Sheep!

Thanks to a heads up from grandma I saw Sheep Jones' article in the post. Sheep is an amazing artist. When I first saw her work she was painting watercolors on acetate, beautiful compositions on mostly white background. It seemed like overnight her work changed dramatically, became more dense, colorful, richly textured. We have exhibited her work several times at NIH and MJH in C'ville owns this luscious little painting and two others.
I took an encaustic workshop she taught at the Washington Glass School that changed the direction of my work and for that I'll always be grateful to her. Sheep's web site here

Making It
By Margaret Webb Pressler
Sunday, October 22, 2006
For Virginia painter Sheep Jones, the best part of selling so much artwork isn't that she's making a lot of money. It's that she's doing what she always wanted to do.
Sheep, whose given first name is Elaine, grew up the oldest of five in rural Maine, with parents who did not support her artistic plans. They wanted her to make a decent living, but creating art "was all I ever wanted to do," she says. She acquired the nickname Sheep as a teenager trying to grow out her bangs, and it stuck.

Sheep Jones, a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, has an unusual perspective. After getting a degree in fine art at the University of Maine, Sheep married her high school sweetheart, Charles Jones, and followed him from one academic job to another. She painted in her spare time and in her twenties had one successful art show. She never forgot how good it felt.

Much as I would post the entire article pc would get on my case. read it here