There’s a major change at the Chadds Ford Gallery. No more does the gallery occupy two floors in its Barn Shop location. It now has five rooms on the ground floor.

“We’re too old to go upstairs,” joked gallery owner Jackie Winther. “We had an opportunity to take over the downstairs and we went for it. It’s not a great economy and it was a hard decision, but I think it will be worthwhile.”

She added that the change enables the gallery to have more art on display for everyone who comes in, since before, many people never ventured upstairs. It also lets people know the gallery does framing.

There may be some other changes, such as an artist of the month display, but Winther said that decision would have to wait until after Christmas in Miniature.

The annual Christmas display is the gallery’s most major undertaking of the year. It starts Nov. 30 through the end of December.

“That is going to be a really special show because all the original artists, the living artists:] [such as] Bill Ewing and Karl Kuerner are coming. All of the original artists. It’s going to be neat.”

Local artist Tim Wadsworth was the first artist to show in the newly rearranged gallery.

That show is different, too, with more color and different images.

“I think that this might appeal to a younger crowd. This is a less traditional show,” said Winther

Images range from jet fighters to a mermaid.

Wadsworth said there were some significant life changes going on with him that led to different images coursing through his imagination.

“That kind of generates new ideas for the art.”

His color palette is bolder than what’s seen in many of the more traditional exhibits at the gallery, and it’s something Wadsworth said he’s been working on deliberately.

“I am trying to expand because I’ve sort of been cornered into that Brandywine style and I’m trying to break out of that and you’ll see in the work I have here [for this show] is outside of that palette so, yes, I am stretching it a little bit.”

Wadsworth, 52, is the director of communications for the hospital contracting division of Independence Blue Cross.

He’s been painting since he was 8 or 9 years old, but has been painting professionally for about 10 years.

While there may seem to be a big difference between his everyday work and his painting, Wadsworth doesn’t necessarily see it that way.

“I’m an artist first. I always have been. I’ve always incorporated my creative thinking, my creative production into the work that I do everyday. So, I do have the opportunity to introduce some of that thinking into the work that I do within my day job.”

He added that he hopes the day will soon come when he can paint full time.

Wadsworth’s exhibit runs through Oct. 28.