This incredible residence features soaring ceiling heights with reclaimed beams and wide-plank red oak floors, welcoming, gracious rooms with an easy flow out to the exterior living and entertaining spaces, timeless finishes, meticulously crafted moldings, millwork, casements, period hardware, custom lighting and built-ins, fabulous gourmet kitchen with creamy custom cabinetry, soapstone countertops and expansive working eat-in island with multiple prep sinks, Professional Viking double range. This 'Homestead' parcel is being offered in addition to two additional adjacent parcels, totaling approximately 75 historic acres. It will now offer access to the adjacent 208 acres, also being subdivided, and under agreement with Westtown Township with the intention it will be subject to deed restrictions with County, State and other funders, previously the Eastern section of the original 322 acre farm. This custom-built home has served as the family's primary residence since 2000, sited to maximize the serene vistas, and constructed with the utmost detail, artistically inspired designs, superior materials and an acute focus on creating sun-filled rooms at every turn with a wonderful open floor plan. My greatest reward is when my work creates a tranquil feeling or sparks some beautiful, distant memory within a viewer.Absolute perfection! This John Milner- designed and Griffiths constructed masterpiece is set on 15.8 breathtaking acres with endless views of the legendary, historic 322- acre 'Crebilly Farm' in its entirety. Painting connects me on a deeper, emotional level with others. Invigorating as well as challenging, plein air painting is helping me through the healing process by getting me outdoors more often and also helping me to see better through the intense concentration it requires. What has helped is painting plein air, a process that demands interpreting values very quickly in the constant changing light. I am grateful for the remaining sight I have and curiously, I feel my work is stronger than ever. What was at first a tragedy, I now view as a pivotal experience. In 2013 I lost central and peripheral vision in one eye (as well as depth perception) even though multiple major eye surgeries attempted to save the sight. In the studio, I listen to meditative and classical music which helps me to relax and completely lose myself within the process of selecting compositions, drawing and painting. I utilize the nature preserves, fields and farms of the Brandywine Valley to hike, sketch, paint and photograph. " I am drawn to the colors and tones of twilight landscapes and have spent much of my career attempting to capture them. She paints in oil on Belgian linen and birch panels. To date she has sold over 850 paintings to national collectors with the majority of sales through her own gallery/studio, social media and website, Abby is known for her serene twilight and nocturne landscapes and more recently her plein air work. In 2005 Abby was awarded a year-long scholarship to study classical realist painting with Neilson Carlin at the Brandywine Atelier in Kennett Square, PA.Ībby has shown her work throughout and beyond the greater Brandywine region including Sunset Hill Gallery, Chester County Art Association, The Art Trust, Immaculata University, Historic Yellow Springs, Goggleworks (Reading, PA) and Butternut Gallery (Montrose, PA). Abby has received positive press reviews in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Local News of West Chester, PA and County Lines Magazine.Ībby particularly enjoys playing the principal role in her art business, client relations, sales, and marketing. The Brandywine River Museum exhibited Abby’s work in 1989 after she collaborated with Lynch on a series of pen and ink drawings. Plein air painting in the surrounding fields with Lynch led to visits and artistic guidance at Andrew Wyeth's studio and home. Upon graduation from Westtown Friends School in 1988, instead of traditional art university she immersed herself within the art community of Chadds Ford, PA, the home of the Brandywine painting tradition.Ī friendship with local painter and Wyeth model Jimmy Lynch is what inspired Abby to pursue art as a career. Her interest in art was encouraged early by taking drawing lessons at age 14 from Rea Redifer of Kennett Square, PA. Abby McClure is an oil painter from West Chester, PA.
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