Chadds Ford Gallery presents the exhibit“Spring Quartet”. The presentation of special works of art by of artists with exceptional talents and visions. “Spring Quartet” opens Friday, April 20, 2012, 5:00pm to 8:00pm; the exhibit continues through May 6th. Located at 1609 Baltimore Pike (Route 1, after theBrandywine Battlefield, but before Brandywine Prime Restaurant) – Chadds Ford. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 to 5:00 and Sunday 12noon to 5:00.No Admission Fee – For More Information call               610.388.2412        or visitwww.awyethgallery.com

Chadds Ford Gallery once again offers an exhibit of art by artists of acknowledged talents; the four artists have had many invitational, juried group, one-exhibits elsewhere, and their return to Chadds Ford Gallery is highly anticipated by many collectors. Their collective works, originals, signed limited reproductions and Giclée printings, can be found in many prominent private, educational and corporate collections here and abroad.

Nancy Cunningham’s says her sense of artistic energy is gained from her picturesque surroundings. Receiving her formal training at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, then studied with and influenced by her teacher Rea Redifer. Married, with children, she continued her art career working in watercolor and oil, capturing the character of an aging structure, or celebrating the arrival of spring by depicting the aura of a new bloom, she pays homage to the area she has come to love and respect. She says, “transforming accurate architectural details and correct dimensions onto a canvas or paper is not the artist’s purpose. The ultimate goal is to establish an intimate relationship with the heritage, mystique, and ever elusive spirit that is Chester Country.” Nancy continues to be successful in producing award winning paintings.

Richard Bollinger, known as the Painter of Rural America, had his first one-man exhibit (a sold out exhibit) at Chadds Ford Gallery in 1976. The Delaware county native, attended the Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia , that started his career in 1969 as a commercial artist in a design company, to freelancing illustrating children’s books, then a job as an art director where he finally begins to develop his watercolor style. His success at Chadds Ford was the springboard for him to switch from commercial arts to fine arts fulltime. Married with children, often asked how he chooses a specific scene or topic to paint, his answer is simple, “light”. His trademark of Chester County rural scenes with majestic skies, masterful stonework, mirrored reflections, now includes the rich golden tones of first light embracing the waterfront in Annapolis, Maryland. Classic vessels that find shelter in its harbor, he captures the heart of this historic town as it appears today. His masterful watercolors of historic American scenes have become legendary.

Paul Scarborough started his artistic odyssey when he was 15 at Claymont High School, Delaware. Wanting to study cartooning in art school, his father, an engineer, considered the plan impractical. Eight years were spent working where his father worked, drawing pipes and power plants for DuPont and Hercules as an engineering draftsman. Ultimately, the drafting experience gave him the expertise needed for the structural subjects he would soon become known for in his artistic watercolor renderings. “Pushing paint around”, he taught himself to paint with oils, acrylic, gouache and casein mediums quite successfully. A realist, with a familiarity of impressionism, spontaneity, directness and familiarity are the heart of his work. Spending time preferring to paint plein air, getting to know the scene or subject, making sketches and studies before the actual painting is completed. He has to live it, be around it and experience it all the time. From his Chadds Ford studio he signs and relives the colors of spring, old barn landscapes of Delaware and Chester counties, Wilmington and Rehoboth beach scenes that are his personal experiences put to canvas, to the delight of his collectors.

J. M. Standish was trained in advertising and graphic design, spending the first twelve years of his career as a commercial artist, while trying to find his way as a painter. Now as a professional artist, Jack realizes that being self taught in the fine arts has been his greatest asset in developing a distinctive style as a realist painter. Most of his paintings are purely fictional, props to set the desired mood, yet highly reflective of the people, places and experiences that have most influenced his work. He tries to achieve a sense of solace in his paintings, partly in the subjects he chooses to paint, partly from the colors he chooses, and partly his choice of mediums, watercolor or egg tempera. The Massachusetts’s artist is married and has been with Chadds Ford Gallery since 1985, and says, “creating new discoveries in my choices of mediums, noting that creating a painting requires so much more than the mechanics of working a brush on paper…talents given or developed, go beyond the simple illustrating of a subject or an idea”.

Since 1969, Chadds Ford Gallery is also the source for Signed Limited, Out of Print and Currently Available Reproductions of N. C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, along with original and signed limited edition artworks by Regional, National and International artists.