Our local art gallery features a rotating collection of works by area artists. The hills surrounding the inn & the Delaware River Valley are home to talent that is just amazing. Our exhibits change with the seasons & we feature artists from multiple genres.
On view now at the River’s Edge Gallery
Local Color-Landscape, Water, and Still Life Paintings
This exhibition features neighborhood artists Ellen Sapienza & John Schmidtberger, each showing scenes of landscapes and waterscapes. Both Ellen & John have been close neighbors and friends of the inn for over 20 years and this is their second exhibit at the River’s Edge Gallery. We are honored to have their work in our gallery!
Ellen Sapienza – Artist Statement- “Most importantly, my work is empirical in origin. It all begins with my response to something seen, whether a patch of landscape or a painting in a museum. I am an experimental rather than a conceptual painter, focusing on the physical world, on things, on sensations. Somehow, in the process of making or viewing art, there seems to be an echoing, a clarifying, and a deepening of what it is to be alive, to be a person living life.”
Night on the Delaware-Oil on Canvas 18″x18″
Ellen holds a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Fine Arts and Psychology from St Louis University, St. Louis, MO – Graduating Magna Cum Laude. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, concentrating on painting, drawing & printmaking, studying under Seymore Remnick, David Fertig & Sidney Goodman.
John Schmidtberger– is an artist, gallerist & cartoonist from Upper Black Eddy, PA. He paints plein-air style in the Bucks & Hunterdon area, as well as Maine. Working from direct observation, without photography or retouching, his paintings have been described as modern and poetic, with a strong sense of light, deliberate brushwork, and a vivid palette.
Schmidtberger-River with Sun Glare
John studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and later at the University of Pennsylvania, studying painting, drawing, sculpture & printmaking, earning a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Fine Arts. John’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, and appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. John’s work is represented in important private collections.
Click on images below to enlarge.
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- Sapienza-Bouquet in a Niche
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- Sapienza- Shadow of the Hills
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- Schmidtberger-Sycamore Dance
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- Schmidtberger- Paint Out #3
