Arts Playlist: Delaware Art Museum forms partnership to create new mural project “Nature’s Palette”

By Karl Lengel,

Published June 23, 2023 at 8:56 AM EDT

A mural featured in the Delaware Art Museum's new project “Nature’s Palette.”

The Delaware Art Museum is partnering with Wilmington City Councilman Nathan Field on a new mural project called “Nature’s Palette.”

The nature-inspired project showcases intricate and vibrant paintings and drawings from the museum’s Pre-Raphaelite collection, including quotes penned by Victorian-era writers.

In this week’s edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel sat down with Margaret Winslow – Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art for the Delaware Art Museum – to learn more about “Nature’s Palette.”

Delaware Art Museum Curator Margaret Winslow discusses the “Nature’s Palette” mural project with Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel

An art trend seen across the nation’s West and Midwest comes to west Wilmington.

Delaware Art Museum announces “Nature’s Palette,” on view in eight separate locations throughout Wilmington’s City Council District 8.

“Nature’s Palette” is a continuation of museum’s ongoing “Year of Pre-Raphaelites” celebration.

“We’re paying special attention to this incredible group of artists whose work is here at the museum - very unique - the largest on view outside the United Kingdom, and we thought, you know, this is a great opportunity to extend parts of that collection out into District 8,” said Margaret Winslow, Delaware Art Museum of Art Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art.

The murals feature enlarged details of paintings and drawings from DelArt’s Pre-Raphaelite collection. Victorian poetry accompanies the murals.

“My hope is that these works of art leave an impression and that folks who are moving throughout District 8 want to go back and revisit them throughout the year when they’re on view,” said Winslow.

The Delaware Art Museum partnered with Wilmington City Councilperson Nathan Field on “Nature’s Palette”. The works will be on display through the remainder of 2023.