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(Available as a signed archival giclee print (framed or not) 10 x 20 inch or 24 x 48 inch from the artist only: contact at the bottom of this page). In 2018 the Hausmann Millworks Studios, where I have my studio, announced a Frida and Diego themed exhibit scheduled for Southtown Credit Human and asked studio artists to contribute. The Studios also joined a plein air Paint the Park Day in May, spearheaded by Ricardo Romo, Lynn Bobbit, and Rex Hausmann to support the Brackenridge Park Conservancy.

I painted St. Mary’s Bridge, the Pump House and the Rodriguez Faux Wood Bridge using palette knives and deeply impasto acrylic on panels and donated them to the Conservancy. I decided to paint these sites again on a 2 x 4 foot canvas in plein air for the Frida/Diego project. The inspiration was the 50-foot mural, “A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” in Mexico City by Diego Rivera. I painted Frida Kahlo as the spiritual Catrina figure in Diego’s painting.
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I am so lucky! When I was a little girl, before I even went to first grade, my mother took me to art school every week at Mrs. Jones'. Mrs. Jones was a farmers wife, but she was a trained artist. She had an art studio behind the farm house and that is where I learned to paint and draw with my lifelong best friend Clarice, who I called Ann Clarice then. I think Clarice's mom and my mom took turns taking us the "long" 15 minutes or so out to the farm once a week. I was painting in oils when I was 5 and painted, painted painted with Clarice and Mrs. Jones until I was in high school. My work of art: "Fruit, Wine and Sunshine," created when I was five, and which I won a blue ribbon for at the 1960 Jim Wells County Fair is an example of this...