Shadows and Light : Radnor Plein Air

Living in Radnor

When we moved into our home on Radnor-Chester Road in the fall of 1984, one of the first things I did was buy a new riding mower. The first weekend after we moved in, I made the first of my trips up and down the lawn on the mower, scouring the yard of leaves and broken branches. My only hope was that my family and I could continue to live in this beautiful community.

With each passing month, for more than 20 years, I have been thankful for the maintenance-heavy home we bought, as I mend the fences, paint the siding and shutters, and care for the many ills brought with an older home.

I have lived most of my life in Delaware County. My parents first moved into a small brick house in Havertown when I was three years old. At the age of five, we moved to Broomall. A few years later we settled in Upper Darby; first to the Stonehurst section, and then to Richfield Road (near 69th Street). I received my education in the Upper Darby School system, which I am immensely thankful for today, and graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1965, with the largest class of baby boomers, from the 3500 seat Tower Theater (the only place that would hold us with our families).

I married first at 25 and moved to Springfield and remarried at 36, afterwhich my wife, Barbara, and our combined families moved to our current home in Radnor.

In 2001, when I started painting the homes and scenery of my neighborhood, I began not only to see, but feel the rich diversity in the architecture, the people, and the energy that makes Radnor such a special place. I also began to understand how in jeopardy we are of losing many of the treasures we have that make our community so interesting, so beautiful, and so valued.

I have spent hundreds of hours over the past few years sitting in thickets, on street corners, in parking lots, and on hillsides, experiencing Radnor. I have met many warm and friendly people as I painted, and after all the years living in the township, have grown to realize how fortunate I am to call it home.

– George Rothacker
February, 2005


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Prints of plein air paintings measure approximately 10" x 8". These are printed on heavy archival mat stock via a 7-color Epson ink jet printer using archival inks. All of these prints are in editions of 50.		 GalleriesArtist BioNewsPressStoreContactHome


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