TinyPainter's Profile

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I'm a self-taught artist, and after a lifetime of doing work that helped support my family, now - in my retirement, I can finally devote time to what I have always wanted to do...paint. I paint almost every day and love every minute of it.

I was born in a tiny town in Pennsylvania, over 60 years ago. My dad was a coal miner and my mom worked in a silk mill. Simple hard-working people from a simple environment - yet my life was rich in color in the beauty of nature and in the world in general. I am convinced some folks are born with an "artist's eye" - I have it, and it allows me to spend hours examining the bark of a tree, the structure and color of a flower, the line on a person's face - things others only glance at as they walk by. I truly believe this is a god-given talent and drives both the artist and the collector.

Some of my paintings belong in rooms filled with lacy doilies, rocking chairs and chiming clocks - while others belong in masculine dens and offices. I love the freedom of my painting and hope it shows! I am always amazed when folks show an interest in my work and always humble when they purchase my paintings.


Listed in Ask Art

Listed in The Artists Bluebook: 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005, Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Ed)

Female, Born on November 8

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