Gallery One recently announced the theme of its August show, âDelaware Botanic Gardens,â open to the public July 28 through Aug. 31. The Delaware Botanic Gardens are located in Dagsboro, with a mission to âcreate a world-class, inspirational, educational public botanic garden in Southern Delaware for the benefit and enjoyment of all.â
Situated on 37 acres along Pepper Creek, which flows into Peppers Creek, the site is located on the gently rolling, verdant, sandy coastal plain, but also features a 12-acre hardwood forest and a wetland marsh with more than 1,000 feet of waterfront along the navigable tidal creek.
Eileen Olson s mixed-media work âBunny Tree was started as a demonstration work and finished in her back yard.Coastal Point ⢠Submitted
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Dale Sheldon, “Meeting Monet,” acrylic. February 25, 2021
Gallery One will present its March show, themed Fantasy, to the public from Wednesday, March 3, through Tuesday, March 30.
The artists of Gallery One are fantasizing this month. Dreams, imagination, and magic are all in view with this month’s show. W. Scott Broadfoot’s oil painting “Fantasy Still Life” illustrates this perfectly, and provides a little art history lesson as well. The phrase “trompe l’oeil” is French for “fool the eye,” and this painting technique uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Although the term gained popularity in the early 19th century, the illusionistic technique associated with trompe l’oeil dates back to murals of the Greek and Roman eras. Scott’s painting is composed of modern-day objects arranged in a dream scenario and is so lifelike that one can almost smell the pipe tobacco and hear the