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Gallery
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The usual square or retangle mat takes a new dimension under Mrs. Richey’s careful knife. The mat outlines, defines the piece underneath — never overpowering the work it frames.
"I want you to see my work, first. Not the mat,” she said with a touch of determination.
Mrs. Richey’s career breakthrough came in the 1980s, when her husband’s job transfered him to Germany.
Taking up education again, Mrs. Richey entered a program offered through the University of Maryland in Germany and studied art history.
“If I did not have to be a mother and wife, I could be a perpetural student," Mrs. Richey said of her days in the classroom. “I love it.”
With Germany as a base, Mrs. Richey was able to travel to galleries all over Europe and Asia, studying and reviewing art at its best.
In Heidelburg, Germany, Mrs. Richey participated in her “first big gallery show complete with champange reception and the German press."
“I was very nervous but a success,” she said w ith pride.
Today, Mrs. Richey returns often to show work in Germany, through she and her family have returned to the states.
“I wanted a studio,” Mrs. Richey said, upon her return to the states and found the ideal place in a small cabin across from her Amissville home.
“My work there is more of a job now,” she said, explaining that as a mother and wife with a house to run, her art often was put off until “another time. This Way, I go there to work . . . like a job.”
Many a night Mrs. Richey returns home long after the sun has set and darkness has fallen. “You always hear of how you must have the right light and all,” she said of art stereotypes, shaking her head and adding often she will work on a piece long after the sun has set and the lighting has changed several times.
“I work until I can work no longer,” she said with a smile and soft look coming to her eyes. She said her nighttime excursions home have given her an entirely new dimension to paint — light in the darkness.
Windflower Gallery hours are a imuj uuuu^ii *uw..„iy from noon until 6 p.m. or by appointment.
For more information contact the gallery or Tanya Richey at 675-1113 or at 703-349-4691.)
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