Exhibitions

Gallery One is pleased to announce the November show, “Bountiful,” open to the public, October 30, 2024, through December 4th, 2024.

“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance,” Psalm 65:11. At Gallery One this month our carts are overflowing with abundance as we feature paintings that reflect the bounty and beauty of the season, and our unique area.  Artist Eileen Olson sums this up perfectly in her acrylic painting, “True Blessing,” “Organic shapes come alive with a plethora of colors in greens, golds and deep reds in this painting, and are used to evoke abundance. I wanted to represent the very essence of nature’s bounty with free expression in my acrylic abstract.” Similarly, artist Laurie Fields evokes abundance in quantity in her abstract, “Morocco 1” in oil.

Our unique area evokes the bounty of our harvests as well, whether they be from the sea or the land. In Edward Lewandowski’s, oil painting, “Chesapeake Tongers,” and Laura Hickman’s pastel, “Fishing Along the Canal,” our local waters are illustrated. Ed shares his first hand plein air experience, “Oysters were once bountiful in the waters around Smith Island, MD.  Today, local watermen still harvest these tasty bivalves using a backbreaking harvest method called tonging. I captured this scene of a crew pulling oysters from the water on the first day of the season in October 2023. The abundance of our harvest from the land is beautifully celebrated in Dale Sheldon’s acrylic, “Sussex Orchard Bounty,” Joyce Condry’s,” Vino Rosso,” and Marybeth Paterson’s oil painting, “Lloyd’s of Lewes.” Marybeth writes, “Lloyd’s market in Lewes has been a mainstay for both local residents as well as visitors. I wanted to capture the abundance of fresh produce, but even more the warmth and appreciation we have in Lewes for this treasured gem.”

The beauty and abundance of nature’s palette is on view in artist Mary Bode Byrd’s autumnal, “Before the Leaves Turn,” in Acrylic, Cindy Beyer’s pastel, “Autumn’s Bounty,” and in Lesley McCaskill’s vibrant ode to summer at the shore, “Spot on the Beach.” Beyer says, “The spectacular menagerie of colors inspired me to paint this painting, the color of the crisp chilly blue lake contrasting with the orange colors of the leaves.  A true complement of each other.”

We hope you’ll pay us a visit and join in our bounty this month. Gallery One is open daily 10am – 4:00 pm.