Spring colors are adorning the
walls at the Chadds Ford Gallery through May 6 with the exhibit Spring Quartet.
The show features new works from
Richard Bollinger, Paul Scarborough, Nancy Cunningham and J.M. Standish.
“This exhibit is very colorful,
very springy and very happy,” said Barbara Moore, the gallery director.
She added that the four artists
chosen to take part in the exhibit are known for their spring colors. “They
just fit the bill.”
For Bollinger, his interest in
doing the show was in what he termed his long time connection with Chadds Ford.
His first show at the gallery was in 1976.
“It’s been a long relationship,
so when they asked me to do it, I know the other artists and thought it would
be a good time to get together and do the show,” he said.
Colors pop in a number of his
pieces and he said that was deliberate.
“I stretched my palette and some
people think I’ve lost my grip with some of the things I’ve been doing. The
palette’s been stretched and also the technique and medium I’m working with is
a little bit different,” said Bollinger.
He‘s now using a mixed medium,
watercolor combined with tempera and acrylic. Tempera is an emulsion of
pigments with water and egg yolk.
He said using the various
water-based media on a board, not paper, has made a big difference. The board
is hard so the pigment sets on top making the colors more intense and richer
because they’re not absorbed.
Gallery owner Jackie Winthur
called the exhibit diverse, fresh and clean while it uses the works of
long-time gallery favorite artists.
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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