Sleightholm Folk Art

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  • Original Painting: The Witch’s Garden

        Guess what season I’m totally ready for??? I’m determined to live in complete denial of our frying temperatures and concentrate on the idea of October. Sound good? Well, then we can be friends 😀   I’ve also had several requests for autumn postcards, so I thought I’d better get started on some designs so…

  • Painting: A Thankful Harvest

        One great thing about anticipating the busy fall and winter seasons of shows and holiday sales is that I get to totally shut out summer and pretend it’s fall! And one of my first fall paintings is this one– A Thankful Harvest (original piece already sold.)   You may remember these characters from my…

  • Latest Commission- A Revolutionary Portrait

       Now that it’s safe and sound in it’s new home in New England, I can show you my latest commission, which was a fun Revolutionary War ancestor portrait for my friend Patricia!   She came to me with the challenge to paint her many-times-over great grandfather, who joined the New York Militia in 1775. She…