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News<br />
Seniors Exhibit at Greenspring<br />
On Thursday, Aug. 21,<br />
Greenspring retirement<br />
community celebrated<br />
American Artist Appreciation<br />
Month by hosting an art show for the<br />
many resident artists and artisans at the<br />
community to showcase their work. More<br />
than 35 residents exhibited at the show,<br />
which ranged in style from watercolors and<br />
oil painting to pottery and photography.<br />
Resident Ruth Hancock Rollins displayed<br />
five of her original oil paintings; some of<br />
those included a painting of her son as a<br />
child, a ballerina, and her brother, who was<br />
a Fairfax circuit court judge. “I was just born<br />
to paint,” said Rollins. A painter since she<br />
was 15 years old, she also spent 27 years as<br />
a portrait photographer. She attended the<br />
Abbot School of Art and Winona Professional<br />
School of Photography, and studied<br />
both in Italy and Turkey, where she lived<br />
for several years. Rollins’ work took her to<br />
cities all over the U.S. including Chicago,<br />
Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia,<br />
and New York. As a portrait photographer,<br />
she captured photos of presidents, world<br />
leaders, and dignitaries at the White House,<br />
including John F. Kennedy.<br />
Resident Gwen Lockhart also displayed<br />
several of her own original sculptures. Her<br />
sculptures feature commissioned works, as<br />
well as those created from models and photos.<br />
While she prefers working with bronze<br />
castings, she also has used a variety of resin<br />
castings including onyx, marble, and granite.<br />
Lockhart sculpts in clay, plastilene, and<br />
wax, and focuses her energy on heads or<br />
busts, animals, and figurative works.<br />
Lockhart also has a permanent home for her<br />
sculptures at The Loft Gallery and Art Center<br />
in Occoquan. At the Greenspring art<br />
show, Lockhart displayed a variety of finished<br />
pieces including a camel inspired by<br />
the famed “Hump Day” GEICO commercial,<br />
as well as a commissioned piece still in<br />
progress.<br />
Photos by Jessica McKay<br />
Resident Ed Thurman displays some of his photography,<br />
including this photo of the Taj Mahal.<br />
Greenspring retirement community has<br />
over 200 resident-run and resident-coordinated<br />
clubs and groups including many<br />
dedicated to the arts such as a pottery club,<br />
a painters workshop group, a choral<br />
group—The Choristers, a drama group—<br />
The Greenspring Players, creative writing<br />
and memoir classes, a woodshop club, and<br />
knitting and crocheting groups, among<br />
many more. The groups are both intended<br />
to encourage residents to try their hand at<br />
something new and for veteran artists to<br />
continue with their passion.<br />
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Resident Gwen Lockhart exhibited some of her clay and bronze sculptures.<br />
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<strong>Springfield</strong> Connection ❖ September 4-10, 2014 ❖ 7
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