Tag: folk art

  • Family Portraits

    Over the past few years, I’ve made a lot of family portraits. Some of my favorite portraits, however, concern people’s beloved ancestors. Sometimes they have an old photo. Sometimes all they know is a name and where they were from. But something about a particular ancestor’s story has a special place in their heart and…

  • Edgar & Alice

    Well, here they are, Edgar and Alice. I think they’re a dashing pair, don’t you? Everything can’t be all sweet and spring time all the time, can it? Gotta throw a crow and black dress in there to mix things up ever so often, right? This was the painting that was on my desk a…

  • Rowena from the British Isles

    Lately I’ve been immersing myself in all things British, and not just because I’m a wee bit obsessed with Downton Abbey (it’s just a symptom, if you ask me) My ancestry search has led me to the rural moors and dales of North Yorkshire on my husband’s side, and my own side has revealed an…