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November Issue 2007
Gaye Sanders Fisher Gallery in Charleston, SC, Marks 10th Anniversary
The
yellow Charleston 1790's single house at 124 Church Street in
Charleston, SC, is marking its tenth year as home to the Gaye
Sanders Fisher Gallery.
This unusual gallery setting incorporates the use of the small but charmingly intimate garden as a natural space for displaying the fluid serene watercolor paintings by Fisher.
Until recent years, this house was always a private home. Significantly, it has been home for a number of artists. Sometime before Fisher, the house was a painting space for William Halsey, a well known 20th century Charleston artist.
The rich palette of wall colors Fisher has used gives a proper background for her work. With only a small exposure of her art on the street in three small windows, people are drawn to discover what is offered inside.
During these ten years, paintings have been shipped to thirty-eight states and nine foreign countries. Such a historic setting of house and garden, offers the art collector a unique experience. After closing on the house, Fisher realized the back wall of her garden is also the garden wall of the 'Pink House', which was the studio of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith on Chalmers Street. It is a marvelous feeling to believe one is painting under the shadow of such a famous artist.
It was the discovery of Smith's work that was an awakening for Fisher in finding what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Thus began years of reading, painting, painting, and painting until her own technique emerged. One has to describe this work as having an ethereal, dreamlike quality as seen through a thin veil of mist. Fisher says, "I believe in letting the medium do what it wants to do, and I love the transparency of watercolors."
The house that serves as home to both Fisher and the gallery was purchased after many years of dreaming and searching for such a spot. While launching the gallery, Fisher was led to another medium. Her inspiration came, literally, on four paws: a street cat that simply walked in and made himself at home. Amused by his antics, Fisher began composing a poem about the feline whom the neighbors had dubbed, Daily. Before long there were sketches, followed by watercolor portraits, and together they became a book published in 2002.
For further info check our SC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/958-0010 or visit (www.gayesandersfisher.com).
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