Carolyn bullis blish biography

“Without love, art has nothing to say.” This is only one of the many wise shibboleths from fine artist Carolyn Blish, presently with a one-woman show at Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville DE.

So many achievers of international renown and celebrity can articulate neither the medium in which they perform nor the “why” behind their excellence (athletes and film stars come to mind).

Yet Carolyn Blish's raison d'etre comes as trippingly off the tongue as do Letterman's quips or Biden's slips.

Blish loves the late afternoon. “Shadows, especially afternoon shadows, define the shapes of the pictures I paint”, she says.

Her inspirations are God, nature and children.

The gallery show lends a symmetry to Blish's career. Decades ago she and her husband were walking down 9^th Street in Wilmington and chanced to look in the window of the first Hardcastle Gallery, owned by Bayard Berndt, who as an artist himself, studied under Fr