by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
Clara was four years old when she asked to sit up in my art van. I grimaced as I knew that was almost an impossibility. But she was an innocent child and did not know the hazards her request could bring about in a vehicle I found comfortable but others looked...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
I still have the free-standing setup I constructed for my first Kentucky Sampler Art Show held in the Infield of Churchill Downs. Part of it is my living room holding small paintings. Maybe someday I will haul the other half up the steps from my basement. At...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
Back in the years when I painted in the living room on the first floor, I worked feverously to finish a work before the next weekend’s art exhibition. One more painting was always needed to fill up a show display. My companion in this determined endeavor...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | COMING HOME TO KENTUCKY, Uncategorized
We were watching a TV program and the scene shifted to a mother and small child sitting on a bed, their hands folded for nighttime prayers. There were no bunkbeds in the scene, but for a moment I stood beside a wooden ladder preparing for our nightly ritual...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | COMING HOME TO KENTUCKY, Uncategorized
While looking for a new home when we returned to Louisville, Kentucky, we lived for several months with my husband’s mother whom I had always been happy to look upon more as a dear friend rather than just a mother-in-law. My mother lived nearby so after military...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | JACKSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, Uncategorized
When I sat in commercial art classes on the University of Louisville Campus, I never dreamed I would end up in North Carolina with the task of painting a Highway Billboard. At the end of Sunday Mass, Rev. William G. Wellein made the announcement, “Will Mrs....
