Peninsula Gallery to host opening reception April 6
The Washington Society of Landscape Painters will be featured in Spring Mix, a new exhibit at Peninsula Gallery in Lewes.
In a show juried by gallery owners Carol and Tony Boyd-Heron, the Washington Society will exhibit 38 oil paintings by 19 different artists. In all, there were 77 submissions. The WSLP has been in existence for more than 100 years. In 1913. two artists from the Washington, D.C. area chanced to meet in Rock Creek Park. Their shared love of plein air painting sparked a friendship that grew into a club, the Ramblers, in 1917. Exhibitions as far afield as Arizona and Wisconsin followed.
Through World War II, the club’s members remained faithful to the aesthetic of representational landscape painting, making it one of the oldest active art organizations in the region. Now known as the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, this passionate and vibrant group of 40 juried members enjoys plein air painting together monthly, exhibiting and sharing information, but especially the camaraderie of kindred artistic souls.
Spring Mix, as the title suggests, is a mixture of landscapes and still life paintings where flowers take center stage. From traditional spring bulbs like daffodils and tulips to early flowering perennials to shrubs like forsythia and redbud, there is a virtual A-Z of the floral world. Throw in a couple of lily ponds, a field of poppies gently swaying in the breeze, and several peaceful summer gardens, and viewers will have everything they need to remind them that winter is officially over.
An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, April 6, when the public is invited to meet some of the artists. The exhibition will continue through Friday, April 28.
To preview the show, go to www.peninsula-gallery.com. The gallery is located in the shops at the Beacon, across the canal bridge on Savannah Road in Lewes.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday. For more information, call 302-645-0551.
