Discovering Easton: Trippe Gallery

Easton is host to a number of fantastic galleries, each with their own unique personalities. If you spend enough time, you’ll get to know each one. No two galleries are the same, and there’s none quite like the Trippe Gallery, on North Harrison street.

As you enter, The Trippe Gallery’s vibe is instantly apparent. The fine art on display is gorgeous, worthy of wall space in any gallery, but the curation makes it feel breezy and approachable.

Close inspection reveals high-craft talent giving you quiet peeks into different vignettes. And the overall chorus of these creates a sense of bright, lively peace. Flowers in a vase on a table, a heron standing on a placid pond, or the inviting green-gold glow of the woods in midday.

When I think of The Trippe Gallery, I think of flower petals and feathers, but that’s not to shortchange the TALENT that goes into these paintings. Each gallery in Easton has something to recommend, and for me, Trippe is the throne of the oil painters. These brush strokes are so bold and striking, and they manifest that living-peace feeling that Trippe delivers on so well.

There’s beauty, and there’s quirkiness too. You can’t help but catch some of Nanny Trippe’s personality in some of the set pieces, be it the giant pencil that dominates the front of the gallery, or the cheeky (and beautifully cast) Watergate chess set on the front table.

It’s a gallery that deserves your eyes in person, so make the stop to this little slice of vibrant life, and take in some of it for yourself.