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“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 [email protected].

“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.

Medford Leas Nature Center

Trail Walk by Joan McKeon

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

Playing around by Diedra Gross

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.

At the cove

In the Woods by Barbara Ritter

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.

The Red Barn by Mettie Fisher

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.

Burlington Bristol Bridge

Construction by Renee Waite

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 architecture."

Lights, Camera, Action by Bonnie J. Nichols

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.