CodFrey's Formal Portrait Painting

I discovered I was an artist late in life. My mother was very talented, but never found the time to pick up a brush. I remember telling her that if I had her talent, I would never stop painting. She always said I had talent, I just had to try. After her death, as if to defy her, I took an oil painting class. I came home and showed my husband the finished painting and said, 'I think I can paint'. I never looked back. At age 58, I discovered the artist in me. I like to think of myself as Grandma Moses without the following or the money, but I'm working on both. The world as I see it, is full of color and I try to reflect that in everything I paint. Member: Art Guild of Ponce Inlet, Art Con, Artists of Ponce Inlet Awards: First place, Art Guild of Ponce Inlet Fine Art Show, 2012, 'Snowfall In Central Park'. First place, 2014, 'The Beach at Ponce'. Publications: April, 2012 cover, Halifax Magazine, 'Stairway To Lighthouse Heaven'. Publications: Thrive Magazine, Louisiana, annual calendar, September 2013, 'A Couple Of Gulls'