Exhibitions

Gallery One is pleased to announce the July show, “Garden Glories” open to the public June 28 through August 2, 2023.

The artist Claude Monet once said, “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” This month the artists of Gallery One have created beautiful masterpieces from their gardens. In artist Laura Hickman’s pastel, “Garden Glory at Keukenhof,” we admire the garden and the garden’s admirer! “Most people like to dress up for special occasions such as weddings, concerts, and dances, but this “garden glory” loved dressing for a world-renowned garden and made quite an impression!” And what would a garden be without a gardener? In Ray Ewing’s oil painting, “Spring Garden Walk,” Ray, a renowned plein air artist, was fortunate to capture a figure bringing in the lovely harvest.

In artist Cindy Beyer’s pastel, “My Piece of Eden,” and Jeanne Mueller’s, “Delaware Botanic Moss Garden,” in oil, we are delighted by two classic gardens. The Delaware Botanic Gardens, in Dagsboro, is a local garden oasis that served as inspiration for Mueller’s piece. “The Moss Garden is a new garden created this year and further promotes the idea of creating gardens that attract pollinators.” “A flower blossoms for its own joy,” said Oscar Wilde.

But we certainly find joy in those blossoms this month, with peonies, gerbera daisies, and wildflowers immortalized by Gallery One artists. In artist Joyce Condry’s acrylic painting,“Garden Snips” and Mary Bode Byrd’s acrylic mixed media, “Pretty in Pink,” we see the beautiful blooms at home in their natural garden environment. Mary’s painting reflects her garden’s “late in the summer glow, captured at dusk, which creates an ethereal pink haze on the warm colored flowers.” While in LesleyMcCaskill’s acrylic, “Bountiful Posies,” Michelle Marshall’s acrylic painting, “Garden Shadows,” and Marybeth Paterson’s oil painting, “Peonies,” we are treated to the stand-alone beauty of each individual bloom separate from its garden, but still honoring it. As Paterson writes, “Peonies are outrageously beautiful. They are one of my favorite garden blooms with the largest, lushest flowers. Since it is a perennial, they come back every year. I tried to capture that lushness so this painting could bring that beauty into any season.” The artist has the unique ability to create an everlasting garden, to freeze that moment in time.

While in Marybeth Paterson’s oil painting, “Peonies,” Lesley McCaskill’s acrylic,“Bountiful Posies,” and Michelle Marshall’s acrylic painting, “Garden Shadows,” we are treated to the stand-alone beauty of each individual bloom. “Peonies are outrageously beautiful. They are one of my favorite garden blooms with the largest, lushest flowers. Since it is a perennial, they come back every year. I tried to capture that lushness so this painting could bring that beauty into any season,” says artist Marybeth Paterson of her piece.