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Studios On Walnut to host art opening in new gallery Dec. 9-10

December 2, 2022

The Studios on Walnut in Milton will host its first art show celebrating its new ArtWorks Gallery, with an opening celebration set for 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 9, and continuing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 10, at 310 Walnut St., Milton. Light refreshments will be served, and the public is invited to attend.

ArtWorks Gallery is located in the space formerly occupied by the Milton Arts Guild. This event will feature the artwork of Studios on Walnut resident artists Mary Ellen Daly, Marilyn Feldman, Mark Harris, Bill Patterson and Nick Serratore. In addition to visiting the new gallery, the public can tour the artists’ working studios. Future quarterly exhibitions and other art events are being planned for 2023.

Mary Ellen Daly’s work is a combination of printmaking and painting techniques which results in a one-of-a-kind image and effects that cannot be achieved in any other form of art. Her work includes both ethereal landscapes and abstract designs, blending visual realism with expressionism. She goes with intuition, and lets the process lead to chance and surprise while searching for her imagery.

Marilyn Feldman is currently working in pastel, capturing the seasonal colors and moods of local wetlands and bike trails. She studied art at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art and at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her watercolors and pastels have been selected for juried exhibitions in Annapolis, Md., Baltimore, Washington and Rehoboth Beach. Feldman is a member of Rehoboth Art League and Potomac Valley Watercolorists.

Mark Harris’ primary interest is in relief printing, using a variety of materials whose surfaces are marked, inked and impressed on paper. His interest is in keeping alive the ancient desire to make direct graphic impressions and also the intriguing and subtle ways such marks can be made. His work is in the collection of the Delaware Art Museum and the Maryland Institute College of Art. 

Bill Patterson is able to capture particular qualities that he finds in the natural landscape. His work is about his reactions to the unique qualities – lighting, color, movement or moods – of places he has visited. He has participated in local outdoor art shows and gives workshops at various art facilities. His award-winning work has been featured in several different publications. It is not unusual to see him throughout Sussex County with his camera and paintbrushes in hand, scouting out his next artistic endeavor.

Nick Serratore works in pastels. His paintings harness representations of the land to demonstrate the effects of sunlight and spatial depth upon a scene. His use of color and blending techniques creates moody, atmospheric landscapes that frame almost-abstract fields of saturated light and color. Serratore is the recipient of a 2020 Individual Fellowship Grant for established artist given by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

 

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