“Picturesque
New Jersey” was the subject of the Medford Leas Gallery
Exhibit in September and October, 2012. The paintings and drawings
were the work of Marcia Steinbock, of the Burlington County
Art Guild. After studying at the Art Students League, followed
by a law degree from Rutgers and a career in law, she has returned
to art. Ms. Steinbock has provided this website with photographs
of the art in this the exhibit. Go
to the slideshow.
She may be contacted at 856-261-7684.
or marcia@ucountonus.com.
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“Art
in Bloom” was an invitational Horticultural Design Display,
sponsored by the Pinelands Garden Club. Six floral designers from
various garden clubs in New Jersey were invited to share their floral
interpretation of six different paintings in the exhibit of Ms Steinbock's
art work. “Art in Bloom” was available for viewing over
the weekend of September 28-30 in the Medford Leas Art Gallery.
Debbie Lux, Pinelands president and horticulturist at Medford Leas,
coordinated the event. The floral interpretations were photographed
by Mike Carrell and Dave Bartram, residents of Medford Leas.
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Medford Leas Nature Center
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Trail
Walk by Joan McKeon |
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Joan
McKeon is a resident of Medford Leas and a member of the Arboretum
Oversight Committee. For eight years she was cochair of the
Medford Leas Flower Show. She has been the Flower show chair
at the the Sea Oats Garden Club, Vero Beach, FL, and is a member
of the Flower Guild, Trinity Episcopal Church, Moorestown. For
the last twenty hears she has been a judge at the PHS City Gardens
Contest in Philadelphia.
The
Nature Center here is the starting and ending point of many
trail, nature and wildflower walks. The design is a simple traditional
arrangement using a collection of plant material from the arboretum
-- swamp magnolia, chokeberry and firethorn from the woods and
hedgetows, milkweed from the meadow and dahlias from "The
Farm" -- things one might that catch one's eye on such
a walk. The shape of the arrangement echoes the shape of the
tree in front of the Nature Center
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Playing
around by Diedra Gross
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Playground |
The
idea of "Art in Bloom" was conceived and designed
by Dierdre Gross, who was given the National Garden Club’s
“Designer of the Year Award” in 2011.
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At
the cove
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In the Woods by Barbara Ritter |
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Barbara has been a member of the Moorestown Garden
Club for a number of years. Recently she has begun working with
the Altar Guild at the First Presbyterian Church in Moorestown
to make two large arrangements for the altar every Sunday. After
the service she participates in a committee that makes smaller
arrangements from the large ones to be taken to shut-ins. Several
years ago, she entered the Medford Leas Flower Show and received
recognition. She makes an arrangement once a month for the front
desk at Medford Leas.
In
looking at the painting, it was the black and white that dictated
her color scheme. "I noticed that the limbs were going in
many directions, and I tried to mimic that. " She used a
walking stick to indicate a tree.
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The
Red Barn by Mettie Fisher
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Allen's Farm |
Mettie
Fisher is a member of the Garden Club of Trenton. She is a National
Garden Club Accredited-Master Judge, Level 4 and a member of
both the New Jersey Judges Council and the Philadelphia Area
Judges Council.
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Burlington
Bristol Bridge
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Construction by Renee Waite |
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Renee
Waite is a National Garden Club accredited flower show judge and
enthusiastic flower show exhibitor. Renee has received blue-ribbons
for her floral designs in the Philadelphia Flower Show and Top
Design Awards at the Garden Club of NJ Flower Show in Edison,
NJ. She
served as Chair of Arrangement Classes for the 2012-13 Philadelphia
Flower Shows and Chair of the NJ Flower Show. She is an active
member of Floralia of NJ, the creative floral design study group.
Renee
explains, "I was intrigued by the bold contrast of the bridge
to the surrounding trees and shrubs in the artwork. I was inspired
to create a construction type floral design depicting the bridge
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Lights,
Camera, Action
by Bonnie J. Nichols
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Ritz Theatre #2 |
Bonnie Nichols
explained, "The National Garden Club has a new design which
is to incorporate a handmade grid. I have used a grid for another
design. The bank of doors at the theater then reminded me of
the grid and so I used it for this design. The Glads reminded
me of the foot lights shining up on the stage curtain which
gave me my title." A member of Pinelands Garden Club of
Medford and The Garden Club of Boca Raton, FL in the winter,
Bonnie has held several positions on the Board of The Garden
Club of New Jersey. Currently she is the Chairman of The Garden
Club Of New Jersey Flower Show Schools. This program trains
those who are interested in becoming a Flower Show Judge to
accomplish this goal.
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