Peninsula Gallery to host On the Farm artists reception April 6

Peninsula Gallery will present On the Farm, with scenes of rural living on display from Saturday, April 6 to Sunday, April 28, and an artists’ reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m., April 6.

Featuring 40 oil paintings by Jacalyn Beam, Carol Fastuca, J. Stacy Rogers and Meg Nottingham Walsh, the exhibit includes farm-inspired landscapes, animal portraits and machinery.   

The artists’ reception is free and open to the public. Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle with some of the artists during the evening. Call 302-645-0551 or email peninsulagallery1@gmail.com for further details.  

A nationally known plein air oil painter, Beam was juried into the prestigious Plein Air Texas in 2021. She uses her impressionistic style to paint scenic landscapes found around Delaware and Pennsylvania. Her images focus on historic farm locations, capturing the scenes that hark back to colonial America.

Before starting her own design business creating murals, Fastuca received an MFA in painting from Queens College, and taught drawing and painting at various universities. In her Pennsylvania back yard, she was inspired by the landscape, challenged by the light and color of the sky, and intrigued by the curious personalities of the cows that populated the environment.

Rogers began illustrating professionally while still a student at Philadelphia College of Art. After illustrating for several major magazines, he began designing magazines and ran his own graphic design business and full-service advertising agency in Morris County, N.J. While Rogers has become particularly adept at painting the landscape en plein air, he has many animal portraits featured in the current exhibit. The palette of his images embraces shades of rust, chartreuse and auburn that evoke within the viewer the sights, sounds and scents of a working farm.

Known for landscapes drenched in light and color, Nottingham Walsh has garnered numerous awards at juried exhibitions and national plein air competitions. Although realistic, her paintings have a strong abstract element characterized by simplified shapes, limited values and glowing color. Her collection in this exhibit is a balanced mixture of landscapes and animal portraits. Her iconic style is on full display, as each scene is saturated in light and shadows, bringing dimension and depth to the image.  

Works from the show can be previewed at peninsula-gallery.com. 

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, in the Village Shoppes at the Beacon Inn, 520 East Savannah Road, Lewes.