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The Art of
Chester County
LELE GALER BY BRUCE A. COLLEY, DO PRESIDENT OF CHESTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
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ome of our featured artists have been born and raised in Chester County, others find it their home later in life. But both born and naturalized artists are nurtured by the geography, history, and people here. Then by assimilation and immersion in our special county they find themselves to be Chester County artists. Lele, one could argue, is both, as she was born in Chester County but moved to New England as a young teenager then returned. After marriage and about twenty years she found herself back in Chester County. Her husband, a neurologist and pharmacologic researcher, was brought back by serendipity to her childhood home of Chester County, as it is a world center for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
Now twenty years in Chester County, Lele has fully integrated herself in the art community of the Brandywine Valley. Already an artist by birth; she realized her calling to art from the first day she held a crayon. Lele majored in English Literature and minored in Art, taking classes through high school, college, and post graduate training. Though Art was not her profession, it was always her inspiration and avocation. After a series of “day jobs” and a stint in the word of finance her inborn talent and interest in art drew her to share her love art as a volunteer, teaching art to local school children and the community at large. Lele joyously described her love of sharing the world of art with children. And if I could only find words to reflect her energy it would blind you.
Icarus #2 detail
Heart Beats -Nemours 4(unedited) and detailed.
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