Trinity Church 'Gallery' Features Basking Ridge Artist's Works

A mini-gallery that is now part of Trinity United Church as part of its mission to celebrate the arts within the church and those in the wider community, is recognizing another local artist for the month of April, Elizabeth Welch Gystafson.  

Gystafson received her bachelor's degree in Studio Art & Art History from Colby College in Maine. And then studied at the Isabel O’Neil Studio Workshop in New York City from 1994-2000. And she now has a permanent display in the Decoration and Design building in New York City as part of the Isabel O’Neil Gallery.  

Gystafson combines the skills she learned in traditional painting classes with the exact, old world techniques learned at the Isabel O’Neil Studio Workshop. Her most recent focuses have been New England landscapes. The old world techniques like oil gliding with gold leaf, eggshell lacquer is a technique developed in Asia in which broken eggshell pieces were used for the color white before white pigment existed. Her primary medium is oil.  

After designing and painting various pieces for her children’s school fundraisers, she is thrilled to be painting on her own again.  

She lives in Basking Ridge and having been influenced by art and artists throughout life, this mother of two elementary aged children believes that they are “the most perfect creation ever."  

Gystafson will be available for “Meet the Artist” reception April 10 at 11:30 a.m. She will not be selling any of the paintings.  

The gallery is open to the public Thursdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 11:30 a.m., after the worship service. For more information about displaying works at the mini-gallery call the co-ordinator, Kit Bebbington at 732-356-3730