I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia. The Delaware River has been a part of my world as long as I can remember. My parents’ car drove over the bridges into New Jersey. Back then I though all the boundaries between states were rivers and bridges. We visit the USS Olympia where it was docked on the River in Fishtown where my father’s family lived.
When I grew up and got married I lived in Bristol Borough, also on the Delaware River. We launched our first sailboat onto the Delaware and realized quickly the challenges of having a sailboat without a motor on a river with both commercial shipping and a swift current. We moved it to a nearby lake in Tullytown, but the Delaware remained my home waters as our next couple of sailboats grew out of the confines of nearby Lake Van Sciver.
I’m so thrilled to be having an exhibit of my work at Glen Foerd. It’s a gilded age mansion in Northeast Philadelphia located on the banks of the Delaware. The first floor library looks out onto the river through floor to ceiling windows and is the perfect place to show my work that is inspired by not only the shapes of ships, but my own time living on the Delaware river on a sailboat. The exhibit will be on display from June 30, 2024 to July 31. It can be view during Glen Foerd’s open hours and I’ll be giving an artist talk about my work on Saturday July 13, 2024 at 1:00pm. I do hope you will join me.
