Gallery offers new exhibit: Women in Art

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Coming off a multi-cultural art exhibit that ran from
January into March, the Chadds Ford Gallery is keeping the local art scene
active with a new show, Women in Art. The exhibit opened Friday, April 9.

“It’s a good combination of women, a variety of styles
complement one another,” said Gallery Director Barbara Moore. “That’s the
reason they were chosen, because of that. The floral patterns, the typical
buckets barns and daisies, but it’s the handling of the oils, I think, that are
particularly interesting this time that we don’t usually see in the area
because we have a lot of water colors. It’s diverse. It’s something everyone
should come and see because of the talent we have here. The pastels are
beautiful this year, as well.”

One of the artists who enjoys working in oils is Chadds Ford
resident Judy McCabe Jarvis.

Jarvis has shown at the gallery before, often in the annual
Christmas in Miniature exhibit. She went with something different for the Women
in Art show.

“[I put] city paintings in [with] what is traditionally
Brandywine Style paintings. City painting is different than what they would
generally hang here.”

Moore said Jarvis’ city scenes add a vibrancy and vitality
to the show because they are so different than the normal art fare at the
gallery, they don’t include buckets, barns or daisies.

Jarvis uses oil on canvas because she likes the tactile
feeling of the paint and, “I like to paint in my painterly style, which means
it’s not exactly representational or very detailed. It’s more of an
interpretive expression.”

She added that some of her still life paintings are more
representational.

Another artist whose work relies heavily on the use of oils
is Susan Sponenberg. Her work keys on animal life, usually horses and dogs.

She said she started drawing and painting horses when she
was young because she always loved horses but couldn’t have one.
Animals—horses, dogs and cats are now her inspiration.

Sponenberg said she likes to use oils because of what she
can do in that medium.

“I use a method much like the old masters used where you do
a whole under drawing in a burnt umber, put a glaze over that and put color
into the glazes. So most of my paintings will have between 10 and 20 layers of
color that gives a luminosity that you can’t get with other media. … It’s like
looking through a candy apple [paint] job on a car because you’re looking
trough all these layers of transparency.”

Gallery owner Jackie Winther characterized the show as:
“Pretty. It’s a pretty show. It’s diverse. It’s really diverse. We have the
wildlife and then the landscapes and some abstract work with Judy Jarvis. It’s
a great show, different … [it has] a lot of different things.

Women in Art runs through April 25.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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