I’ve known her art my entire life. From paintings hanging in my home growing up, to the smell of “Grandmother Arnold’s” upstairs studio in Webster Groves, MO (a suburb of St. Louis), her artworks have been a core part of my life for as long as I can remember. She died in 1976 when I was just 9 years old, but her influence far outreached her time in our lives.
All my friends have seen her work, and my aunts, uncles, cousins, parents and sister have various of her drawings and paintings hanging on our walls, and I loved the design pictured at left so much that I made silkscreen t-shirts from it as gifts for my cousings back in 198-something, and I even had it tattooed on my arm.
It was lovely to get photos from relatives of works that I’ve never seen before and they are all now collected on a website I just built and launched today. Even more, it was lovely to be in touch with people I love so dearly.
The website was several months in the making and it’s finally “done.” I hope you enjoy it!