Spring Morning, Yvonne Baldwin

Spring Morning, Yvonne Baldwin
1990 Oil on Canvas
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I painted this many years ago in a class with Robert Warren in Canal Winchester, Ohio. With the exception of the placement of the barn, it is my Great Aunt Pearl’s house on the mountain in North Carolina where my family lived when I was a child. My Aunt Pearl loved growing things and I loved to visit her. Her house always smelled of something wonderful cooking or baking. It was surrounded by flowers, beautiful trees, blackberry and raspberry brambles, morning glories, moon flowers, grapes growing around her front porch - so much to see and enjoy. It reminds me of the beauty and joy living close to and caring for the land brings us.