“During our early years on the farm, I expressed my creative side by caning chairs, weaving baskets, redecorating the house, planting the full colors of a flower garden, and managing a family household. Later on, I had time to pursue more fully my artistic interests, largely by landscape painting. The subjects of my pieces – silos, barns, farmhouses, fields – convey the respect, love, and connection I feel for rural life. All in all, it was and still remains a good life and a great adventure here on the Eastern Shore.”
Interviewed by Jonathan Chace and photographed by Ken Young
Editor Note: The Chestertown Spy and RiverArts have partnered in 2016 to share the art organization’s community arts project “Humans of Kent County,” designed to celebrate the wonderful, unique folks who live and work in Kent County. Citizens are invited to interview and photograph from young to old from all corners of the county and to submit a photograph and brief story to be part of the project. It will be posted on the Spy each week and each quarter the most interesting photos and stories will be enlarged and produced for an exhibition at the RiverArts gallery in Chestertown.
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