Student Art Show 2019

After retiring from a long teaching career, I challenged myself to complete a painting a day for a year.  However after completing 250 paintings, the desire to teach returned.  Balancing my classes, continuing to paint professionally and enjoying grandchildren,  I have been blessed with a busy and rewarding "retirement".  My students, aged 7 - 75, are now showing their talents in our Spring Art Show at Rainbow Forest Baptist Church in Troutville, Va.   Come and visit,  The church is open weekdays and most weekends.  Call church to confirm.

Wilderness: Linville Falls

Blue Ridge Parkway Series #478  12 x 16  oil   $295.

I am thankful to all those who have gone before me as advocates for the preservation of wilderness areas in the U. S.  The Beauty of nature always inspires me to meditate on Truth and Goodness and to capture those ethereal qualities on canvas. 

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going into the wilderness is actually going home"  John Muir.