middle School Eighth Graders were also featured during Paint the Shore.
The Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust held the first Picture the Shore event this fall. Students from Nandua Middle School and Broadwater Academy participated with Amateur Photographers from the community. At the exhibit opening and reception held on November 4th, the audience awarded two photographers, one student and one amateur, with the People's Choice Award.
The Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust (VESLT) held its biennial Paint the Shore event this fall, and mixed it up by inviting student artists from Nandua Middle School to participate. A group of 13 artists spent the month of October painting en plein air on conservation lands under easement with VESLT, culminating in a November reception and art exhibit. See our photo gallery!
In sun, rain, and wind ten artists set up their easels on protected lands to paint in plein air (outdoors). Their mission was to capture and share a sense of place and a brief moment in a changing landscape. “Plein air sketches make great reminders of how a landscape changes constantly. They are small recordings of time, when the weather causes docks to wash away or barns to cave in,” explained artist Carole Böggemann Peirson.
