Lele Galer
paintings and metal heart sculpture
 

 

Lele is an oil and encaustic painter who uses a bright palette and expressionistic brushwork. She is particularly interested in color, mass and texture and likes to paint trees because of the strength and solidity of the trunks in juxtaposition to the color masses of vegetation in the forest.  For the past several years she has been working in mig welded steel, making abstract sculptures with found and bought steel in relief or standing. Her sculptures range in size from 6 inches to 12 feet. Half of her time is devoted to steel sculpture and the other half to painting in encaustic and oil. Her studio is in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

 

Lele Galer was educated at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute. Most of the past 25 years were spent doing public art projects in schools and underserved areas, and she only returned to gallery work in 2005. Lele co-owns and manages the award winning local winery Galer Estate Vineyard & Winery in Kennett Square.  Lele has been married for almost 30 years to Brad Galer, whom she met at Wesleyan University in 1979, and they have three terrific sons, none of whom have any interest in art, education or wine.