Six artists, including four of them from Vienna, one from McLean, and one from Reston, showed their work over the weekend in the tiny building with big windows that once housed Pleasant Grove Church.
Now, it is used for public exhibits, meetings, shows, weddings, and receptions.
The six “designing women” exhibited their paintings, watercolors, batiks and pastels and sold them at discount prices, because there was no consignment charge at the church.
“It was a place big enough for six people to use, and it had a historic interest that attracted people,” said Brooks. “It was a nice place to have a show.”
Joan Wolfe, of Vienna showed acrylic paintings that compared major religious sites she had seen in her world travels.
Jamie Brooks, a landscape specialist, of Vienna showed her work in pastels.
Pauline Lorfano of Vienna showed watercolors, including florals.
Carol Higgs of Reston showed batiks, including several from Waterford.
Brenda Howard, an oil painter, chooses varied still lifes and landscapes.
“It was the first time we’ve ever been together for a show,” said Brooks. The women have known each other for some time. Several have studied at the Art League at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria.
Janice Burns, Wolfe, Brooks, and Lorfano all live in Vienna. Higgs is from Reston and Howard is from Howard.
<tl>-Beverly Crawford