"Winter Walk On The Farm" Auctioned At Fundraiser

"Winter Walk On The Farm" was auctioned at the annual Chesterfield Arts Art Feast Saturday evening, January 24. I was quite pleased to donate this piece to raise money for Chesterfield Arts.

I'm also pleased to learn that Debbie Shaw-Franke, daughter of good friend Tom Shaw Sr., has been named president of Chesterfield Arts.


"Now I really FEEL the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious." -- Claude Monet

SIDE NOTE: I look at "Winter Walk On The Farm" as a testimonial to an often unnoticed and disappearing scene in Chesterfield - farm fields. I especially remember "riding to the hounds" (foxhunting) with my Chesterfield friends. We galloped hard and fast, flying over stone walls between farms. "Field jumping" a horse is the closest a person can come to FLYING! Crisp, fall air that is sweet to breath, hounds baying, and an exhilarating ride aboard a good horse. Doesn't get any better than that!

The Kemp Auto Museum is an interesting place, if you get into Mercedes and the like. Great place to hold a fundraiser.

"Home For the Holidays" Exhibit thru 1/13/09

"Berry" (above) 14x11

"Winter Coming" (above, framed to 11x14) and "LaVeryne" (framed to 8x10) were on exhibit thru January 13, 2009 at the St. Peters Art Center during HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

"Winter Coming" evokes the feeling of winters spent in the country while I was growing up. How lucky I was to spend so much time in nature.

"LaVeryne" is named after my dear mother. The piece reminds me of her happiness at life and her favorite color - RED. My dad loved to see my mother wear red.








St. Peters Art Center is a lovely place to hang art. I enjoy exhibiting there almost every month with their changing exhibits.




"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and color, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day."
-- Winston Churchill