Shirley Mersky

Landscape and Still Life Oil Paintings

 
 
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Artist Statement

I am an oil painter who lives and works in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I receive inspiration from the beauty that surrounds me. I love to take my easel outdoors and paint directly from my environment, but I also enjoy the solitude of studio painting where many of my outdoor studies become larger paintings. While the outdoors provides the freshness and vitality of the first response, the studio is the place to extend that first expression and make it something new and even more interesting. I also paint still lives in the studio.

Education

Dickinson College, BA in English Literature and Art History

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts- Four Year Certificate in Painting

 

Exhibits Include:

Juried Shows:

The Philadelphia Sketch Club “Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1997, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2012

Coryell Gallery “Lambertville Historic Society Annual Juried Exhibition” 2004,

The Delaware River Mill Society “Images of the Mill” Stockton New Jersey, 2004

Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey 2005

Canal Frame Gallery “All that Jazz” Washington Crossing, PA. 2006

Howard Gallery “From Easton to Bristol- Scenes from the Valley” New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2006

Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission “The Artist Looks at Hunterdon County” Stockton, New Jersey, 2006

Canal Frame Gallery “Historical Perspectives” Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, 2007

Artsbridge Thirteenth Annual Juried Show, Lambertville, New Jersey 2007

Mixed Media Juried Painting Exhibition, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 2007

The Phillips Mill Annual Juried Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania 2008

Canal Frame Gallery “Creative Flow”, Washington Crossing, PA. 2009

Canal Frame Gallery “Visions of Hope”, Washington Crossing, PA. 2011

The Coryell Gallery 30th Annual Juried Show “Lambertville and the Surrounding Area,” 2011

The Philadelphia Sketch Club “Art of the Flower,” Philadelphia, PA. Juried Exhibition, 2011

Artsbridge Seventeenth Annual Juried Show, New Hope, PA. 2011

Friends of the Delaware Canal Juried Show New Hope, PA. 2011

Hidden Hunterdon County Juried Art Exhibition, Stockton, NJ. 2012

The Phillips Mill Annual Juried Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania 2012

“Lambertville and the Surrounding Area” chaired by Janet Hunt at the Robert Beck Gallery

2013, 2014, and 2015.

Artsbridge Nineteenth Annual Juried Show, New Hope, Pa. 2013

Stover Mill Art Gallery Juried Art Exhibit, Tinicum PA., 2013 , 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017

The Phillips Mill Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania 2019

Invitationals:

Burnt Mills Gallery “An Artistic Celebration of Dogs” Whitehouse, New Jersey 2001

The Barn Studio Gallery “Holiday Art Exhibit” Doylestown, PA. 2001

Salon Des Amis Gallery “Legacy” Malvern, Pa. 2005

The Delaware River Mill Society “Artists of the Mill “ 2007

Canal Frame Gallery “Holiday Exhibit” Washington Crossing, PA. 2008-2024
Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, "Endless Summer," Newtown,PA., 2024

 

Group Shows:

“Trio of Artists”, Doylestown, PA. 1998

Tinicum Art Festival, Tinicum, Pennsylvania 2000

The Art Colony Gallery, “Artistic Ventures” Stockton, New Jersey 2003

The Gallery at the Frame Shop “The Monhegan Group” Lambertville, New Jersey 2005
Stover Mill Art Gallery, "In Search of Luminance," Two Person Show in Erwinna, PA., 2021

 

One Person Show

Canal Frame Gallery, Washington Crossing, PA. “Far and Near” 2010
Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ  "Painted Light"  2017
Pennswood Village Art Gallery, "My World," Newtown, PA., 2020

 

Awards:

Selected for the “Images of the Mill” 2006 Calendar. The Delaware River Mill Society “Images of the Mill” Calendar Competition, Stockton, NJ, 2004.

Second Prize for Oil Painting. Friends of the Delaware Canal Juried Show, New Hope PA. 2011

Emeritus Chairman’s Award, Stover Mill Gallery 3rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Eriwnna, PA. 2014
Honorable Mention, "Painting Our Towns," Plein air event at Artists of Yardley Art Center, Yardley, PA., 2022 and 2024


Press:
Featured in Bucks County Home & Garden Magazine!
Bucks County Home & Garden, January 2018, Pages 24-29

 

Gallery Affiliation:

Canal Frame Gallery, Washington Crossing, PA.

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