10/22/2021
ONLY A SHORT TIME LEFT!!!!
My Exhibit continues:
RURAL REMNANTS: BARNS, CRIBS, ELEVATORS
August 19-October 30, 2021
Pearson Lakes Art Center
2201 Highway 71 North
Okoboji, Iowa
My paintings and drawings document and bring awareness to the retired Iowa barns, corncribs and grain elevators......the dinosaurs in today's agricultural world. I am a farm girl at heart. I find beauty in the ordinary, everyday, often overlooked remnants of a vanishing way of life - the homesteads, farmsteads, especially the lone structures now empty where family-owned farms and businesses once thrived.
Pictured below is DOWN ON THE FARM. Here I have painted memories from growing up on the farm. The format is as a bird's-eye view of sections of Iowa farmland, square, 1 mile x 1 mile with a river or stream running through it. Each square piece measures 22"x22", on rough 300 # Arches watercolor paper. So, the entire project measures about 9'x9'. This project began many years ago under the guidance e of Hazel Belvo, Professor of Art, MCAD, in a workshop at the Artists Colony in Grand Marais. She directed us to make sketches under 10 different headings. This began with simple sketches and took me for a ride. I was so energized, almost obsessed with this. I am very happy to have finished all of the pieces and to see it displayed in full, as because of it's size, lays in a large box under my bed! I have had so many great comments, texts and messages about this piece in particular.
