Sleightholm Folk Art

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  • St. Agnes Eve

       Hello there my friends, and welcome! Did you know that this evening is….St. Agnes Eve? Ah, well…it is! Tomorrow, January 21, is The Feast of St. Agnes, an early Christian Martyr from the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Legend holds that she was a beautiful young girl of about 12 or 13 years old who…

  • Winter Vigil, Winter Blooms

       Good morning, my friends. I am writing to you this morning on a very cold, gray day here in Oklahoma. There is no snow….and all the rain we’ve had has stopped. All that has served to make things very muddy, very muted, very still.   I wanted to share with you one of my newest…

  • Three Ships on Christmas Day

        I wanted to take a minute to share with you a little about one of my new Christmas paintings, “Three Ships on Christmas Day.” The title is inspired by an old Christmas carol , with the main refrain being “I saw Three Ships on Christmas Day, On Christmas Day, I saw Three Ships on…