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“I’m in the process of finding out.”
In April the Gallery opened. Besides Ms. Pollan’s watercolor and oil landscapes of scenes in Rappahannock, the gallery also carries “wearable art,” jewelry pieces in porcelain and clay with seed pearls made by Maureen and Rebecca Worth of Lexington, Va., and handpainted watering cans made by John Palmer of Sevema Park, Md. The galery also carries hand painted Victorian porcelain and glass Ms. Taylor has collected. She said she will also carry some antiques.
Last Friday Ms. Pollan was visiting. “Our lives have been an interesting trip,” she said. “When we do meet it’s always at a different site.” She said the gallery was named crysalis for the butterfly’s cocoon. “It’s always becoming.”
Her work has also been “becoming.” Earlier work in pen and ink gave way to work with pastels and more recently work with watercolors and oils. She said she intends to show primarily work she has done while visiting Rappahannock County in the gallery, but may also show some of her work from the American Southwest and even some of her students’ work if the demand is there.
Theirs has been a “very natural, comfortable, good relationship Over many years,” she said. Opening a gallery was “natural outrowth” of that, she said.
Traffic in the gallery has not been as heavy as Ms. Taylor had hoped for, and she wants to explore ways to get people to walk the extra block down Gay Street from Talk of the Town. She said she did a good business for July 4th especially in the “wearable art.”
She has had varied business experience, but this is her first venture into a retail business she said. She hopes this combination of businesses gives her the opportunity to develop as a writer and sell more of Ms. Pollan’s art works.
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