Winter comes to Northern Indiana. We got 12" of snow in our area.

We knew it bound to happen sooner or later, it has been cool for a while. One day I look out and see all of the leaves on our two big red maples out front and the next thing you know, they’re all laying on the ground. IT COULD BE WORSE, we could live FARTHER north! And now they are all coverd with white stuff! Oh well!

I look out and see our neighbors getting ready for the holidays.  Some have Thanksgiving décor up and others jumped right into Christmas.

We have been staying inside and working on the website.  George has added a lot of his dad’s artwork.  As many of you know, Dad lived to the ripe old age of 99 + ½ years. He had such a wonderful, full life. 

He was an instructor at an Auction School, Buildt models of Steamboats and Outhouses for museums, Tramp Art boxes, picture frames, sheves, clock cases, and canes.  He was a carver of swords, knifes and daggers and a world class penman and created such unusual items as penning the Lord's Prayer on the EDGE of an ordinary business card and on one side of a toothpick and his name, address and phone number on a single grain of rice.

I receive emails from collectors that have Dad’s artwork and sometimes someone will buy something in an auction or out of a collectors store and want to know if we can tell then anything about it. Last year a guy had bought a beautiful old flourishing Dad had made and wanted to know if it was really his. Those are fun emails.

His hand drawn pictures and flourishing are beautiful framed.  I encourage you check him out on the website. We own a large collection of dad’s original works! And will be adding new items all this winter.

Have a Great Holiday Season

Missionary Mary Proctor

Almost everyone in the Folk Art Community knows the name of Missionary Mary Proctor.

She experienced a tragedy in the 1994, when her grandmother and two other family members died in a house fire.  Mary was extremely close to her grandmother and shared with me one time that “If you don’t marry Tyrone, I WILL!” J She took her grandmothers advice and married a great man of God.

Mary was not an artist early on….she operated a flea market on some property she owned in Tallahassee. She was grieving her loss when she had that MOMENT in her life, when sitting under a tree, a voice urged her to paint.  She was reluctant because she had never painted before. She painted her heart out and set it up in the flea market…it got attention…and once day A New York gallery owned happed by and the rest is as they say..HISTORY!

Mary has been exhibited everywhere. She is in a lot of galleries and is a Smithsonian artist who’s works we on display for several months at the Smithsonian.

I met her at Finster Fest one year.  I started collecting her artwork and she would always home something patriotic for me. One time she asked me if I was an artist and I told her I was not but my husband George was. She encouraged me to open a gallery and represent artists since my background was in sales and promotions. She became my 1^st folk artist and encouraged me to do Folk Fest in Atlanta with George’s works.

Mary and I have been friends since that early meeting and I am so thankful for her.  She is compulsive; and by that I mean SHE HAS TO PAINT! She can sure put it out.  She reminds my of George because he has that same drive.

Folk art makes great gifts for Christmas….thanks for supporting our artists!