“Folk Art – Colourful Explorations” contains many paintings created by me over the past few years. I began to paint for the very first time in an effort to encourage my partner who, in his elder years, was losing interest in his own creative endeavours. He was a very talented artist. His favourite pastime was oil painting but, in addition, he created lovely works with stained glass. He was also a highly skilled wood turner.
When I saw that he was losing interest, I had a large table set up in our basement family room with an easel at either end. Two painting stations – one for a very talented artist, the other for me, a woman who had never attempted to paint anything in her life.
My partner produced some lovely work. I didn’t. But I did discover that I loved to paint. That was my beginning.
I began painting with oils. When I made a move and became an apartment dweller, I switched to painting with acrylics, simply because that made for easier clean-up.
I love to paint. I was in my mid-seventies when I began with my earliest paintings.
It was friends who gave me the title of ‘folk artist’. I accepted, and I continue to be a prolific painter into my eighties. I love colour.
In this publication are many of my paintings. I hope you will enjoy my folk art.
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