In the fall of 2005, I was approached by Jill Evans the Development Director of the Mankato Lutheran Home- now called Pathstone Living to do a large scale garden painting. They were in the process of planning to build on to their facility and wanted a large painting to accent the new space. Jill has seen an article about my garden paintings from a show I had at the St. Peter Art Center as reported in the Mankato Free Press.
I had been painting at Sibley Park and this facility is across the street from the park. I did some preliminary sketches and photographed the park. The past 2 summers I painted from life in the morning and in the afternoon worked on the large scale painting. Bethany Lutheran College allowed me to use their studio to work on the 6' X 18' oil painting during the school year. In November of 2007 the painting was finally installed and on April 6th, 2008 there will be a grand opening.
It was essential for me to work on the smaller paintings from life and transfer what I saw on to the large canvas. It all worked perfectly for me because it supported what I was doing as an artist without making concessions for a commission.
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