I began to think of myself as a successful artist when my work started showing up in estate sales and antique shops.  I've also had a couple of pieces that ended up in divorce settlements.  Then one day,  technology brought me another link to "success".  My son did a website for me, www.Beckysart.com.   I received a call from a young man who had inherited a piece of my work from his grandmother.
         I remembered his grandmother, but I didn't remember the painting.  He sent me a photo.  It was a simple composition;  three bateau style boats in the edge of the marsh, the kind of boats local crabbers used along our Carolina coast.
          I had also depicted this style boat in a more detailed painting called "The Crab Reels." This was a work done from memory.   The reels had been used to wind up long lines crabbers used before they began to use wire traps to catch crabs.


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  1. L J HipplerApril 8, 2020 at 5:40 AM

    I am loving your paintings. Each one seems to tell a story.

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